An exquisite 8 minute documentary-style interview with Nick Sand, the chemical revolutionary who synthesized the renowned Orange Sunshine and was the first person to discover the effects of DMT could be experienced by smoking it.
Category: mdma
October 13, 2011
June 17, 2011
VIdeo: Sasha Shulgin, 1987. 'Varieties of psychedelic experience'
Video of Sasha Shulgin giving a talk about psychedelics in 1987 recorded by Sound Photosynthesis. 1 hour talk and 1 hour of questions: the talk is fun, especially taking into account the year it was given, but questions were rather mediocre in my opinion.
parts 2 – 7 can be found here.
April 24, 2011
MAPS founder Rick Doblin answers questions from the Reddit community
Discussion of MAPS’ mission, psychedelic psychoterhapy and the progress towards medical approval of MDMA and psychedelics.
February 15, 2011
O on E (and Addiction says MDMA doesn't make you stupid)
Oprah’s O Magazine has published a lengthy article about MDMA and it’s therapuetic applications based on a year’s worth of the author’s research.
and this is coming out at the same time that the journal Addiction published a paper about a $1.8 million, 5-year, NIDA-funded study by John Halpern of the neurocognitive consequences of Ecstasy use that “Shows Ecstasy Not Associated with Cognitive Decline.”
February 1, 2011
Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills
Conceptual art book of pressed pill ecstasy designs.
“Like a modern-times archaeologist, Geneva-based artist FREDERIC POST hunted, collected and copied logos of Ecstasy pills during five years. Only interested in the visual dimension of these objects, he compiles his collection of drawings in a book entitled “Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills”, conferring thus value to an underground iconography of over 500 signs.”
He’s also made ecstasy jewelry.
☮♡☯☺
January 6, 2011
From Neurons to Nirvana
Check out some these very interesting interview clips from the upcomming documentary about psychedelic healing: From Neurons to Nirvana:
http://vimeo.com/channels/neuronirvana
December 17, 2010
Online Videos from the 2010 Horizons Conference
Videos from the 2010 “Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics” conference are now online. The conference took place on Sept. 24-26 at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. The available videos are:
- Jeffrey Guss, M.D., “The NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Research Project’s Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training”
- Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D., and Mary P. Cosimano, M.S.W., “Psilocybin in Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Study”
- Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., “Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Change”
- Jill Harris, “Challenges in Changing the Legal Status of Entheogens”
- JP Harpignies, “Psychedelics, Utopianism, and Psycho-Spiritual Inflation”
- Erik Davis, “Psychedelics: Between Natural and Supernatural”
- Rick Strassman, M.D., “Old Testament Prophecy – A Western Model of the Psychedelic Experience
December 2, 2010
Psychedelic Science Conference Videos Online
MAPS has just uploaded 85 of the presentations from the medical conference: Psychedelic Science In The 21st Century.
There should still be more to come too, but in this batch are many phenomenal talks. Lots immensely fascinating scientific and medical topics as well as many videos on ayahuasca topics.
Some non-technical presentations I recommend are:
~Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia – On The Bus
~Shulgin Tribute Banquet
~Robert Jesse – Closing Talk (on the betterment of well people)
~Andrew Weil M.D. – The Future of Psychedelic Research
…to name but a few for there are countless wonderful presentations to peruse: MAPS.org
November 30, 2010
Liquid Sky & The Living Room, NYC 1994
From 1990 – 1999, Liquid Sky was raver headquarters for NYC. Downstairs was Satellite Records where we bought our choons, upstairs they sold LSDesign clothes and raver gear and often hosted art and DJ’s and had a lounging area. We would gather there to get on buses that took us to out-of-town massives. We were so young and enthusiastic! :D
The reporter takes us into a small rave at an underground venue called The Living Room, which is where I went to my first party.
Ahh memories.
September 17, 2010
Love and Other Drugs: An Interview with the Shulgins
SASHA: Put yourself in that place. If you’re looking at the hands of the clock, and they get slower and slower, what do you think is going to happen? I’m glad I got out of there before we stopped.
ANN: I think we could have gone further. He chickened out.
Read the new interview at InterviewMagazine.com
