PSYCHEDELICS, MADNESS, & AWAKENING: HARM REDUCTION AND FUTURE VISIONS 2021
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    • Panel 2: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
    • Panel 3: Histories and Legacies I
    • Panel 4: Christian Traditions
    • Panel 5: Envisioning Harm Reduction Models Outside of Clinical Spaces
    • Panel 6: Earth Visions, Psychedelics, and Harm Reduction
    • Panel 7: Envisioning Collective Healing
    • Panel 8: Histories and Legacies II
    • Panel 9: Translations and Transformations
    • Discussion Panel 1: Abuses of Power in Psychedelic Spaces
    • Discussion Panel 2: The Madness of the Gender Binary
    • Discussion Panel 3: New Forms of Care for BIPOC Communities
    • Discussion Panel 4: Psychiatric Abolition
    • Final Reflections
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This week! Video Release of "Christian Traditions of Awakening and Policing 'Spiritual Emergence'" and Q&A for the "Excluded" Panel

2/27/2021

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This week! Video Release of "Histories and Legacies I: Colonization, State Violence, and Paradigms of Psychedelic Science and Spirituality"

2/21/2021

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We are very happy to share this week's featured panel, "Histories and Legacies I: Colonization, State Violence and Paradigms of Psychedelic Science and Spirituality." This panel features the following presentations:

Camille Barton
Colonization, Schizophrenia, and State Violence
Jules Evans
Can you pass the acid test? Psychedelics, spiritual emergencies and evolutionary spirituality
Phoebe Friesen
Psychosis and Psychedelics: Exploring Entanglements and Measurements
Dana Strauss
Research Abuses Against People of Color in Early Psychedelic Research

SUBMIT QUESTIONS TO THE PANELISTS
After watching the videos, we invite you to share questions and comments to our panelists via this FORM which will remain open from Saturday February 20th-Friday February 26th. The panelists will meet to discuss these questions in early March and a recording of that conversation will be captioned and posted on the website a few weeks later.

PLEASE DONATE AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

As always, please help us spread the word about the conference using the hashtag #PsychedelicMadness2021.

Please also consider donating to our GoFundMe campaign if you are able. We are deeply grateful to those who already have!

FORMS NOW OPEN FOR THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION PANELS

We encourage you to submit topics of interest to you related to the following themed Discussion Panels. The speakers will meet in March/April to discuss your questions:
Psychedelic Guide and Therapeutic Abuse
The Madness of the Gender Binary
New Forms of Care for BIPOC Communities
Psychiatric Abolition

LOOKING AHEAD….

Next week, on Saturday February 27th we will release the videos for presentation panel 4, entitled "Christian Traditions of Awakening and Policing “Spiritual Emergence.” This panel features presentations by Thomas Cattoi, Timmy Davis, Jim Lawrence and Colin Amato, Sarah Scheld, Eleanor Schnarr, and Devin Zuber.

Many many thanks everyone, and especially to the captioning team and this week’s presenters: Camille, Jules, Phoebe, and Dana!

​The PMA2021 Organizing Team
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Video Release of "Breakdown or Breakthrough?"

2/13/2021

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This week we are honored to release the videos for the panel “Breakdown or Breakthrough? Understanding Experiences of Madness, Awakening and Altered States Beyond Pathology.” This panel features the following presentations:
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Michael Anderson
'Breakdown or Breakthrough? Beyond the Dichotomy'
James Henry
'Psychosis and the Dawning of Truth'
Vesper Moore
'Reclaim Madness: Abolishing Psychiatry & Decolonizing Our Society'
Phoebe Sullivan
'Breakdown to Breakthrough: Exploring the archetypal resonances of mental illness, spiritual awakening and the psychedelic journey, and how altered states are viewed through the lens of pathology'
Ron Unger
'Revolution Within the Mind: A Common Factor in Psychedelic Experience, Madness, and Spiritual Awakening'

SUBMITTING QUESTIONS TO THE PANELISTS
After watching the videos, we invite you to share questions and comments to our panelists via this FORM which will remain open from Saturday February 13th-Friday February 19th. The panelists will meet to discuss these questions in mid-February, and a recording of that conversation will be captioned and posted on the website soon.

