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[NOTE:
For an excellent summary of
Mind States IV in May 2003, see Zoe7's
Web site.]
 The
official Mind States II website is located at www.erowid.org/mindstates.
What follows is a brief summary of Mind States II: Further
Perspectives on Altered Consciousness, which was held
at the International House in Berkeley, California from May
25th–27th, 2001. If you attended this conference and would
like to add your comments to others on this website, please
send them to webmaster@matrixmasters.com.
Links on the schedule shown below will take you to comments
and information about each presentation. In addition to the
formal presentations listed below, each evening’s sessions
were preceded by an informative game of “EntheoJeopardy,”
which was hosted by James
Kent, publisher of “trip
” magazine.
Conference
Schedule
[Brief
biographical sketches of each speaker are available by clicking
on their names below,
or you may go directly to the Speaker
Biography page.]
Letter
from Albert Hofmann read by Myron
Stolaroff
“Psychecelic
Culture: One or Many” by Erik
Davis
“Psychoactive
Information: The Complexities and Ethical Challenges
of Publishing Data About Mind Altering Plants and Chemicals”
by Earth
and Fire
Erowid
Friday
Evening:
“Multidimensional
Minds in Resonating Fields” by Jean
Millay
Musical
performance by didjeridu player and musician extrodinaire,
Stephen
Kent
Liquid
Crystal Vision (documentary film)
Saturday
Afternoon:
“Ketamine:
Dreams and Realities” by Karl
Jansen, M.D., Ph.D.
“Blood
and Consciousness: The Search for Expanded Consciousness
from Paleolithic to Modern Man” by Amanda
Feilding (Lady Neidpath)
“Hidden
in Plain Sight: The Fly Mushroom in Alchemical Art,”
slide presentation and commentary by Clark
Heinrich
“Plant
Spirit Suite” —
Dale Pendell and the Oracular Madness Choir
Saturday
Evening:
“Becoming
Transhuman,” a video/music/spoken word performance
by Mark
Pesce
“Visionary
Art,” slide presentation and commentary by Jon
Hanna
The
God Egg, a Glenn Grillo film
Sunday
Afternoon:
“Panel
of Elders” featuring Michael
Horowitz, Laura
Huxley, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Cynthia
Palmer, Ann
Shulgin, Sasha
Shulgin, Huston
Smith, and Myron
Stolaroff
“Psychedelic
Thinking and the Dawn of Homo Cyber” by Lawrence
Hagerty
“Reflections
on Imprisonment and Liberation As Aspects of Consciousness”
by Nicholas
Sand
Sunday
Evening:
“Mind
Machines, Entheogens, and the Expansion of Consciousness”
by Zoe7
“Skillful
Means: Using Psychedelics to Solve Technical and Scientific
Problems” by James
Fadiman
Wonderland
Experience (film)
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