“The Future of Psychedelics: Exploring Their Potential for Insight and Healing”

   
Join A Special Private Reality Sandwich
TeleSeminar Series
  
 

Join Daniel Pinchbeck, bestselling author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head, on a 4 - part journey of discovery and illumination, exploring a deeply controversial and mysterious subject that has profound implications for the future of the self (yes, you), our society and our world.

This first Reality Sandwich Intensive will explore promising, fascinating, liberating and often taboo possibilities of psychedelic substances, such as LSD, mushrooms, iboga, ayahuasca and peyote.

How Do Psychedelics Heal?

Repressed and reviled since the 1960s, these substances are now getting a second look in many areas. Researchers around the US and abroad are completing groundbreaking studies on the value of psychedelics for treating depression, mental illness, for alleviating the fear of death in terminally ill cancer patients and healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Iraqi Vets.

The US Supreme Court recently awarded legal protection for the sacramental use of ayahuasca, a visionary drink from the rainforest, to the Unaoi do Vegetales, a religion founded in Brazil. Meanwhile, thousands of Western spiritual adventurers have been going to Central and South America to take plant-based psychedelics with tribal groups and Mestizo shamans -- including many in our Reality Sandwich and Evolver Communities.

You Will Speak Directly To Thought-Leaders
and Psychedelic Pioneers…


During, this, our first Reality Sandwich Intensive, a series of four intimate conference calls, we will speak with thought-leaders and researchers at the forefront of discovery in this exciting and edgy field.

When you join the series, you will have the chance to ask your questions and share your concerns with our experts. The series will include ancillary material and a live forum on our companion social network, Evolver.net so you can connect with others, both newbies and edge-walkers, in our community -- to deepen your insight, knowledge and human connections with like-minded people.

Together, we will explore the following questions:

  • What is the value of the psychedelic experience for people in our society?
      
  • How can we frame this value in a powerful new language that can help pave the way for more powerful discussion and transformation?
      
  • What are the true dangers of psychedelics? Some people have had "bad trips." What are the most effective ways to address the psychic and emotional scars that can accompany the sometimes shocking illuminations produced by visionary substances? How can you assist someone who is in the throes of a negative experience?
     
  • While most psychedelics remain illegal in the US, it is possible to have legal experiences with visionary plant-based psychedelics in South America, Africa, and elsewhere. How can one find a trusted shaman or native guide for these explorations?
      
  • What is the connection between psychedelic use and innovations in fields ranging from art and music to biology and software development?
      
  • Is there any connection between psychedelics and the world's mystical traditions, such as Hinduism, Gnosticism, and Qabala?
      
  • Why were psychedelics suppressed and demonized in the past? Are there reasons to think that our society is prepared to reconsider them today? If so, what can we do to advance that evolution?
To guide us through these fascinating and illuminating discussions, we have gathered some of the world's leading thinkers and spiritual explorers…


OUR SCHEDULE OF LIVE TELESEMINARS

 
Graham Hancock - Sat, Oct 17 - 4 PM eastern
  

Graham Hancock Graham Hancock, writer, adventurer and a man who, Britain's newspaper, The Guardian, says "has invented a new genre -- an intellectual whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth," brings his extraordinary research, enthusiasm and expertise in ancient and modern cultures to the question of the role of psychedelics in human evolution and mysticism. During the call, he will explore, with us…

  • Why altered states of consciousness induced by the consumption of psychedelic plants were fundamental to the evolution of modern human behavior and are indispensable to the survival and success of our society in the future.
     
  • The latest scientific findings concerning the role played by psychedelic plants in the imagery of supernatural beings painted by shamans on the walls of prehistoric caves and rock shelters around the world.
     
  • The intriguing interconnections between the beings who shamans refer to as "spirits", who medieval Europeans knew as "fairies", and who are construed today as "aliens" or "greys"
      
  • The new perception of the brain not as a generator of consciousness but as a receiver, or mediator, of consciousness on the physical plane.
      
  • Why it is possible that altered states of consciousness allow us access to the parallel dimensions and "dark matter" of quantum physics.
This first call, exploring how the brain works as well as how the species is evolving, promises to be a mind-blower on all levels.

About Graham: Graham Hancock, formerly East Africa correspondent of The Economist, is the author and coauthor of a number of best-selling investigations of historical mysteries, including Fingerprints of the Gods, Supernatural, The Sign and the Seal, Keeper of Genesis, Heaven's Mirror, The Mars Mystery, and Underworld. His books have been translated into 27 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. You can learn more at http://www.grahamhancock.com
  
  
Satyen Raja - Tues, Oct 20 - 9 PM eastern
  
Satyen Raja How can psychedelics and natural plant medicines "heal" your "soul" as well as your body? How can they help you drop the weight of the past and the burden of the future -- and place you in an expanded present? Spiritual teacher and adventurer, Satyen Raja, has been traveling the world, working with shamans of many traditions. On this call, he will explore with us…

  • What are the edges of morality and of sexual and non-sexual kundalini openings with assisted awakening experiences?
     
