37. MAPS with Rick Doblin

Show Notes

Richard ‘Rick’ Doblin is the founder and director of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) - a non-profit research organisation established in 1986. 

 

Somewhere between getting an undergraduate degree in psychology and a doctorate in public policy, Rick, having had discovered psychedelics, began his fight against unjustified criminalisation of psychedelic drugs. 

 

Rick’s main goal has been making MDMA a FDA-approved medicine, tune in to this week’s episode to find out about his progress!

MAPS latest MDMA study in Nature Medicine

Drug Science live podcast recording with Professor David Nutt! 

 

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

MDMA

Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War 

Carl Jung

LSD

Mescaline

John Lilly 

Programming & Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory & Experiments

Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research by Stanislav Grof

Isolation tank

Stanislav Grof

Primal therapy

New Genesis: Shaping a global spirituality by Robert Muller

Laura Huxley

Island by Aldous Huxley

DMT

Psilocybin

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Ayahuasca

Spinal tap

Dissociative identity disorder

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