IT'S HAPPENING! Psychedelic Therapy Training Program!

[Nathanial.Dread]

I follow MAPS on Facebook (at least it's good for something), and they just posted this link:

http://www.ciis.edu/News/Out_in_Front_on_Psychedelic_Research.html

With this summary:

The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) announces plans to launch the Center for Psychedelic Therapy and Research, an academic program intended for prospective psychedelic therapists.

It's happening!

Blessings
~ND

 

[dreamer042]

:thumb_up: :thumb_up: :thumb_up:

Thank you for sharing this.

 

[Praxis.]

This is really exciting! Thanks for the share

 

[Cognitive Heart]

Awesome! Glad to know about this.

 

[DreaMTripper]

Yussssssssss

 

[Elpo]

Great news!

 

[null24]

Have yet to check the link, but thank you very much for posting this.

History is being made.

 

[Chan]

Ummm, but what about the "course material" ? :?

 

[null24]

Ummm, but what about the "course material" ? :?

What do you mean? Where the framework from which to provide therapy would be derived? I'm not sure either, that's a good question. I would think it would come from the work of people like Stan Grof, Anne Shulgin, and the other practitioners and researchers mentioned as being part of the program.

Again, i for one, am very, very, very excited about this as a wonderful, crucial and frankly surprisingly soon, first big step towards the future.

 

[Chan]

Of course it's positive, but until the lawmakers get onboard, it's up there with my Safe Teleportation Course (PM me if interested).

As another thread pointed out, currently California doesn't even respect NAC peyote rights, so it's really hard to see what's on offer here at the present time apart from scatter cushions and breathing advice...

I want to be positive too, but I've been around far too long to get stoked by this, sorry.

 

[Nathanial.Dread]

Of course it's positive, but until the lawmakers get onboard, it's up there with my Safe Teleportation Course (PM me if interested).

As another thread pointed out, currently California doesn't even respect NAC peyote rights, so it's really hard to see what's on offer here at the present time apart from scatter cushions and breathing advice...

I want to be positive too, but I've been around far too long to get stoked by this, sorry.

Well, the first thing is creating a group of people who can be useful in psychedelic research in human-subjects. If you read the recent New Yorker article 'The Trip Treatment,' they talk about how, as more groups become interested in researching psychedelic drugs, they need people who are trained sitters, so that their subjects can have their experiences in safe environments conducive to growth.

Demand for people able to do this will only be increasing as time goes on (assuming the FedGov doesn't decide to stick their noses where they don't belong).

Also: MDMA therapy is coming, and it's coming pretty fast: I believe 2021 was the projected date at which we can expect to see prescription MDMA for PTSD. Obviously that's a pretty limited scope of things (there are a lot of drugs that aren't MDMA, and a lot of things that need treatment that aren't PTSD), but there are SO MANY people with PTSD that demand for therapists who can incorporate MDMA into treatment will be HUGE.

Finally: now that we as a country are collectively realizing that medical cannabis hasn't caused the collapse of western civilization and that the War on Drugs is objectively evil, I imagine psychedelic therapy will enter the mainstream a lot more quickly than Medical MJ did.

Blessings
~ND

 

[entheogenic-gnosis]

I'm sure most of you already know this, but if you register for the MAPS mailing list via email via their website ( www.maps.org ) they send you all the latest news right to your inbox as soon as the information becomes available, I've found it to be a valuable tool for keeping up with news from MAPS.

Thanks for the post ND.

-EG