Podcast appearances and mentions of robert barnhart

Download Psymposia's MC and Host, Lex Pelger, joins us again on Psychedelics Today to talk about Psymposia's upcoming Blue Dot Tour. Lex also talks about his graphic novel about cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and the War on Weed. What is the Blue Dot Tour? (From Psymposia.com) The Blue-Dot Tour is our two-month open-mic Psychedelic Stories road trip across the continent starting on the way to the Psymposia Stage Psychedelic Science 2017 in Oakland. Our goal is to hit blue cities in red states that serve as such pressure cookers of activism, education, and art. But also blue cities in blue states, red towns in red states, purple villages in green states, and anywhere we can find a host from Mexico to Canada. We’ll also be screening Robert Barnhart's excellent film 'A New Understanding - the Science of Psilocybin.' Blue Dot Tour Dates (Subject to Change) For the most up-to-date schedule check out the schedule at Psymposia.com  4/06  Boston, MA 4/07 Philadelphia, PA 4/08 Lancaster, PA 4/09 Baltimore, MD 4/11 Athens, GA 4/13 Austin, TX 4/15 Boulder, CO 4/21-23 Psychedelic Science 4/26 Los Angeles, CA 4/27 San Diego, CA Don't see your city on the tour schedule? Reach out to Psymposia to host them in your town/city for an event: hi@psymposia.com Show Notes/Links Lex's Book: Anandamide; or, the Cannabinoid: The CROWN - Volume 1: How to Shoot an Elephant Anandamide; or, the Cannabinoid: Chapter 37: SUNset What is Anandamide? Cannabis, Sleep, & Oleamide lexpelger.com Psymposia Blue Dot Tour Oprah and MDMA creating holes in the brain Oprah, PTSD, & MDMA Therapy CBD for bone health CBDs & Cytochromes P450 Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers Reddit Dark Web  About Lex Pelger: Lex is Host of Psymposia. He's also a drug writer and scientist based in Brooklyn. His current project, Anandamide or: the Cannabinoid a graphic novel about cannabis (based on Moby Dick), illustrates the beauties of the endocannabinoid system (the Whale), the brutalities of the racist War on Weed (Ahab), and the staggering benefits of medical marijuana to ease the aging of our grandparents He graduated from Boston University with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Robert J. Barnhart is the producer and creator of an amazing documentary called A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin,  which explores helping terminally ill cancer patients who are suffering from end-of-life anxiety with psilocybin. Robert has a BA in comparative religion from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He has been a strong advocate for the study of psychoactive materials in spiritual and non-traditional healing practices for many years. He sits on the board of both The Heffter Research Institute and The Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. He further sits on the board of COSM, supporting the visionary art work of Alex Grey. Mr. Barnhart is active caring for the well being of our planet's environmental ecosystem. www.anewunderstanding.org https://www.facebook.com/A.New.Understanding www.maps.org http://heffter.org Mentions: Dr. Huston Smith Timothy Leary Business Insider Article        

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is May 24 2016, and we are discussing Building Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Entheon is a place to discover the divine within Why build a psychedelic temple? BuildEntheon.com – Almost to the stretch goal of $200K Entheon is a 12,000 sq ft building, three floors including a gallery of international visionary art Prehistoric artifacts document early cultures who made art and had a relationship with entheogens “It’s important for our psychedelic sacramental culture to have evidence that in our generation there were people who valued love, unity, spirituality, and peace over commerce and war.” - Allyson Grey LSD is derived from ergot fungus, which shares similar characteristics with psilocybin mushrooms. Allyson recommends Robert Barnhart’s movie, A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. (We have interviewed the producer and discussed the film on Entheogen.) Visit BuildEntheon.com to support the campaign! Check out the amazing original works of art and other rewards.

