Humans have used psychedelics for at least 5,500 years. Today, there is great hope that research into psychedelics – conducted with rigor & merit – might improve the scientific community’s understanding of not only mental health, but also cognitive and social processes such as creativity and social connectedness. In an NIH study called, “The hidden therapist: evidence for a central role of music in psychedelic therapy,” researchers concluded that that music plays a central therapeutic function in psychedelic therapy, evoking personally meaningful and therapeutically useful emotion and mental imagery, a sense of guidance, openness, and the promotion of calm and a sense of safety. But it’s not just the art that is involved in these processes that is intriguing, it’s the portals to creativity that are blown open in the human mind, spurring deep seated creativity and new ways of thinking. In this dialogue, globally profound academic researchers, musicians and creative thinkers will come together to unpack the art and science of how innovation is being born in the most unexpected of places, and how to futureproof your mind for the modern world we live in.