Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social

Psychedelic Researcher | Peace Activist | Abu-Emanu
Senior Lecturer at @UniofExeter
ex-@Imperial_PRG

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

"From personal to collective: ayahuasca as a peace-making tool among Palestinians and Israelis" Psychedelic Science, Denver, 23rd of June 2023. By Sami Awad and myself
https://t.co/f7bWQu3lgg

May you find some inspiration or insights from this talk (whether the timing is right or not).

May this painful moment serve as a reflection of the things we need to change.

May creative alliances be formed - striving for freedom, equality and security for all.

May Peace be a vision to be proud of.

In the spring of 2022, three groups of Palestinians and Israelis were invited to participate in an ayahuasca peacebuilding program. The invitation was to explore the ceremonial and healing space of ayahuasca through a collective intention: to ground the transformative spiritual practice in the political reality of conflict and oppression; to heal collective trauma and liberate from rigid narratives and ethos; to invite revelations and transform them into actions of co-resistance; to create a community of solidarity and care; and to celebrate life and good music together.

In this joint presentation, Sami Awad, a Palestinian peace activist and one of the leading facilitators (together with Armelle Lehman and Indios Brasil), presents the program – tailored for this intention - and discusses the processes the groups went through. Leor Roseman, an Israeli psychedelic researcher from the University of Exeter (previously from Imperial College London), presents quantitative, qualitative, and phenomenological research findings from the program. The presentation reveals how psychedelics can be used intentionally for socio-political endeavours beyond personal healing.

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

I just opened Instagram 😬. Follow me there as well 💜
https://t.co/l7NDSM9BRr

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Finally – Ripples Alliance is out there in the socials. If you are interested in following more closely about psychedelics and peacebuilding, please follow our new Instagram and help us spread the word. https://t.co/pCXvgvycn1

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

This was the first demonstration of increased between network coupling (aka increased 'global network functional integration') under psychedelics: https://t.co/kA1aIxbVAa @LeorRoseman

[DrugReporter @RRFdrugreporter]

New video! Communitas – Psychedelics and the Healing Power of Community - In Conversation with Leor Roseman, PhD https://t.co/YXpQSdCH8w

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

New preprint of mine out: "Micro-Messiahs: When Psychedelics and Politics Meet".
https://t.co/37MDXcbKNv

Its a fun one.

Abstract:

The recent mainstreaming of psychedelics has distanced itself from the countercultural image of the past, yet the question of whether psychedelics are political remains pressing. What happens when psychedelics meet politics?

On one hand lies the politics of the unitive mystical experience: harmony, beyond good & evil, beyond space & time, and with love to all. Studying ayahuasca groups of Palestinians and Israelis, I observed that such mystical unitive ethos can bypass political tensions. Yet, I also noticed revelatory-revolutionary events with liberatory aspirations. Prophetic. Such micro-messianic states of consciousness are charged with moral urgency, and are active, historical, political, and sometimes full of ego.

In this paper, I continue to inquire into the psychedelic messianic phenomenology and dynamics through a literature review . Focusing on the micro-messianic movements of Allen Ginsberg, Master Irineu, and John Wilson (Moonhead)—figures associated with the diffusion of LSD, Daime (ayahuasca), and peyote respectively.

I propose that, in moments of political anxiety, psychedelics can catalyze micro-messianic events: bursts in the status quo that fuel collective and personal movements animated by hope, mission, and meaning. These revelatory-revolutionary dynamics not only inspire redemptive actions but also drive the diffusion of psychedelic practices across social, cultural, and political boundaries.

https://t.co/37MDXcbKNv

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https://t.co/z8O192zVxb

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

Collective Liberation Ritual, by Ripples
The Sheldonian, Oxford
29th of September

[Oxford Mail @TheOxfordMail]

Palestinian and Israeli artists to unite for healing ritual in Oxford https://t.co/0AmMGCY4O7

