Psychedelic Candor

Reviewing "The Christian's Guide to Psychedelics"

Opening up a new evangelical psychedelic book

May 11 • Joe Welker

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April 2026

The Unreal Betrothal of Trump and the Psychedelic Industry

Why the Pope is right and drug politics are football

Apr 27 • Joe Welker

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November 2025

Meet the Soul Engineers

Psychedelic billionaires and the project to patch our religious "mind virus"

Nov 4, 2025 • Joe Welker

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August 2025

Correcting the Record On the Deposition of an Episcopal Priest

This is a final, necessary post to correct the public record in the matter of Hunt Priest and the Episcopal Church’s disciplinary process.

Aug 13, 2025 • Joe Welker

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Psychedelic Priest Deposed by the Episcopal Church

As of this week, Hunt Priest has been removed from ministry by the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, a district in The Episcopal Church.

Aug 8, 2025 • Joe Welker

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June 2025

Divinity Laundering: This Is Your Journalist On Drugs

How Michael Pollan’s journalistic malpractice in The New Yorker ran damage control for his friends in a psychedelic research scandal

Jun 13, 2025 • Joe Welker

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The Published "Effects" and the Unpublished Effects

After late-stage drama, one of two papers in the psychedelic clergy study is published. Other things weren't.

Jun 2, 2025 • Joe Welker

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May 2025

Publish or Perish

Despite failing human subjects protections, a Johns Hopkins psychedelic clergy study driven to influence the public appears set to be published.

May 10, 2025 • Joe Welker

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March 2025

Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Clergy Study Found to Have Multiple Counts of "Serious Non-Compliance" with Federal Human Subject Protections

Unauthorized donor involvement and unauthorized study team members "significantly compromised" human research protection program, per JHU, citing other…

Mar 26, 2025 • Joe Welker

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June 2024

Responding to a psychedelic priest's cease and desist letter

A year ago, he preached accountability. Now he's trying to censor discussion of the story he told.

Jun 12, 2024 • Joe Welker

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May 2024

An Update on the Johns Hopkins Clergy Study

A spiritual conference in the midst of an investigation

May 7, 2024 • Joe Welker

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August 2023

The Religious Science of Johns Hopkins: Religious Freedom

Conclusion of a series on a psychedelic clergy study.

Aug 19, 2023 • Joe Welker

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