Ram Dass just joined the board of advisors at Alchemind.
The Alchemind Society is an international nonprofit association of
people working in the public interest to protect the fundamental right
to freedom of the mind.
We celebrate, foster, and protect cognitive liberty: the right of each
individual to think independently, to use the full spectrum of his or
her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought and alternative
states of consciousness.
We encourage social policies that protect cognitive
autonomy, the right of each individual to remain free from
compelled or surreptitious manipulations of
consciousness by outside forces.
At the collective level, we believe that some cultural
crises are the result of truncated consciousness. These
crises might be overcome by rethinking, and ultimately
removing, some of the prohibitions that currently
constrict creative and innovative thought.
B I O G R A P H I C A
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Alchemind Society is
Richard Glen Boire, Esq. Mr. Boire holds a Doctorate of
Jurisprudence from the University of California, Berkeley.
He is an expert on constitutional and criminal law,
specializing in the jurisprudence of extraordinary states of
consciousness, dissident thinking, and shamanic
inebriants.
Mr. Boire is the author of several books exploring the law of
visionary plants and drugs, and has written numerous
articles on the topic. From 1993 - 1999, Mr. Boire was the
editor of The Entheogen Law Reporter (TELR), a quarterly
journal on law, policy, commentary, and control theory of
visionary plants and drugs.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
John Perry Barlow is co-founder of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, and is currently a fellow at Harvard
Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Ram Dass, a.k.a. Richard Alpert is the author of eight
books and the founder of the Hanuman and Seva
Foundations. His 1971 classic Be Here Now was a
international bestseller.
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the President of the
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
(MAPS)
Alex Grey is a visionary artist whose artwork has been
exhibited worldwide. He is the author of the book Sacred
Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, and The Mission of
Art.
Lester Grinspoon, M.D., is an associate professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the editor of
the Harvard Mental Health Letter, and author of the book
Marijuana Reconsidered and co-author of Psychedelics
Reconsidered.
Laura Archera Huxley is the founder of Children: Our
Ultimate Investment, and an author of several books,
among which are You Are Not the Target, and This
Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley.
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and president
of the Green Earth Foundation. His most recent book is
Ayahuasca -- Hallucinogens, Consciousness and the Spirit
of Nature.
Jonathan Ott is a natural products chemist and author.
His books include Pharmacotheon, Ayahuasca Analogues,
and Pharmacophilia or The Natural Paradises.
Dale Pendell is a poet, software engineer, and longtime
student of ethnobotany. One of his recent books is
Pharmako/poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft.
Sadie Plant, Ph.D., is a writer and cultural
theorist. Her recent books include Zeros + Ones: Digital
Women and the New Technoculture and Writing on Drugs.
David Presti, Ph.D., teaches Neuroscience at the
University of California, Berkeley, and worked for many
years as a clinician in the treatment of drug abuse at the
VA Medical Center in San Francisco.
Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D.
Chemist, researcher, and author, Dr. Shulgin has
synthesized, and evaluated in himself, over 200 novel
psychedelic substances. He has published numerous
scientific papers on his discoveries, and with his wife, Ann,
has authored the books PIHKAL and TIHKAL.
Myron Stolaroff, M.A.
Mr. Stolaroff is the author of the books The Secret Chief
and Thanatos to Eros: 35 years of Psychedelic
Exploration. He is on the Board of Directors of the Albert
Hofmann Foundation, and is past-President of the
International Foundation for Advanced Study (IFAS).
Thomas Szasz, M.D.
Dr. Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State
University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse.
He is the author of dozens of books, including Ideology and
Insanity, The Myth of Mental Illness, and Our Right to
Drugs.
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Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good.
If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.
I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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