Horizons 2010: Perspectives On Psychedelics

The annual Horizons conference is coming up, scheduled for September 24-26 in New York City. Here is a list of the great speakers they have lined up for this year.

• John Perry Barlow - Author, lyricist, essayist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
• Don Lattin - Author, Harvard Psychedelic Club and freelance journalist
  
• Torsten Passie, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor for Consciousness Studies, Hannover Medical School, Germany. "On the History and Special Sociology of Psychedelic Studies"
  
• Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and
  
• Mary P. Cosimano, MSW - Graduate Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Using Psilocybin for Smoking Cessation"
  
• Jeffrey Guss, M.D. - Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine. Investigator and Director of Training, NYU Cancer Anxiety Psilocybin Project"The NYU Training Program in Psychedelic Psychotherapy for Cancer Related Anxiety"
  
• Clare S. Wilkins - Director, Pangea Biomedics ibogaine clinic, Tijuana, Mexico. "Four-Hundred Ibogaine Sessions: Data on Detoxification, Recidivism, and Quality of Life"
  
• Jill Harris - Managing Director, Public Policy, Drug Policy Alliance. "Challenges in Changing the Legal Status of Entheogens"
  
• Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. - psychologist and author, "Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development." "Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Change"
  
• Rick Strassman, M.D. - Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Author, DMT-The Spirit Molecule, co-author, Inner Paths to Outer Space, and author of the forthcoming, The Soul of Prophecy. "Old Testament Prophecy: A Western Model of the Psychedelic Experience"
  
• Erik Davis - author, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, TechGnosis, and The Visionary State. "Psychedelics: Between Natural and Supernatural"
  
• J.P. Harpignies - author of Political Ecosystems, Double Helix Hubris, and most recently, Delusions of Normality; editor of the collection Visionary Plant Consciousness, and associate editor of Ecological Medicine and Nature's Operating Instructions; since 1990, associate producer of the annual Bioneers eco conference. "Psychedelics, Utopianism, and Psycho-Spiritual Inflation"
  
• Annie Oak - founder of the Women's Visionary Congress and the Women's Entheogen Fund. "Women Who Work with Psychedelics: Healers, Artists, Rangers, and Priestesses"
  
• Dale Pendell - author, ethnobotanist, poet. "Psychedelics, Deep Ecology, and the Matter of Entities"

Horizons is held annually in New York City. Its goal is to open a fresh dialogue on the role of psychedelics in medicine, culture, history, spirituality, and creativity. Horizons is a non-profit endeavor hosted by Judson Memorial Church in the heart of Greenwich Village.