Events - Horizons - Perspectives on psychedelics conference sept 19-21 NYC - Anyone going?

[Euphoric]

http://www.horizonsnyc.org/index.php

The name basically says it all. Any body going?

Amazing speaker list:

Speakers
(in alphabetical order)

• Allan Hunt Badiner - Co-editor of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics
• Rick Doblin, Ph.D. - Founder/president of MAPS
• Robert Forte - Divinity scholar, editor of Entheogens and the Future of Religion
• Alex Grey - Artist and co-founder of Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
• Allyson Grey - Artist and co-founder of Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
• Roland Griffiths, Ph.D. - Psilocybin researcher, Professor of Behavioral Biology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• John Halpern, M.D. - MDMA, psilocybin and peyote researcher, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Sean Helfritsch & Isaiah Saxon - Video artists, creators of Bjork's Wanderlust 3D music video
• Dan Merkur - Psychoanalyst, author of The Ecstatic Imagination
• Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis - Ibogaine therapist
• David Nichols, Ph.D. - Founder of Heffter Research Institute, Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology at Purdue University
• Daniel Pinchbeck - Author of Breaking Open the Head and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
• Sasha and Ann Shulgin - Pharmacological pioneers, authors of Tikhal and Pikhal

[RaverHippie]

I was sorry to miss this last year. It turned from something small into a legitimate event. It's grown a lot and I may try and make it if spur of the moment plans can be implemented.

[RaverHippie]

Actually I'll be flying into nyc about 2 hours before this starts so I might be able to make it, I'll be sure to take detailed notes if I'm able to attend.

[fnord]

Ahhh! only 300 miles away! sadly i cant afford a ticket. If anyones going with a video cam,id love to see Dr Dave speak.

[RaverHippie]

I could take audio recordings with my mp3 player. Not quite the same thing, but I'm not sure if my digital camera records audio as well as video.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Thanks! If possible tape all of the speakers you can,im sure it wqill earn a ggood amount of rep.

[RaverHippie]

Bump. Here's the info for this year.

Horizons Returns For Its Third Year!

Horizons is an annual forum for learning about psychedelics, hosted by Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Its goal is to open a fresh dialogue about psychedelics and rethink their role in medicine, culture, history, spirituality and art.

Psychedelics are a unique class of psychoactive drugs that have been used by humans for thousands of years. In the 1950s and early 1960s, academic research with psychedelics yielded important discoveries in psychology and neuroscience. Just a few years later, they entered popular culture across North America, Europe and the world.

Questions about their safety, medical value, history and implications in politics and culture were unfortunately answered with numerous myths spread by both their users and the media. The millennial rave fever brought a similar wave of popularity and hysteria.

Recently, a renaissance in psychedelic research and dialogue has taken shape. Horizons brings together the brightest minds and boldest voices of this movement to share their insights and dreams for the future.

CLICK HERE FOR TICKET INFORMATION

2009 Speakers
(in alphabetical order)

* Alicia Danforth is a clinical psychedelic researcher and writer working on Dr. Charles Grob's Harbor-UCLA cancer anxiety trial with psilocybin.

* Earth Erowid and Fire Erowid are the co-founders of Erowid Center, an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. Their primary project is the Erowid.org website established in 1995 as an independent public library of information about psychoactive plants, drugs, technologies, and practices.

* Robert Jesse is organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices, which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience.

* Andy Letcher is a freelance writer, academic lecturer and folk-musician living in Oxford, UK and the author of the critically acclaimed Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom.

* Valerie Mojeiko has worked with MAPS--the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies since 2000, facilitating research of the healing potentials of MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, Ibogaine and other psychedelic medicines.

* William Richards, Ph.D. is a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In the late 1960s, Dr. Richards worked with Stan Grof, Walter Pahnke, and Richard Yensen, administering LSD and DPT to terminal cancer patients. For the past five years, he has participated in research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showing psilocybin can precipitate mystical experiences.

* Stephen Ross, M.D. is principal investigator of the new NYU Psilocybin Cancer Project. He is assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at Bellevue Hospital, and associate director for education at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

* Franz X. Vollenweider, M.D. conducts neuroimaging studies with psychedelics. He is head of the Psychopharmacology and Brain Imaging Unit at the University Hospital of Psychiatry (Burghšlzli) and lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Zurich.

* Bob Wold is founder and President of Clusterbusters, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports research on the use of psilocybin and LSD to treat cluster headaches.

See the Speakers page for more information.

Reception Party
Friday, September 25, 8pm - midnight.
Free with Horizons ticket. $10 cash otherwise.

An evening of celebration, art, performance and friends featuring the finest creative talent in the psychedelic community.

* Larger-than-life imaginative inflatable sculpture by AKAirways.

* The Bike Trip, a monologue about the inner explorer in all of us by master storyteller Martin Dockery.

* A visual history of the faces behind the psychedelics movement from photographer Marc Franklin.

* Hypnotic soundscapes from The Gamelatron, the world's first and only fully robotic Gamelan orchestra.

More details on the Reception page.