Michael Lifshitz

is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal. He co-directs the Psychedelics and Contemplation Lab, an interdisciplinary research space that combines phenomenology, neuroscience and ethnography to shed light on the plasticity of consciousness. His research focuses on practices that aim to transform subjective experience—from meditation and hypnosis to placebos, prayer, and psychedelics.