Dr. Politi is an Associate Professor in the Pathology Department at Yale School of Medicine. In this episode of Beer with a Scientist, she'll teach us about cancer— what it is, how it tricks our best defences into ignoring it and what scientists are doing to stop it.

If you 'd like to get a copy of the Powerpoint presentation, please email Neal at [email protected]

The much-heralded "Psychedelic Renaissance" is really "just" a renaissance in psychedelic research. The real societal psychedelic renaissance begins in just five years or so when these extraordinary substances will be rescheduled and become more widely available. In this talk, I'll review the current state of the research on the clinical use of psychedelics, and describe psychedelic integration, the popular new practice of "microdosing," and the concept of "ego-death." I'll highlight the relationship between the stages of developmental psychology and tribal rites of passage - both of which are facilitated by the loosening action of visionary substances and both of which represent mini- "deaths and rebirths" - and show how societal development mirrors personal development. We'll conclude with a discussion of the future of psychedelics policy and the big-picture implications of a re-introduction of psychedelics into Western civilization.

Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, expert in psychedelic research and therapy, and a licensed psychotherapist with a psychospiritual development orientation. Author of dozens of popular and scholarly articles, he is a frequent speaker on psychotherapy and change, adult developmental psychology, psychedelics research and policy, and the integral future of society. He also curates and hosts innovative workshops, salons, and conferences, including the annual Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics and the MAPS Psychedelic Science conferences.

Dr. Goldsmith’s book, Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development, describes the influence of psychedelics on the development of his world view, personality theory and clinical practice.

Trained in humanistic, transpersonal, and Eastern traditions, Dr. Goldsmith maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Do the other animals have emotions? Your heart says yes but science suggest...probably not. Dr. LeDoux explains how your feelings are just your conscious explaining your subconsciousness to you, and fear as we know it is just basic instinct—an innate reaction to conditioning, not the movie. Featuring a musical performance by Dr. LeDoux's duo So We Are with Colin Dempsey.Dr.

Joseph LeDoux is a National Academy of Sciences neuroscientist, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science, Director the Emotional Brain Institute of NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute.

This episode of Beer With A Scientist NYC was sponsored by AV Workshop.

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Unless you traveled here from the future (or the past?!), Dr. Albert explains why everything you think you know about the direction of time is probably wrong. Don't worry! Your mind's not actually bent, your brain just thinks it is!

David Albert is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York.