| 2010 Symposium announced |
EGA 2010 Psychedelic Symposium
Melbourne University - 4th and 5th December
Rick Doblin Headlining
It is with enormous delight that EGA will be bringing Rick Doblin to Australia to headline this year’s Symposium. Rick is the founder of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) a non-profit membership-based research and educational organization. Amongst other things, MAPS sponsors clinical studies intended to obtain US Food & Drug Administration [FDA] approval for the use of MDMA and LSD as prescription medicines. Without a doubt this is a massive opportunity for the Australian psychedelic community and we encourage you all to spread the news across your networks as Rick’s presence will draw interest from people across a wide variety of disciplines. We expect the 400 tickets to sell out very quickly this year, so get in early and make your plans for EGA well in advance.
Below is Rick’s Bio.
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., - MAPS Executive Director
Rick founded MAPS in 1986. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master’s thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment.
Rick studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. 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 to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He resides in Boston with his wife and three children. |
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| 2009 Thanks |
We wish to send massive thanks to all of you for keeping this event alive and growing each year.
Thanks to the whole EGA team, speakers and the attendees of the 2009 events, as well as those that lent their support from a distance. Your help made the 2009 conference a huge success: professional, outstanding, informative and special beyond words.
It was such a pleasure to find again that special EGA space and community, and to work with so many amazing people. EGA has truly come of age, and grown into such a beautiful and unique Australian gathering that we should all be proud of.
So this is a message of gratitude to all that played their part however big or small in getting the tribe together and in such a proactive way 
Hope to See You all at Melb Uni in 2010
In Plants We Trust
EGA Crew
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20 January 2010 |
