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MAPS NEWS JUNE 2008
from www.maps.com First legal dose of LSD administered! Dear MAPS Members, Supporters, & Friends, There's lots of exciting news to report this month. Here's what's going on: 1. First LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy Study Begins! 2. Ying guang de : Reactions...
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MDMA Research for Post-traumatic stress
May 4, 2008. Ecstasy is the Key to Treating PTSD article in the Sunday Times (London) by Amy Turner Ecstasy is the Key to Treating PTSD The Sunday Times ( London) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3850302.ece At last the incurably...
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Zen et chamanisme - par Ati Dion
La plume et le bâton : Retraite Zen et chamanisme Par Ati Dion Des séances de méditation zen dans un tipi et dans une loge de sudation amérindienne ? Bienvenue dans l’univers du néochamanisme. Depuis des millénaires, le chamanisme s’inscrit directement...
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Holotropic Breathwork
History Holotropic Breathwork was developed by Stanislov and Cristina Grof during the 1970s and 1980s. But the early stages of its development occured in the late 1960s in Czeckoslovakia. Stanislov Grof, M.D. studied medicine and psychoanalysis at the...
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FACT! - GANJA/WEED HELPS FIGHT CANCER
from - tiré de : http://www.soop.ca/potfacts/cancer.html 7/28/2008 Who could imagine that cannabis might one day offer hope as a cure for cancer? The United States government, that’s who. For the past 30 years, U.S. officials have willfully ignored clinical...
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MAPS News August 2008
See content at: www.maps.org 1. Final Experimental Treatment Session Conducted in MAPS’ Flagship US MDMA/PTSD Study 2. Israeli MDMA/PTSD Research Team Meets with MAPS President Rick Doblin, PhD to Review Progress, Plan Expansion 3. Possible Jordanian...
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English Bibliography of the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions
By Beatriz Caiuby Labate (1), Rafael Guimarães dos Santos, Isabel Santana de Rose, Govert Derix Translated to English by Brian Anderson and revised by Matthew Meyer (2) The aim of this text is to serve as the most exhaustive survey possible of the current...
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Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 26, 2006; A03 The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. The new findings "were against our expectations,"...
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HOPKINS SCIENTISTS SHOW HALLUCINOGEN IN MUSHROOMS CREATES UNIVERSAL “MYSTICAL” EXPERIENCE
Rigorous study hailed as landmark Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that the active agent in “sacred mushrooms” can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous...
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Bibliographie francophone sur l'Ayahuasca
Bize, C. Ayahuasca: nouveaux usages d'une drogue ancienne. Thèse de pharmacie. Université Paris 11. 2003. Bois-Mariage, Frédérick. Ayahuasca: une synthèse interdisciplinaire. Psychotropes, 8 (1): 79-113. 2002. Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre. Un Nouveau Testament...
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Iboga in the News
Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy by Brian Vastag Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 288 No. 24, pp. 3096-3101, December 25, 2002 © 2002 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. New York -- Some drugs are made in laboratories....
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L’usage de psychotropes : entre sauvagerie et enculturation - par Grégory Escande
tiré de : Psychotropes – Vol. 7 n° 1 19 PERSPECTIVES L’usage de psychotropes : entre sauvagerie et enculturation Grégory ESCANDE Psychologue, doctorant à l’UCL1 Résumé — La place des psychotropes dans les sociétés humaines diffère selon les aires culturelles....
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Santo Daime Canada
A. Jessica Williams Rochester Céu do Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 2, 2008 taken from BiaLabate blog: http://www.bialabate.net My initiation into the Santo Daime religion occurred in 1996, after the International Transpersonal Conference in Manaus, Brazil,...
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Happiness is infectious
Public release date: 4-Dec-2008 [ Print Article | E-mail Article | Close Window ] Contact: Rachael Davies rdavies@bma.org.uk 44-020-738-36529 BMJ-British Medical Journal Happiness is infectious Research paper: Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social...
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Entheogens Studies at John Hopkins University
Could Magic Mushrooms Help Treat Cancer? < http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/magic-mushrooms-cancer-study.php > by Christine Lepisto, Berlin < http://www.treehugger.com/authors/index.php?author=Christine+Lepisto > on 07. 7.08 Doctors at the Behavioral...
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MAPS News January 2009
1. Bush Administration Last Minute Blow to Scientific Freedom Today, Friday, January 9, only 10 days before the Bush Administration leaves office, the DEA has issued a final ruling denying a license to Prof. Lyle Craker, UMass Amherst, to grow marijuana...
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Interview with Robert Tindall
Robert Tindall is the author of the recently published book "The Jaguar that Roams the Mind", a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism - an adventure of initiation and return - that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amazonian...
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Ayahuasca, chamanisme tribal et voyage au coeur de la jungle brésilienne
Du Brésil.... avec amour Par Ati Dion Ayahuasca, chamanisme tribal et voyage au coeur de la jungle brésilienne Ciranda, Brésil, Février 2009 Bom dia... Je vous écris du Brésil. Je viens ici depuis quelques années déjà pour prendre part à un type de pèlerinage...
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Le bonheur est contagieux
Mathieu Perreault La Presse Le bonheur est contagieux, ont découvert des sociologues américains. Mais il n'est pas transmissible au téléphone et encore moins par courriel: pour attraper le virus du bonheur, il faut entrer en contact direct avec une personne...
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The Globalization of Ayahuasca: Harm Reduction or Benefit Maximization?
This article was published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. Please cite as: Tupper, K.W. (2008). The globalization of ayahuasca: Harm reduction or benefit maximization? International Journal of Drug Policy. 19(4), 297-303. The Globalization...
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Entheogens and Existential Intelligence: The Use of Plant Teachers as Cognitive Tools - by Kenneth W. Tupper
Published in the : CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 27, 4 (2002): 499–516 In this article I assess and further develop the possibility of an existential intelligence as postulated by Gardner (1999a). Moreover, I entertain the possibility that some kinds...
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Maps News May 2009
May 1 Comes and Goes Without DEA Action - Craker's Marijuana Production Application Still Pending Rick Doblin, Mike Corral Visit Israel to Help Medical Marijuana Program MAPS Spring Bulletin is in the Mail High Times Features MAPS President Rick Doblin...
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Emotional Intelligence and Its Association with Orgasmic Frequency in Women
Research by Andrea V. Burri, MSc , Lynn M. Cherkas, PhD, and Tim D. Spector, MD King's College London St. Thomas' Hospital, Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Department, London, UK Correspondence to Andrea V. Burri, MSc, Department of Twin Research...
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Universities will be 'irrelevant' by 2020, Y. professor says
By Elaine Jarvik Deseret News Published: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:04 p.m. MDT PROVO — Last fall, David Wiley stood in front of a room full of professors and university administrators and delivered a prediction that made them squirm: "Your institutions...
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A Clinical Plan for MDMA (Ecstasy)
A Clinical Plan for MDMA (Ecstasy) in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Partnering with the FDA by Rick Doblin, Ph.D. [ Note: This paper was originally published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 34 (2), 2002: 185-194. Since...