An in-depth analysis of psychedelic drugs in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge and on the validity of psychedelics as adjuncts to therapy, as crucial but neglected taboo medicines, and as technologies of consciousness.

In the last few years’ psychedelics have been given new respectability in science and in therapy. Universities in Zurich, at Harvard, at the University of California, at John Hopkins, are conducting human trials with psychedelics to treat a number of afflictions from posttraumatic stress disorder, cluster headaches, addictions, to end of life anxiety issues. The FDA, in April of 2010, approved a phase two trial with MDMA for posttraumatic stress disorder. All of the patients in this trial will be U.S. army vets from the war in Iraq suffering from PTSD.

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The taboo against these drugs is closely aligned with societies fear of the ecstatic state. A state of mind that loosens the self from the roles assigned to us by society and by language. Psychedelics are threatening drugs not because of harmful physical side effects, of which they have remarkably very little, but because they can so thoroughly throw into question the edifice of self identity and starkly confront the nature of consciousness itself.

His films are iconoclastic, visionary meals, spiced by an intimate, poetic, and enlightening perspective into the complexity of issues and subjects under examination. He has concentrated on pivotal subjects; the social and intellectual import of the eminent writer, Aldous Huxley, an experimental film essay on evolution that features Richard Dawkins (and the gorillas of the London Zoo), and an essay on the built environment that extends from the early works of Mies van der Rohe to the steps of the Burning Ghats of Varanasi.

The films and media art have shown at such events and venues as — the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Kunsthalle, Basel, the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (finalist for the IDFA Joris Ivens Award), the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary Film, the Melbourne International Film Festival, MIT/Boston, the Contemporary Cultural Centre of Barcelona, the Vancouver International Film Festival (Finalist for the NFB Documentary Award), the Nouveau Cinema Festival Montreal, the South African Architecture Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival & the Kerala India International Film Festival.

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