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

How Psychedelic Spread: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Psychedelic Diffusion. Revelations to Revolutions. The Rise & Fall of Psychedelic Movements. Insights are Actions.
https://t.co/IG4NjlyggZ

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

@NerdeenKiswani With all respect, with feeling all the pain you share, and agreeing with many of your points, you are missing our intention. "Relational Process" is a an obervational study of the underground, and we have shared our critique of it, for example here:
https://t.co/jyXLDAzWGF

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

@NerdeenKiswani exactly
https://t.co/jyXLDAzWGF

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@NerdeenKiswani @anarchyinblack Here is another one by us:
https://t.co/lEVvF9PCdt

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

For those of you who would like to use the new Reporting of Setting in Psychedelic Clinical Trials (ReSPCT) guidelines, we’ve created a user-friendly website to help you navigate the guidelines:
👉 Wesbite: https://t.co/7YeQXsbsTe
👉 Paper: https://t.co/wNnggwG0z9

On the site, you’ll find:
📃 The full guideline
🖨️ Printable documents
❓ An explanatory document with hyperlinks and extended information for each item in the guideline

For example, if you click on the item ‘music,’ you’ll see a brief description along with examples of how to report it. It’s quite fun to explore, and also serves as a rich source of references for each item - which we will continue and update. If you’re interested in the theoretical foundations behind the recommendations, the explanatory document is a great place to dive deeper.

Pronovost-Morgan, C., Greenway, K. T., Roseman, L. & The ReSPCT Experts (2025). An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials. Nature Medicine.

Website made by the amazing @ChloePronovostM
Art by the fantastic Natasha Wigoder

Enjoy 🩷
👉 Wesbite: https://t.co/7YeQXsbsTe
👉 Paper: https://t.co/wNnggwG0z9

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

Welcome @AnjaliiBhat to @sgdruffell and to our growing psychedelic adventure in the @UniofExeter - so excited to start working and teaching with both!!

[Dr Paul Liknaitzky @PLiknaitzky]

* NEW PAPER just published *

Well done @trpwolff for driving it! alongside co-authors @LeorRoseman and Natalie Gukasyan.

I think this idea has potential for significant impact in psychedelic drug development. /1

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📄 https://t.co/RW9aniUD9y

[Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @PeterSjostedtH]

Come and study an MSc in 'Psychǝdǝlics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture' at Exeter – now on-campus too. Here's a lovely new video of one of our students, Nina, speaking on her experience:
https://t.co/jFjA0D1wZm

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

Come do a Psychedelic MSc (!) with us, ON CAMPUS, @UniofExeter, with amazing interdisciplinary lecturers, a lively research community, access to beautiful nature, and a lot of passion for magical substances.
https://t.co/22wMPTFukW

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

I'll be performing at @PsychedelicSci with Ripples, 18th of June, 19:00. Collective Liberation Ritual held by Palestinian and Israeli artivists. It will be deep and meaningful, so do come if you are around
https://t.co/y1PqUUYUlK

Ripples Collective is a group of Palestinian and Israeli non-violent activists, artists, and heart-led humans working together in connection, strength and love to embody another possibility. They represent the work of Ripples Alliance - a non-profit working with psychedelics to support collective healing and liberation between the river and the sea and beyond.

The performance includes storytelling, facilitated processes, theatre, dance and music – and carries the audience through grief into solidarity and empowerment. It is a journey from separation to connection, feeling the collective pains to allow them to reveal a shared vision. Sitting in Circle, alchemising, with song, word, and movement, an alternative reality - nearly lost - for the land we come from and all its people.

❤️‍🩹

[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

@RCarhartHarris Thanks Robin! You can be proud :)

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[Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social @LeorRoseman]

New in @NatureMedicine: ReSPCT "An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by @ChloePronovostM, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts. "The ReSPCT guidelines and accompanying explanatory document provide a new standard for the design and documentation of extra-pharmacological variables in psychedelic clinical research."
https://t.co/wNnggwG0z9

https://t.co/7YeQXsbsTe