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Friday

  Clinical Track Interdisciplinary Track Ayahuasca Track
  East Hall Jr. Ballroom Grand Ballroom
7:00 Registration Opens
7:30 Complimentary Continental Breakfast in the West Hall
9:00 Welcome: Virginia Wright and Steve Witte, conference managers
9:30 Rick Doblin, PhD – Founder and Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
Amanda Feilding – Founder and Director, The Beckley Foundation
Bob Jesse – Convener, Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP)
David Nichols, PhD – Co-Founder and Director of Preclinical Research, Heffter Research Institute
Bia Labate, PhD – Psychedelic Science 2013 Ayahuasca Track & Workshop Director
10:30 Break
11:00 Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller: Albert Hofmann and His LSD: An Eventful Life and a Significant Discovery Ralph Metzner, PhD: Uses of Psychedelics in Shamanism and Psychotherapy Dráulio Barros de Araujo, PhD: Linking Ayahuasca, Mental Imagery, and Internal Attention with Functional Neuroimaging
11:30 Tony Bossis, MD: Love and Transcendence: Transformative Themes from Patient Experiences in the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study
12:00 Lunch on your own, and Poster Sessions in the West Hall
2:00 Stan Grof, MD: The Implications of Consciousness Research for Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy Luke Williams: The Effects of Psilocybin and MDMA on Resting State Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Dennis McKenna, PhD: Ayahuasca Admixture Plants: An Uninvestigated Folk Pharmacopoeia
2:30 Albert Garcia-Romeu:  Psilocybin in the Treatment of Smoking Addiction: Psychological Mechanisms and Participant Account Ethan McIlhenny, PhD:  Ayahuasca Characterization, Metabolism in Humans, and Relevance to Endogenous N,N-Dimethyltryptamines
3:00 Peter Gasser, MD: LSD-Assisted Therapy in the Treatment of Anxiety Secondary to Life Threatening Illness Julie Holland, MD: Ethical Considerations in the Medicinal Use of Psychedelics Matthew Meyer, PhD(c): Currents, Fluids, and Forces: The Esoteric Origins of Santo Daime Theories of Healing
3:30 Stephan Beyer, PhD, JD: Ayahuasca, the Scientific Paradigm, and Shamanic Healing
4:00 Break
4:30 Torsten Passie MD, MA: The Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and Bromo-LSD for the Treatment of Cluster Headaches Ann Shulgin: Q&A Session: Understanding the Shadow Joe Tafur, MD: Integrating the Modern Practice of Traditional Ayahuasca Shamanism
5:00 Dave Nichols, PhD: LSD Neuroscience Peter Oehen, MD: The Essence of Psychedelic Therapy Brian Anderson, MSc, MD (C): Classifying Ayahuasca: The Role of Subjective Experience in Psychiatric Research with Psychedelics
5:30 Andrew Feldmar: The Psychedelic Apprentice Luís Fernando Tófoli, MD, PhD: A Survey of Quality of Life and Antidepressant Use in Brazilian Members of the União do Vegetal
6:00 Conference Day End
7:00 Cruise
8:30 Moonlight Plaza in the Marketplace

Friday Films
4:00 PM • Experience BWITI: Renascence of the Healed • Room OCC 208
5:00 PM • AYAHUASCA – Persecution of an Ancestral Culture • Room OCC 208
8:00 PM • The Holy Give Me

Friday MusicMoonlight Plaza
9:30 PM • Ben Lee’s New Album, Ayahuasca
11:00 PM • Trance Music, performing a mix of vocals and electronic music