Keynote Speakers: Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Former US Surgeon General, Dr. Alonzo Plough, Director of Public Health, Seattle-King County, Dr. Alan Marlatt, Director, Addictive Behavior Research Center, University of Washington

Conference Highlights

• Harm reduction efforts in Latino and African American communities
• A Spanish language track
• User-to-user interventions, education, organizing and advocacy
• Practical interventions for methamphetamine and crack cocaine users.
• New research on drug use, AIDS, hepatitis C, syringe exchange and harm reduction
• New Ideas in HIV and Hep C prevention programming
• Methadone information and methadone advocacy
• Impact of welfare reform on drug users, their families and communities
• Community impact of drug law incarcerations and prison issues for drug users and people living with AIDS
• Workshops on advocacy and community organizing, including the faith community
• Drug treatment on demand, community planning, harm reduction in drug treatment settings, and expanded drug treatment modalities.
• How to start and maintain a syringe exchange program
• Overdose intervention and response

Conference Objectives

• Provide a safe forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and strategies for incorporating harm reduction into direct services, public policy, and individual lives
• Offer technical information on program development and implementation
• Present current examples of effective harm reduction services and policies
• Encourage a dialogue between individuals from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and personal experiences, including drug users and those with a history of drug use
• Explore and analyze our own attitudes about and relationships to drugs and drug users
• Exchange and develop practical skills
• Facilitate local, regional, and national networks

Registration

Registration is still open, but as of Monday, November 25, online registration is no longer available. If you have not registered you can register onsite at the conference in Seattle. Registration will open at 4 pm on Saturday, November 30. If you have registered but have not paid, we can accept your payment onsite.

For more information, please visit http://www.harmreduction.org/conference/4thnatlconf.html

Admission: 60 Euro

For more information, please contact
F. Ghehioueche (011 33-614-815-679)
A.M. Angel (011 33-612-936-958)
E-mail: projetiboga@no-log.org

Presenters/Participants
Introduction - Dr. Bertrand LeBeau
On the Bwiti (Sur le Bwiti) - Laurant Sazy & Mallendi: 09:30 - 11:30
Lunch w/ documentary film (Dejeuner avec film documentaire): 11:30 - 12:30
Evolution of iboga paradigms (L`evolution des paradigmes de l`iboga) - Dana Beal: 12:30 - 13:30
An Ex-Addict's View (Selon l`avis d`un ancien toxicomane) - Patrick Kroupa: 13:30 - 14:30
Science Update (Mise a jour scientifique) - Dr. John Pablo (Univ. of Miami): 14:30 - 15:30
Coffee Break (Pause cafe): 15:30 - 15:45
Final Panel w/ all Presenters (Dernier panel, avec tous les participants): 15:45 - 17:30

First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
1187 Franklin St. (at Geary Blvd.)
San Francisco, CA 94109
(Thomas Starr King Auditorium)

Presenters
Deborah C. Mash (Prof. of Neurology, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, Univ. of Miami school of Medicine)
Dana Beal (Cures-Not-Wars)
Patrick K. Kroupa (Lord Digital, Mindvox)
Eugene Shoenfeld, MD (Dr. Hip)
Ed Rosenthal (Cannabis Expert, Author, Activist)
Chris Conrad (Cannabis Expert, Author, Activist)
Nelson Comerci, L.Ac. (Acupunturist, Iboga Practitioner)

Advanced admission $25, ($35 at the door)
For Reservations, call 415-567-0873 and
Please make checks payable to Nelson Comerci
1530 Gough St., #601
San Francisco, CA 94109
For additional information, call Julia Carter at 707-987-8123 or visit http://www.ibogaine.org/calendar.html

Featuring speakers Arno Adelaars, Hans Bogers, Jace Callaway Ph.D., Hilario Chiriap, Piers Gibbon, Luis Eduardo Luna Ph.D., Dr. phil. Claudia Mueller-Ebeling

For more information, go to http://psychoactivity.org

Speaker itinerary:
Moderator Suzanne Bellamy (healer, ex-BPP) 8:45 - 9:05
Elombe Brath (activist/ journalist/ PLC) 9:05 - 9:30
Awolowo Johnson (sociologist/ Nganga) 9:30 - 10:00
Emmanuel Onaivi (NIDA researcher) 10:00 - 10: 30
Kenneth Alper (M.D./ Ibogaine Expert) 10:30 - 11:10
Playthell Benjamin (journalist/ pundit) 11:10 - 11:35
Rommell Washington (social worker) 11:35 - 12:00
Gen Discussion/ Moderator intro 12:00 - 1:30
Moderator Close 1:30 - 2:00

$10 Admission - Additional donations welcome

The Dempsey Center can accommodate more than 400 people. No one will be turned away. This forum is to be announced on KISS FM.

