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<p>Good evening,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A few items to address:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>If you would like power at your tent or RV please email
today and let us know <a href="mailto:kaya@psyreal.net?subject=Power">kaya@psyreal.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>If you would like to volunteer in the Tea House and
have not received the sign up form contact Waza: <a href="mailto:ah@well.com">ah@well.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>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 <a
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AppfoUJb5t9NdGVCckh2V2lQN25vRDBKMmtUd0FZS1E">9'oclock
events</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Some people have not yet seen the events list for all of ATL so for your convenience
here is that announcement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Kaya<br>
aka DarkStar <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>ATL EVENT LISTING<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u>Music in the Crystal Cavern<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p>Tuesday<br>
8:00pm - 9:30pm Jereme Oliver (Winnipeg, Canada<br>
9:30pm - 11:00pm Terrakroma (Desert Trax, Moontribe)<br>
11:00pm - 12:00am Grouch (Zenon Records)<br>
12:00am - 1:00am Sentient (Spun Records)<br>
1:00am - 2:30am Tristan (Nano Records, Twisted Records)<br>
2:30am - 3:30am Treavor Moontribe (Desert Trax, Iboga Records)<br>
3:30am - 5:00am Avalon (Nano Records)<br>
5:30am - 6:30am Nik Aragon (Zenon Records, Moontribe)<br>
6:30am - 8:00am Merkaba (Zenon Records)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Wednesday<br>
8:00pm - 10:00pm Cheshyre (Cosmic23, Shake Lasta)<br>
10:00pm - 11:30pm Nealika (Psytribe)<br>
11:30pm - 1:00am Liam Shy (United Beats Records / Late Night Sneakin Records)<br>
1:00am - 2:30am Electrik (Psybotic)<br>
2:30am - 4:30am Kabayun (2to6 Records)<br>
4:30am - 6:00am Psyren (Metacrew)<br>
6:00am - 8:00am Smoke (2to6 Records)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thursday<br>
Schedule coming soon<br>
Friday<br>
Schedule coming soon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u>Saraswati Psychedelic Speaker
Series<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p>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...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thursday 9/1<br>
11:00am to 11:50am – Frank Lucido, M.D.<br>
12:00pm to 12:50pm – George Greer, M.D.<br>
“Intention, Choice and Reality in Psychedelic States”<br>
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Acoustic Music by Michael Garfield<br>
2:00pm to 2:50pm – John Perry Barlow (MAPS)<br>
3:00pm to 3:50pm – Rick Doblin, PhD (MAPS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Friday 9/2<br>
11:00am to 11:50am – Alicia Danforth<br>
12:00pm to 12:50pm – Annie Oak<br>
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Troy Dayton<br>
"How to achieve Health, Weath, and Happiness through Psychedelics"<br>
2:00pm to 2:50pm – Charles Shaw<br>
3:00pm to 3:50pm – Daniel Pinchbeck<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Saturday 9/3<br>
11:00am to 11:50am – Georgiana Sinioris<br>
12:00pm to 12:50pm – John Allen<br>
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Tea House Project Panel & Closing Remarks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Speaker Biographies (in order of presentations):<br>
Frank Lucido, M.D.<br>
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.<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>George Greer, M.D.<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Michael Garfield<br>
"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."<br>
- Josh Smith, Re:Evolution Media<br>
Download Michael's cyberacoustic adventures for free at <a
href="http://michaelgarfield.net?/" title="http://michaelgarfield.net?/">http://michaelgarfield.net?/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>John Perry Barlow<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Rick Doblin, PhD<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Alicia Danforth<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Annie Oak<br>
Annie Oak is the founder of the Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) <a
href="http://visionarycongress.o?rg/" title="http://visionarycongress.o?rg/">http://visionarycongress.o?rg/</a>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Charles Shaw<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Daniel Pinchbeck<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Georgiana Sinioris<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>John Allen<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Saraswati Tea House<br>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Cafe Kona<br>
Direct from Kona and freshly ground each day we will serve coffee from 6 am to
10 am Tuesday through Saturday. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'>Above the Limit - 9:15 and A (man
side)<br>
<a href="http://campabovethelimit.com" title="http://campabovethelimit.com">http://campabovethelimit.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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