  • What is the "8 hour rule" -- to help you assure that your decisions are congruent with all states one enters and rests in?
      
  • What is "right use" of plant medicines for consciousness development? Is there a world that is more real, alternate or 3D?
      
  • What is the "Self" -- in all shifting states?
      
  • Where can you take your understanding, your mind and your business with your new knowledge -- and how do you assure that you do no harm to others?
      
  • How psychedelics can strengthen and deepen your mystical understanding of reality
      
  • How you can apply and embody psychological insights gained through use of psychedelics to your daily life and relationships
About Satyen: A remarkable living synthesis of Eastern wisdom and of Western practicality, Satyen Raja combines the power of the Warrior and the wisdom of the Sage to inspire audiences worldwide. Satyen is a unique blend of power and of heart. He is a Kung-Fu Master and a trainer of the renowned Illumination Intensive. He has taught thousands of students around the world the art of 'true power' and is a practitioner in the use of teacher medicines and other shamanic practices from around the world. Satyen's dramatic style is not for the timid. Through his teachings, your weaknesses become strengths... Quickly!
  
Amanda Feilding - Sat, Oct 24 - 4 PM eastern
  
Amanda Feilding Amanda Feilding Our fourth TeleSeminar will be held with Amanda Feilding (Lady Neidpath) who as the founder of the Foundation to Further Consciousness in the 1990, and since 1998, the Beckley Foundation, has led British and international research into the science of drug use and related policy dilemmas -- as part of a broader investigation of consciousness and its changing states. Not only does Lady Neidpath bring a broad political and scientific understanding of psychedelics, she has a passion for understanding consciousness, altered states and mysticism and how they may contribute to culture's evolution. In 2007 she instigated and is a co-author of the first study on LSD with human subjects in modern times. She also convened the Global Cannabis Commission Report, which is the most authoritative and up to date overview on cannabis in an international setting.

Amanda will answer your questions across the broad range of international political and cultural issues as she explores with us, among many other things…

  • Why people are drawn to alter their consciousness with psychedelics, and in what ways can these experiences be beneficial?
      
  • What are the societal impacts of psychedelics, and how might their use be integrated into modern culture as a regulated, legal practice?
      
  • What are practical things that can be done to minimize harm associated with psychedelic substances?
About Amanda: Amanda Feilding (Lady Neidpath) has had a life-long interest in consciousness and its altered states, and is dedicated to furthering the understanding of this still elusive subject. In the early 1960s she studied mysticism and comparative religions at Oxford with Professor R.C. Zaehner, and has been engaged in the independent study of psychology and neurophysiology ever since.

Amanda originally set up the Foundation to Further Consciousness in the 1990s. In 1998, it was superseded by the Beckley Foundation, which she currently runs from her Oxfordshire home, Beckley Park in Oxford, England
   
Rick Doblin - Wednesday, October 28 - 9 PM eastern
 
Rick Doblin Ever wonder who is doing the hard research on the therapeutic value of pscychedelics, MDMA, medical Marijuana, etc? Have you wanted to get beyond the rumors and the propaganda? Well, Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is exactly the man you want to talk to, and you will, in this live call. Bringing almost 25 years of research to our discussion, Rick will explore…

  • How psychedelics are valuable tools with specific roles and breakthrough potentials at different points throughout the life span.
      
  • Why non-profit psychedelic and medical marijuana drug development is a sensible, practical -- and essential -- practice today
      
  • Why psychedelics are one of the most important paths to healing the trauma of war and ameliorating anxiety associated with end-of-life.
      
  • Why even in this seemingly boundary-less world of psyedelic exploration, . scientific methodology is king -- and what each of us has to learn from that.
      
  • What the non-experimental world needs to know about psychedelics, and how you can be an ambassador of truth and transformation.
About Rick: Rick founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master’s thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary’s Concord Prison experiment.

Rick studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise "healthy" people, and to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He resides in Boston with his wife and three children. www.maps.org
 

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Participation in this important and landmark series is only $50. As an active participant, you will…

Participate in each of the live calls and have the opportunity to have your most pressing questions and challenges answered by our guest teachers.

Receive a recorded copy of each of the calls for download once the call is over, for your review and audio library (and, in case you have a scheduling conflict).

Participate in our new exclusive "EvolverIntensives - Psychedelics " online forum where you can meet the other participants, share ideas, tips, tools, questions and knowledge.

We created the Evolver Intensives to bring you the best, most useful and most inspiring thought leaders alive today to help you prepare for, and thrive in, a time of radical change. We deeply appreciate your support and your ideas, and hope you join us for this series. Once you register, we will send you all the information on how to join the calls and the online forum.
  
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