Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit established in 1986 to advance evidence-based psychedelic therapy and end prohibition. MAPS incubated Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS Public Benefit Corporation) which is leading drug development of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. 

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Mentioned Books

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
“Yeah, but we need to really anchor and build kind of a healthier culture and healthier People but it has to be a sort of a mass is rather than just individuals. Have you read blitzed by Norman Oler? I have not”
“I think what you brought up about um the Suspension of the Illusinean mysteries the the that's just so important that that”
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
“I think what you brought up about um the Suspension of the Illusinean mysteries the the that's just so important that that”
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous
“Because they thought it'd be too embarrassing to bust him and they busted it another time. He was on CNN once and he was talking about how he's not afraid of death because he had an incredible LSD experience. Yeah, absolutely that.”
Marijuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon
Motivation and Personality by Abraham Maslow

This is an article written by David Sze that I've found on The Huffington Post Abraham Maslow is the leading figure in the tradition of humanistic psychology and the modern Positive Psychology movement owes a huge deb…

“To do therapy with low dose MDMA versus therapy with full dose MDMA so everybody knows they're getting MDMA they all have the same expectations and They might not be aware though which dose you know is it a full dose is it a lower dose so the challenge was”
“To do therapy with low dose MDMA versus therapy with full dose MDMA so everybody knows they're getting MDMA they all have the same expectations and They might not be aware though which dose you know is it a full dose is it a lower dose so the challenge was”
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
“I think what you brought up about um the Suspension of the Illusinean mysteries the the that's just so important that that”
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
“I think what you brought up about um the Suspension of the Illusinean mysteries the the that's just so important that that”
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
“To do therapy with low dose MDMA versus therapy with full dose MDMA so everybody knows they're getting MDMA they all have the same expectations and They might not be aware though which dose you know is it a full dose is it a lower dose so the challenge was”
The Immortality Key
The Immortality Key by Brian C. Murarescu
“It's it's really a crime of enlightenment. It's really it's really is It is and when you talk about Brian Mirrescu and the immortality key Which by the way is being made into a documentary”
The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna
“To do therapy with low dose MDMA versus therapy with full dose MDMA so everybody knows they're getting MDMA they all have the same expectations and They might not be aware though which dose you know is it a full dose is it a lower dose so the challenge was”
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro

The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, la…

“To do therapy with low dose MDMA versus therapy with full dose MDMA so everybody knows they're getting MDMA they all have the same expectations and They might not be aware though which dose you know is it a full dose is it a lower dose so the challenge was”