When Jesus Shows Up on a Psychedelic Trip

A conversation with Elizabeth Oldfield on the psychedelic renaissance, why New Atheism is dead, and the limitations of seeking peak experiences, including in the church.

For the past several months, I’ve been getting Instagram ads for mushroom micro-dosing. Maybe you have too. We’re living in what’s been called a psychedelic renaissance, no doubt due to compelling findings in recent decades that various psychedelics — most commonly psilocybin, the psychedelic found in mushrooms — are shown to be powerfully effective in …