Re: World Psychedelic Forum (Basel, Switzerland - March 21-24, 2008)

[Alfa]

This makes my day. I will certainly roam the Congress center.
ATM the English pages of the site do not work, but the German pages do:
http://www.psychedelic.info/index_2_de.html

Here are the speakers of the World Psychedelic Forum:

Speakers

Attachment 4211
Albert Hofmann, PhD (CH)
Chemist, Discoverer of LSD, Board Member of the Gaia Media Foundation, Guest of Honor

Attachment 4239
Mathias Bröckers (GER)
Literary Scholar, Author, Journalist

Attachment 4228
Jan Christoph Bublitz (GER)
Studied law, postgraduate assistant at a research group studying the potentials and risks of Psychopharmaceutical Enhancement

Attachment 4246
Rick Doblin, PhD (USA)
Founder and President of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)

Attachment 4214
Amanda Feilding (GB)
Consciousness Researcher, Founder and Director of The Beckley Foundation, working at the frontiers of scientific and policy research: currently conducting the first fully approved research into LSD with human subjects for over 30 years.

Attachment 4220
Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (USA)
Joined the "Merry Pranksters" and toured on The Bus until 1967, shared life and music with her husband Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, member of various charitable and spiritual foundations

Attachment 4245
Peter Gasser, MD (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, President of the Swiss Association for Psycholytic Therapy (SAEPT), LSD-assisted Psychotherapy in Switzerland in Subjects with Anxiety Associated with Life-threatening Illnesses

Attachment 4212
Alex Grey (USA)
Visionary Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"

Attachment 4213
Allyson Grey (USA)
Visionary Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"

Attachment 4249
Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD (USA)
Psychiatrist, Consciousness Researcher, Author, Co-founder of Transpersonal Psychology, Founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA), Laureate 2007 of the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation "Vize 97" Prize

Attachment 4227
Dieter A. Hagenbach (CH)
Program Manager; Founder and former Manager of Sphinx Verlag, Founder and President of the Gaia Media Foundation

Attachment 4232
Jon Hanna (USA)
Author, Publicist, Publisher of the Psychedelic Resource List, The Entheogen Review, Organizer of "Mind States"

Attachment 4231
John Harrison, PsyD cand (USA)
Principal Investigator for MAPS' Study of
Ibogaine in the Treatment of Opiate Addiction, Drug War Veteran, Mountaineer, Therapist

Attachment 4236
Kathleen Harrison (USA)
Ethnobotanist, Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Botanical Dimensions"

Attachment 4240
Michael Horowitz (USA)
Consultant, Ludlow Santo Domingo Library, Director of Flashback Books, Editor of Works by Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary

Attachment 4258
Pierre Joset, JD (CH/AUS)
Lawyer, Attorney, Co-Founder of the Anti Prohibition League and of the European Movement for Normalization of Drug Policy (EMNDP), Co-Founder of the Gaia Media Foundation

Attachment 4226
Dennis J. McKenna, PhD (USA)
Ethnopharmacologist

Attachment 4248
Sandra Karpetas (CA)
Co-Founder, Iboga Therapy Society and
Program Director, Iboga Therapy House

Attachment 4251
Thomas Kessler (CH)
Agronomist, Delegate for Migration and Integration Issues of the City of Basel, Former Delegate for Drug Issues of the City of Basel, Member of the Swiss Commission for Drug Issues

Attachment 4259
Prof. Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, DmedSci (RUS)
Head, Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Addictions, St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, Head, Department of Addictions, Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute

Attachment 4229
Jan Kounen (NL)
Director of Dobermann, Blueberry, Darshan, Other Worlds, 99 Francs, and other Feature Films, Documentaries, and TV Series

Attachment 4247
Sameet Kumar, PhD (USA)
Clinical Psychologist, Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami

Attachment 4219
Bruno Martin (GER)
Consciousness Researcher, Author

Attachment 4260
Ralph Metzner, PhD (USA)
Consciousness Researcher and Psychotherapist, Pioneer of Psychedelic Research at Harvard, Co-author (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert) of The Psychedelic Experience

Attachment 4215
Annie Mithoefer (USA)
Registered Nurse, Psychotherapist

Attachment 4241
Michael Mithoefer, MD (USA)
Psychiatrist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, Head of a MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Attachment 4254
Valerie Mojeiko (USA)
Program Director and Clinical Research Associate at MAPS

Attachment 4223
Claudia Müller-Ebeling, PhD (GER)
Art Historian, Anthropologist, Author

Attachment 4230
Jeremy Narby, PhD (CAN/CH)
Anthropologist, Author of The Cosmic Serpent, Shamans Through Time (with Francis Huxley), and Intelligence in Nature

Attachment 4243
Nana Nauwald (GER)
Artist, Author, Explorer of Shamanic Worlds

Attachment 4244
Peter Oehen, MD (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Head of MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Switzerland

