The Next Weekend Workshop in 
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November 5-7, 2010, IONS, Petaluma, CA
Unfolding the Tree of Our Life and Connecting with the Ancestors Each human life can be seen as the unfolding of a tree, with it's "roots" in the past and it's "crown" as our future potentials. From ancestral seed, rooted and nourished in the mother's earthly womb, it emerges at birth, develops it's trunk and extends the branches of relations, growing toward the light and bringing forth it's procreative children and creative fruits. In this workshop we will be using alchemical, shamanic and yogic divination and meditation methods, to identify, re-connect and reconcile with ancestral root lineages and release karmic entanglements.
Upcoming Book Reading and Lectures
with Ralph Metzner
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Wednesday, June 9, Noon, The Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Expanded and Contracted States of Consciousness
Each state of consciousness, including the states of waking, sleeping and dreaming, has it's own subjective mind-space and time-stream. Expansive states, including those associated with psychedelics, lead to heightened creative inspiration, healing and spiritual understanding. Recent research has supported the notion that consciousness-expanding substances can be applied in the contractions of alcoholism, drug addiction and obsessive disorders.
Saturday June 12, Harmony Festival,
Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, CA, Wisdom Speaker's Stage
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -Panel discussion on Eco Spiritual Wake up Call, with Caroline Casey, Bruce Lipton, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Steve Bhaerman and Ralph Metzner.
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm -Panel discussion on Psychedelics and Culture, with Gary Bravo, M.D (moderator) Martin Lee, Maria Mangini (Hidden Mountain), Pat Winters, MD and Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
Book Reading & Lecture
Ralph Metzner will share excerpts from his two recent books,
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture and Mind Space and Time Stream.
Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016 Ph: 212.219.2527
Saturday, October 16, 2010, San Rafael, CA
Panel on Cutting Edge of Psychedelic Research
With: Kat Harrison, Charles Grob, Mariavittoria Mangini, Alicia Danforth and Ralph Metzner
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Read Ralph's blogs
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*The MAPS Conference on Psychedelic Science
* Understanding Deep Politics - From a Conference at UC Santa Cruz
* Two important articles on Afghanistan and the Opium Wars
* Cool Thinking and Common Sense on Climate Change
* What is it like to have a face-to-face encounter with an alien?
*Three excellent and important 5 minute videos
*To vaccinate or not - confusions and
deceptions
*Astounding Connection between US
Marijuana Prohibition and Mexican Drug Cartel Violence
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Current Reviews
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The web magazine, Cannabis Culture, published a book review of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture and an interview with Ralph, by Dale Rangzen, under the title, "A Father of Psychedelic Culture."
"Birth of a Psychedelic Culture offers a mature and expansive look at one of the most important cultural and scientific developments of the twentieth century...Whatever one's own perspective, it must be admitted that subsequent developments in computers and technology, the adoption and development of certain therapeutic models as well as interest in yoga and eastern religion may not have manifested in the way they have if it was not for the introduction of psychedelics. Every bit as important as the moon landing that took place during the last year of the sixties; psychedelics and their implications are just beginning to be understood. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an essential book and a riveting read. It'll be a very long time before the release of a better book about this era."
For other reviews of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, from Huffington Post, The Midwest Book Review, High Times and others go here.
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