Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology

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Thomas B. Roberts (Ph.D. Stanford) investigates mindbody states for the leads they provide for learning, cognition, intelligence, creativity, mental health, psychological processes, and abilities that may reside in them as described in his book Psychedelic Horizons. He specializes in psychedelics, particularly their entheogenic (spiritual) uses see Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion. His online archive Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/  excerpts over 550 books, dissertations, and topical issues of journals. The 2-volume set Psychedelic Medicine extends this interest into health studies. He has taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies at Northern since 1981; this is the first such catalog-listed course at a college or univeristy. He has lectured on psychedelics in Finland, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Switzer land, Mexico, and Canada and published over 100 articles, chapters, and book reviews. He originated Bicycle Day.

Course Syllabuses

• Foundations of Psychedelic Studies
• Entheogens - Sacramentals or Sacrilege?

Graduate Programs

Major Publications

• Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
• Psychedelic Horizons: Snow White, Immune System, Multistate Mind, Enlarging Learning
• Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion
• Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy
• (2006) Chemical Input, Religious Output — Entheogens: A Pharmatheology Sampler. Chapter in Partick McNamara (Editor) The Psychology of Religion, Vol. III of the Religion and Brain Series. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press.
• (2005) From Armchair Theology to Experimental Science: Entheogenic Keys to the Doors of Experimentation. Anthropology of Consciousness, 16(1), 51-55.
• (2004) The New Gutenberg Reformation : From Ritual to Text to Primary Religious Experience. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Oct 22-24, Kansas City Missouri.
• (2003) Roberts, T.B. A New Relationship with our Minds - Multistate Mind, Thresholds in Education, 29(3), 36-40
• Roberts, T.B. (1999). Do enthogen-induced mystical experiences boost the immune system? Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, 15(2), 139-147.
• Roberts, T. B. (2000). Academic and religious freedom in the study of the mind. In R. Forte (Ed.), Entheogens and the future of religion. San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices.
• Roberts, T. B. (1994). Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Grofian interpretation. In T. Little (Ed.), Psychedelics. New York: Barricade Books.

Other Professional Activities and Achievements:

Bicycle Day Announcement
• Why is Bicycle Day April 19th, not the 16th?
• Patches

UPenn lecture Entheogens, Enlightenment, and Experimental Humanities (PowerPoint)

(2004) The New Gutenberg Reformation, Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2468.html

Board of Directors, InterFaith Drug Policy Initiative www.idpi.us

Organized the conference Psychoactive Sacraments, co-sponsored by the Council on Spiritual Practices (San Francisco) and Chicago Theological Seminary, February 16-20, 1995. I was moderator, floor manager and program chair for this international, invitational conference.  

Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, College of Education, 1993-94

Co-Founder: International Transpersonal Association, Council on Spiritual Practices (http://www.csp.org), Mindbody SIG in the American Educational Research Association.

Vitas

Emeritus Vita

Roberts vita Aug 2006

Selected Professional Activities having to do with Spiritual Intelligence, Psychedelics, and Entheogens.

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