For more info call: Rommell Washington at 212-304-0035 (Benu Project & Afrikan Wholistic Network) or Dana Beal at 212-677-7180 (Cures not Wars)

In the past ten years there has been a paradigm shift in addiction treatment from an "abstinence-only" approach to one that includes the perspective of harm reduction. Along with the shift has come a host of dilemmas and challenges that requires new techniques and solutions. In this conference, clinicians who work in a variety of settings, both public and private, will describe how these challenges arise in their own work and the innovative techniques and approaches they use to address them.

Topics will include:

• client-centered treatment goals
• countertransference dilemmas
• impasses in treatment
• integrating harm reduction into the public sector
• integrating health psychology
• managing risk
• therapeutic communities
• treatment of co-occurring disorders

The Presenters

• Robert Lichtman, Ph.D., CASAC - Associate Professor (Adj.), John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Director, The Mount Vernon Service Center of Rockland Psychiatric Center.
  
• Scott Kellogg, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychologist, The Laboratory on the Biology of the Addictive Diseases, the Rockefeller University; Psychotherapist, The Cognitive Therapy Center of New York, New York City.
  
• Marlene M. Reil, M.A. - Ph.D. Student, New School University. Student Coordinator, NYSPA Division on Addictions Executive Committee.
  
• Debra Rothschild, Ph.D., CASAC - Private Practice, New York City. Graduate, NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. President, NYSPA Division on Addictions.

Registration

Continuing Education: A certificate of attendance will be issued to all attendees. 6 CE credits for psychologists are available for an additional $10. The Foundation of NYSPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. The Foundation of NYSPA maintains responsibility for the program. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.

For more information and to register, please visit http://www.nyspa.org

For more information call: Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D. at 212-633-8157

Featuring speakers Hank Wesselman, PhD, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Isaac Shapiro, Victor Sanchez, Warren Grossman, Gay Luce, PhD, Ken Eagle Feather, Buryl Payne, PhD, Ralph Metzner, PhD Onye Onyemaechi, MBA, Helen Stewart, PhD, Richard Kimball, PhD Ilona Ireland, Peter Gorman, Deborah Milton, PhD, Arjuna Ardagh, Karin Thron, MD, Don Wismer, Kristin Madden, Cork Kallen, JD, Wilbert Alix, Carol-Lynne Toleno, DC, Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda), Deborah May, Alorah Lavender, Gale Litvak, Maboud and Tara Andrea Swierkosz

For more information, please visit http://www.bizspirit.com/alteredstates/aspeakers.html

Held in beautiful Negril Jamaica, this will be a 6-day consciousness expanding seminar like you've never experienced before. Presenters include Richard Glen Boire, Earth Erowid, Fire Erowid, Alex Grey, Jon Hanna, Stephen Kent, Jonathan Ott, Mark Pesce, Ann Shulgin, and Sasha Shulgin.

Tickets are $1000 (early bird, before August 1) or $1,300 (from August 1ÐSeptember 15), which includes admission to all lectures and events, accommodations (double-occupancy), delicious Jamaican food (vegetarian and vegan available), and all alcoholic beverages. Payment can be made with a credit card through PayPal (www.paypal.com) by sending the money to the e-mail address mindstates@prodigy.net, or mail a check or money order to: Mind States, POB 19820 (Dept. ER), Sacramento, CA 95819.

For more information, see www.erowid.org/mindstates

With John Orr, Julie Lapham and Grof trained and certified facilitators.

Through Holotropic Breathwork and Buddhist meditations of the breath and heart, we'll explore the process of change and the promise of the spiritual path. This retreat is supported by sacred indigenous music and mandala drawing with presentations of contemporary and traditional teachings from the East and West. It is intended for personal growth, development and healing as well as for professional training. Participants will learn many ways to begin, or strengthen, their daily spiritual practices.

