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Eduardo Schenberg
São Paulo
Brazil

Scientist/Educator/Student, www.plantandoconsciencia.org

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Why there are none of the great thinkers of psychedelic science @TED??

I would like to see TED talks covering the many insights from psychedelic science and culture. Just a few examples of great thinkers: Stanislav Grof, David Nichols, Alex Grey, Rick Doblin, Andrew Weil, Charles Grob, Sasha Shulgin, Ram Dass Ralph Metzner and etc...

Topics: brain consciousness drug war entheogens health mysticism peace psychedelics science social change

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Eduardo Schenberg 30+
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TED Translator Associate

Feb 17 2011: Well, it's definitely not for lack of info, good researchers and available videos. For example the largest ever conference on psychedelic science took place last april in California, and the whole thing is available for free at MAPS web site. Maybe because of the controversy, but I expect TED to be greater than some social prejudices that are still alive, mainly in USA...

Please check the following links:
http://maps.org/
http://www.heffter.org/
http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/
http://www.hofmann.org/
http://www.erowid.org/
http://horizonsnyc.org/

and my own site and blog (in portuguese)
http://www.plantandoconsciencia.org/
http://plantandoconsciencia.wordpress.com/

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