[ATL2011] *** Above the Limit - News and Events***

[Kaya]

Good evening,

The day is quickly approaching when your dedicated build team will head to
Black Rock to frolic in the dust and begin setting up home. Incrementally we
are growing in numbers and solidifying our events. So much has been done and
still so much remains. This project is a culmination of a long effort and
since its inception has evolved in amazing ways. You are all a part of
making this camp, the Tea House, the Crystal Cavern and everything else we
offer so incredible.  My sincere gratitude to those who have contributed
time, money, labor and equipment to help make this happen. It is going to be
an incredible experience!

A few items to address:

1)      If you would like power at your tent or RV please email today and
let us know  kaya at psyreal.net <mailto:kaya at psyreal.net?subject=Power> 

2)      We are still seeking one or two build team volunteers to serve as
alternates. If you have the time and interest next week please let us know. 

3)      If you would like to volunteer in the Tea House and have not
received the sign up form contact Waza: ah at well.com

4)      The 9'oclock neighborhood event page which was previously sent is
now editable by anyone. Check out what your neighbors are doing or add your
own event 9'oclock
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AppfoUJb5t9NdGVCckh2V2
lQN25vRDBKMmtUd0FZS1E>  events

Some people have not yet seen the events list for all of ATL so for your
convenience here is that announcement.

Kaya
aka DarkStar 

ATL EVENT LISTING

We have brought together in one place incredible talent from around the
world, leaders, visionaries, researchers, activists, performers and artists
all dedicated to the exploring the frontiers of virtual and inner space.
Saraswati symbolizes the flow of cosmic knowledge during times of initiation
and transformation.

Music in the Crystal Cavern

Tuesday
8:00pm - 9:30pm Jereme Oliver (Winnipeg, Canada
9:30pm - 11:00pm Terrakroma (Desert Trax, Moontribe)
11:00pm - 12:00am Grouch (Zenon Records)
12:00am - 1:00am Sentient (Spun Records)
1:00am - 2:30am Tristan (Nano Records, Twisted Records)
2:30am - 3:30am Treavor Moontribe (Desert Trax, Iboga Records)
3:30am - 5:00am Avalon (Nano Records)
5:30am - 6:30am Nik Aragon (Zenon Records, Moontribe)
6:30am - 8:00am Merkaba (Zenon Records)

Wednesday
8:00pm - 10:00pm Cheshyre (Cosmic23, Shake Lasta)
10:00pm - 11:30pm Nealika (Psytribe)
11:30pm - 1:00am Liam Shy (United Beats Records / Late Night Sneakin
Records)
1:00am - 2:30am Electrik (Psybotic)
2:30am - 4:30am Kabayun (2to6 Records)
4:30am - 6:00am Psyren (Metacrew)
6:00am - 8:00am Smoke (2to6 Records)

Thursday
Schedule coming soon
Friday
Schedule coming soon

Saraswati Psychedelic Speaker Series

Speakers will discuss their work with psychedelic substances, among other
interesting, improvised, and unexpected dollops of knowledge. Join our tea
wallahs afterwards for an tea ceremony at the Saraswati Tea House, a project
dedicated to offering services to participants having difficult experiences
in altered states of consciousness. We look forward to seeing you in the
dust...

Thursday 9/1
11:00am to 11:50am - Frank Lucido, M.D.
12:00pm to 12:50pm - George Greer, M.D.
"Intention, Choice and Reality in Psychedelic States"
1:00pm to 1:50pm - Acoustic Music by Michael Garfield
2:00pm to 2:50pm - John Perry Barlow (MAPS)
3:00pm to 3:50pm - Rick Doblin, PhD (MAPS)

Friday 9/2
11:00am to 11:50am - Alicia Danforth
12:00pm to 12:50pm - Annie Oak
1:00pm to 1:50pm - Troy Dayton
"How to achieve Health, Weath, and Happiness through Psychedelics"
2:00pm to 2:50pm - Charles Shaw
3:00pm to 3:50pm - Daniel Pinchbeck

Saturday 9/3
11:00am to 11:50am - Georgiana Sinioris
12:00pm to 12:50pm - John Allen
1:00pm to 1:50pm - Tea House Project Panel & Closing Remarks

Speaker Biographies (in order of presentations):
Frank Lucido, M.D.
Dr. Frank H. Lucido MD has been practicing in Berkeley since 1979. He
graduated from University of Michigan Medical School, and completed his
Family Practice training through UC Davis.
He is on the steering committee of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of
Physicians for Social Responsibility, and is a committed anti-nuclear
activist.

George Greer, M.D.
Dr. Greer is the co-founder of the Heffter Research Institute. Dr. Greer
conducted over 100 therapeutic sessions with MDMA for 80 individuals from
1980 to 1985 with his psychiatric nurse wife, Requa Tolbert. Their review of
this work remains the largest published study of the therapeutic use of
MDMA.

