Horizons Conference: Perspectives in Psychedelics

Reality Sandwich is a proud media sponsor of the fifth annual Horizons Conference: Perspectives in Psychedelics. Horizons brings together scholars to discuss psychedelics and their role in medicine, culture, history, spirituality and creativity. Previous speakers have included clinical researchers from top universities, scholars, activists and artists of many stripes.

In the past decade small groups of dedicated researchers and academics have orchestrated a renaissance in psychedelic research and thought. This conference is an opportunity for these bright minds to share their research, insights and dreams for the future.

Here are the speakers that have been announced, check back for updates.
Steve Beyer, scholar, attorney, adventurer, and expert on both jungle survival and plant hallucinogens — is the author of Singing to the Plants, “the most comprehensive examination of Amazonian shamanism ever written.”

James Fadiman, Ph.D., dean and co-founder, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; author, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys.

Roy Haber, LLB, attorney for the Santo Daime ayahuasca church in Portland, Oregon.

Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Ph.D., anthropologist from Heidelberg University. She is an independent writer, consultant, lecturer and organizer of scientific conferences and cultural events related to the field of drugs, religion and shamanism.

Ken Johnson, New York Times art critic and author of Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.

Nicolas Langlitz, Ph.D., medical anthropologist and historian of science and assistant professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York.

David E Nichols, Ph.D., founding president of Heffter Research Institute, Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology at Purdue University.

Juan Sanchez-Ramos, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurology and the Helen E. Ellis Endowed Chair for Parkinson’s Disease Research.

Berra Yazar-Klosinski, Ph.D., Clinical Research Associate at Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)