Psychedelics: A Transcendent Path to Trauma Healing

On Friday, October 2, 2020, at 3PM ET CMBM Founder and Executive Director, James S. Gordon, MD and Rick Doblin will be talking about Rick’s and the organization he founded, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies’ mission, the latest research on the effectiveness of psychedelic therapies for trauma healing, and the urgency of enlarging our consciousness at a time when there are so many threats to our individual and collective wellbeing. We will also explore the possibilities for a CMBM/MAPS collaboration to study the trauma-healing benefits of combining CMBM’s groundbreaking model of self-care and group support with psychedelic therapy.
Rick Doblin and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) which he founded in 1986 have been prime movers behind the current scientific exploration of the therapeutic and consciousness expanding power of psychedelic (“mind manifesting”) substances. The research that they have underwritten and the movement they are energizing are helping scientists, therapists, policy makers, and indeed all of us to appreciate the significant therapeutic benefits of psychedelics (including MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca) and the intimate connection between psychological healing and spiritual realization.
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and eventually to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist.

[@annfuller9044]

Fabulous interview, thanks for filling in the holes of what I studied in Spiritual Psych in the didactic portion of my doctorate. The lessons about following your path spoke loudly to me as well. Thanks.

[@gailkazin3615]

love that Jim always includes a moment of breath before and after his presentations. thanks!

[@paulusa7229]

Hi Rick - many, many years ago you invited me to present as part of your seminar series you created at Harvard's Kennedy School. Yep, way back then... I have enjoyed seeing how you have sherparded MAPS through to today - you have done great work and made important/significant progress. I will follow up with you. Paul G.

[@jimyost2585]

Yeah, but where can you find real psychedelics these days? I'm 75 years old now and I did quite a bit of real acid in the late 60's - early 70's. After that the so-called 'acid' that was being sold on the street wasn't real LSD 25 but was some bogus counterfeit replica of it that took ten hits to equal one hit of the real thing, but even then the high was boring and disappointing. However, you can still get mescaline and shrooms. I actually prefer mescaline to LSD but I haven't done it in almost fifty years. If I could find some I'd do it again, whereas I'd never do acid again. I'm very fortunate to have taken nearly 100 hits of real LSD over a period of three years and came away with most of my mind intact. I have some friends who weren't so fortunate. They're having a rough time in life.

[@paulusa7229]

Paul USA ​Can you speak to the popularity and experience of micro-dosing LSD (specifically LSD)? Thank you.

[@jimyost2585]

~ Micro-dosing LSD is comparable to riding a Harley when you could be riding a bullet bike, or like having 'safe sex' when you could be experiencing the real thing.

[@rhainegraves7235]

Any resemblance s to one(s) static or nonstatic, living and or nonliving is a quantum coincidence. Discernment and discretion advised.