Roland Griffiths, a key figure in psychedelic research, encouraged his mentee to treat his terminal cancer as an opportunity to feel.
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at the age of 77, was an American psychopharmacologist widely credited with reviving the study of psychedelic drugs."He was almost the opposite of what I imagined a psychedelic researcher would be like," said Nassim Assefi, who curated a talk Griffiths gave in 2015."He was serious, gentle, and had a straight laced appearance, with a deeply calm, spiritual sense about him."When Griffiths learnt his stage 4 colon cancer was likely to be terminal, he told his mentee David Yaden that Yaden should take his mentor's impending death "as an opportunity to feel