RE: MAPS: Aspiring psychedelic researcher looking for guidance

[Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Jon Frederick, Ph.D. wrote:

> I'm going to recap some advice given to me 10 years ago. Although much
> progress has been made toward bringing psychedelic research back into the
> mainstream, and consciousness studies in general have gained a lot more
> credibility, the fact remains that you will be taken a lot more seriously
> after you get the MD or PhD after your name. I'm not just being arrogant
> because I've got my degree & you don't-- I'm just telling you that I spent
> an additional five or more years as a student because of my idealism,
> where my ability to contribute was severely limited by the fact that one
> cannot be a primary investigator on a grant as a graduate student. There's
> a whole "secret society" that you get admitted to when you finish your
> graduate degree, where you can spout off the same fantastic maniacal
> rhetoric about psychedelics and people will actually listen.


Thank you very much for your advice; to be honest, that's about what I
figured. I intend on pursing my graduate studies in either experimental
psychology, or brain/behaviour/cognitive sciences.

But I think someone mentioned the idea of creating a fellowship (that
might not be the appropriate word, but something along those lines) of
students pursing careers in fields related to psychedelics; and that maybe
this could be done under the auspices of MAPS. I would be very willing to
work on creating such a group, but I don't really know where to begin.

I have in mind something akin to the APA's student affiliates membership,
but for MAPS.

Might this be possible?


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Jon Freedlander
Research Assistant
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
www.maps.org

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