Dr. Albert Hofmann

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-The conference started on a Friday 13th,next day was full moon and everyday there was sunshine (but very cold).And the Astrologist/apologist who made a horoskop for a 100 year old men didn't take notice...yes I'm scientist.
-Hofmann took LSD last time when he was 97.
-Shulgin works on the 5-Ethoxitryptamins and other stuff
-deadline for submitting new compounds for the Psychedelic Index (1500pages...please submit it with your name for reference,otherwise he can't prove it)) is middle of this year,there will also be a 3rd book ("QUIHKAL" lol) with different chemicals including Quinolins.But Sasha and Ann feel exhausted,PLEASE PLEASE TAKE CARE OF IT!

-heard DOTFM has initial activity at 300ug
-2C-TFM was brought up to 15mg (strong,I recollect 5mg being a full dose in me,the other gives 6-15mg as the range)
-it can't be coincidence that LSD searched for a bright chemist in a peaceful country at the same time of WW2 and the first atomic bomb exploded
-a lot of research still going on,Nichols will publish a new paper describing the full psychedelic receptor/transmitter pathways (if I got that right)
-Vollenweider (Heffter) made an interesting discovery about some glutamat uptake inhibitor plus an enzyme inhibitor (also a new paper coming),many new brain scans from new human studies with psilocybin (because less stigmatized than LSD) and Ketamin

-Charles grob presented data on a study with terminal cancer patients,very impressive,about 70% of individuals had good or medium success
-MAPS is positive to get permission to do studies with MDMA and maybe psilocybin (Rick Doblin of course is an optimist)-he also says that we shouldn't label us "counterculture",this will only evoke counterpressure from the authorities.In turn,they might listen.There appears a new psychedelic generation to evolve,more pragmatic less drop outs,also in the society a new more open generation comes forth,hasn't been influenced/traumatized by the sixties-hippy-LSD-Vietnam cluster.
-the CIA added a lot of bad press on LSD intentionally and did itself nasty torture stuff under LSD

-I learned a huge deal of psychotherapy,it already works,the day after I feel extremely relaxed and happy!
-there was a wonderful collection of psychedelic art
-the mysteries of Eleusis appear to be a fact
-many shiny friendly warm people,no bad incidents during the conference.Altough I have seen a few (old ones) which looked like "broken".
-Rolf Verres,a doctor,said take care,and also do take care of others,particularly the young people!

Very important:Albert Hofmann wants LSD to be taken out of the forbidden status,but emphasizes strongly to put it into the category of SACRED DRUGS.He's a man who is increasingly worried about the materialism/destruction of the world,we should all more and more deeply appreciate the CREATION and nature,LSD can be a help.In every other sentence he brings out a small wisdom,wow is he still alert-a wise old men!He closed with saying that we all showed to him that his problemchild is really a wonderchild.God bless him.

Okay,thats about the chaos I have in my brain right now to find its right place...

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International Symposium
on the occasion of the
100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann
13 to 15 January 2006
Convention Center Basel, Switzerland

Lectures • Panels • Seminars • Workshops
Concerts • Exhibitions • Parties
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On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann on 11 January 2006, the Gaia Media Foundation stages an International Symposium on the most widely known and most controversial discovery of this outstanding scientist.

LSD - three letters that changed the world. Since 19 April 1943, the day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered this psychoactive substance, millions of people all over the world have experienced a higher reality with profound and psychological insights and spiritual renewal; created innovative social transformation, music, art, and fashion; were healed from addiction and depression; experienced enlightened insights into the human consciousness.

Some 60 years later more than 80 experts from all over the world will present an in-depth review of all aspects of this unique phenomenon, informing and discussing history, experiences, implications, assess the risks and benefits of this most potent of all psychoactive substances. LSD - a challenge in the past, now, and in the future.

