Beyond the Horizon

Reality Sandwich is a proud media sponsor of Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics

September 25-27

Horizons, now back for a third year, is a forum for learning about and discussing psychedelics. The goal of the weekend is to "open a fresh dialogue about psychedelics and rethink their role in medicine, culture, history, spirituality and art."

Psychedelics have been used by humans for thousands of years, but have only come into popularity in the western world in the past fifty years. In the 1950s and 1960s, academic research using the psychoactive drugs began taking place, resulting in both important discoveries in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and the exposure of psychedelics to the public.

The academic research slowed and psychedelics began to gain a reputation. "Questions about their safety, medical value, history and implications in politics and culture were unfortunately answered with numerous myths spread by both their users and the media."

Horizons gathers the brightest minds and the boldest voices of the renewed psychedelic movement for an open forum on the subject.

Speakers for the weekend include:

Alicia Danforth
Earth Erowid
Fire Erowid
Bob Jesse
Andy Letcher
Valerie Mojeiko
William A. Richards
Steven Ross, M.D.
Franz X. Vollenweider, M.D.
Bob Wold

For more information on speakers please visit http://horizonsnyc.org/speakers.php

On Friday night there will be an opening reception featuring:

Larger-than-life imaginative inflatable sculpture by AKAirways.

The Bike Trip, a monologue about the inner explorer in all of us by master storyteller Martin Dockery.

A visual history of the faces behind the psychedelics movement from photographer Marc Franklin.

Hypnotic soundscapes from The Gamelatron, the world's first and only fully robotic Gamelan orchestra.

For more information about the reception please visit http://horizonsnyc.org/reception.php

September 25, 26, 27

Judson Memorial Church

55 Washington Square South

New York City

To purchase tickets and for more information please visit
http://horizonsnyc.org/index.php