APPENDIX TO THE FOUNDER'S AGREEMENTFounder's Agreement • October 16th, 2022
Contract Type FiledOctober 16th, 2022The purpose and intent of the Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D., Professorship Fund In Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being is to support a professorship and to establish a world class, rigorous, empirical program of research with psychedelic substances to advance understanding of well-being and spirituality in the service of human flourishing for generations to come. The program will advance scientific research and scholarship on the uses of psychedelic substances and their subsequent effects on (i) improving human health and well-being, (ii) increasing prosocial human behaviors, and (iii) cultivating a life of greater equanimity and a more compassionate and peaceful worldview. The research will also advance the understanding of the physical, psychological, and other conditions that predispose or contribute to psychedelic associated human flourishing. The hallmark of this research shall be the scientific method.