Naina Eira Gupta

Naina Eira Gupta bridges dialogues between Eastern contemplative traditions and Western psychedelic research and philosophy. She is a Huxley Foundation Scholar, graduate student at the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School, PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, and a practitioner of Vajrayāna Buddhism.

Her project, Mapping Unitive States, develops a contemplative framework for psychedelics, focusing on unitive and nondual awareness, and on how fleeting glimpes and insights can be transformed into enduring traits of well-being. She designs meditation-based protocols for psychedelic navigation, rooted in Buddhist Dharma yet adapted for secular psychotherapy.

Naina created the Vedānta module for Exeter’s postgraduate programme in Psychedelics, co-founded Svarasa, meditations with soundscapes for psychedelics in collaboration with award-winning composer Robot Koch, and has presented her work internationally, including at the University of Oxford, Breaking Convention (UK), and Psychedelics as Medicine (Iceland).