Mind Altering Science – An OPEN Conference on Psychedelic Research

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August 2, 2010 at 9:26 am

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The OPEN foundation is proud to present: ‘Mind Altering Science – An OPEN Conference on Psychedelic Research’, at the University of Amsterdam, on the 23th and the 24th of October 2010. From the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with MDMA, and the use of ibogaine as a tool to combat addiction, to the globalization of ayahuasca religions; ‘Mind Altering Science’ will be the first conference on Dutch soil that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on recent developments in the exciting field of psychedelic research.

The two-day conference will include a variety of lectures, interactive dialogues and presentations of recent research data. Academics, therapists and medical professionals from various countries will discuss the use of psychedelics from their own disciplinary perspective. Everyone with an eagerness to lean more about psychedelic research is invited to attend this unique event, whether they are researchers, medical professionals or students.

We are happy to present the following international experts as our main speakers:

Andrew Sewell PhD (US)
Peter Oehen MD (CH)
Bia Labate PhD (BR)
Jordi Riba MD (ES)
Jose Carlos Bouso MD (ES)
Adele van der Plas (NL)
Stephen Snelders (NL)
David Luke PhD (UK)
Dr. Anwar Jeewa (SA)
Amanda Feilding (UK)

For more information on the conference, visit the website: Mind Altering Science – Conference – Amsterdam 2010. Through this website you can also subscribe to our English conference newsletter.

For more information about the OPEN foundation, visit our website at Stichting OPEN – Home. Unfortunately, our website is temporarily only available in Dutch.

Presale tickets are available through our site; early birds get an additional discount (as do students!). So don’t hesitate to register!
We hope to see you at ‘Mind Altering Science’!

Stichting OPEN
August 2, 2010 at 9:33 am

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General Lighting

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@StichtingOPEN 393216 wrote:

For more information about the OPEN foundation, visit our website at Stichting OPEN – Home. Unfortunately, our website is temporarily only available in Dutch.

thanks. whilst your English is way better than my Dutch at the moment I am learning for a variety of reasons (NL is also the closest EU country to where I live and there are many historical links), so I have been reading this site with interest. there are a few articles linked in English which I will put links to here as well..
August 2, 2010 at 9:49 am

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process

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will you be recording any of the talks and putting them available for download after the conference? very interested in this and would love some of all of the talks if possible, but no way i can get to amsterdam at the moment.

sounds v.interesting :weee:
August 15, 2010 at 4:26 pm

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StichtingOPEN

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Dear all,
Stichting open is glad to inform you that we have confirmed two other
speakers since the original post!

Joining us in October is Katharina Kirchner, who worked with Peter
Gasser on the MAPS sponsored study into “LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy in
the Treatment of Anxiety Secondary to Life Threatening Illness”. We
are very happy that she will be able to present her studies to the
audience of the Mind Altering Science, is this is indeed cutting edge
research.

Dr. Torsten Passie has also been confirmed as a speaker at the
conference. We’re very glad to have him on board, as his research on
human consciousness and alternate states is innovative and daring. We
are very curious about his contribution to the conference and hope you
are too.

visit Mind Altering Science – Conference – Amsterdam 2010 for more information.
(Discount on tickets if you order before the end of August!)

@process: I’m a volunteer for Stichting OPEN, and i don’t have all the details right now, so I’m not sure if any recordings will be made available on line. I’ll see if i can find out and let you know.

Stichting OPEN
August 17, 2010 at 8:07 pm

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@StichtingOPEN 394910 wrote:

@process: I’m a volunteer for Stichting OPEN, and i don’t have all the details right now, so I’m not sure if any recordings will be made available on line. I’ll see if i can find out and let you know.

If not why not? This sounds fantastic, the more people that can access this the better .
August 18, 2010 at 12:50 pm

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process

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if you could find out that would be ace 🙂
August 18, 2010 at 1:33 pm

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General Lighting

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there are good scientific reasons for permitting the use of psychedelics in legitimate medicine, but at the same time will OPEN be campaigning for a similar “gedoogbeleid” (tolerance) policy across the EU for the recreational use of psychedelics (including MDMA), supplanting the 1972 UN laws?

if this is not also done, many healthcare organisations particularly public funded ones may refuse to use these drugs anyway, or discourage their use as it would increase the risks of their staff (particularly pharmacy technicians and other support staff) being tempted into illegal diversion and being corrupted by the criminal community.