In this episode of the Podcast, Jonathan talks with Brett Greene. Brett is a  co-founder of Psymposia, an organization dedicated to building community and honest dialogue around drugs and society through live events. They are the creators of the Psymposia Conference, now in it's third year, and of the "Psychedelic Storytelling" events, which could be described as "The Moth Radio Hour... On Acid."   Brett is also madly in love with the mother of 2 teenagers, and has been a part oftheir lives for twelve years. At the end of our conversation, Brett and I are joined by one of them. In this conversation, we talk about the work of founding and maintaining a psychedelic non-profit, about how psychedelics helped Brett heal his mental illness, and how he is sharing his knowledge and excitement about these substances with his family. When we are joined by Brett's stepson, we discuss peer pressure, what he sees as the ideal form of drug education, and why he is choosing to NOT do drugs. If you are so moved, please consider a donation to this work, either directly through GoFundMe or via a tax-deductible gift through MAPS. Either route qualifies your donation for our generous matching gift from Robert Barnhart, a MAPS and Heffter Research Institute board member, and creator of the film A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin.  TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST Psychedelic Parenting GoFundMe Page Psychedelic Parenting MAPS Donation Page Driftless Psychedelic Symposium Women's Visionary Congress NYC March 11-13, 2016 KMO's C-Realm Podcast KMO's Psychonautica Podcast Psymposia Psychedemia Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paramhansa Yogananda "Autobiography of a Yogi" Wikipedia Entry "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman You Say You Want a Revoluion, The Beatles

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is January 7, 2016, and we are discussing A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. We discussed this film and interviewed its producer, Robert Barnhart back in August 2015 before the film’s release. Since then, the film has been released and you can rent or buy it on online. We’ve all had a chance to watch it again and we wanted to reflect on our impressions of the film. We’ll start with a quote from Alex Grey: "A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin puts an original face on psychedelics. Not the typical faces in the media of delusional drop-outs associated with drugs, but the faces of normal Americans, some suffering from the final stages of terminal cancer. After one dose of psilocybin the face of joy, relief and peace is nothing short of miraculous. A medical mystical miracle is in our midst, and this film beautifully describes the facts! Bravo to Robert Barnhart and all the production team, the courageous chemists, doctors and patients who are helping our society re-evaluate Psilocybin as a medicine for the Soul." ~Alex Grey Hofmann discovered LSD, creating the modern psychedelic movement; not many people know he also isolated and synthesized psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms. Shutting down of research. Schedule 1. “No medicinal value, addictive” Kevin purports that Maria Sabina had given Albert Hofmann an “academic boner” over his successful synthesis of the active alkaloid in her magic mushrooms, psilocybin. “Throughout history, people have been able to have this mystical experience. The drug is a reliable way of getting one, but it's not about the drug, it's about the experience.” - Anthony Bossis Ann Levy’s son’s eulogy for her How does the experience help you confront death? “We’re all star stuff.” - Carl Sagan Bill Richards: 6 basic categories of a "core religious experience": 1. Unity 2. Transcendence of time and space 3. Noetic / intuitive knowledge 4. Sense of sacredness / awesomeness 5. Deeply felt positive mood / joy / peace / love 6. Ineffability / paradoxicality (difficult to put into words) Psilocybin and LSD as aphrodisiacs Why not? Why can’t we provide terminally ill people the relief these treatments offer? Brad: “word.” Wikipedia: List of Schedule I drugs and Schedule II drugs Rent or buy the film on Vimeo When you rent you can also watch DMT The Spirit Molecule The film’s website has a convenient “who’s who” of psychedelic researchers on the participants tab, with names, titles and photos, and a short bio when clicked

