Psychedelic Explorations, Leary, Harvard, Millbrook, Alpert and Metzner update

forthcoming this Summer

August 2008

THE BIRTH OF PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LEARY, THE HARVARD EXPERIMENTS, MILLBROOK, AND THE SIXTIES

By Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner
With Gary Bravo

Paperback ISBN 9780907791386

http://www.synergeticpress.com/forthcoming.html

cool Groovy Troopers site by Delphi Carstens

plenty more advanced synthetic essays!
http://www.groovytroopers.co.za/

All Quests Lead to the Phylum

Written by Delphi Carstens

Machinic phylumis a term coined by French post-structuralist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari to describe the universe’s reservoir of self-organising principles. They reason that whenever a crystal grows, a foetus begins to develop or someone stumbles across a novel idea something or someone has accessed this omnipresent reservoir and sampled a code.

According to Manual de Landa our task, like that of the shamen, is to become responsible probe-heads that explore the Phylum in a search for new modes of being. Expressing the dynamics of a new paradigm will entail a ceaseless and brave journey, climbing from one strange attractor to another as we track the Phylum in search of a better destiny for humanity.

* Essential reading on the subject of the Phylum include Manual De Landa’s A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History or Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Science-fictional explorations include Neal Stephenson’s Diamond-Age and Tricia Sullivan’s Dreamers in Smoke.

more essays by Delphi

psychedelic medicine available. by Winkelman & Roberts

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Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments $200.00

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Edited By: Michael J. Winkelman, Thomas B. Roberts

Published by Praeger Perspectives
Book Code: C9023
ISBN: 0-275-99023-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99023-7
DOI: 10.1336/0275990230
728 pages, 18 tables 9 figures
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2007
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Description:
Psychedelic substances present in nature have been used by humans across hundreds of years to produce mind-altering changes in thought, mood, and perception--changes we do not experience otherwise except rarely in dreams, religious exaltation, or psychosis. U.S. scientists were studying the practical and therapeutic uses for hallucinogens, including LSD and mescaline, in the 1950s and 1960s supplied by large manufacturers including Sandoz. But the government took steps to ban all human consumption of hallucinogens, and thus the research.

World Psychedelic Forum this Spring, 2008

Psychedelics have been widely used for thousands of years nearly everywhere on the planet. Psychoactive plants have been central to most ancient sacred rituals and primitive medical treatments. They have been worshipped in all cultures as "Plants of the Gods" and considered as mediators between human beings and the universe, linking the physical to the spiritual dimensions of existence.
http://www.psychedelic.info/index_2_eng.html