Camp Above the Limit - Saraswati Project

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Join us for an incredible gathering. Meet luminaries, activists, and researchers dedicated to the exploring the frontiers of virtual and inner space. Saraswati symbolizes the flow of cosmic knowledge during times of initiation and transformation.

Music in the Crystal Cavern
Dance to psychedelic trance and dirty electro in the Crystal Cavern.

Tuesday
8:00pm - 9:30pm Jereme Oliver (Winnepeg, Canada
9:30pm - 11:00pm Terrakroma (Desert Trax, Moontribe)
11:00pm - 12:00am Grouch (Zenon Records)
12:00am - 1:00am Sentient (Spun Records)
1:00am - 2:30am Tristan (Nano Records, Twisted Records)
2:30am - 3:30am Treavor Moontribe (Desert Trax, Iboga Records)
3:30am - 5:00am Avalon (Nano Records)
5:30am - 6:30am Nik Aragon (Zenon Records, Moontribe)
6:30am - 8:00am Merkaba (Zenon Records)


Wednesday Night at the Crystal Cavern
8:00pm - 10:00pm Cheshyre (Cosmic23, Shake Lasta)
10:00pm - 11:30pm Nealika (Psytribe)
11:30pm - 1:00am Liam Shy (United Beats Records / Late Night Sneakin Records)
1:00am - 2:30am Electrik (Psybotic)
2:30am - 4:30am Kabayun (2to6 Records)
4:30am - 6:00am Psyren (Metacrew)
6:00am - 8:00am Smoke (2to6 Records)

Saraswati Visionary Speaker Series
Presentations by:
John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Alicia Danforth, John Gilmore from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Rick Doblin from The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Daniel Pinchbeck author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and many others.

Saraswati Psychedelic Speaker Series -
Talks in the Crystal Cavern at Camp Above the Limit – 9:15 & A

Speakers will discuss their work with psychedelic substances, among other interesting, improvised, and unexpected dollops of knowledge. Join our tea wallahs afterwards for an tea ceremony at the Saraswati Tea House, a project dedicated to offering services to participants having difficult experiences in altered states of consciousness. We look forward to seeing you in the dust...

Thursday 9/1
11:00am to 11:50am – Frank Lucido, M.D.
12:00pm to 12:50pm – George Greer, M.D.
“Intention, Choice and Reality in Psychedelic States”
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Acoustic Music by Michael Garfield
2:00pm to 2:50pm – John Perry Barlow
3:00pm to 3:50pm – Rick Doblin, PhD

Friday 9/2
11:00am to 11:50am – Alicia Danforth
12:00pm to 12:50pm – Annie Oak
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Troy Dayton
"How to achieve Health, Weath, and Happiness through Psychedelics"
2:00pm to 2:50pm – Charles Shaw
3:00pm to 3:50pm – Daniel Pinchbeck

Saturday 9/3
11:00am to 11:50am – Georgiana Sinioris
12:00pm to 12:50pm – John Allen
1:00pm to 1:50pm – Tea House Project Panel & Closing Remarks

Speaker Biographies (in order of presentations):

Frank Lucido, M.D.
Dr. Frank H. Lucido MD has been practicing in Berkeley since 1979. He graduated from University of Michigan Medical School, and completed his Family Practice training through UC Davis.
He is on the steering committee of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and is a committed anti-nuclear activist.

George Greer, M.D.
Dr. Greer is the co-founder of the Heffter Research Institute. Dr. Greer conducted over 100 therapeutic sessions with MDMA for 80 individuals from 1980 to 1985 with his psychiatric nurse wife, Requa Tolbert. Their review of this work remains the largest published study of the therapeutic use of MDMA.

Michael Garfield
"A KILLER musician...[Michael's work is] a progressive, smart, and experimental journey that will make you view the acoustic guitar in a whole new light. Big ups to MG for doing something accessible, yet entirely original."
- Josh Smith, Re:Evolution Media
Download Michael's cyberacoustic adventures for free at http://michaelgarfield.net​/

John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Rick Doblin, PhD
Rick founded MAPS in 1986. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master’s thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment.