Early Registration Available

For more information contact:
Themis Institute East-West Project
P.O. Box 28701
Richmond, Virginia 23228
E-mail: Jlapham@juno.com
Telephone message: (704) 708-4901

An all-day symposium on Cannabinoids in Pain Management will be presented on Saturday September 28, 2002 in Reno, NV as part of the annual American Academy of Pain Management meeting. We have an excellent panel of international experts prepared to instruct us on the state of the art with cannabinoid therapeutics, both here and abroad.

A Conference Announcement is available as follows: http://www.aapainmanage.org/AAPM/Confrnce/conf2002.html

A Conference Brochure is available as follows: http://www.aapainmanage.org/AAPM/Confrnce/Conf%202002%20Agenda.pdf

Full Continuing Education credits for a variety of disciplines are available for this meeting.

Contact Dr. Ethan Russo for more details at erusso@blackfoot.net.

Featuring lectures by Antonello Colimberti, Ethnomusicologist; Massimo Dusi, Writer and Tibetan Translator; Piero Coppo, Ethnopsychiatrist; Italo Sanguineti, Psychoanalist; Gilberto Camilla, Psychoanalyst; Antonio Baldassarre, Ethnomusicologist; Annalisa Cantelmi, Herbalist; Luca Isabella, Researcher; Danilo Coral, Chemist and Researcher; Carlo Buono, Psychologist; Marco Margnelli, Neuropsychologist

The Conference will be held in Perinaldo, an ancient village on the hills near San Remo, a prestigious Italian seaside resort. For more information write to: sissc@ecn.org

The Registration fee is $75, which includes the participation for the four days of the meeting. It doesn't include lodging for the nights and meals. The lectures will be in Italian. Space is limited; hence it would be advisable to register early. Registrants will receive by E-Mail full instructions ad directions to conference site. We are unable to refund money for cancelled reservations.

To reserve your place send your E-Mail to sissc@ecn.org (http://www.ecn.org/sissc)

To register, send your check or money order to:
Fulvio Gosso
Via Rocco, 116
10060 Prarostino (To)
Italy

The Telluride Mushroom Conference is designed for persons interested in expanding their knowledge of edible, poisonous and psychoactive wild mushrooms. Major consideration will be given to the cultivation of diverse mushroom species, emphasizing practical principles and techniques. Lynn Margulis will address a plenary session of the Conference on The Secret Life of the Fungal Underground. Dr. Andrew Weil is also a featured speaker. The Conference will be held in Telluride, an historic Colorado mining town on the western slope of the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide. The forests in the Telluride area generally produce a wide variety of wild mushrooms, particularly edible species. Daily forays will be held in the surrounding mountains to collect edible and poisonous species and study their field characteristics. Conference facilities include appropriate meeting rooms and campsites. More elaborate accommodations are available locally. Meat and non-meat nutritious meals will be served.

Immediate registration strongly recommended.

For more information, visit http://www.telluride.com/mushroom.html or e-mail jason@causecommunications.com

Featuring speakers Wilbert Alix, Morgan Brent, Erik Davis, Alex Grey, Jon Hanna, Charles Hayes, Zoe Seven, Sijay and Delvin.

MAPS will be helping to provide the staff at a psychedelic emergency facility, to assist people work through difficult psychedelic experiences. The staff will include Sandra Karpetas as well as Holotropic Breathwork practitioners Sheelo and Ahmayo Bohm. For more information on a similar service that MAPS provided at the Hookahville music event, see http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11214doy.html.

For more information, go to http://www.boomfestival2002.com/ or e-mail info@boomfestival2002.com

The program consists of two 3-credit courses and is offered as an academic collaboration between the Kohala Center in Kameula, Hawaii, and the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. For information about course registration, the instructors, and for a detailed topic outline, visit our web site at http://www.csh.umn.edu/ and click on the link that reads "Study in Hawaii" under the What's New section.

The first course is Plants and Civilization, an introduction to the science of ethnobotany and the role of plants in the rise of civilizations, will be taught by Kathleen Harrison, M.A. People, Plants, and Drugs: An Introduction to Ethnopharmacology, is the second course in the series and will be taught by Dennis McKenna, Ph.D.

Note: Enrollment is limited to 20 students, so be sure to register early.

