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Table of contents      
2
Letter from Rick Doblin, MAPS President      
3
Waiting But Not Idly: An Update on Progress Toward Prof. Lyle Craker’s MAPS-Sponsored Medical Marijuana Production Facility
Kelly Burns    
6
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):
Eighth Update on Study Progress

Michael Mithoefer, M.D.    
8
MAPS Prepares to Launch MDMA-PTSD Study in Israel
Valerie Mojeiko     
9
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Pilot Study in Switerland
Peter Oehen, M.D.    
10
Planning LSD Research in Switzerland
Peter Gasser, M.D.   
11
Seeing in the Dying Light: A Ketamine Case Study
Carl A. Hammerschlag, M.D.  
15
MAPS-Sponsored Ibogaine Observational Case Study Approved
Philippe Lucas    
16
2006 NYC Ibogaine Conference
John Harrison   
18
A Groundbreaking Study on Music, Spirituality, Religion, and the Human Brain
Robin Sylvan   
20
So You Want to be a Psychedelic Researcher?
Andrew Sewell, M.D.    
26
Buddhahuasca: A Personal Narrative
David Ledeboer    
29

Toward Light in the Darkness: A Review of the SheShamans- MagicMamas & 2nd Amazonian Shamanism Conferences
Julia Onnie-Hay     

34
A History of the Women’s Entheogen Fund (WEF)
Annie Harrison     
35
WEF Recipient: Sylvia Thyssen     
36
WEF Recipient: Fire Erowid     
37
From Arcturus to Love Creek
Sarah Hufford     
39
Entheon Village Burning Man Fundraiser in Asheville, North Carolina     
40
St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution
Alex Grey     
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MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) is a membership-based organization working to assist researchers worldwide to design, fund, conduct, obtain governmental approval for, and report on psychedelic research in humans. Founded in 1986, MAPS is an IRS approved 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation funded by tax deductible donations.

MAPS is focused primarily on assisting scientists to conduct human studies to generate essential information about the risks and psychotherapeutic benefits of MDMA, other psychedelics, and marijuana, with the goal of eventually gaining government approval for their medical uses.

Interested parties wishing to copy any portion of this publication are encouraged to do so and are kindly requested to credit MAPS and include our address. The MAPS Bulletin is produced by a small group of dedicated staff and volunteers. Your participation, financial or otherwise, is welcome.

© 2006 Multidisciplinary Association
for Psychedelic Studies, Inc. (MAPS)
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Robert Venosa

Front: “Seconaphim”
Back: “Queen Mother”

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Ram Dass
This Limited Edition Print of Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert) is the fourth print by Dean Chamberlain in a special signed and numbered limited edition selected from Dean Chamberlain’s Psychedelic Pioneers Series. Fifty percent of the profits from the sale of these prints will go toward MAPS-sponsored LSD research (see page 10).
 
There are only 50 of these beautiful archival pigment prints. The image is 11"x14" and is printed on archival quality matte paper. Prints numbered 1-10 are $1000, prints numbered 11-40 are $1500, and prints numbered 41-50 are $2000.
 
Visit www.maps.org/catalog for additional purchase information.

This edition edited by Jag Davies
Design & layout by Noah Juan Juneau
ISSN 1080-8981
Printed on recycled paper

