The Passing Through Podcast Episode 31 - Brad Adams
This week Brad Adams is passing through!
Brad is not only the founder of LAMPS (Los Angeles Medicinal Psychedelics Society), he has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with mental health and psychedelics. Brad's helping to raise awareness, foster community, and help us find the others! It was an absolute pleasure speaking to him.
Join us for a discussion on using psychedelics to treat psychiatric distress and fear of death, a brief history of LAMPS, Brad's work with Ayahuasca in Peru with Dennis McKenna, psychedelic churches, the importance of integration, Vipassana as a tool for rehabilitation in prisons, the difference between South American and Hawaiian Ayahuasca and much more. This episode was a special treat for me and I hope it will be for you, too.
Below is a bunch of information on LAMPS, their history, links to their Facebook group, mailing list, Instagram, upcoming workshops and website.
Below that will be some additional references from our discussion.
About LAMPS
The Los Angeles Medicinal Psychedelics Society (LAMPS) is a community of visionaries, researchers, psychonauts, curious explorers, passionate healers and other medical professionals looking to expand the horizons of their practice. Founded by Brad Adams, PhD, in 2015, LAMPS first started holding live in-person (and simultaneously videotaped) sessions featuring talks given by psychedelic experts and medical professionals. In 2018, at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), we hosted the first university-based presentation of psychedelic information in Los Angeles since the 1960s. This was a groundbreaking three-day psychedelic symposium featuring revered elders and leaders in the psychedelic world such as Gabor Mate, James Fadiman, Dennis McKenna, James Oroc, Hamilton Morris and many others.
LAMPS followed with an ambitious virtual conference in 2021 exploring, among other issues, the light and the shadow of the revived psychedelic movement. In our continuous presentation of virtual live panel discussions, LAMPS strives to inform and empower both the medical and general community about the wide potential of the many psychedelic medicines now available as well as the need for best practices and careful post-use integration.
We seek to present the knowledge and insights of leading experts and thought leaders in the field to help protect, nurture, and make sense of the continuously-evolving psychedelic renaissance.
Paul Lisy, a documentary filmmaker and member of the team, is spearheading documentary projects for LAMPS exploring topics such as psychedelics and death, psychedelics and addiction recovery, as well as psychedelic churches. LAMPS is also preparing for focused psychedelic research and an array of training programs.
Join LAMPS on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/los.angeles.medicinal.plant.society.
Join our email list here, https://bit.ly/3eC5Tn6, and follow us on Instagram at @_lampsociety so you will not miss out on future LAMPS events!
Here is a link to the working draft for the upcoming Psychedelic INSIGHTS conference at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on October 19-20. Check back soon for updates! https://www.lampss.org/agenda
References From This Episode
LAMPS Events
- IFS-Based Psychedelic Trip Sitting Workshop April 20th - May 11th
- INSIGHTS Conference October 19th - 20th
On Integration
Documentaries