The Coming Psychedelic Moment

This blog post by Phil Cotnoir examines the journey of former Navy SEAL and podcaster Shawn Ryan, exploring themes of mental health, psychedelics, spiritual searching, and the transformative power of coming to faith in Christ.

Excerpt from blog post by Phil Cotnoir:

Former Navy SEAL and popular podcaster Shawn Ryan has been open with his audience of millions about the benefits of psychedelics. Like so many veterans, he was a mess of inner turmoil after returning from combat. He described his DMT and Ibogaine therapy in 2022 as “profound,” “life-changing,” and “healing,” claiming it set him on a spiritual quest. Then in 2023 he announced he had come to Christ, and when he was subsequently asked if he would ever do psychedelics again, he demurred: “I don’t know.”

This example captures nicely many themes of our current cultural moment: the rise of mental health problems, the parallel rise of psychedelics, the coming collision of those two trends, and the Christian response to all this.