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Demons Descrimination and Dollars
This book is based on a college course, and is presented in an informal, basic and easy-to-read format. I highly recommend it for the vast spectrum of relevant and interesting facts on the past and present history of the United States' relationship with controlled substances. The big problem with ...
LSD: The Highway to Mental Health
What happened to LSD psychotherapy in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after Stan Grof came to the United States? This book describes the work of Dr. Milan Hausner, Medical Director of a psychiatric clinic in SadskÃ¡, near Prague, who supervised over 3,000 therapeutic LSD sessions from 1954 to 1980. ...
Delusions of Normality
Delusions of Normality is one of those gifts that does a lot of heavy lifting for youâ€”now you donâ€™t have to read all the newspapers, books, and sociological sources Harpignies uses to gather facts, or at least patterns, that deconstruct mainstream assumptions about the depth and breadth of kinkiness or ...
Weekends at Bellevue
Weekends at Bellevue is the story of a cocky young doctor transformed into a thoughtful caregiver. Through understanding her own mental foibles, Holland becomes better equipped to deal with the issues of her psych patients. People fascinated by the ways in which the mind works, and how it can go ...
The Globalisation of Addiction
The solution to addiction must be addressed through a transformation of society from one whose legal (and illegal) addictions are fueled by a free market philosophy to a society that recognizes the importance of meaningful psychosocial integration. The author outlines how this can be done politically, academically, and religiously. [ read more ]
Tales of Wonder
Huston Smith tracks his nearly ninety-year journey, which he divides into a horizontal, secular dimension and a vertical, sacred dimension. The first is a feet-on-the-ground report of adventures on earth; the second reports on his head and heart as they explore spiritual geography and time. [ read more ]
Fingerprints of God
Barbara Bradley Hagerty's search takes her to research anecdotes on mystical experiences and their transformation of peopleâ€™s lives, unusual healing, genetics, psychedelic drugs with special emphasis on the Native American Churchâ€™s use of peyote, and the psilocybin experiments of the Roland Griffiths team at Johns Hopkins. Two odd omissions: the ...
Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain
Much has been written about Leary and his compatriots, but Albion Dreaming retains a gritty UK perspective. From the still-secret experiments conducted at Britain's military research establishment at Porton Down, to Ronald Sandison, a doctor who opened the world's first specialized LSD psychotherapy unit at Powick Hospital in Worcestershire in ...
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
...An unforgettable read about an unforgettable time. Regardless of your taste for their music, this is an invaluable account of not only a seminal American band, but of the very roots of the psychedelic counter-culture itself. The book is full of priceless anecdotes on what it was like to be ...
Scientists, Poets, and Laughing Gas
Mike Jay, in The Atmosphere of Heaven, explores the golden age of gentleman amateursâ€”the years prior to and following the French Revolutionâ€”through the life of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, the founder of the Medical Pneumatic Institution, which was dedicated to the alleviation of suffering through the new possibilities of chemical medicine, ...

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Psychedelic Science Conference to Be Held in California MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has announced its international conference on psychedelic research will take place April 15-18 in San Jose, California. The conference will bring together international experts on psychedelic substances and will be the largest such conference to take place in the United States in 17... HIGH TIMES Interview: James Oroc The January 2010 issue of HIGH TIMES featured a conversation with James Oroc, author of Tryptamine Palace, titled “Psychedelic Desert Toads.” The following is the complete and uncut interview with Oroc. HT: What are the differences between 5-MeO-DMT and DMT? JO: There’s a lot of confusion here because there’s very little information... JANUARY 2010 GROWROOM SECURITY SECRETS Skateboarder 'Sorry' for Naked Rooftop Incident Source: dailybreeze.com Professional skateboarder Jereme Rogers said Wednesday he was sorry for disturbing his Redondo Beach neighbors this week when he "ate some `mushrooms' and bugged out," preaching naked on his rooftop. Rogers, a high school dropout who attributes his skateboarding skills to God, was eventually grabbed by police officers and brought... Unsigned Bands: Sky Picnic Sky Picnic: With a love of music, a penchant for exploration, and a history of elaborate and intense live performances, Sky Picnic bridges the gap between experimental and straightforward music. Described as “dark and eerie layered psychedelia” (Low Cut Magazine) and “highly textured psychedelic space-rock ... a major point of comparison... Brain Damage Control: Psychedelic Evolution There I stood, a few years ago in San Francisco, with my feet spread apart and my arms outstretched against the side of a car. As I was being frisked by a police officer, I realized that he was facing the back of my Mad magazine jacket, the face of... Psychedelic Lab Raided in Jackson County Source: citizen-times.com SYLVA – Authorities in Jackson County arrested a 34-year-old Glenville man after finding a lab for making psychedelic drugs in his home, a host of designer drugs, guns and cash. Matthew Jordan Reynolds is in jail in lieu of $200,000 bail. Capt. Steve Lillard of the Jackson County Sheriff’s... State Cops Bust Newark Man with Supply of 'Businessman's LSD' Source: nj.com New Jersey state police said they made a larger seizure of the drug known as "businessman's LSD." State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said the hallucinogenic drug, known by scientists as "dimethyltryptamine," or DMT, is becoming increasingly popular in the regional club scene.,000. Troopers seized about 1.4 pounds of DMT from a...

