Results of the Swiss LSD-assisted psychotherapy study. Dr. Peter Gasser 4 April 2012. 18:00. Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 Click here to register your attendance Dr. Peter Gasser is a physician for psychiatry and psychotherapy, working in private practice in Solothurn, Switzerland. He was trained in psychodynamic methods as well as in therapy with mind altering …
Where Science Meets Spirit Jolane Abrams 28 March 2012. 18:00. Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 Click here to register your attendance Indigenous psychedelic traditions suffer badly when taken out of their cultural and spiritual contexts. The scientific approach seeks to reduce sacred medicines to pills that can produce predictable effects (preferably non-psychedelic) for anyone who can …
Lessons from Psychedelic Literature Rob Dickens 14 March 2012. 18:00. Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 Click here to register your attendance During the 1950s and early 1960s there was a boom in psychiatric research with hallucinogens. This research led to the development of a number of new theories and practises (primarily concerning the drugs d-lysergic acid …
Film Screening ‘Waking Life’ 7 March 2012. 18:00. Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 Click here to register your attendance Waking Life is about an unnamed young man in a persistent dream-like state that eventually progresses to lucidity. He initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions of issues such as reality, free will, the relationship of …