Upcoming Events

Friday, September 3, 2010
Elliot Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA
Capital Hill between Pike and Pine
7 pm -Book Reading
Ralph Metzner will read from and discuss his three recent books, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, Alchemical Divination, and Mind Space and Time Stream.
For more information call 206-624-6600 or go to website

Saturday, October 16, 2010, San Rafael, CA
Bioneers Conference
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm -Panel on Cutting Edge of Psychedelic Research
Now Since the 1960s, it has been very difficult to get approval for serious research into “mind-manifesting” plants and drugs, although many believe these unique substances have great potential for social good. Leading figures in the field describe that potential and the status of current research. Hosted by ethnobotanist/artist and founder of Botanical Dimensions Kat Harrison. With: Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer; Charles Grob, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine; Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., whose research focuses on the history and impact of psychedelics; and Alicia Danforth, a researcher working on experiments using psilocybin to treat anxiety in patients with Stage IV cancer.
To register use this code: GEF2010 to receive a 10% discount off the conference registration rates.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010
CIIS Main Building, 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
7 pm - 9 pm -Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness
Ralph Metzner will read from and discuss his three recent books, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, Alchemical Divination, and Mind Space and Time Stream.
For more information call 415-575-6175 or go to website

November 12-14, 2010, IONS, Petaluma, CA
Weekend-Workshop in
Unfolding the Tree of Our Life and Connecting with the Ancestors
Each human life can be seen as the unfolding of a tree, with it's "roots" in the past and it's "crown" as our future potentials. From ancestral seed, rooted and nourished in the mother's earthly womb, it emerges at birth, develops it's trunk and extends the branches of relations, growing toward the light and bringing forth it's procreative children and creative fruits. In this workshop we will be using alchemical, shamanic and yogic divination and meditation methods, to identify, re-connect and reconcile with ancestral root lineages and release karmic entanglements.
Click here for details and registration information.

July 18-23, 2011, near Växjö, Sweden
Next 5-Day Workshop in
Janus and the Gateway of the Heart
This workshop includes the following divinations: Mapping your Self-System and Life-World of Relations, Finding your Orientation and Inner Direction, Releasing Fear Blocks on Receiving and Expressing, Connecting and Reconciling with your Ancestors and Elders, The Six Archetypal Life-paths of the Human Soul.
For complete description click here.
This workshop will take place in the beautiful green countryside of south Sweden, a land of thousands of lakes, forests and meadows. To register for this workshop at the new reduced price of $500 click here.

MDMA-Assisted Psycholtherapy Relieves Treatment-Resistant PTSD in First Completed Clinical Trial -Dr. Michael Mithoefer, one of the presenters at the MAPS conference, and his associates have just completed and published their ground breaking study documenting the value of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for war veterans suffering from PTSD.

The MAPS Conference, Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century, was a magnificent success! We generated a spectacular amount of media as a result, including from CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Scientific American, Nature News, New York Times, USA Today and many other media outlets. We have archived the conference related media reports on both our “MAPS in the Media” page and “Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century” page. We predict that the astonishingly positive public education achieved by these articles will be seen in retrospect as a turning point, building public support for a substantial expansion of psychedelic research. We encourage you to review and share these media reports with your friends and family.

Here is a link to the opening and the closing talks by MAPS Executive Director Rick Doblin, Ph.D. and a very powerful statement by Andrew Weil, MD http://www.maps.org/avarchive/

German language editions of The Ecology of Consciousness series are being published by Nachtschatten Verlag, in Solothurn, Switzerland. The first two volumes have already appeared: Die Erweiterung des Bewusstseins, Die Wurzeln von Krieg und Herrschaft. Alchemistische Divination is due out in a couple of months; and Raum des Geistes - Strom der Zeit is in preparation.

The web magazine, Cannabis Culture, published a book review of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture and an interview with Ralph by Dale Rangzen.

"Birth of a Psychedelic Culture offers a mature and expansive look at one of the most important cultural and scientific developments of the twentieth century...Whatever one's own perspective, it must be admitted that subsequent developments in computers and technology, the adoption and development of certain therapeutic models as well as interest in yoga and eastern religion may not have manifested in the way they have if it was not for the introduction of psychedelics. Every bit as important as the moon landing that took place during the last year of the sixties; psychedelics and their implications are just beginning to be understood. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an essential book and a riveting read. It'll be a very long time before the release of a better book about this era."

For other reviews of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture go here.

Radio interview with Ralph on EntheoRadio by Trevahr Hughes 8/14/10

Entheo:Genesis -Awakening the Divine Within A feature length documentary, including interviews with Ralph Metzner and many other speakers, invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos in the modern world by awakening to the divine within. To view the trailer: http://entheogen.tv/media/trailer.mov

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