Mind Medicine Australia FREE Webinar: Tuning In to Sacred Knowledge with Music & Psychedelics with Dr Bill Richards (USA) and Steven Gelberg (USA)
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TOPIC: Existential Crisis - Tuning In to Sacred Knowledge with Music & Psychedelics
Steve Gelberg, author of Tuning In: Experiencing Music in Psychedelic States, and Bill Richards, author of Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, join acclaimed soprano and co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, Tania de Jong, to share their knowledge and perspectives on how the structured sound we call music may enhance the safety, efficacy and depth of explorations of human consciousness.
In this presentation, the following topics will be among those explored:
What is it about music itself that makes it such a potent catalyst in psychedelic states?
How music may dissolve egoic resistance and facilitate openness to transcendental content during psychedelic experiences.
Reflections on the nature of music itself as it impacts human experiencing in many different genres and cultural heritages.
Factors that appear important in the choice of music during alternative states of consciousness with awareness of the many different strata of experiencing.
The relative weight of one’s usual musical tastes and preferences and the possibility of discovering unexpected appreciation of unfamiliar styles of music.
Appreciation of Nada Brahman, the “sound God” and perhaps insight into what Pythagoras called “the music of the spheres.”
The role of the quest for excellence in musical development and performance.
Following this presentation, listeners may be more skilled in differentiating between the “acceptable”, the “very good” and the “excellent” in their musical choices and able to articulate some principles that guide their judgments.
EVENT DETAILS
DATE: 11th November 2026
TIME: 11:55am (AEDT) for 12:00pm start, finishing at 1:15pm
DURATION: 75 minutes (incl Q&A)
LOCATION: Online - a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr William (Bill) Richards (USA)
Psychologist
Dr William A. Richards (Bill), author of Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, is a Senior Advisor at Sunstone Therapies in Rockville, Maryland (USA), currently focused on the implementation of psychedelic-assisted therapies in palliative care.
Bill also is the co-founder of research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research where he contributed to the rebirth of research with colleagues from 1999-2023, and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and for MMA’s Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies™. Bill’s graduate degrees encompass the psychology of religion, theology, comparative religion and clinical psychology.
Bill’s involvement with psychedelic research originated in Germany at the University of Göttingen in 1963. From 1967 to 1977, he pursued research with LSD, DPT, MDA and psilocybin at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.
Bill is an Ambassador for Mind Medicine Australia.
Steven Gelberg (USA)
Writer and Scholar
Steven J. Gelberg is a writer and independent scholar living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A child of the 60s counterculture, LSD turned his mind toward Eastern philosophy and spirituality, leading to a seventeen-year immersion as an orthodox Hindu monk and teacher. In 1983 Grove Press published his book Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West as part of its Eastern Philosophy and Religion Series. More recently he authored the book India in a Mind’s Eye: Travels and Ruminations of an Ambivalent Pilgrim. More recently, he authored Tuning In: Experiencing Music in Psychedelic States, described by the Journal of Psychedelic Studies as, “a pioneering study on the role of music in psychedelic states,” and lauded by Ido Hartogsohn, author of American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century as, “the definitive guide to the transformative synergy between psychedelics and music – both profound and deeply instructive. Readers will come away with an expanded mind, thoughtfully curated playlists, and invaluable insights into how music can be harnessed to deepen psychedelic exploration."
Tania de Jong AM
Founder & Executive Director of Mind Medicine Australia
Tania de Jong AM is a trail-blazing Australian soprano, award-winning social entrepreneur, creative innovation catalyst, spiritual journey woman, storyteller and global speaker. Tania is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators developing 5 businesses and 4 charities over the past 3 decades. She is Founder and Executive Producer of future-shaping events series, Creative Innovation Global. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2008 and named one of the 100 Women of Influence and the 100 Australian Most Influential Entrepreneurs in 2018.
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