You do not have to be a student at the U. of Minnesota to register. Students at other schools can receive UMn credit that can be transferred to their home institution. Non-degree students are also eligible, and can register through continuing education. Contact Nancy Feinthel (612 624 5166) feinthel@umn.edu for details on how to register.

Lectures will be supplemented with frequent field trips, and guest presentations by distinguished authorities on Hawaiian and Polynesian ethnobotany will take maximum advantage of the unique learning opportunities offered by Hawaii's beautiful Big Island. It should be a very exciting three weeks! Please come join us.

Visiting faculty: soon to be announced.

Registration and information call 1-888-777-5981

There will be lectures by top people in the field of entheogens, visionary and healing plant teachers, such as ayahuasca and salvia divinorum, as well as practical work with brainwave technology to induce the appropiate mind-state and the use of biofeedback devices that aid in determining if one is in an optimal state for healing.
Four ritual plant ceremonies with ayahuasca and two sessions with salvia divinorun (pastora), group sharing biofeedback, regressions, brain tech devices, creative artwork expression, and excursions.

With

• Pablo Amaringo, shaman and artist.
• Silvia Polivoy, transpersonal psychologist.
• Isabela Hartz, visionary artist.
• Zoe Seven, techo-shaman.
• Jon Hanna, psychedelic researcher and writer.
• Frank Echenhofer, EEG researcher and psychologist.

The seminar will take place at a comfortable lodge about one and a half hours from the city of Manaus, Brazil. The lodge has excellent facilities: rooms with private bathrooms, phone, Internet , air conditioning, swiming pool and auditorium.

Find more information as well as an application form at our web site: www.ayahuasca-healing.net
Or contact Silvia via phone/fax in Argentina: (5411) 4774-3892

Featuring Ralph Metzner with Jill Moore and Gilberto Mercado, Holotropic Breathwork facilitators. Explore the metaphor-patterns of transformative experience described in the Unfolding Self. Guided meditative divinations will be used in the course, and holotropic breathwork in the workshop.

Phone: (415) 575-6175
E-mail: lifelonglearning@ciis.edu
http://www.ciis.edu/lifelong/

In this workshop, we will learn to access our altered states and peak experiences in the midst of our everyday life and mundane problems. In doing this, we remember our greater sense of wholeness and arrive at a more fluid way of being in the world. We will be using the theories and methods of Process Work to do this. Process Work is a method of working with the full range of human experience developed by Arnold Mindell, Ph.D. and associates. It is an experiential method with theoretical roots in Jungian Psychology, Taoism, Buddhism, Shamanism and Quantum Physics. The workshop will be both experiential and didactic. It will include time for shamanic journeying and integration exercises.

This workshop will be taught by Steve Fenwick, Ph.D. Steve has a doctorate in Psychology from the Union Institute and University and is a Diplomate in Process Work. He has over 22 years of experience as a therapist and group facilitator and has private practices in Portland and Olympia. Steve has much interest and experience in the exploration of altered states, shamanism, meditation and nature - both inner and outer.

Time: Saturday and Sunday, July 13-14; 10:00am-5:00pm
Place: The Process Work Center
2049 NW Hoyt St.
Portland, OR 97209

Registration and Payment: $140 by July 6th; $170 after July 6th. Send payment to the above address or call 503-223-8188. For more information call Steve at 503-727-2418 or 360-867-1877.
Email: fenwizard@aol.com
For more info on Process Work see http://www.processwork.org

Bringing Together a Truly Magnificent Faculty: Barbara Marx Hubbard, Tom Robbins, Gregg Braden, Dr. Stanislav Grof, Dr. Norman Shealy, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Krishna Das, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, Howard Martin, Laurie Monroe, Dr. Ralph Metzner, Dr. Hank Wesselman, Ilona Selke, Judith Bluestone Polich, Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, and David Carson.

The Prophets Conference Santa Fe: Poets, Mystics, Magicians brings together a most inspiring faculty to facilitate our awareness, creativity, understanding, and transformative evolution. Encompassing art, science, and spirituality, these motivated and accomplished teachers bring us visions of universal unity. They point at the necessity for a new order of values immersed in a mystical union with the All. They call us into wider dimensions where love and compassion help make the world safe. They motivate us into activities of learning, giving, knowing, conceiving, usefulness, and gratitude.

