Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. - Psychedelic Healing

Download Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist specializing in psychospiritual development. He is a popular speaker on drug policy reform, spiritual maturation, and the emergence of an integral society (a six-minute clip of his talk on the "Fusion of Spirit and Science" may be found at: http://vimeo.com/7517009) and an author, most recently of Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development. Dr. Goldsmith has curated dozens of successful conferences and cross-disciplinary "meetings of minds" for corporations as well as the psychedelic community, including the Horizons and MAPS Psychedelic Science conferences. He is a founder of several discussion salons on integral philosophy, governance, media, postmodern science, healing, and the future of society. Trained in humanistic, transpersonal, and eastern traditions, Dr. Goldsmith maintains a (non-psychedelic) psychotherapy practice in New York and Sag Harbor, NY, and may be reached via his Web site: http://www.nealgoldsmith.com/psychedelics.

Topics Discussed

• What Neal's practice looks like
• How Neal works with people who use psychedelics
• Self with a small "s"
• Aligning with one's Deeper self
  • Creating health
• Sensory deprivation
• Maturity - long term vs short term
• Human history
  • Use of sacred technology to align with long term good
• Psychedelic vs Psycholytic Approaches - Psychedelytic (combined)
• Maturation and rites of passage
  • How do we transition to adulthood now?
• How one can become involved with the field
  • Getting good grades, bringing good grants with you
• MAPS
• Erowid staff write ups
• Future research with adept Buddhist monks
• World religious leaders - research
• We have to be mature with this process.
• Comissions
• Meetings with leaders
• How to reintroduce back into society
• 279 chems from Shulgin to research - Chemical Modeling
• Autism research -UCLA - Alicia Danforth

Influences

• Asagioli - Psychosynthesis
• Sándor Ferenczi - Love Oriented
• A.H. Almaas - Diamond Approach
• Allan Ajaya, Phd - Psychotherapy East and West: A Unifying Paradigm
• Stuart A. Kauffman - The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
• Jonathan Ott - Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources, and History
• Rupert Sheldrake - The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God