Attachment 4222
Cynthia Palmer (USA)
Author, Photographer, Co-editor of Aldous Huxley's Moksha and Sisters of the Extreme: Women's Writing on the Drug Experience

Attachment 4255
Vanja Palmers (CH)
Zen Priest, Animal Rights Activist, Co-founder of Puregg – Haus der Stille, Austria, the Meditation Center Felsentor, Switzerland, and various Animal Protection Organizations

Attachment 4253
Torsten Passie, MD, MA (GER)
Scientific Collaborator and Psychiatrist at the Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover

Attachment 4224
Dale Pendell (USA)
Poet, Software Engineer, Ethnobotanist, Author of "Pharmako|Gnosis"

Attachment 4225
Daniel Pinchbeck (USA)
Author of Breaking Open the Head, Journalist, Editor of realitysandwich.com

Attachment 4216
Baba Rampuri (USA|IND)
American expatriate, Yogi, first foreigner to be initiated into the Naga Sannyasis, Author of Baba

Attachment 4221
Christian Rätsch, PhD (GER)
Anthropologist, Ethnopharmacologist, Author of the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants

Attachment 4252
Thomas B. Roberts, PhD (USA)
Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations at Northern Illinois University, Author, Co-editor of Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogens as Treatments, Originator of "Bicycle Day"

Attachment 4218
Béatrice Rubli (CH)
Medium, Psychic Healer

Attachment 4237
Manuel Schoch (CH)
Therapist, Founder of "Time Therapy", Author of Healing with Qualities and Bitten by the Black Snake

Attachment 4238
Martin Schöne, MBA (GER)
Artist, Brain Researcher, Developer of the "Brain-Avatar"

Attachment 4217
Barnim Schultze (GER)
Akasha Project, Composer, Musician

Attachment 4256
Wolf-Dieter Storl, PhD (GER)
Ethnobotanist und Cultural Anthropologist, Author

Attachment 4233
Juraj Styk, MD (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist

Attachment 4250
Sylvia Thyssen (USA)
Managing Editor, Erowid.org

Attachment 4235
Kajuyali Tsamani (COL)
Shaman, initiated by Bernardo Moscote, Master Shaman of the Kogi Nation

Attachment 4257
Wulf Mirko Weinreich (GER)
Psychotherapist (HPG), Addiction Therapist (VDR), Author of Integrale Psychotherapie

Attachment 4261
Lucius Werthmüller (CH)
Project Manager; Parapsychologist and Consciousness Researcher, Member of the Board of the Gaia Media Foundation

Attachment 4242
Michael J. Winkelman, MPH, MD (USA)
Anthropologist, Co-editor of Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogens as Treatments

Attachment 4234
Jürg fuyûzui Zurmühle (CH)
Japanese Bambooflute Player, Master of Kinko-ryu Shakuhachi, Composer, Professor for German Flute, Improvisation and Ensemble


Rising Researchers that will present their studies on the World Psychedelic Forum:

Brian Anderson (USA)
Research Technician

Matthew Baggott, Ph.D. candidate (USA)
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Paulo Cesar Ribeiro Barbosa, MSc (BR)
Professor of Science
Methods and Mental Health

Alexander Belser, MPhil (USA)

Simon D. Brandt, PhD (UK)
Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry

Prof. Henrique Soares Carneiro, PhD (BR)
Professor of the History
Department of Universidade
de São Paulo (USP), member of NEIP

Gurpreet S. Chopra, MD (USA)
Psychiatrist

Alicia Danforth (USA)
Research Associate

Kevin Feeney, JD (USA)
HIV Case Manager, Alcohol and Drug Counselor

Yiannis Ferras, MSc (GR)
Health Psychologist-Psychotherapist

Tom Froese (UK)
DPhil student at the University of Sussex

Prof. Juan C. Gonzalez, PhD (MEX)
Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Ingmar Gorman (USA)
Student at the New College of Florida

Rafael Guimaraes dos Santos (BR)
Biologist

Jeffrey Guss, MD (USA)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Psychedelic Psychotherapy Services New York University School of Medicine

Jonathan Hobbs (UK)
Student

Aaron A. Jenks (USA)
Plant Biologist, Botanist

Beatriz Caiuby Labate (BR)
PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology

David Luke, PhD (UK)
Psychedelic and Parapsychology Researcher

Levente Móró, MSc (FI)
Consciousness Researcher

Michael Alan Ruderman, BA (USA)
Research Assistant, Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley

R. Andrew Sewell, MD (USA)
Neuropsychiatrist

Diana Reed Slattery (USA)
Video performance artist, Xenolinguist

Kenneth W. Tupper (CA)
PhD candidate at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia

Manuel Villaescusa, MSc (ES)
Psychologist

Petr Winkler (CZ)
Student at the Charles University in Prag