past presenters

at mind states events have included the following people:

(click on names for biographies)
 

Pablo Amaringo • shaman and artist • Peru

Anton Barbeau • singer/songwriter • USA

Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. • dream researcher • USA

Susan Blackmore, Ph.D. • consciousness researcher • U.K.

Richard Glen Boire, Esq. • attorney and author • USA

Erik Davis • author • USA

Bruce Damer • computer programer and author • USA

Jim DeKorne • author • USA

Andrew Edmond • Internet entreprenuer • USA

Earth Erowid • co-creator of the Erowid web site • USA

Fire Erowid • co-creator of the Erowid web site • USA

James Fadiman, Ph.D. • author and professor • USA

Amanda Feilding, Lady Neidpath • brain reseearcher • U.K.

John Gilmore • entrepreneur and civil libertarian • USA

Alex Grey • visionary artist and author • USA

Allyson Grey • visionary artist • USA

Stanislav Grof, M.D. • psychiatrist • USA

Lorenzo Hagerty • author • USA

Jon Hanna • author and editor • USA

Clark Heinrich • author and researcher • USA

Mark Henson • visionary artist • USA

Martina Hoffmann • visionary artist • USA

Michael Horowitz • bibliophile and archivist • USA

Laura Huxley • author and activist • USA

Karl Jansen, M.D., Ph.D. • psychiatrist • New Zealand

Manuel Jiménez • visionary artist and curandero • Mexico

Dan Joy • author and editor • USA

James Kent • author and editor • USA

Stephen Kent • multi-instrumentalist • USA

Jaron Lanier • futurist • USA

Mark McCloud • artist and art historian • USA

Terence McKenna • author and ethnobotanist • USA

Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. • psychotherapist • USA

Jean Millay, Ph.D. • parapsychology researcher • USA

Naaskow • DJ and events coordinator • Canada

David E. Nichols, Ph.D. • chemist and pharmacologist • USA

Sheldon Norberg • author and actor • USA

Jonathan Ott • author and entheobotanist • Mexico

Cynthia Palmer • editor • USA

Dale Pendell • author and poet • USA

Mark Pesce • author and futurist • Australia

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D. • neurologist • USA

Nicholas Sand • author and former chemist • USA

Wrye Sententia • non-profit organization co-director • USA

Zoe Seven • psychonaut • Argentina

Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D. • pharmacologist and chemist • USA

Ann Shulgin • author and researcher • USA

Daniel Siebert • ethnobotanist and author • USA

R.U. Sirius • author and editor • USA

Huston Smith • scholar of religion • USA

Allan Snyder • Director of the Centre for the Mind • Australia

Myron Stolaroff • consciousness studies pioneer and author • USA

Martha Toledo • photographer and vocalist • Mexico

Fred Tomaselli • visionary artist • USA

Robert Venosa • visionary artist • USA

Peter Lamborn Wilson • author and poetic terrorist • USA