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Speakers
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Albert Hofmann, Ph.D., h.c. (CH)
Chemist, Discoverer of LSD
Stephen Abrams (GB)
Director of Soma Research Association and of Avalon Botanicals from 1967-1970
Günter Amendt, Ph.D. (GER)
Social Scientist, Therapist, Publicist
Rudolf Bauer, M.D. (AT)
Pharmacist, Professor for Pharmacognosy at the University Graz, President of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research
John Beresford, M.D. (CAN)
Psychiatrist, Founder of the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating the effects of LSD, Founder of the Committee on Unjust Sentencing
Rudolf Brenneisen, M.D. (CH)
Pharmacist, Professor for Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Phytochemistry at the University of Bern
Mathias Broeckers (GER)
Literary Scholar, Publicist
Brummbär (GER)
Psychedelic Digital Artist
Rael Cahn (USA)
M.D./Ph.D. student at UC San Diego and visiting doctoral student at the University of Zurich, currently conducting a study comparing meditation and psilocybin
Hans Cousto (CH/GER)
Mathematician and Musicologist
Rick Doblin, Ph.D. (USA)
Founder and President of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)
John Dunbar (UK)
Artist, Co-founder of the Indica Gallery, London, meeting place of Beats, Pop and Rock Stars of the Sixties
Bruce Eisner (USA)
Psychedelic Activist, Editor with High Times and Omni, Writer, President of Island Foundation
Earth Erowid (USA)
Professional Drug Geek, Co-founder and CTO of Erowid.org
Fire Erowid (USA)
Psychedelic Librarian, Co-founder and Head Archivist of Erowid.org
Amanda Feilding (GB)
Consciousness Researcher, Founder and Director of The Beckley Foundation
Robert Forte (USA)
Independent scholar, former director of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, Editor of the 20th Anniversary Edition of "The Road To Eleusis"
Martin Frischknecht (CH)
Journalist, Publisher "Spuren"
Jochen Gartz, Ph.D. (GER)
Chemist, Mycologist
Mark A. Geyer, Ph.D. (USA)
Professor of Psychiatry & Neurosciences
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Sergius Golowin (CH)
Myths Researcher, Folklorist
Alex Grey (USA)
Visionary and Psychedelic Artist ("Sacred Mirrors", "Transfigurations")
Charles S. Grob, M.D. (USA)
Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine, Editor of "Hallucinogens"
Urban Gwerder (CH)
Publisher of "Hotcha", the main Swiss underground paper in the 60s, Writer
Sue Hall (GB)
Trancedancer thru the 60s and 90s, psychonaut Buddhist, DJ
John H. Halpern, M.D. (USA)
Associate Director of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research at Harvard's McLean Hospital
Matthias Hamburger, Ph.D. (CH)
Pharmacist, Professor and Head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Basel
Jon Hanna (USA)
Writer, Publicist, Publisher of the «Psychedelic Resource List»
Felix Hasler, Ph.D. (CH)
Neuropharmacologist, Hallucinogen Researcher
Martina Hoffmann (DE/USA)
Psychedelic and Visionary Artist
Ulrich Holbein (GER)
Publicist, Writer
John «Hoppy» Hopkins (GB)
Photographer, Promoter of the "International Times", and the UFO Club, London
Michael Horowitz (USA)
Consultant, Ludlow Santo Domingo Library, owner of Flashback Books, editor of works by Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary
Thomas Kessler (CH)
Former delegate for drug issues of the city of Basel, Member of the Swiss Commission for drug issues
Thomas Klett, Ph.D. (GER)
CEO of the Ernst Kett AG and Associate Publisher of Klett-Cotta Verlag
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. (USA)
Parapsychologist, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco
Wolfgang Kubelka, Ph.D. (AT)
Pharmacist, Professor emeritus for Pharmacognosy at the University of Vienna
Martin A. Lee (USA)
Journalist, Writer, Author of "Acid Dreams"
