From left to right: Megan Bowers, Wendy Tucker, and Rick Doblin. (MAPS Gala)

October was a full month for The Shulgin Foundation. On October 9, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a gala at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

From left to right: Wendy Tucker and Megan Bowers. (Maps Gala)

Executive Director Megan Bowers and Board Chair Wendy Tucker attended, with Wendy seated beside Rick Doblin and Megan beside Stan Grof. “We were both honored to be seated with two icons in the field,” Wendy said.

The Shulgin Foundation booth, featuring Sasha’s original glassware. (BCSP’s States of Consciousness)

 

On October 14 and 15, we joined our friends at the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) for States of Consciousness: Psychedelic Discovery and the Edge of Uncertainty, a two-day multidisciplinary conference exploring the evolving questions around the study of consciousness through the lens of psychedelics.

Shulgin Archival Fellow Alysiana Carter giving a tour of the Farm to the BCSP team. (Photo credit: Headphone James)

The gathering brought scholars, lineage holders, and community members together to share research and imagine new possibilities, much as Ann and Sasha did at the Farm. In collaboration with Dr. Paul Daley and the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute, we displayed Sasha Shulgin’s original glassware. The BCSP team also made a post-conference visit to Shulgin Farm.

From left to right: Megan Bowers and Stacie Blanke. (Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics)

From October 15 to 17, we were at Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics at the New York Academy of Medicine. Now in its nineteenth year, Horizons is one of the longest-running education and community institutions in the field.

Our Programs Director, Stacie Blanke, said, “Horizons was a beautiful reminder of what becomes possible when we bring the psychedelic community together. There’s something so powerful about learning from voices and perspectives different from our own, finding common ground and discovering new possibilities for the future of this field.”

On November 9 and 10, the Foundation took part in the BrainFutures Conference, Frontiers of Mental Health & Recovery in  New York City.