Clark-Soles was a 2017 participant in the Johns Hopkins Religious Professionals Study and earned the Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research through the CIIS. She has done KAP training through Polaris Insight. She is a Field Scholar for the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality and an Affiliated Researcher with the PULSE (Psychedelic Use, the Law, and Spiritual Experience) Project through the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. She is a member of the Psychedelic Educators Network, the Transforming Chaplaincy Psychedelic Chaplaincy Network and the Pastoral Advisory Group of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

            Dr. Clark-Soles specializes in:

• The Johannine Literature (the Gospel of John; 1, 2, and 3 John; and Revelation)
• Psychedelics and Christianity
• Evil, Suffering, Death, and Afterlife
• Disability Studies and the Bible
• Women in the Bible

She has published numerous essays and six books:

• Reading John for Dear Life: A Spiritual Walk with the Fourth Gospel
• Women in the Bible
• 1 Corinthians: Searching the Depths of God
• Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer
• Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament
• Scripture Cannot Be Broken: The Social Function of the Use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel

She is currently working on two additional books: Psychedelics and Soul Care: What Christians Need to Know (under contract with Eerdmans) and The Agony, the Ecstasy, and the Ordinary: Experiencing God in the New Testament.

Dr. Clark-Soles has served on the Journal of Biblical Literature editorial board and currently serves on the Journal of Disability and Religion editorial board. Her essay “Disability and the Johannine Literature” appears in Disability and the Bible: A Commentary. She has served on the steering committees of the “Ethics and Biblical Interpretation” and “Johannine Literature” sections of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Dr. Clark-Soles contributes to both academic and popular audiences through writing and speaking engagements. She has written articles for preaching resources such as Feasting on the Word,  Feasting on the Gospels, and workingpreacher.org. Dr. Clark-Soles speaks widely on the subject of Psychedelics and the Christian Tradition. She has spoken at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Psychedelic Science, Butler University, Emory University,  Harvard Law School, Harvard Divinity School, Perkins School of Theology, counseling centers, denominational conferences, churches, podcasts and other venues.

As an ordained American Baptist minister, she has served in both congregational and hospice settings.

For more specific information please visit her website: jaimeclarksoles.com.

Psychedelics and Christianity: https://www.jaimeclarksoles.com/psychedelics-christianity

Psychedelics CV, Full CV, and bio: https://www.jaimeclarksoles.com/press-kit

Upcoming Events: https://www.jaimeclarksoles.com/events

Priest has served Episcopal churches in Atlanta, Austin, Seattle and Savannah.

In April 2021 Priest resigned his position as rector of an Episcopal church in Savannah, Georgia to found Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society.  Ligare works to bridge the knowledge gap between psychedelic research and religious and spiritual communities and provide a network and community of like-minded people who have had positive psychedelic experiences and wish to have continued fellowship together. Through Ligare, he works to further his goal of putting the healing power of the sacred plants in the toolkits of all who are healers of bodies, minds, and souls.

Engels' fundamental and applied research focuses on mental health and substance use in adolescents and adults, with a strong interest in designing, testing and implementing prevention and intervention programs. He publishes extensively in the top-ranking journals in Addiction, Psychology, Psychiatry and Public Health disciplines and is one of the most cited psychologists worldwide. He has also led a WHO Collaborating Center on Mental Health and served as Chief Science Officer at Zylorion, a Canadian-based startup focusing on psychedelic treatments. 

In recent years his focus has been on the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to improve the lives of people who are struggling daily with mental health symptoms and trauma. He is co-founder and director of the specialized mental health care clinic, Senz, where he is developing evidence-based protocolized therapies, including use of psychedelics, for people with severe mental conditions.

More information is on his website at: https://www.rutgerengels.com/

Dr. Goldman has practiced psychiatry in multiple clinical settings, both in hospital systems and alternative treatment centers, and integrates these approaches into an individualized, evidence-based practice with an emphasis on psychotherapy. She is also a trained Rites of Passage Guide and ceremonialist, and her study of shamanism, spiritual healing and the world's various wisdom traditions informs her approach to psychedelic psychotherapy and her consulting and mentorship practice for providers, which can be found at: https://www.signigoldman.com/

Dr. Goldman graduated from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and completed residency training at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she was selected for an administrative Chief Residency position.

After relocating to Asheville, she ran an outpatient General Psychiatry practice before starting the first Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy practice in the Southeast in 2017.  She has completed psychedelic medicine training through both MAPS and the California Institute of Integral Studies' certificate program and has designed and taught didactic and experiential curriculums for multiple psychedelic medicine training programs.