Horizons is an annual forum for learning about psychedelics, hosted by Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Its goal is to open a fresh dialogue about psychedelics and rethink their role in medicine, culture, history, spirituality and art.

Psychedelics are a unique class of psychoactive drugs that have been used by humans for thousands of years. In the 1950s and early 1960s, academic research with psychedelics yielded important discoveries in psychology and neuroscience. Just a few years later, they entered popular culture across North America, Europe and the world.

Questions about their safety, medical value, history and implications in politics and culture were unfortunately answered with numerous myths spread by both their users and the media. The millennial rave fever brought a similar wave of popularity and hysteria.

Recently, a renaissance in psychedelic research and dialogue has taken shape. Horizons brings together the brightest minds and boldest voices of this movement to share their insights and dreams for the future.

• Alicia Danforth is a clinical psychedelic researcher and writer working on Dr. Charles Grob's Harbor-UCLA cancer anxiety trial with psilocybin.


• Earth Erowid and Fire Erowid are co-creators of The Vaults of Erowid, a non-commercial web site that collects data and publishes original research on the topic of visionary plants and drugs.


• Robert Jesse is organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices, which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience.


• Andy Letcher is a freelance writer, academic lecturer and folk-musician living in Oxford, UK and the author of the critically acclaimed Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom.


• Valerie Mojeiko has worked with MAPS--the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies since 2000, facilitating research of the healing potentials of MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, Ibogaine and other psychedelic medicines.


• William Richards, Ph.D. is a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.


• Stephen Ross, M.D. is assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at Bellevue Hospital, and associate director for education at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.


• Franz X. Vollenweider, M.D. is head of the Psychopharmacology and Brain Imaging Unit at the University Hospital of Psychiatry (Burghölzli) and lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Zurich.


• Bob Wold is founder and President of Clusterbusters, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports research on the use of psilocybin to treat cluster headaches.

An evening of celebration, art, performance and friends featuring the finest creative talent in the psychedelic community.

• Larger-than-life imaginitive inflatable sculpture by AKAirways.


• The Bike Trip, a monologue about the inner explorer in all of us by master storyteller Martin Dockery.


• A visual history of the faces behind the psychedelics movement from photographer Marc Franklin.


• Hypnotic soundscapes from The Gamelatron, the world's first and only fully robotic Gamelan orchestra.

More details on the Reception page.

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