Maria Sabina

Psychedelic Experience with Stanley Krippner (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedNov 8, 2026

Psychologist and parapsychology pioneer Stanley Krippner, former director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, recalls his encounters with key figures of the early psychedelic movement in this 2016 interview with Jeffrey Mishlove. He describes meeting Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, the Mazatec healer Maria Sabina, and even the Grateful Dead, and says his own psychedelic experiences were uniformly positive because he always approached them as chances to learn. Krippner also argues that marijuana, which he calls a mild psychedelic, may be useful in psychotherapy, and he supports decriminalization while calling for more research.