 
Summer 2009 Vol. 19, No. 2 MAPS Research Update 2009
Spring 2009 Vol. 19, No. 1 Special Edition: Psychedelics and Ecology
Winter 2008/09 Vol. 18, No. 3 MAPS 2008 Financial Report
Summer 2008 Vol. 18, No. 2 Phoenix Rising: A Review of MAPS Research
Spring 2008 Vol. 18, No. 1 Special Edition: Technology and Psychedelics
Winter 2007 Vol. 17, No. 3 MAPS 06-07 Fiscal Yearly Report
Autumn 2007 Vol. 17, No. 2 Special Edition: Psychedelics and Self-Discovery
Spring/Summer 2007 Vol. 17, No. 1 The Chrysalis Stage
Winter 2006-7 Vol. 16, No. 3 Low Maintenance/High Performance
Autumn 2006 Vol. 16, No. 2 Technologies of Healing
Spring 2006 Vol. 16, No. 1 MAPS' 20th Anniversary
Winter 2005 Vol. 15, No. 3 MAPS final year as a teenager
Summer 2005 Vol. 15, No. 2 Israel Conference: MDMA/PTSD Research
Spring 2005 Vol. 15, No. 1 Accelerating flow of work and time
Autumn 2004 Vol. 14, No. 2 Rites of Passage: Kids and Psychedelics
Summer 2004 Vol. 14, No. 1 10 stamps and $250,000
Winter 2003 Vol. 13, No. 2 Holy Fire
Spring 2003 Vol. 13, No. 1 60th Anniversary of the Discovery of LSD
Autumn 2002 Vol. 12, No. 3 Vision
Summer 2002 Vol. 12, No. 2 "From celebration to frustration, and back again."
Spring 2002 Vol. 12, No. 1 Sex, Spirit & Psychedelics 2002
Autumn 2001 Vol. 11, No. 2 "In the future, it will be called Despair."
Spring 2001 Vol. 11, No. 1 "A Tidal Wave of Ecstasy!"
Autumn 2000 Vol. 10, No. 3 Creativity 2000
Summer 2000 Vol. 10, No. 2 Endings and Beginnings
Spring 2000 Vol. 10, No. 1 Making History in Slow Motion
Winter 1999/00 Vol. 9, No. 4 To the Ends of the Earth for MDMA Research...
Autumn 1999 Vol. 9, No. 3 MAPS' long-standing efforts to conduct...
Summer 1999 Vol. 9, No. 2 MAPS has come full circle...
Spring 1999 Vol. 9, No. 1 Patience, persistence and passion
Winter 1998/99 Vol. 8, No. 4 One of special pleasures of directing MAPS...
Autumn 1998 Vol. 8, No. 3 The Ayahuasca Issue (with Hofmann interview)
Summer 1998 Vol. 8, No. 2 Emotionally Powerful Anecdotes...
Spring 1998 Vol. 8, No. 1 Death Has a Way of Focusing One's Attention
Autumn 1997 Vol. 7, No. 4 Celebration is in Order
Summer 1997 Vol. 7, No. 3 Time Horizons
Spring 1997 Vol. 7, No. 2 Synchronicity
Winter 1996/97 Vol. 7, No. 1 Learning to Crawl
Autumn 1996 Vol. 6, No. 4 An Invitation for Dialogue
Summer 1996 Vol. 6, No. 3 Budding Research
New Year 1996 Vol. 6, No. 2 Sending Down Roots
Autumn 1995 Vol. 6, No. 1 Baby Steps
Summer 1995 Vol. 5, No. 4 Opportunity Amidst Obstacles
Winter 1994/95 Vol. 5, No. 3 Clinical Trials and Tribulations
Autumn 1994 Vol. 5, No. 2 Building Towards Clinical Trials
Summer 1994 Vol. 5, No. 1 Politics and Protocols: In Search of a Balance
Spring 1994 Vol. 4, No. 4 Laying the Groundwork
Winter 1993/94 Vol. 4, No. 3 A Time of Tests
Summer 1993 Vol. 4, No. 2 So Close Yet So Far
Spring 1993 Vol. 4, No. 1 Remembrance and Renewal
Winter 1992/93 Vol. 3, No. 4 Forging New Alliances
Summer 1992 Vol. 3, No. 3 Building on Common Ground
Spring 1992 Vol. 3, No. 2 Small Steps, Gradual Progress, New Opportunities
Winter 1991/92 Vol. 3, No. 1 The Rekindling of a Thousand Points of Light
Summer 1991 Vol. 2, No. 2 MDMA protocol development with cancer patients
Winter 1990/91 Vol. 2, No. 1 MAPS' Swiss pharmacologically-assisted psychotherapy conference
Autumn 1990 Vol. 1, No. 3 What and Who is MAPS?
Summer 1989 Vol. 1, No. 2 Switzerland Leads the Way
Summer 1988 Vol. 1, No. 1 MDMA can become a legal medicine