The delegates are gathering in Santa Fe to build friendship, joy, trust, authenticity, personal responsibility, health, and the ability to actively create and make a difference in our troubled world.

Vendor space is available for those with quality products and services - http://www.greatmystery.org/santafevendors.html

Call 1-888-777-5981 or visit our website at http://www.greatmystery.org/santafeconference.html for more information.

The purpose of this conference series, including the Portland, Oregon forum, is to resurrect the knowledge base of therapeutic Cannabis in public, accredited venues that are directed to clinical application. No academic medical education concerning therapeutic Cannabis has been provided to any MD or RN in the United States since 1938. The "corporate knowledge" of the health care community on this subject is gone. These conferences bring replicated, science based research to clinicians, patients, the press and the public upon which individuals can make informed decisions about therapeutic Cannabis use.

For more information, please e-mail patients@medicalcannabis.com or visit http://www.MedicalCannabis.com/Portland.

Huston Smith, PhD, one of the foremost scholars of religion in the world today and author of The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions, will be giving the first Kern Lecture at the Bederman Auditorium, 618 S. Michigan, Chicago, on Thursday evening, April 18, and a Saturday all day seminar, April 20, in Wheaton. (More information, including cost, will be available at a later date.) Please contact the Theosophical Society for more information: http://www.theosophical.org.

For information on Huston Smith in New York City, see http://www.opencenter.org/eveningonfaith.htm

MAPS author, Sherana Harriette Frances, will be speaking about her new book, "Drawing It Out: Befriending the Unconscious". She will discuss her life experiences which led up to the writing of her book, and the amazing drawings that tell her story. "Drawing It Out", which includes 62 drawings by Ms. Frances and an introduction by Stanislav Grof, will be available for purchasing and signing at each event.

Proceeds benefit The Osa Foundation's Rainforest Conservation and Cultural Heritage Projects in the Ecuadorian Andes and Southern Amazon, Peruvian Amazon & the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.

* To reserve your space, please register as soon as possible.
* Space is available for 15 participants for each sojourn.
* Cost is $1200 without airfare.
* Our information is in English at this time
* We appreciate volunteers who wish to translate this announcement into other languages

For Information, Calendar of Events, and Registration:
Dahlia Esther Kresch Miller
Tel: (510) 235-4313
Fax: (510) 215-9840
sentient@experientials.org
http://www.experientials.org, http://www.osanimi.org
Sentient Experientials
PO Box 1004
El Cerrito, California 94530 USA

Program information including registration details are now available at our website: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/ccsmain/Tucson2002//Tucson2002reginfo.htm

Partial list of plenary session topics

• Emotion and Consciousness
• Machine Consciousness
• Neural Correlates of Religious Experience
• Crossmodal Perception
• Downward Causation
• Consciousness and Decision-Making
• Ontologies of Consciousness
• Coma and Consciousness

Confirmed plenary speakers include Adolphs, Bach-y-Rita, Brooks, Gallese, Goldberg, He, Kurzweil, Meijer, Ramachandran, Schiff and Zeki.

Partial list of pre-conference workshops

• Neural Bases of Color Perception
• Observing the Mind
• Varieties of Synesthetic Perception
• Introduction to Memetics
• Consciousness, Literature and Theatre
• Quantum Computational Approaches to Consciousness
• Lucid Dreaming
• Parapsychology and Consciousness
• Implicit and Explicit Processes in Cognition

To receive a copy of the conference schedule and registration brochure, please reply with your postal address to the Center for Consciousness Studies, e-mail: center@u.arizona.edu or jlaukes@u.arizona.edu, or by phone: 520-621-9317.

Dr. Grob's talk is entitled " Healing and Spirituality Through Modified States of Consciousness". It is sponsored by The Circle of Hearts Foundation. Cost is a suggested donation of $15.

Bringing together Ram Dass, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Riane Eisler, Stanislav Grof, Gregg Braden, Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Fred Alan Wolf, Robert Anton Wilson, Peter Russell, Hank Wesselman, Russell Targ, Nicki Scully, Kevin Ryerson, Jai Uttal with Geoffrey Gordon.