Michael Garfield
"A KILLER musician...[Michael's work is] a progressive, smart, and
experimental journey that will make you view the acoustic guitar in a whole
new light. Big ups to MG for doing something accessible, yet entirely
original."
- Josh Smith, Re:Evolution Media
Download Michael's cyberacoustic adventures for free at
http://michaelgarfield.net?/

John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for
the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman
Center for Internet and Society.

Rick Doblin, PhD
Rick founded MAPS in 1986. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of
Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master's thesis (Harvard) focused on
the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of
marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a
twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which
evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious
experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim
Leary's Concord Prison Experiment.

Alicia Danforth
Alicia Danforth has worked as a psychedelic research associate, coordinating
and co-facilitating sessions with Dr. Charles S. Grob for a Harbor-UCLA
trial--from 2005 through 2008--using psilocybin to treat anxiety in patients
with Stage IV cancer. She is currently supporting a nationwide recruitment
effort for a similar trial underway at Johns Hopkins. Danforth is a Black
Rock City Ranger, harm reduction advocate, former broadcast journalist, and
avid poi spinner. She's also a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the
Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, focusing on the potential of
psychedelics and MDMA to treat high-functioning autism and Asperger
syndrome.

Annie Oak
Annie Oak is the founder of the Women's Visionary Congress (WVC)
http://visionarycongress.o?rg/ and founder of the Saraswati Tea House. She
is a journalist and community organizer who creates gatherings that
celebrate the work of visionary women. A yogini and student of tea, Annie is
working with a group of authors on a manual of best practices for serving
people in challenging altered states.

Troy DaytonTroy aka T. Dazzl, has spent most of his adult life working to
reform drug policies, including a stint as the Director of Development at
psychedelic research group, MAPS. While gathering support from religious
leaders to support a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in Nevada, CNN
profiled Troy in a one-hour special on the science of happiness where he
claimed that his responsible psychedelic use supported his ongoing mental
well-being. Troy currently serves as the CEO of The ArcView Group, which
facilitates investments in federally legal businesses that serve the medical
cannabis market. He also serves as a founding board member to the National
Cannabis Industry Association and is one of the creators of BurnerMap.com, a
Facebook app that provides burners with a printable map of all their
friends.

Charles Shaw
Charles Shaw is an award-winning journalist and editor, author of the
critically-acclaimed memoir, Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics &
Spirituality, and Director of the documentary, The Exile Nation Project: An
Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System.
Charles serves as Editor for the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and the
Dictionary of Ethical Politics, both collaborative projects of Resurgence,
openDemocracy, and the Tedworth Charitable Trust.

Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey
into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002). His
articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The
Village Voice, LA Weekly, ArtForum, Arthur, and many other publications. He
is currently the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a national
columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. He is also the executive producer
of the PostModernTimes series of interviews, directed by Joao Amorim, and is
featured in Amorim's upcoming documentary, 2012: Time for Change. He lives
in New York City.

Georgiana Sinioris
Georgiana Sinioris received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from
Portland State University with a focus on alternative relationship
counseling, serving those who fall outside traditional societal roles. She
has helped thousands of individuals providing counseling and crisis
intervention to LGBT youth at the Sexual Minorities Youth Resource Center in
Portland, Oregon as well as suicide and drug prevention through a crisis
hotline network. Additionally, she has studied Native American Psychological
healing, served as a Black Rock Ranger since 2007 providing peer counseling
to Burning Man participants and been active in the music subculture of
psychedelic trance by helping create spiritually and mentally enriching
environments. Her experiences bring compassion and warmth to her work and
this presentation offers her knowledge and experience incorporated into a
harm reduction model for helping those in crisis on the playa or wherever
crisis intervention is needed.

John Allen
John Allen, inventor, creator and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 project -
the world's largest laboratory for global ecology. Biosphere 2 set a number
of world records in closed life system work including, among others, degree
of sealing tightness, 100% waste recycle and water recycle, and duration of
human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). Allen
has also conceived and co-founded nine other projects around the world,
pioneering in sustainable co-evolutionary development. Allen began the first
manned Biosphere Test Module experiment in September 1988, residing in the
almost fully recyclable closed ecological system environment for three days
and setting a world record at that time, proving that closed ecological
systems would work with humans inside.

Saraswati Tea House
The Tea House offers a quiet grounding space dedicated to visionary
travelers who experience turbulence during their Rites of Passage. If you or
someone you know is going through a challenging experience on the playa this
year, come by for a cup of herbal tea or chai served by our volunteer Tea
Wallahs who will make you comfortable. Everyone is welcome to come relax in
the shade outside the Tea House beneath the cooling misting system. The Tea
Wallahs will serve you tea and a kind word.

Cafe Kona
Direct from Kona and freshly ground each day we will serve coffee from 6 am
to 10 am Tuesday through Saturday. 

Above the Limit - 9:15 and A (man side)
http://campabovethelimit.com

 

 

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