Rick Doblin - Psychedelics can change your life purpose.

Is that guy on our YouTube Show a saint? Yes, I am talking about Rick Doblin!   Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and completed his Master's thesis by researching oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. His undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a 25-year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Timothy Leary's Concord Prison Experiment. Rick studied with Czech psychiatrist and transpersonal psychology founder Dr. Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and then eventually to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. Rick founded MAPS in 1986, and currently resides in Boston. These are the hard facts on Rick, but there is so much more to him to learn about! For example, because of his 30 years’ experience with MAPS, first by starting it as a non-profit, and then helping them to bring MDMA aboard, and then finally getting it acknowledged as a therapeutic substance. Brought to you by Dr. Bronner’s This episode of The New Health Club Show is part of our special “Heal Soul” series, which is sponsored by Dr. Bronner’s, the activist soap company from California. Dr. Bronner’s is a family-owned company founded in 1948, that is dedicated to honoring the vision of its founder, Emanuel Bronner, by making personal care products of the highest quality and by dedicating profits to promote a better world for all. The Bronner family started making soap in 1858 here in Germany, and carries on the family soap making tradition today, by using the company as an engine for progressive social change. I got to know Dr. Bronner’s when I lived in Los Angeles and when I went shopping at Trader Joes, I made sure to pick up some of the delicious peppermint soap that all of us were using. It was just such a California thing, which I loved, but there is more to it. Dr. Bronner’s dedicates profits to organizations working in support of regenerative organic agriculture, animal rights, community betterment, criminal justice reform, fair pay & and fair trade, and drug policy reform – which includes the responsible and equitable integration of psychedelic medicine into American and Global culture.For more information on Dr. Bronner’s in Germany, please visit: drbronner.de. For more information on Dr. Bronner’s globally and in the United States, please visit: drbronner.com. And please check out the February 27 podcast episode of The New Health Club to hear my interview with their CEO, and world-renowned psychedelic therapy activist, David Bronner, as we discuss how psychedelics might heal Holocaust trauma.