Early Registration
To make this wonderful gathering accessible, the first 100 delegates who register will be able to do so for only $179 for a full weekend pass. Thereafter, the tuition will be $245 through Jan. 31, $295 through Feb. 28, and $345 through March 29. http://www.greatmystery.org/montereyregister.html

The Prophets Conference Monterey welcomes parents to bring their children. Arrangements are being made for childcare through our volunteer/staff program and on Sunday we will have an Easter egg hunt.

Registration and information call 1-888-777-5981

If you need any further information, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@ihrc2002.net.

MAPS author, Sherana Harriette Frances, will be speaking about her new book, Drawing It Out: Befriending the Unconscious, and her life experiences which led up to the writing of her book. Drawing It Out will be available for purchasing and signing at each event.

• February 20 Presentation and book signing at Copperfield's in Petaluma. 7:00 pm Phone: (707) 823-8991
• February 21 Presentation and book signing at Reader's Books in Sonoma. 7:30 pm Phone: (707) 939-1779

Tickets for the day are priced at £40 each and available from ibogaine.co.uk, PO Box 32880, London N1 9TH. Please download the booking form at www.ibogaine.co.uk/2001order.htm to make processing easier. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Speakers will include:

Other speakers, including, hopefully, a senior priest of the Bwiti religion from south Gabon, are to be announced. Visit www.ibogaine.co.uk/2001.htm for updated information.

Join us on our next wave of nature & cultural exploration at "La Guaria de Osa" off the Pacific Ocean, in the most remote & natural area of Costa Rica, for a journey of re-discovery with pristine pacific beaches & islands, amidst a primary tropical rainforest & her multitude of species & in the presence of invited, legendary plant masters from the Peruvian, Ecuadorian & Costa Rican rainforests.

Activities include:

Sentient Experientials offers a peak experience, a cross-cultural opportunity for people of many walks of life; to take time-out for a deep, fresh, peace breath, to re-discover and explore unadulterated nature - and to return home rejuvenated.

Discounts: Participants interested in a journey during February through May, 2002, will receive a 10% discount if tuition is pre-paid by November 15, 2001.

Or, a 10% discount for any journey to any participant who is actively involved, for at least 3 years, with a non-profit organization that works towards social and environmental change, and who can provide a letter to support this.

Tuition includes all expenses in Costa Rica from Day 1 to Day 7 (or Day 12): bus transportation (on the way in) and a chartered flight (on the way out); meals, guides, park entrance fees and tourism bureau taxes. Does not include airfare, mandatory health-evacuation insurance; tips, airport exit taxes, personal snacks & shopping. Participants are to bring their own tents.

Please Note: 15% of profits are channeled to Grupo Osanimi's Rainforest conservation and cultural heritage projects (please read: www.osanimi.org) working at ground-level in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru, with soon-to-be projects in Costa Rica.

Visit http://www.experientials.org/osa.html for more information.

For registration & information please contact

Dahlia Miller
Sentient Experientials' International Liaison
Tel: (510) 235-4313, Fax: (510) 235-4313
E-mail: sentient@experientials.org
Websites: www.experientials.org & www.osanimi.org
Address: Sentient Experientials, PO Box 1004, El Cerrito, CA 94530, USA

The Prophets Conferences are about the business of changing the world by breaking the millennia old hypnotic spell cast upon us during the cycle of domination. As our planet reaches a critical juncture, we must gather together to explore new ways of life, new values, new interpretations, new identities, and new stories from which a workable reality may emerge. Call toll-free to receive a brochure 888-777-5981 Full information - http://www.GreatMystery.Org/FloridaConference.html Vendor applications are being accepted - axiom@greatmystery.org

You're invited to what may just be the most provocative conference you will ever attend -- the Center for Inquiry's first International Conference. This revolutionary conference will be the first to call on the resources of both the Council for Secular Humanism and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. The theme -- "Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?" -- has allowed us to bring together some of the most distinguished, most fascinating speakers in the world.

Speakers include Susan Blackmore, Patricia Churchland, Antony Flew, Paul Kurtz, Eugenie Scott, Jim Alcock, Hector Avalos, Michael Behe, Susan Blackmore, Vern Bullough, Patricia Smith Churchland, Antony Flew, Owen Gingerich, Ray Hyman, Karl Jansen, Paul Kurtz, Raymond Moody, Joe Nickell, Steven Pinker, Eugenie C. Scott, Quentin Smith, Wole Soyinka, Victor J. Stenger and many others!