In the British NHS there are already many drugs where prescription is discouraged when they might have beneficial effects to their potential for diversion/recreational use, and I’m sure the same happens in NL and other European nations with public healthcare…

if say MDMA or LSD was kept at a town centre pharmacy without decriminalisation/tolerance, there’d be the risk that criminal gangs who previously would have imported the drugs from a foreign country might choose to rob that pharmacy instead, at the very least inconveniencing hundreds of legitimate patients, at worst putting the staff at risk of violence..
September 1, 2010 at 1:22 pm

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@process: some (not all) lectures will be filmed: these will be made into a DVD of the conference, which we will sell after the conference is over. One of the reasons being that not all speakers like to have their lectures posted online.
September 1, 2010 at 1:39 pm

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process

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@StichtingOPEN 396982 wrote:

@process: some (not all) lectures will be filmed: these will be made into a DVD of the conference, which we will sell after the conference is over. One of the reasons being that not all speakers like to have their lectures posted online.

brilliant if you could keep us posted when they will be available, id love to buy one 🙂
September 11, 2010 at 12:24 pm

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Back with more news about the Conference:

Dr. Stephen Snelders has confirmed his participation at our conference! He will open the conference on Saturday morning with a lecture called “Research and therapy with hallucinogens in the Netherlands revisited“. He is a Dutch researcher, lecturer and (among others) writer of the book “LSD Therapy in the Netherlands”. More information about him can be found here.

The topic of Dr. Jordi Riba’s lecture on Saturday the 23rd has also been established. He will talk about the (safety of) administration of ayahuasca to humans in a clinical setting, the topic of his presentation being “Clinical Research on Ayahuasca: from Basic Physiology to Neuroimaging“. Subjects that will be addressed are the pharmacology and the mechanisms of action on the human brain, of both past and future studies. Once again, this is a lecture we are highly interested in and hope you are too!
We hope to see some of you there!

The conference: Mind Altering Science – Conference – Amsterdam 2010
September 27, 2010 at 1:23 pm

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As the conference keeps getting closer and closer, we keep confirming more and more speakers. We are very excited to announce that one of our newest additions to the programme is none less than criminal lawyer Adèle van der Plas. She has been involved in the legalisation of Dutch Santo Daime churches and has handled several ‘magic mushroom’ cases. The topic of her lecture will be: “Ayahuasca under national and international law: The Dutch Santo Daime cases”. Needless to say, we are very happy to have her present at the Mind Altering Science conference!

Another speaker who has been added to the programme is Dr. Konstantin Kuteykin-Teplyakov. He will give a lecture on the following topic: “Molecules of mysticism: pharmacology meets anthropology”. In his lecture he will review the molecular mechanism of action for psychedelics (receptors and signal transduction, involved in specific psychoactive properties), and also discuss modern methods, both experimental and media-based, to study the relationship between mind-altering substances and behavior.

Also we’ve made an arrangement with Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam. Visitors of our conference are offered rooms for a reduced rate. Visit our website for more information about these accommodations.

Please note that tickets at a reduced rate are only available until Friday. So save yourself some money and get your ticket today!
October 17, 2010 at 10:33 am

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Dear friends,

Less than a week before the Mind Altering Science conference starts! This is the final update.

After a long struggle we managed to put the (almost) final version of the conference schedule online. Please have a look at the Programme. You might have noticed that Bia Labate is no longer scheduled; unfortunately she had to cancel her lecture. We apologize to all of you who were looking forward to hearing her – so were we.

All regular tickets have been sold out. There are 100 tickets left for seats on the balcony. What this means is that you will still be inside the conference room, just a little further away. To compensate for this minor discomfort, we are offering a discount on all ticket prices! Get your ticket now, before it’s too late!

Visit mindalteringscience.com for tickets and more information!

Hope to see you in Amsterdam next weekend!
Stichting OPEN.
October 19, 2010 at 12:05 am

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