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MAPS 25th Anniversary Conference Report

I attended the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Cartographie Psychedelica: Celebrating 25 Years of Research & Education. That bit of a tongue twister is short for the MAPS 25th Anniversary Conference. See the MAPS website for detailed information about the organization. As I mentioned previously, when you get to be my age, time seems to fly by. It is hard to believe that it was 25 years ago that I first met Rick Doblin, when MAPS was still just a twinkle in his eye. He was returning from a workshop he had taken with Stan Grof at Esalen. I had taken Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

It’s 12 Minutes to Midnight on April 16, 2010

Link for this Post: Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference, San Jose, California It’s ten minutes to midnight on April 16th, 2010.Sixty years ago, on April 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann, who readers of this blog have been introduced to with on numerous occasions, took a small dose of chemical he had synthesized five years earlier while investigating a series of chemicals that could be made starting with lysergic acid, one of many chemicals that made were found in ergot, a mold that grows on certain species of grass including rye. While my description of the late Dr. Hofmann’s act sounds perhaps Read more »

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Memes for the Making of a New Culture — A Work in Progress Part 1

In my post in November about my mother’s passing Remembering My Mother, I related about how a dream at age four provided as way of thinking about those early years of my life, the ones that hardly anyone remembers anything about.

I am going to be 62 in February and so I have gone through a lot of my life, much of which seemed like endless mid-life crises and reached maturity. In terms of The 12 Stages of Life by Bruce Carnahan, I have arrived at Stage 9 called which he calls Reflection.

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Under the Influence — YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

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Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for a documentary called "Under the Influence" which would  examine the drug war including its origin, effects and i implications on our culture.

Colby later ended the scope to a three part film with sections titled "Western Culture and the American Perception", "The Faux Freedom of Drug Policy and an third, Shamanism, Healing, and Alternative Implications.

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