For only $149* (we're holding the line on costs), you can come to Atlanta and hear thought-provoking talks on hotly debated topics including:
Evolutionary Biology and Religious Belief Near-Death Experiences, The Medical Effects of Prayer at a Distance, Intelligent Design, New Cosmologies and Religion, Spiritualism and Science, Existence of Souls, African Americans: Religion and Science, Islam and Science

*The registration fee will be only $79 for students who are currently enrolled in classes (copy of current student identification required).

Also featured: meetings on local groups and grassroots activism-plus an entertaining and astonishing presentation by nationally known physicist and showman David G. Willey.

For more information and registration, visit https://secure15.cedant.com/secularhumanism/conference/index.htm

Council for Secular Humanism
P.O. Box 664
Amherst, NY 14226-0664
VOICE: (716) 636-7571 FAX: (716) 636-1733
info@SecularHumanism.org

An exploration of Enlightenment, Entheogens, Shamanism and Peak Experiences. The theme of this conference is Awakening Awareness through Sacred Technologies. Come investigate the space between ordinary and non-ordinary reality, expand personal awareness and participate in the exploration of consciousness.

Confirmed presenters include Huston Smith, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Douglas Harding, Bruce Eisner, Arthur Deikman, Steven Halpern, Laura Huxley, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Margot Anand, Victor Sanchez, Joseph Rael, Tina de Souza, Robert Anton Wilson, Charles Tart, Adnan Sarhan, Russell Targ, Ken Eagle Feather, Onye Onyemaechi and many more.

Top researchers from Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Finland, Iraq, UK, France, Chile, Nigeria, all across the US and from many indigenous traditions. Experience new dimensions of consciousness through dance, music, sound, meditation, fire walking and other embodied explorations.

Contact The Message Company Phone: 505-474-0998 Fax:505-471-2584, message@bizspirit.com, http://www.bizspirit.com

Gather with professional mycologists, mushroom lovers and scholars to celebrate an exceptional event. Breitenbush's annual Mushroom Gathering features forays into the Ancient Forest to find and identify mushrooms (bring your camera); a wild mushroom tasting event; workshops and lectures about identification, truffles, cooking with mushrooms, and many other topics of interest to the mushroom enthusiast; displays of edible, poisonous and psychoactive species for hands on identification.

For more information, visit http://www.breitenbush.com/html/events/oct18-21.html or mail office@breitenbush.com

    PSYCHOACTIVITY was founded in 1997 in Amsterdam to organize the fourth conference on new visionary plant research, Shamanism and altered states of consciousness.
    In 2001 we will hold two one-week-seminars in Nepal, which will be the first conference ever held on Nepalese Shamanism.
    The purpose of PSYCHOACTIVITY in Nepal is to provide reliable information on Nepalese Shamanism. We wish to stimulate an exchange between the shamans of Nepal, with their knowledge and use of visionary plants, and Western scientists who research psychoactive plants throughout the world.
For more information, please see: www.psychoactivity.org

More information can be gleaned from http://www.nida.nih.gov/Meetings/MDMA/index.html

The 2001 Conference is the first of the recently merged Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation, and the conference seeks to mirror the exciting developments in the drug policy reform movement. Programs will feature dynamic speakers and cutting-edge themes. New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson have already committed to speak.

You can expect sessions to address, among other things, drug reform legislative developments, heroin overdose, the emerging youth and student movement, Hispanic/Latino issues, international developments, syringe availability, drug education, pain treatment, hallucinogens and religious freedom, ecstasy, drug treatment, Mexico/Colombia, movement building, asset forfeiture reform, and various workshops that will reflect all aspects of the drug reform movement. Please join us for what promises to be a landmark event in the effort to bring about more reasoned and compassionate drug policies.

For the latest conference information, visit http://www.drugpolicy.org/conference. Registration and scholarship information will be posted soon.

•••This is also a call for paper and workshop submissions.•••

Topics that will be addressed include (among many others):

A partial list of plenary speakers (to be expanded) includes:

For latest updates, please check our website: http://www.duke.edu/philosophy/assc5.html
The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for updated information about the conference.

