ALTRD TV Presents
Open Minds:
Exploring Psychedelic Medicine
A mini-series by
Robert Schober
Early pioneers, innovative researchers,
and patients with lived experience explore the bright future of psychedelic medicine through its history, dark ages, renaissance and resurgence as a life changing treatment.
Featuring: Deepak Chopra and Dennis McKenna
Early pioneers, innovative researchers,
and patients with lived experience explore the bright future of psychedelic medicine through its history, dark ages, renaissance and resurgence as a life changing treatment.
Featuring: Deepak Chopra and Dennis McKenna
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Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. For the last thirty years, Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and his 92nd book, Abundance (Harmony Books) provides an enlightening guide to success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.
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Doug Drysdale
Doug Drysdale is CEO of Cybin Inc. During Doug’s 30+ years of experience in the healthcare sector, he has formed cohesive management teams, recruited board members, and has raised around $4 billion of both public and private capital. Previously, Doug was Head of M&A at Actavis Group, leading 15 corporate acquisitions across three continents, between 2004 and 2008. Over this period, Doug raised approximately $3 billion of capital and managed lending syndicates including over 25 banks, to fund the company’s growth. Actavis was sold to Watson Pharmaceuticals in 2012 for EUR4.25 billion.
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Doug Drysdale
Doug Drysdale is CEO of Cybin Inc. During Doug’s 30+ years of experience in the healthcare sector, he has formed cohesive management teams, recruited board members, and has raised around $4 billion of both public and private capital. Previously, Doug was Head of M&A at Actavis Group, leading 15 corporate acquisitions across three continents, between 2004 and 2008. Over this period, Doug raised approximately $3 billion of capital and managed lending syndicates including over 25 banks, to fund the company’s growth. Actavis was sold to Watson Pharmaceuticals in 2012 for EUR4.25 billion.
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Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He is the founder and CEO of Kernel, a company that can monitor and record brain activity, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies. Bryan was founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree, a company which specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. Braintree acquired Venmo in 2012, the combined entity was acquired by PayPal in 2013. Bryan believes that quantifying, exploring and understanding the human brain and mind is the most consequential opportunity in history. The future is the manifestation of our cognition, and this new frontier of exploration begins within ourselves.
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Adam Strauss
Adam Strauss is a stand up comedian and monologist based in New York. The New York Times said The Mushroom Cure, Adam’s monologue about treating his OCD with psychedelics, “mines a great deal of laughter from disabling pain,” The Chicago Tribune called it “arrestingly honest and howlingly funny,” and Michael Pollan called it “brilliant, hilarious and moving.” Adam also speaks about OCD and psychedelics in articles, on podcasts, and at conferences.
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Adam Strauss
Adam Strauss is a stand up comedian and monologist based in New York. The New York Times said The Mushroom Cure, Adam’s monologue about treating his OCD with psychedelics, “mines a great deal of laughter from disabling pain,” The Chicago Tribune called it “arrestingly honest and howlingly funny,” and Michael Pollan called it “brilliant, hilarious and moving.” Adam also speaks about OCD and psychedelics in articles, on podcasts, and at conferences.
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Cristie Strongman
Cristie is a multiracial Latina from Panama who works with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) as a therapist in clinical trials on PTSD with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. She is an educator and trainer to mental health professionals on psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration and has a therapy practice in New York City.
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Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and executive team coach who helps executive teams harness Radical Adaptability and Co-Elevation® to transform enterprises in an unpredictable work world. As Founder and Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Go Forward to Work applied research institute, he works with top organizations to maximize team performance and achieve transformative outcomes. With over 20 years of experience coaching c-suite executive teams, Ferrazzi is recognized as one of the world’s most sought-after executive team coaches. He formerly served as CMO and Head of Sales at Deloitte and Starwood Hotels.
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Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and executive team coach who helps executive teams harness Radical Adaptability and Co-Elevation® to transform enterprises in an unpredictable work world. As Founder and Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Go Forward to Work applied research institute, he works with top organizations to maximize team performance and achieve transformative outcomes. With over 20 years of experience coaching c-suite executive teams, Ferrazzi is recognized as one of the world’s most sought-after executive team coaches. He formerly served as CMO and Head of Sales at Deloitte and Starwood Hotels.
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Dennis McKenna
Dennis McKenna has conducted interdisciplinary research on the ethnopharmacology of Amazonian traditional medicines for over 40 years. He is a founding Board member of the Heffter Research Institute (Heffter.org). He taught ethnopharmacology at the University of Minnesota from 2000 to 2017. In 2019, he founded The McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy.
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Robert Schober – Director
Robert Schober is a director, writer, and visual effects artist based in Los Angeles, California. His career spans twenty years, creating commercials for tech giants like Google and Microsoft and 50+ music videos for such luminaries as Metallica, The Killers, Mastodon, Jennifer Hudson, and Demi Lovato. In 2010, he won the NME video of the year award for his work with My Chemical Romance. His proudest directing accomplishment to date is “Can’t Deny My Love,” a musical film starring Evan Rachel Wood and Brandon Flowers, and written for M Night Shyamalan. Two of his screenplays “I’m Worried About You” and “Cram Session” are currently in development.
Robert Schober – Director
Robert Schober is a director, writer, and visual effects artist based in Los Angeles, California. His career spans twenty years, creating commercials for tech giants like Google and Microsoft and 50+ music videos for such luminaries as Metallica, The Killers, Mastodon, Jennifer Hudson, and Demi Lovato. In 2010, he won the NME video of the year award for his work with My Chemical Romance. His proudest directing accomplishment to date is “Can’t Deny My Love,” a musical film starring Evan Rachel Wood and Brandon Flowers, and written for M Night Shyamalan. Two of his screenplays “I’m Worried About You” and “Cram Session” are currently in development.
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featuring content from top creators in web3, transformative wellness,
NFTs and animation and more. Audiences can watch thousands of features,
docs and series on smart devices and TV’s in 65M+ homes, on networks including
AppleTV/ios, Android, Samsung+, Plex, Roku, LG, and Playstation.
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