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FREE WEBINAR: Psychedelics in Human Adaptation and Evolution

With Dr Michael Winkelman (Brazil)

Date: Wed 20 April 2022 @ 7:30pm
Location: Online

Join this FREE, 75-minute online webinar to gain access to insights and learn about the history and relationship between psychedelics and humans over time.

Psychedelics in Human Adaptation and Evolution, with Dr. Michael Winkleman (Brazil)

This session will offer address the following key points:

  • Psychedelics in Environmental Adaptation
  • The Bio-Psychosociology of Psilocybin Ingestion
  • Neurotransmitter Enhancer and ASC Induction
  • The Biopsychology of ASC
  • Cultural Niche Construction
  • How Psychedelics Enhance Cultural Modelling
  • Cognitive Effects – Innate Modular Structures and Integration
  • Psychedelics and the Biopsychosocial Dynamic of Ritual Healing
  • Social Relations and Psychedelics – Psychedelic Sociality
  • Psychedelic Psychosocial and Socio-physiological dynamics
  • The Eternal Lure of Psychedelic Healing

WEBINAR SESSION:
Date: Wednesday 20 April 2022
Time: 7:25pm for 7:30pm start – 8:45pm (incl Q&A) (AEST)

The presentation WILL BEGIN AT 7:30pm.

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The Presenters

Dr Michael Winkelman (Brazil)

PH.D., M.P.H.

Michael James Winkelman, Ph.D. (University of California-Irvine), M.P.H. (University of Arizona) is retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Winkelman engages cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism and its biological bases in Shamans, Priests and Witches (1992) and Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2010). He addressed the therapeutic applications of psychedelics in his co-edited Psychedelic Medicine (2007) and Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019).

Winkelman examined the intersection of psychedelics and the evolutionary origins of religion in his co-authored Supernatural as Natural (2008) and a Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue on Psychedelics in History and World Religion (2019). He has also explored the applications of shamanism and psychedelics to treatment of addiction (International Journal of Drug Policy 12:337-351; Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 7:101-116). He currently lives in central Brazil. His website is www.michaelwinkelman.com

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