Celebrating the release of Birth
of a Psychedelic Culture – Conversations
about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass
and Ralph Metzner, with Gary Bravo. Foreword by John Perry Barlow (Synergetic
Press) An Evening with Ralph Metzner
Accompanied by: Gary Bravo and John Perry Barlow
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009, 7:00 P.M.
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE
Celebrating the release of Birth
of a Psychedelic Culture – Conversations
about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass
and Ralph Metzner, with Gary Bravo. Foreword by John Perry Barlow (Synergetic
Press)
An evening of spirited discussion exploring Ralph Metzner's newly released
conversational memoir. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an in-depth examination
of the legacy of the 1960's by the two surviving facilitators of the mind-altering
Harvard experiments, Professor Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, who, working with
Professor Timothy Leary, touched off a revolution in psychology. Professor
Metzner shall also be discussing his recently released book MindSpace and
TimeStream,
Alchemical Divination Series (Regent Press).
Ralph Metzner, PhD, part of the famed triad of psychologists who became world
famous as pioneers of psychedelics in the 1960's, continues to practice psychotherapy
and to teach workshops nationally and internationally. Editor of the Psychedelic
Review and The Ecstatic Adventure, he wrote Maps of Consciousness, Know
Your Type, The Unfolding Self (1986), The Well of Remembrance (1994), and Green
Psychology (1999). He has published edited collections on the science and phenomenology
of MDMA (Through the Gateway of the Heart, 1985); ayahuasca (Sacred
Vine of Spirits, 2006); and psilocybin mushrooms (Sacred Mushroom of Visions, 2005).
Academic Dean at the California Institute of Integral Studies during the 1980s,
where he is now Professor Emeritus. Metzner is founder and president of the
Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. Most recently,
he has begun writing and publishing a new series of seven short books, with
the general title “The Ecology of Consciousness.”
Gary Bravo, PhD, is Chief Psychiatrist for Sonoma County Mental Health in Santa Rosa, and has written numerous articles on psychedelics, psychiatry and transpersonal psychology.
John Perry Barlow, former Wyoming rancher, lyricist for the Grateful Dead,
cofounder and vice-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009, 7:00 P.M.
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE
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