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Wisdom 2.0 Summit Mt. View, CA April 30 - May1st -- Where the Wise Guys (and Gals) of Silcon Valley Gather
Link for this Post: Wisdom 2.0 Summit, Mt. View, CA We knew that search engine advertising and Social Software sales could make you rich. But until now, we did not know that those revenues could equal wisdom. After all the...
Memes for Making A New Culture -- A Work in Progress Part 1
In my post in November about my motherâ€™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...
Google Fast Flip Shows You the News
a Link for this Post: Google Fast Flip at Google Labs As most of my readers know, Google plans to run the world by 2012. On their way to that goal, they have created Fast Flip, a visual front end...
Timothy Leary Documentary on BBC (2000) -- Timothy Leary Video Archive
Links for this Post: Timothy Leary Video Archive and the video embedded above. I discovered an collection of Timothy Leary themed videos available for online viewing or no cost download as part of the Internet Archive. I have seen a...
R.I.P. hipster homeowners (in Vegas) on Rebecca's World
Link for this Post: Rebecca's World on vegas-times.com A UNLV student in a Public Relations class was assigned to do a press release and media kit for a local non-profit. She picked Island Foundation and so we have been talking...
Rembering My Mother
Regular readers may have noticed that I have not been posting much the past few months and even less the past few weeks. Three weeks ago, my mother whose name was Irene passed away at age 82. Irene was a...
Barack Obama Becomes the First Sitting President Since Woodrow Wilson to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Link for this Post: Breaking News on CNN -- President Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace In an amazing endorsement of the innovative efforts of President Barrack Obama to bring a new vision of a world free of...
Film has Fun with Fungi -- Know Your Mushrooms -- YouTube Clips
Links for this Post: Know Your Mushrooms DVD on Amazon Know Your Mushrooms Showing October 4th on the Sundance Channel Embedded YouTube Video Clips Below I just finished watching a documentary called Know Your Mushrooms which I recorded from a...
Brainz: Greymatter at Its Best Lives Up to Its Name
Link for this Post: Brainz: Greymatter at Its Best It strains creadabity to read such a ... brain bulging title. The webmaster must have swelled head as well, you think to yourself. when you read the title but the site...

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On Feb. 8 HerbalGram, the Journal of the American Botanical Council, publish ...
On Feb. 8 HerbalGram, the Journal of the American Botanical Council, published an article with efficient detail about the DEA's and NIDA's obstruction of medical marijuana research and the proposed MAPS-sponsored marijuana production facility at UMass Amherst.
On February 1, the FDA approved our MDMA/PTSD/veterans of war protocol and ...
On February 1, the FDA approved our MDMA/PTSD/veterans of war protocol and granted permission for the study to proceed. More information about the study can be found on our MDMA page

On January 19, the New York Times published an article titled "Researchers ...
On January 19, the New York Times published an article titled "Researchers Find Study of Medical Marijuana Discouraged," about the DEA's refusal to license Prof. Craker to operate a MAPS-sponsored marijuana production facility.
The January 2010 MAPS Monthly Email Newsletter is now available in online in ...
The January 2010 MAPS Monthly Email Newsletter is now available in online in our Email News archive.
On December 13 an editorial in the Huffington Post called for President Obam ...
On December 13 an editorial in the Huffington Post called for President Obama to "Free the Medical Marijuana Researchers!"

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27-03-2010 : KAPRI mit Turmspringer 2x2 GÃ¤stelistenplÃ¤tze fÃ¼r die Electro Sause im Hamburger Fundbureau zu gewinnen! 26-03-2010 : Hey, Bronco! 2x2 GÃ¤stelistenplÃ¤tze fÃ¼r die Electro Party im Hamburger Terrace Hill zu gewinnen! PsyTrance Festival Summer 2009...The movie A pretty much superb appetizer for the upcoming summer season: Passionate film-maker PsyVideosHD from Berlin just published a great little movie about our most poular weekend activity in summer! 27-02-2010 Intact Expanda (Hamburg) 2 Freikarten zu gewinnen / win 2 free tickets! PolizeiprÃ¤sident will Entkriminalisierung von Cannabiskonsumenten Der PolizeiprÃ¤sident von MÃ¼nster, Hubert Wimber, hat in einem Brief an den Deutschen Hanfverband klar gemacht, dass er die Strafverfolgung von Cannabiskonsumenten fÃ¼r weitgehend unwirksam und wenig sinnvoll hÃ¤lt. Er meint, dass "angesichts der weitgehenden Erfolglosigkeit staatlicher Repression und politischer Unbeweglichkeit eine erneute Initiative aus den Reihen der Polizei und anderer StrafverfolgungsbehÃ¶rden fÃ¼r eine alternative Drogenpolitik... Headroom in interview And here we go with an another interview recorded after one of the most amazing festivals in this world at Salvador airport a few weeks ago: Adam aka Headroom from South Africa turns out to have not only a pretty interesting and independent style as a musician but also... 26-02-2010 Prima! Plattenshowcase â€“ Terrace Hill, Hamburg 2x2 Freikarten zu gewinnen! Kalumet / Burlesque There is a guy from Hungary. When they asked his artist name for his very first release, he chose the name 'Kalumet'. It was 12 years ago and he didn't stop since. His unique sound is now worldwide known, the breakthrough was his debut album called 'Burlesque, released... Protoculture - Premonition EP (NANO Records) I have to confess that I did not listen to a Protoculture track since ages but after I just checked out his new EP I have to say: These dude definitely still has it... Photon Guerilla Mr. Aerosol, known from pleasantly confusing peopleâ€™s optical perception at festivals like Fusion, Boom or Psychedelic Circus, discovered a new toy and put his projections to the next level with it:

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