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The return to OryCon! With a custom "CONTACT" Track...

Oregon’s Oldest Literary and Creative Convention - OryCon 44: VILLAINS October 18 - 20 DoubleTree Hotel Portland1000 NE Multnomah St, Portland, OR 97232 Our Guests of Honor David D Levine Writer GoH Victoria Price Media GoH Jennie Breeden Artist GoH

Join me and Manesh Girn and some of our Center for MINDS team this Sunday 4/28 7-9pm at the Berkeley Alembic for a truly groundbreaking discussion on psychedelics as agents to catalyze beautiful and societally beneficial 'downloads' for scientists, engineers, designers and leaders. Manesh will discuss the shape of this emerging 'fourth path' of psychedelic research and practice and I will introduce our new Center for MINDS and share my own story of achieving a breakthrough in research on the origins of life through a combination of ayahuasca and my own mindfulness practices. Garner your ticket at various levels here:

Bruce Damer: Can Psychedelics Catalyze Genius in the Sciences and Arts? Explore the potential of psychedelic use to catalyze innovation and top-to-bottom societal change

Join me, Dr. Bruce Damer for the Elevation Barn's live event today at 5pm Pacific Time to discuss the Center for MINDS mission "psychedelics as agents for creative problem solving" and myown work in the quest for a solution to the scientific mystery of the origin of life. Register for free here:
https://elevationbarn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd--trT0jH9AxsVx-m_nnSc3gL4x89nnS

I am thrilled to share Francesca Cary's research from her Master's work at U Hawaii and in our group at UC Santa Cruz & BIOTA. This is some of the first experimental work testing whether life could have started on Mars and the results are very thought provoking. This article is also the first to feature an Urability chart...

Could Life Have Started on Mars? Planetary Conditions That Assemble and Destroy Protocells Early Mars was likely habitable, but could life actually have started there? While cellular life emerged from prebiotic chemistry through a pre-Darwinian selection process relevant to both Earth and Mars, each planet posed unique selection ‘hurdles’ to this process. We focus on drivers of select...

A wonderful explanation of the science of 'where/how life can begin on worlds'...

Fermi Paradox: The Urability Problem and the Water Paradox And exploration of the Urability Problem and the water paradox in relation to the overall Fermi's Paradox. Also explored is the salt solution to the paradox....