Graham Hancock: “Psychedelics and Civilisation, Light and Darkness”: What I want to show is that some of the most beautiful, some of the most deep-thinking, some of the most significant civilisations of the past have given an honoured place to psychedelics and indeed psychedelics have been central to everything they did. I gave this presentation in New York on 12 October 2014 for the Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference, an annual forum that examines the role of psychedelics in science, healing, culture and spirituality. Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics is an annual forum that examines the role of psychedelics in science, healing, culture and spirituality. Graham Hancock investigates the possibility that by demonising and criminalising the use of psychedelics, rather than seeking out ways to harness their power for altering consciousness in safe and nurturing spaces, our society may have set itself on a profoundly negative path — a path that might even deny us the next step in our own evolution as a species. Biography: Graham Hancock’s books on shamanism and altered states of consciousness, and on the possibility of a forgotten episode in human history, have been creating controversy for nearly quarter of a century. In February 2014 he was ranked number 30 on the Watkins List of 100 most spiritually influential people. Horizons 2014: Graham Hancock: “Psychedelics and Civilisation, Light and Darkness”. vimeo/109974661 Website: HorizonsNYC.org I will be giving a longer, more detailed version of the same talk in London on 17 November, 7pm to 9 pm, at Saint Jamess Church, Piccadilly: alternativesevents.org.uk/event/graham-hancock-psychedelics-and-civilisation-light-and-darkness/ * Meanwhile... Special offer, US only, on the Kindle editions of my War God novels: Volume 1, War God: Nights of the Witch, $2.99: amzn.to/1tIZQ1D Volume 2, War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent, $2.99: amzn.to/1onsu6o *
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