The Psychedelic Renaissance: Mission with MAPS

Dr. Rick Doblin: Metabolizing Fear into Appreciation

Natalie Ola

1 min read · 23.7.2025

What is Your Mission with MAPS?

“I would say it’s metabolizing fear into appreciation. “

“The mission is to balance out the… not over-exaggerated, but we are way more advanced as human species intellectually than we are emotionally and spiritually, and therefore, we’re destroying the world, and we have the weaponry to destroy humanity, and also, we’re destroying the environment.

“So what we need to do is accelerate our emotional and spiritual development to cope with the products of our intellect, 

and that’s what I recognized when I was an 18-year-old boy in 1971 and ’72, 

that I was way more developed intellectually and way underdeveloped emotionally and spiritually, and I felt that psychedelics could play a major role in helping me to grow.“




One person’s mission.

One sentence that stayed with me.

One larger proposition:



Perhaps humanity’s next developmental task is not primarily intellectual, but emotional and spiritual.

References:

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge. Dr. Rick Doblin: The Psychedelic Renaissance (2018)

Sounds True / MAPS.org. Rick Doblin: The Psychedelic Renaissance (Podcast).

TED. TED Talks You Tube Channel. The Future of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy (2019)

BBC. Ed Prideaux. The Worldview-Changing Drugs Poised to Go Mainstream (2021)