Horizons NYC - 2017 - recap
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🗓️ 29 October 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Horizons is a fantastic event at an amazing venue in the heart of Manhattan at the historic venue - "The Cooper Union." The same podium on stage was shared by Abraham Lincoln, Susan B Anthony, and along with many other important historical figures. It was an amazing event and we hope that this episode helps share some of the excitement. We talked to past guests, future guests, and also some new friends. You may recognize some of the voices :) Let us know what you think of this episode and if you want to hear similar episodes to this in the future. [vimeo 237699822 w=640 h=360] Horizons 2017: NICHOLAS BYRON POWERS, Ph.D "Black Masks, Rainbow Bodies: Race and Psychedelics" from Horizons on Vimeo.
In the show, we speak about a lot of things from Horizons NYC including
- The most interesting thing learned
- The sense of community inside a conference like this
- Some problems the movement has that we need to stay aware of
- Issues with communicating the science of psychedelics with a wider audience
- Volunteering for events for free tickets
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About Horizons NYC
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics is an annual forum that examines the role of psychedelic drugs in science, medicine, culture, and spirituality. In recent years, a growing community of scientists, doctors, artists, activists, seekers, and scholars have orchestrated a renaissance in psychedelic thought and practice. Horizons brings together the brightest minds and the boldest voices of this movement to share their research, insights, and dreams for the future. Horizons was founded in 2007 by Kevin Balktick, with Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., joining as speaker curator and MC in 2008. Horizons Media, Inc., a 501c(3) not-for-profit educational charity, is currently led by board members Kevin Balktick, Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., James Vasile, Esq., and Ingmar Gorman, M.A. Having outgrown Judson Memorial Church, its original location, Horizons is now hosted at The Cooper Union Great Hall, which has been a center for public dialogue since its founding in 1858, having hosted such illustrious speakers as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and more recently, Barack Obama. Horizons Media, Inc. conducts no other business besides the annual conference and is funded in solely by registration and concession sales. All profits go towards producing and improving the following year's event. Its board members are not compensated. Horizons Media, Inc. is not a political advocacy or scientific research organization, nor does it have any financial relationships with other organizations and businesses that participate as presenters or informational presences. Sign up for our online course, "Navigating Psychedelics: Lessons on Self-Care & Integration"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Joe Moore here. Welcome back to Psychedelics today. Today on the show, Kyle and I share some interviews we did on site at the Horizons conference in New York City. It was really cool. We did maybe five or seven minute spots with a bunch of folks outside the event |
| 0:24.6 | so we could kind of unpack a little bit of what we ran into. |
| 0:29.2 | Good news for all of you is that Horizons has started producing videos of their talks already. |
| 0:36.7 | So it's been less than a month and a lot of those |
| 0:39.7 | talks are available online, ready to download, I think on Vimeo or YouTube or something. So we'll |
| 0:45.6 | link to that. And I definitely recommend checking the event out in the future. It was amazing. |
| 0:51.1 | Neil Goldsmith did a great job, emceeing the event, running the whole thing. |
| 0:55.8 | It was really fantastic. You could tell how much effort he and Kevin Baltic put in. It's really |
| 1:03.1 | just an amazing set of days there in New York City in early October. Friday night, the event opened with a party kind of swore thing. It wasn't, |
| 1:17.5 | you know, crazy. It was just people chilling out on little pillows and there was an organ going |
| 1:22.3 | kind of traditional Indian music at some time at some points and folk music at others, |
| 1:27.2 | cash bar. Yeah, it was just |
| 1:30.2 | really fantastic. It was a great time to just warm up to being in this highly engaged mental |
| 1:38.0 | space for a few days. And it was great and it was great. And we also had a great time at the event itself where people were presenting. |
| 1:47.6 | And then Saturday night, Kyle and I had a great time at the symposia after party. |
| 1:53.3 | We got to meet some other friends of the show and, you know, got to actually meet Duncan. |
| 1:59.1 | Hopefully we can get him on the show in the near future |
| 2:01.1 | so the idea of that event was microdosing pros and cons and kind of getting into the nitty gritty |
| 2:08.1 | what is it how might it operate and uh it was it was cool we went in thinking uh there was going |
| 2:14.1 | to be a really heated debate but it was was actually, you know, quite moderate. |
| 2:18.4 | And people were definitely listening to both sides. |
| 2:21.5 | And kind of just, I think everybody learned a lot. |
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