Jean & Myron Stolaroff

Currently, Jean & Myron live in the quaint township of Lone Pine, CA up in the Alabama Hills close under the magnificent Eastern Sierra Nevada within sight of Mt. Whitney. They are surrounded by high desert terrain and take daily hikes there with their many friends and their two dogs, Whitney & Penny. Jean is an active artist specializing in water colors of the wilderness all around. Myron is a very creative writer and public speaker, dedicated to raising conciseness on the planet. Occasionally they both take extended hikes in the High Sierra with some of their hard-core mountaineering buddies who seem to delight in the combination of hiking and philosophy. When up in the high country the Stolaroffs wax spiritually profound and, in them, the Godfull spirit of John Muir lives on.

by Joe Hill (friend & hiking buddy)

PERSONAL HISTORY--MYRON J. STOLAROFF

Born : Roswell, New Mexico, August 20, 1920.

Education

Graduated Roswell High School 1937, valedictorian.

Graduated New Mexico Military Institute 1939, valedictorian.

Graduated Stanford University 1941 with great distinction. A. B. degree in Electrical Engineering. Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi.

Masters Degree at Stanford University 1942. M. A. in Electrical Engineering.

Professional Experience

1942-1945. Civilian Engineer, Navy Department, Bureau of Ships.

1946-1960. Ampex Corporation. Design engineer, Director of Instrumentation Marketing, Assistant to President in charge of Long Range Planning.

1960-1970. President, International Foundation for Advanced Study. Founder and executive administrator for research group conducting clinical studies with LSD and mescaline.

1970. Stride, Inc. Consulting Engineer.

1971-1978. General Manager, Multi-Media Productions, Inc., manufacturer of social studies sound film strips for public schools.

1979-Present. Retired to focus on personal studies.

1993-Present. Member, Board of Directors, Albert Hofmann Foundation, an organization devoted to gathering the records of endeavors to use mind-expanding substances to explore consciousness and enhance life, and to further the understanding and responsible application of psychedelic substances in the investigation of both individual and collective consciousness.

1995-Present. Consultant, the Heffter Research Institute, an organization founded to support, facilitate, and conduct scientific research, both basic and clinical, on psychedelic drugs, and to support scientific research which would lead to a greater understanding of the human mind.

Papers published by the Foundation staff:

Sherwood, J. N., Stolaroff, M., and Harman, W. W., "The Psychedelic Experience--A New Concept in Psychotherapy," J. Neuropsychiatry, 4:69-80, 1962.

Savage, C., Stolaroff, M., Harman, W. W., and Fadiman, J., "Caveat! The Psychedelic Experience," J. Neuropsychiatry, 5:4-5,1963.

Mogar, R., and Savage, C., Personality Change Associated with Psychedelic (LSD) Therapy: A Preliminary Report," Psychotherapy, 1:154--162, 1964.

Savage, C., Savage, E., Fadiman, J., and Harman, W. W., LSD: Therapeutic Effects of the Psychedelic Experience," Psychological Reports, 14:111-120, 1964.

Savage, C., and Stolaroff, M. J., "Clarifying the Confusion Regarding LSD-25, " J. Nervous and Mental Disease, 140:218-221, 1965.

Savage, C., Fadiman, J., Mogar, R., and Allen, M. H., "The Effects of Psychedelic (LSD) Therapy on Values, Personality, and Behavior," International Journal of Neuropsychiatry, 2:24l-254, 1966.

Harman, W. W., McKim, R. H., Mogar, R. E., Fadiman, J., and Stolaroff, M., "Psychedelic Agents in Creative Problem-Solving: A Pilot Study," Psychological Reports, 19:211-227, 1966.

Other Publications.

Stolaroff, M. J. And Wells, C. W. 1993. "Preliminary Results with New Psychoactive Agents 2C-T-2 and 2C-T-7. Year book for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness," Issue 2, 1993. Christian R., tsch, Editor.

Stolaroff, M. J., 1993. "Using Psychedelics Wisely. Gnosis, a Journal of the Western Inner Traditions" No .26, Winter 1993:26-30.

Stolaroff, M. J. "Thanatos to Eros": Thirty-five Years of Psychedelic Exploration. Berlin: VWB--VerlagfrWissenschaftundBildung, 1994.

Stolaroff, M. J. "The Secret Chief": Conversations with a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement. North Carolina: MAPS, 1997.

Stolaroff, M. J., 1998. "Are Psychedelics Useful in the Practice of Buddhism?" Journal of Humanistic Psychology. In press.

email address: myron@qnet.com

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