Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist specializing in psychospiritual development. He is a popular speaker on drug policy reform, spiritual maturation, and the emergence of an integral society (a six-minute clip of his talk on the “Fusion of Spirit and Science” may be found at: http://vimeo.com/7517009) and an author, most recently of Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development.
Dr. Goldsmith has curated dozens of successful conferences and cross-disciplinary “meetings of minds” for corporations as well as the psychedelic community, including the Horizons and MAPS Psychedelic Science conferences. He is a founder of several discussion salons on integral philosophy, governance, media, postmodern science, healing, and the future of society.
Trained in humanistic, transpersonal, and eastern traditions, Dr. Goldsmith maintains a (non-psychedelic) psychotherapy practice in New York and Sag Harbor, NY, and may be reached via his Web site: http://www.nealgoldsmith.com/psychedelics.
Topics Discussed
- What Neal’s practice looks like
- How Neal works with people who use psychedelics
- Self with a small “s”
- Aligning with one’s Deeper self
- Creating health
- Sensory deprivation
- Maturity – long term vs short term
- Human history
- Use of sacred technology to align with long term good
- Psychedelic vs Psycholytic Approaches – Psychedelytic (combined)
- Maturation and rites of passage
- How do we transition to adulthood now?
- How one can become involved with the field
- Getting good grades, bringing good grants with you
- MAPS
- Erowid staff write ups
- Future research with adept Buddhist monks
- World religious leaders – research
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We have to be mature with this process.
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Comissions
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Meetings with leaders
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How to reintroduce back into society
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279 chems from Shulgin to research – Chemical Modeling
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Autism research -UCLA – Alicia Danforth
Influences
- Asagioli – Psychosynthesis
- Sándor Ferenczi – Love Oriented
- A.H. Almaas – Diamond Approach
- Allan Ajaya, Phd – Psychotherapy East and West: A Unifying Paradigm
- Stuart A. Kauffman – The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
- Jonathan Ott – Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources, and History
- Rupert Sheldrake – The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God