Hunt Priest
Bio: Hunt Priest is an ordained priest in The Episcopal Church and the founding Executive Director of Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society, a non-profit network of Christian leaders educating themselves and those they lead about the intersection of open-hearted Christianity and the renewal of wide-spread interest in Psychedelic healing. A participant in the Johns Hopkins/NYU Religious Professionals Study in early 2016, he had two life-changing mystical experiences under the care of the research team. His encounters with psilocybin opened him to the healing and consciousness-raising power of psychedelics and changed the landscape of his work. In April 2021 Hunt took an extended break from full-time parish ministry to expand his priesthood out into the emerging intersection of psychedelics and religion, specifically Christianity. Ligare, the organization he founded, offers Spiritual Direction groups, general education opportunities, and encourages religious and theological scholarship.