Pop Culture, Film & Religion: Psychedelically Speaking with Nathan Keele-Springer

The Integration Session · May 14, 2026 · 46m

From the hippie counterculture vibes of the 1960s to the haunting visions of Midsommar, or the optimism of How to Change Your Mind, psychedelics have long shaped (and been shaped by) popular media. But how do these portrayals reflect and influence cultural narratives around altered states, spirituality, and transformation? And in what ways do they borrow from, distort, or reinvent the language of traditional religion and mysticism?

In this episode of The Integration Session, we are joined by Nathan Keele-Springer, a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa whose research…