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The Evolutionary Mind
Conversations on Science, Imagination, and Spirit
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities.
- Publications Books
- April 1, 2005
- 224 pages
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"The Use of Psychedelics in Psychiatry and Medicine" with Charles Grob
This discussion reviews the history of psychiatric research with psychedelics from the 1950s to the present. Particular focus is applied to recent approved investigations with normal volunteers and with specific ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-23
- 00:56:51
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"Birthing a New World" with Stanislav Grof (sample)
Dr. Grof reflects on the insights that have emerged from over 40 years of non-ordinary state research into the human psyche with psychedelics and Holotropic Breathwork™. He then relates this material to dynamics we are now experiencing on the world stage, showing how unconscious perinatal material is influential in war, violence, and oppression, and is often used by political leaders.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-06-06
- 00:05:35
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"Living Classroom" with Chris Bache (part 1 of 2)
This workshop explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Participants learn practical strategies for working with fields of consciousness: opening and closing fields, visualization exercises to strengthen fields, spiritual practice and the common ground, and recognizing and managing resonance.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 01:09:11
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"Living Classroom" with Chris Bache (part 2 of 2)
This workshop explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Participants learn practical strategies for working with fields of consciousness: opening and closing fields, visualization exercises to strengthen fields, spiritual practice and the common ground, and recognizing and managing resonance.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 00:45:56
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"Psychology of the Future" with Stanislav Grof
In the last five decades, psychedelic therapy and other avenues of modern consciousness research have revealed a rich array of “anomalous” phenomena that have undermined some of the most basic ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-06-15
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Shift Issue 22
IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS
by Vesela SimicTWIN TELEPATHY AND THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION
by Diane H. PowellTHE ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION
by Carol MaseA QUIET REVOLUTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH ADYASHANTI
by Steve DonosoFrontiers of Research
The Return of Psychedelic Research
by Cassandra Vieten, PhD- Spring 2009
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Rational Mysticism
Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics—and meaning—of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation ...
- Publications Books
- January 22, 2003
- 304 pages
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Essential Shifts Interview: Stanislav Grof
What if our propensity to war and aggression had deep roots in the trauma of birth? That’s one of the provocative theories of Dr. Stanislav Grof, drawing from fifty years at the frontiers of consciousness research. There is, he believes, reason for cautious optimism that we can transcend our destructive impulses if large numbers of people engage the healing work that becomes possible in non-ordinary or "holotropic" states such as those used by shamans.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:15
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"Quantum Change" with William Miller
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Dr. William Miller talks with host Cassandra Vieten about motivational interviewing used to identify conflicting motivations and how to move forward into life changes. Dr. Miller has studied the phenomenon of transformational changes, those that usually occur within a matter of hours and result in enduring and sometimes dramatic change in one's life and personality.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-22
- 00:54:48
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"Natural Mindfulness" with John Astin
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-20
- 01:07:07
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The Legacy of Transformation
A Gathering of Psychedelic Elders
- Principal Investigator
- Alise Agar
- Co-Investigators
- Cassandra Vieten, PhD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
- Key Collaborators
- Charles S. Grob, MD, Roger Walsh, MD, PhD
This project sought to identify new approaches to the therapuetic and transformational use of psychedelic substances by convening and interviewing researchers who stood at the frontiers of this field.
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Stephen Ross, MD
Ross is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, among other postings. His research interests revolve around novel diagnostic and treatment approaches to addictive illnesses and psychological distress in patients with advanced or terminal cancer. He directs the NYU Psychedelic Research Group and is Principal Investigator of the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Project.
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James Fadiman, PhD
Dr. Fadiman, a former director of IONS, teaches at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, which he cofounded in 1974. His latest book, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys (Park Street Press, 2011), contains descriptions of all the research mentioned here and much more. Go to www.jamesfadiman.com.
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The Promise of Psychedelic Research
Laboring under various taboos after the borderless experimentation of the sixties and seventies, the therapeutic use of psychedelics is now being studied—and in some cases sanctioned—by a small but growing group of pioneering researchers blessed by federal consent.
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Charles S. Grob, MD
Charles S. Grob, M.D. is Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. He did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College and Columbia University, and obtained a B.S. from Columbia in 1975. He received his M.D. from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in 1979.
Prior to his appointment at UCLA, Grob held teaching and clinical positions at the University of California at Irvine, College of Medicine, and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. He conducted the first U.S. government approved psychobiological research study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international research project in the Brazilian Amazon studying the visionary plant brew, ayahuasca. The results of his completed investigation on the use of psilocybin to treat advanced-cancer patients with psilocybin will be published in the January, 2011 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.He is the editor of Hallucinogens: A Reader, published by Tarcher/Putnam in 2002, and the co-editor (with Roger Walsh) of Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore The Continuing Impact Of Psychedelics, published by SUNY Press (State University of New York Press) in 2005, and he has published numerous articles on psychedelics in medical and psychiatric journals and collected volumes. He is a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute, which is devoted to fostering and funding research on psychedelics.