Griffiths–Bill Richards

Griffiths–Bill Richards names a research collaboration focused on psilocybin and mystical-type experience. The available account makes the partnership visible chiefly through a jointly authored paper, which it calls a landmark work; it does not specify how the collaborators divided their research or clinical roles.

Research Focus

The collaboration is linked to the question of whether psilocybin can occasion experiences resembling mystical states. Its research focus is captured in the paper title, Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance. The title frames the subject not simply as an altered state, but as an experience that may carry enduring personal meaning and spiritual significance.

The Collaborative Paper

The cited paper credits Griffiths and Bill Richards alongside McCann and Bob Jesse. That authorship establishes the collaboration as part of a broader research team, rather than documenting a two-person project alone. The book identifies the work as a landmark paper by Griffiths and returns to the study in its references, placing it among the works through which the relationship is presented.

Place in the Book's Record

The paper is referenced in connection with pages 10–11 and 29–30, and the index separately points readers to Griffiths's landmark paper at those same page ranges. These repeated references mark the study as a recurring point in the book's account of psilocybin research. The evidence presented here establishes the collaborators' shared publication and subject; it does not give a fuller chronology of their partnership or distinguish their individual contributions.