The Varieties of Ketamine Experience - Phil Wolfson

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The Varieties of Ketamine Experience
Phil Wolfson, MD
Abstract: Unprecedented recent interest has arisen in the dissociative anesthetic drug ketamine as a novel antidepressant presumably acting through synaptogenesis, NMDA antagonism, and glutamate pathways. Mainstream journals such as Science, several clinical studies, and even a few psychiatric tabloids have touted its potential virtues and hazards and have established a basis for clinical use in the treatment of intractable depression. This presentation will share the results of a replication of the ketamine protocol historically employed by the National Institute of Mental Health and others for treatment of depression, in seven volunteers. Comparative data will be presented enabling a view of the drug's potentialities for psychiatric/psychotherapeutic use across the dosage spectrum. With ketamine, the main effect is an ascending level of anesthesia with provocation of unique psychedelic effects in a range above the mild anesthesia of the IV infusion procedure, and continuing up to more profound anesthesia and loss of consciousness. Dosage by body weight does not necessarily coincide with psychedelic effect, this being a product of the specific sensitivity of the recipient and actual dosage administered. This presentation will include an open discussion of the effects of ketamine and different modes of delivery.
Phil Wolfson, PhD, is a sixties activist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer, practicing Buddhist, and psychonaut who has lived in the Bay Area for 35 years. He is the author of Noe: A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death (North Atlantic Books, 2011). In the 1980s, he participated in clinical research with MDMA. He has written and had issued five patents for unique herbal medicines. Phil was a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute, and is a journalist and author of numerous articles on politics, transformation, psychedelics, consciousness, and spirit. He is also the editor of Consciousness Studies for Tikkun magazine.
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At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the world's leading researchers and more than 1,900 international attendees gathered to share recent findings on the benefits and risks of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 2C-B, ketamine, DMT, marijuana, and more, over three days of conference presentations, and two days of pre- and post-conference workshops.

[@redeyestones3738]

John Lilly was an amazing human. I wish our ages weren't so far apart. I met him when I was 15, and he died when I was about 22. I wish I could've spent time with him. He was my guide on MANY psychedelic adventures in his deprivation chamber in kuau. But would've loved to spend more time with him, picking his brain about EVERYTHING.

[@RobG1729]

Jean Houston and Robert Masters wrote a book titled The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, published in 1966.

[@andreimellas3463]

I could not agree more with you, less dirty and more manageable.

[@melaniemoore5635]

everybody handles ketamine differently.

[@mcnowski]

After years of experimenting with K I have managed to tame that wild horse. It has paid off tremendously, I can now have K trips without K, it helped me develop an astral body.

[@YuriRadavchuk]

Sorry, but this lecture is really slow. As the author said, he's read too much papers with no human experience data. The good thing, that in these boring 30 minutes he has pointed, what of the areas are fruitless to explore. I'm totally for the concept, that one and the most important part that ketamine can play for mankind is in the psychedelic realm itself. We need more transcendent studies done for this magical one of a kind essence.

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Yes but I think the most essential message - in my opinion - is the message about 'complexity'. Too many psychiatrists and pharmacologists still are stuck in those same old regimes and stagnant and undynamic hypothesis. Which is very sick and lazy especially if they work with clients or patients that are in dire need of a professional that understand the fact that he or she must keep learning and also learn to doubt themselves. The opposite of this is true sadly.

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

But indeed it seems incoherent, and he doesn't add much to the slides..in fact there is so much more info in the slide than what he says..that i had to pause many times. That part about neurogenesis is very interesting.

[@jamesmorrison7489]

Quite dead boring, indeed. You can tell from his 1st phrase..

[@jamesmorrison7489]

Deffinetelly not as interesting as John C.Lilly...this guy is quite a bore,indeed.

[@krizdick2677]

Learn to use a mic buddy

[@melaniemoore5635]

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[@tobymichaels8171]

Not hardly. I've met him. He was with Lilly in the 70's and has probably forgotten more about K than you'll ever know.

[@melaniemoore5635]

@@tobymichaels8171 I honestly do not know why I said that 2 years ago. I do know a lot but he knows a lot as well. Like I said I have no idea why I said that.