PLEASE DONATE AND SPREAD THE WORD!
As always, please help us spread the word about the conference using the hashtag #PsychedelicMadness2021.
Please also consider donating to our GoFundMe campaign if you are able. We are deeply grateful to those who already have!

FORMS ALSO NOW OPEN FOR THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION PANELS
We encourage you to submit topics of interest to you related to the following themed Discussion Panels. The speakers will meet in March/April to discuss your questions:

"Psychedelic Guide and Therapeutic Abuse"
"The Madness of the Gender Binary"
"New Forms of Care for BIPOC Communities"
"Psychiatric Abolition"

​LOOKING AHEAD….
Next week, on Saturday February 20th we will release the videos for Presentation Panel 3, entitled "Histories and Legacies I: Colonization, State Violence, and Paradigms of Psychedelic Science and Spirituality." This panel features presentations by Camille Barton, Jules Evans, Dana Strauss and Phoebe Friesen.
Many thanks everyone, and especially to the captioning team and this week’s presenters: Vesper, Michael, Ron, Phoebe, James!

The PMA2021 Organizing Team.


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TODAY! VIDEO RELEASE OF“RE-THINKING PSYCHEDELICS, MADNESS & AWAKENING”

2/5/2021

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Today we are excited to release the videos for the panel “Re-Thinking Psychedelics, Madness & Awakening.” This panel features the following presentations:
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  • Nadia Book, 'Valuing 'Madness', Decolonizing Disability'
  • Paul Levy, 'Dreaming Ourselves Awake'
  • Skylar Louttit and Chasse Gibeault, ​'Decolonizing Psychedelics + Madness'
  • David Nickles, 'We’re All Mad Here: Rejecting The Delusions of Dominant Culture in Pursuit of Unsanity’

After watching the videos, we invite you to share questions and comments to our panelists via this
form, which will remain open from Saturday February 6th-Friday February 12th. The panelists will meet to discuss your questions in mid-February, and a recording of that conversation will be captioned and posted on the website later this month.


Looking forward to next week, on Saturday February 13th, we will release the videos for presentation panel 2, entitled “Breakdown or Breakthrough? ​Understanding Experiences of Madness, Awakening and Altered States Beyond Pathology.”

Please also note that forms are open to collect audience questions and comments for the speakers on the following Discussion Panels. We encourage you to submit your questions and themes for the panelists to discuss:
  • Psychedelic Guide and Therapeutic Abuse
  • The Madness of the Gender Binary
  • New Forms of Care for BIPOC Communities

​We hope you will continue to join us over the next few months as we begin these timely conversations about the intersection of psychedelics, madness, and awakening!
The PMA Organizing Team.
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  • HOME
  • CONFERENCE
    • Statement of Values
    • Conference Format
    • Speakers
    • Call for Presentations
    • Background
    • Organizers
    • FAQs
  • SCHEDULE
    • Launch & 'Excluded'
    • Panel 1: Rethinking Psychedelics, Madness, and Awakening
    • Panel 2: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
    • Panel 3: Histories and Legacies I
    • Panel 4: Christian Traditions
    • Panel 5: Envisioning Harm Reduction Models Outside of Clinical Spaces
    • Panel 6: Earth Visions, Psychedelics, and Harm Reduction
    • Panel 7: Envisioning Collective Healing
    • Panel 8: Histories and Legacies II
    • Panel 9: Translations and Transformations
    • Discussion Panel 1: Abuses of Power in Psychedelic Spaces
    • Discussion Panel 2: The Madness of the Gender Binary
    • Discussion Panel 3: New Forms of Care for BIPOC Communities
    • Discussion Panel 4: Psychiatric Abolition
    • Final Reflections
  • RESOURCES
  • BLOG
  • CONTACT
  • DONATE