Roger Liggenstorfer (CH)
Publisher of Nachtschatten Verlag, President "eve&rave" Switzerland
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. (USA)
Consciousness Researcher and Psychotherapist, Pioneer of Psychedelic Research at Harvard, Co-author (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert) of "The Psychedelic Experience"
Mark McCloud (ARG/USA)
Art Historian, Collector of Blotter and other Psychedelic Art
Barry Miles (GB)
Journalist, Writer, Co-founder of the "International Times", Co-founder of the Indica Gallery
Michael Mithoefer, M.D. (USA)
Psychiatrist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina
Valerie Mojeiko (USA)
Program Director and Clinical Research Associate at MAPS
Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Ph.D. (GER)
Art Historian, Anthropologist
Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. (CAN/CH)
Anthropologist, Author of "The Cosmic Serpent", "Shamans Through Time" (with Francis Huxley), «Amazonia Ambient Project» with The Young Gods
David E. Nichols, Ph.D. (USA)
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Co-founder of the Heffter Research Institute (HRI)
Reynold Nicole (CH)
Astrologist
Jonathan Ott (USA)
Ethnobotanist, Writer, Translator of "LSD - My Problem Child"
Torsten Passie, M.D., M.A. (GER)
Scientific collaborator and Psychiatrist at the Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover
Dale Pendell (USA)
Poet, Software Engineer, Ethnobotanist, Author of "Pharmako/Gnosis"
Werner Pieper (GER)
Publisher of The Grüne Kraft
Christian Rätsch, Ph.D. (GER)
Anthropologist, Ethnopharmacologist, Author of "Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants"
Micky Remann (GER)
Media Artist, Inventor of "Liquid Sound", Writer
Béatrice Rubli (CH)
Medium, Psychic Healer
Carl P. Ruck, Ph.D. (USA)
Mythologist, Co-author (with A. Hofmann, R. G. Wasson) of "Road to Eleusis"
Luc Saner, Ph.D. (CH)
Lawyer, Politician
Michael Schlichting, M.D. (GER)
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
specialized in Forensic Psychiatry at the
Psychiatric State Hospital Göttingen
Manuel Schoch (CH)
Therapist, Founder of "Time Therapy"
Andrew Sewell, M.D. (USA)
Research Fellow in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, studies for treating cluster headache patients
with LSD
Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D. (USA)
Pharmacologist, Chemist
Ann Shulgin (USA)
Psychedelic Researcher, Therapist
Ronald Steckel (GER)
Director, Writer, Media Artist
Wolfgang Sterneck (GER)
Cultural Activist, Sociologist, Director of the Alice-Project, Writer
Myron J. Stolaroff (USA)
Founder of the International Foundation for Advanced Study, Director of The Albert Hofmann Foundation
Wolf-Dieter Storl, Ph.D. (GER)
Ethnobotanist und Cultural Anthropologist
Juraj Styk, M.D. (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist
Roberto Venosa (USA)
Psychedelic and Visionary Artist
Rolf Verres, M.D. (GER)
Specialist for Psychotherapeutical Medicine, Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine at the University Clinic Heidelberg
Simon Vinkenoog, (NL)
Chronicler, Writer
Franz X. Vollenweider, M.D. (CH)
Neuropsychiatrist and Consciousness Researcher, Founder Heffter Research Center Zurich (HRC), University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich
Peter Webster (USA)
Chemist, Consciousness Researcher
Fred Weidmann, Ph.D. (GER)
Visionary Artist
Carlo Zumstein, Ph.D. (CH)
Shaman, Psychotherapist, Founder and Director of the Foundation for Living Shamanism and Spirituality (FLSS)

Supporting Program

Akasha Project (GER)
Barnim Schultze, Composer, Musician
Banco de Gaia (UK)
Toby Marks, Composer, Musician
Star Sounds Orchestra (GER)
Jens Zygar and Steve Schroyder, Composers, Musicians

November 2005 • Subject to alteration

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