Alicia Danforth
Alicia Danforth has worked as a psychedelic research associate, coordinating and co-facilitating sessions with Dr. Charles S. Grob for a Harbor-UCLA trial--from 2005 through 2008--using psilocybin to treat anxiety in patients with Stage IV cancer. She is currently supporting a nationwide recruitment effort for a similar trial underway at Johns Hopkins. Danforth is a Black Rock City Ranger, harm reduction advocate, former broadcast journalist, and avid poi spinner. She's also a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, focusing on the potential of psychedelics and MDMA to treat high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome.

Annie Oak
Annie Oak is the founder of the Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) http://visionarycongress.o​rg/ and founder of the Saraswati Tea House. She is a journalist and community organizer who creates gatherings that celebrate the work of visionary women. A yogini and student of tea, Annie is working with a group of authors on a manual of best practices for serving people in challenging altered states.

Troy Dayton
Troy aka T. Dazzl, has spent most of his adult life working to reform drug policies, including a stint as the Director of Development at psychedelic research group, MAPS. While gathering support from religious leaders to support a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in Nevada, CNN profiled Troy in a one-hour special on the science of happiness where he claimed that his responsible psychedelic use supported his ongoing mental well-being. Troy currently serves as the CEO of The ArcView Group, which facilitates investments in federally legal businesses that serve the medical cannabis market. He also serves as a founding board member to the National Cannabis Industry Association and is one of the creators of BurnerMap.com, a Facebook app that provides burners with a printable map of all their friends.

Charles Shaw
Charles Shaw is an award-winning journalist and editor, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality, and Director of the documentary, The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System. Charles serves as Editor for the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and the Dictionary of Ethical Politics, both collaborative projects of Resurgence, openDemocracy, and the Tedworth Charitable Trust.

Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002). His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, ArtForum, Arthur, and many other publications. He is currently the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a national columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. He is also the executive producer of the PostModernTimes series of interviews, directed by Joao Amorim, and is featured in Amorim's upcoming documentary, 2012: Time for Change. He lives in New York City.

Georgiana Sinioris
Georgiana Sinioris received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Portland State University with a focus on alternative relationship counseling, serving those who fall outside traditional societal roles. She has helped thousands of individuals providing counseling and crisis intervention to LGBT youth at the Sexual Minorities Youth Resource Center in Portland, Oregon as well as suicide and drug prevention through a crisis hotline network. Additionally, she has studied Native American Psychological healing, served as a Black Rock Ranger since 2007 providing peer counseling to Burning Man participants and been active in the music subculture of psychedelic trance by helping create spiritually and mentally enriching environments. Her experiences bring compassion and warmth to her work and this presentation offers her knowledge and experience incorporated into a harm reduction model for helping those in crisis on the playa or wherever crisis intervention is needed.

John Allen
John Allen, inventor, creator and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 project - the world’s largest laboratory for global ecology. Biosphere 2 set a number of world records in closed life system work including, among others, degree of sealing tightness, 100% waste recycle and water recycle, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). Allen has also conceived and co-founded nine other projects around the world, pioneering in sustainable co-evolutionary development. Allen began the first manned Biosphere Test Module experiment in September 1988, residing in the almost fully recyclable closed ecological system environment for three days and setting a world record at that time, proving that closed ecological systems would work with humans inside.

Saraswati Tea House
The Tea House offers a quiet grounding space dedicated to visionary travelers who experience turbulence during their Rites of Passage. If you or someone you know is going through a challenging experience on the playa this year, come by for a cup of herbal tea or chai served by our volunteer Tea Wallahs who will make you comfortable. Everyone is welcome to come relax in the shade outside the Tea House beneath the cooling misting system. The Tea Wallahs will serve you tea and a kind word.

Cafe Kona
Direct from Kona and freshly ground each day we will serve coffee from 6 am to 10 am.

Above the Limit - 9:15 and A (man side)
http://campabovethelimit.com