Ron Cole-Turner

Retired theology professor, now working on the meaning of the spiritual significance of psychedelics. Psychedelics and Christian Faith (2025).

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Focus here is on the long-term effects of psychedelics, (neurogenesis and neuroplasticity), arguing that spiritual support is needed for best results.
Psychedelic Integration and Spiritual Growth in a Christian Context https://t.co/dMc8twyXtZ #mdpireligions

[ISSR @the_issr]

Check out the latest video from ISSR. From the 2024 @AARWeb conference, ISSR Fellows discuss @ArthurCPetersen recent book: https://t.co/4cQCYQR0Ir

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Cover for my new book. Out in January 2025 from @wipfandstock.

[AAAS_DoSER @AAAS_DoSER]

2024 December Dialogues is NEXT WEEK! Join us on 12/11 at 5:30 pm Eastern to hear our incredible panel discuss perspectives on psychedelics. Learn more and register: https://t.co/2T3bAj9cjj

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

I'm not giving up. Not letting any political agendas interfere with dissemination of life science and medical stuff via this channel and others. The latter includes Substack, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Beautiful. It reminds me of the writings of Karl Rahner SJ, especially his "Experience of Grace" essay.

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Encountered this late-in-life prose poem by Czeslaw Milosz while kicking around different epigraphs for my book; now hearing a voice say "you can stop worrying ... you did what was assigned to you" at age 90 is officially a life goal:

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

https://t.co/X6MGsG0sHL Interesting piece about my views of transhumanism. I agree that tech changes humanity. But to what end? I reject the self-enhancement, self-expansion mentality of secular transhumanism. I hold to a Christian view of transformation as self-emptying.

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Thanks, Matthew. I appreciate the comment, coming as it does from someone who knows the Christian mystical tradition so well.

[Matthew J. Milliner @millinerd]

Excellent treatment from @RonColeTurner on the limits of the so-called psychedelic renaissance and how it differs from the Christian mystical tradition. https://t.co/AEeJaDCGZ4

[ISSR @the_issr]

The August 2024 blog is now live. https://t.co/CPdej55OM8 @CloserToTruth

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

A brilliant update on recent developments in paleoanthropology

[John Hawks @johnhawks]

Julurens: a new cousin for Denisovans and Neanderthals

A new study suggests that the Middle Pleistocene record in China includes more groups than have previously been recognized.

https://t.co/wMrOwMH74G

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[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

I just listened to this inaugural address by Prof Mark Harris. It is outstanding in clarity, broad in scope, and comprehensible to those of us who know very little about quantum physics. Highly recommended!

[Oxford Faculty of Theology & Religion @OU_TheoReligion]

📺Check it out! See the recording of our recent Andreas Idreos Inaugural Lecture in Science and Religion!

Prof Mark Harris - 'Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty'

https://t.co/HOrlFN4DpW

[Oxford Faculty of Theology & Religion @OU_TheoReligion]

📺Check it out! See the recording of our recent Andreas Idreos Inaugural Lecture in Science and Religion!

Prof Mark Harris - 'Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty'

https://t.co/HOrlFN4DpW

[ISSR @the_issr]

The latest blog is now live, written by ISSRF @JonTophamHPS. Read it here: https://t.co/mE127cOuwB

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Psychedelic Mysticism and Christian Spirituality: From Science to Love https://t.co/GUyADcyfgc #mdpireligions via @Religions_MDPI The MEQ30 doesn't mention love. That's a problem if it's meant to include the Christian mystical tradition. Open source...

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

My @ChristianCent article on Psychedelics and Christianity is out in the print edition. No threatening emails yet! Maybe this is not such crazy 60s stuff after all.

Christianity and the psychedelics renaissance https://t.co/BMkpGpvS8J via @ChristianCent

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

My article on psychedelics and spirituality has just appeared online in the Christian Century.
Soul altering substances https://t.co/f4s0BiI2wd via @ChristianCent

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

This is a really big deal. It would change nearly everything about today's psychedelic landscape.

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Exploring the connection between psychedelics and Christianity. Over 4500 views so far....Psychedelic Mystical Experience: A New Agenda for Theology https://t.co/4nwa38E2Xp #mdpireligions via @Religions_MDPI

[Ron Cole-Turner @RonColeTurner]

Honored to speak along with @mjpaulusjr and 20 or so other top leaders in AI ethics. Still time to sign up.

[Michael Paulus @mjpaulusjr]

Looking forward to participating in this discussion next week, facilitated by the Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences: “Virtuous AI?: Cultural Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtue” (https://t.co/u2nXY90jGW).…https://t.co/w16DmrjU5J