The Prophets Conference brings together today's most remarkable teachers and authors to explore and bridge science and spirituality. Our thematic variation for this New York City gathering is Techniques of Discovery - an investigation of the powerful and profound pre-existent place of deep transcendent and transformative commonality found through shamanic practices, spiritual paths, entheogens, religious trance, out-of-body experiences and other revolutionary and revelatory tools.

We will be looking at expanded states of consciousness and the uncommon knowledge and heightened awareness often obtained from them, and then look at the magnitude of the implications fostered by acknowledging them as true Gnosis. We will then explore their relevance to every area of life.

The conference will also envision a deeper sense of Destiny at what appears to be a critical juncture in history, and assess avenues for imagining and reconfiguring Reality.

For information, email: axiom@greatmystery.org or call toll-free 888-777-5981.
Or you may visit our website at www.greatmystery.org

Proceeds benefit Grupo Osanimi's ground-level rainforest conservation and cultural heritage projects.

For information catalogues, please mail $12 to:
Sentient Experientials
PO Box 1004 El Cerrito, California 94530
USA

Or please visit our websites:
Sentient Experientials: www.experientials.org
Grupo Osanimi: www.osanimi.org

Contact Person/Liaison: Dahlia Kresch Miller
Tel: (510) 235-4313
Fax: (510) 215-9840
E-mail: sentient@experientials.org

Directions:
The Cathedral is located at 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, one block East of Broadway. By subway, take the #1 or #9 train to the 110th/ Cathedral Parkway Station. By bus, take the #4 or #104 to Broadway and 112th Street or the #11 to Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. There is no public parking on the grounds, individual cars may park at one of the garages listed below:

West 112th Street Garage Corp 512 West 112th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) (212) 865-1754, cars and mini-vans only

Parking Garage Corp. 234 West 108th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) (212) 222-8800, cars and mini-vans only

Yorkshire Parking 108th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus) (212) 865-2314, can accommodate full-size vans

Presented by The New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA), NYSPA Division on Addictions and the master's program in Mental Health & Substance Abuse at the New School University.

     There is no greater controversy in addiction treatment than the one between the abstinence-only and harm-reduction schools of thought. Differences in conception of the problem, approaches to, and goals of treatment, distinguish these schools and their advocates. The implications of this debate have crucial bearing on clinical practice, government policy, and public awareness of the needs and difficulties of substance users. The Addictions Division of NYSPA has a history of promoting education about cutting-edge issues in addiction theory and treatment. It is our hope that this conference will further that tradition, and broaden our collective perspectives on treatment.

Speakers include F. Michler Bishop, PhD, CAS; Lisa Director, Ph.D.; Scott Kellogg, Ph.D.; Bart Majoor, Drs; Suzanne Spross, PhD; and Andrew Tatarsky, PhD.

A certificate of attendance will be issued to all attendees; six CE credits for psychologists are available for an additional $10. The Foundation of the New York State Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. The Foundation of NYSPA maintains responsibility for the program.

Jonathan Miller, M.D. - director, physician and author - will deliver the Keynote Address; other discussants include Ethan Nadelmann, Director of The Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation; Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South and Southeast Asian Studies at University of California-Berkeley; and A. Alvarez, Author. A concluding panel discussion on Alternatives to the War on Drugs will be moderated by Jerome Jaffe, M.D., former Director of the Special Action for Drug Abuse Prevention in the Nixon Administration.

Admission to the conference is $75.00 before January 5, 2001 and $100.00 thereafter. Full-time students with valid ID are admitted free. For more information, please contact the Conference Office at 212.229.2488 or e-mail us at wolinskm@newschool.edu
Visit our website at www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/altered/

Check out the live webcast of the day's events.

The Italian Society for the Study of the States of Consciousness Presents:

Website: www.etnopsico.org. For translation see Babelfish at Altavista

For more information about the European College for the Study of Consciousness, see their website at ecbs.magnet.ch.

For more information contact Silvia Polivoy:
Tel/Fax in Argentina: (54-11) 4774 38 92
E-mail: Silvia Polivoy Website: www.lycaeum.org/~entheos/

More info: http://ww.consciousness.arizona.edu

Speakers: Antonio Escohotado, Peter T. Furst, Mercedes de la Garza, Carl A.P. Ruck, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, Paul Stamets, C. Manuel Torres, Terence McKenna, Rob Montgomery, Jonathan Ott, Ken Symington.