0n this episode, Jonathan talks with DanceSafe founder and director of the upcoming documentary MDMA: The Movie, Emanuel Sferios. Emanuel founded DanceSafe in 1998 with a goal of providing fact-based drug education and harm reduction at raves and parties. After a number of years working as an environmental activist, he has returned to the world of drug policy reform and education with this documentary project. Jonathan and Emanuel discuss drug policy, drug education reform, how to talk to your teen about their interest and use, and why testing is so much more critical in today's drug climate than it was back in their day. Emanuel also weighs in on our BIG questions right now: "How to talk to your children with integrity about substances," and "How to come out to your parents about psychedelics." Emanuel also spends a great deal of time discussing the many popular substances out there right now, how they may differ from the party climate we grew up in, and how to help our kids make the informed choices about their use or non-use of plants and chemicals. Jonathan also talks about the ongoing Psychedelic Parenting GoFundMe fundraiser, and announces 2 BIG pieces of news: Robert Barnhart, producer of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin, (who will be joining us on an upcoming episode) has pledged a $2000 matching gift to the fundraiser, which means anyone giving now will have their donation DOUBLED by Robert's generous gift. Also, Psychedelic Parenting is now being fiscally sponsored by The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which means our supporters can now make tax deductible donations to our efforts though MAPS! We would like to thanks everyone who has already given, David, Dasha, and Bodhi Gaian and the team at Pharmazonia. Dennis McKenna, and our anonymous donors TJ, Matt, SC, JYN, and VR. We are honored by your support and email messages.  TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Psychedelic Parenting GoFundMe campaign MDMA: The Movie DanceSafe DARE program  (critical analysis) Danforth et' al Research on MDMA and autism DOPE Movie IMDB Roger Ebert.com Review Nobody is putting Ecstasy in your kid's Halloween candy! (Free Range Kids) Drug Testing Supplies DanceSafe Shop (instant answer reagent testing) Bunk Police (appears to be down at the time of this posting) Ecstacydata.org (mail order gas chromatography) A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (Robert Barnhart's film, mentioned in the introduction) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)  Substances discussed (all links to Erowid.org) MDMA ("Ecstasy," "Molly") LSD ("Acid")  25I-NBOMe ("2C-I-NBOMe," "N-Bomb," sometimes sold as "Acid, but is not LSD) Cathinones ("Bath Salts," "Cat," "Qat," "Khat," sometimes sold as "Molly," but is not MDMA) MDPV ("Flakka," "Bath Salts," sometimes sold as "Molly," but is not MDMA)

We are honored to be joined by Robert J. Barnhart, producer of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. For historical context, we review the groundwork laid in the 1980's by organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Heffter Research Institute. Robert serves on the Boards of Directors of both organizations. Basic research began as early as the 1940's and continued through the '50's and '60's, until Nixon's Drug Control Act of 1970 when the highly promising research was extinguished. In the words of Roland Griffiths, "Can you think of another area of science regarded as so dangerous and taboo that all research gets shut down for decades? It’s unprecedented in modern science." Only as recently as in the last decade, thanks entirely to private fundraising by organizations like MAPS and Heffter, researchers have completed Phase I and Phase II studies. Plans for Phase III trials are on the horizon, and by some predictions, entheogens like psilocybin could be rescheduled to Schedule II (from Schedule I) perhaps as soon as 2020. At $10/pill an effective one-time-dose treatment like an entheogen might not be economically feasible or lucrative enough for today's pharmaceutical companies to pursue taking to market. But what about regular, ongoing "microdosing" of something like LSD? And moreover, the potentially vast application of entheogens toward the "betterment of well people" (in the words of Bob Jesse) would seem to be highly interesting to a pharmaceutical company. Robert recounts the story of how his would-be high school film project about the psychedelic experience may have serendipitously inspired his new film. In addition to supporting MAPS and Heffter, Robert recommends the Beckley Foundation in England. Also, write to Congress and talk to people about your own entheogenic experiences. For more about the studies, check out Anthroposophia: A different kind of love story: One woman's psilocybin experience by Sandy Lundahl. Thanks again to Robert Barnhart for joining us. Stay tuned for the release of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin.

The only person to sit as an active board member of both MAPS.org and the Heffter Research Institute, Robert Barnhart sits down for a chat about the latest in the scientific research field involving both MDMA and Psilocybin.