Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D.
troberts38@comcast.net
Thomas B. Roberts promotes the legal adaption of psychedelics for multidisciplinary intellectual uses, primarily their academic and spiritual implications. He formulated Multistate Theory coined singlestate fallacy, mindapp, neurosingularity, metaintelligence, the 'impossible problem,' mindappAI, and ideagen, and he named and characterized the Entheogen Reformation (2016). He is a founding member of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a co-founder of the Council on Spiritual Practices and the International Transpersonal Association, and originated the Rising Researcher sessions for the 2008 Basel Psychedelic Conferences.
He launched the celebration of Bicycle Day (April 19th) to commemorate the day that Albert Hofmann first intentionally took LSD.
Professional conference presentations 1970- present -- in addition to numerous in the US also in Germany, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, UK
2017 presentations:
Midwest Psychedelic Therapy Symposium, Viroqua, WI.
Psychedelic Science, Oakland, CA.
Breaking Convention, Greenwich, UK
Enthogenesis Australis, Eildon
Related writings and bio are at:
www.niu.academia.edu/ThomasRoberts
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Selected Psychedelic Publications:
June 2019
MindApps — Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design
https://www.innertraditions.com/mindapps.html
Includes his report of his first LSD experience (eventually over 100) in February 1970 and intellectual implications for the sciences, religion, literary criticism, and philosophy . MAIN IDEA: Just as we can install apps in our electronic devices to add power and new uses, we can install mindapps in our brain-mind complex to add power and new cognitive processes.
The Psychedelic Policy Quagmire
http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4853C
Essays by 25 international scholars raise questions for policy not only in psychotherapy and medicine but also for the social policy, humanities, religion, constitutional rights, and academic freedom.
The Psychedelic Future of the Mind
https://www.innertraditions.com/the-psychedelic-future-of-the-mind.html
Implications for psychedelics beyond psychotherapy, particularly consciousness studies and education.
Spiritual Growth with Entheogens
http://www.innertraditions.com/isbn/978-1-59477-439-3
Derived from a 1995 invitational meeting of religious leaders, theologians, and psychologists, co-sponsored by Chicago Theological Seminary and The Council on Spiritual Practices.
Psychedelic Medicine (2 volumes)
https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=D6389C
Co-edited with Michal Winkelman. An update is in the works by Winkelman and Sessa.
Psychedelic Horizons
http://books.imprint.co.uk/search/?searchtext=Psychedelic+Horizons
Presents our minds as experimental and experiential variables with implications for mind studies and mind development.
Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy
https://csp.readme.io/docs/index
Co-edited with Paula Jo Hruby
Printed edition is rare and out of print. Summarizes and excerpts from 550 books, dissertations, etc. on the entheogenic uses of psychedelics.
Other professional publications, presentations, editorships, service, reviews, etc:
www.niu.academia.edu/ThomasRoberts
AB Hamilton College, Liberal Arts, English
MA University of Connecticut, Education
PhD Stanford, Educational Administration, Psychology
Roberts is an emeritus professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois University, where he taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies as an Honors Program Seminar. Started in 1982 and taught through 2013, it is the world’s first university-cataloged psychedelic course.
In the fall of 2006, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Medical Schools Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (Griffiths psilocybin team). His website is: www.niu.academia.edu/ThomasRoberts
In the fall of 2019, he is teaching The Psychedelic Renaissance — Where Is It Taking Us? in the Lifelong Learning Institute at Northern Illinois University, a local elder hostel.
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