How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New Psychedelic Research Era

[babsbunny]

How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New Psychedelic Research Era

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/146393/how_stanislav_grof_helped_launch_the_dawn_of_a_new_psychedelic_research_era

The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.
April 10, 2010

Next week, the brightest lights of the psychedelic cognoscenti will gather in San Jose, California. Leaving swirls of tracer visions in their wakes, they will converge from around the world at an incongruously bland Holiday Inn, 50 miles south of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood that once served as the pulsing capital of Psychedelistan. Once assembled, several hundred turned-on and tuned-in doctors, psychologists, artists and laypeople will participate in the annual conference of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). For four days, they will explore -- through workshops and lectures, nothing more -- the widening gamut of clinical inquiry into the uses of the psychedelic experience, a global resurgence of which has led to hopeful talk of a “psychedelic revival.”

[Lochloosa]

1. “psychedelic revival.”

Be still my aging heart. :hippie:

[Richard D]

2. I'll be there. n/t