Naropa Buddhist university offers training course in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy

Naropa, a Buddhist university in Boulder, Colorado, is running an MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training starting this autumn. The details of the course are here. It is being organised in association with MAPS. This is an interesting step as meditators can be cautious about psychedelics. A Lucid News article describing this initiative comments "While Naropa’s collaboration with MAPS is a practical step toward creating new psychedelic therapy training opportunities, Doblin (of MAPS) also views it as a symbolic bridge between psychedelics and mindfulness, which have long been separated by an ideological schism. It used to be that if you were a meditator, psychedelics were seen as short-term and not very spiritual,” Doblin said. “Thich Nhat Hanh and others in Buddhism are sort of anti-psychedelic. But that’s ending. Now, there’s more understanding that you can have a lifelong meditation practice, and a psychedelic experience every now and then can help deepen your practice.”