The Boom festival 08
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Forkbender
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Hey man, sorry we missed each other. I lost Tiax's phone# and lost track of the time (somehow I was either on Portugese time or not, but I couldn't say which & I mistook some piece of random land for the ferryarrival. all in all it didn't help me finding you guys).
It was a nice festival, though it was kinda dirty & overcrowded compared to two years ago. I also didn't like waiting in line for 15 hours that much. People should get their shit together, because you could sense the depression a lot of people got from waiting in line up to a day and a half without anyone handing out water (while it was 35 degrees+) or spreading information on how long it would take. Fortunately they are moving to another location with better logistics next time, because this was a major turn-off.
Once inside the grounds, everything was nice. Had a great time. Really liked the liminal village and the groovy beach.
It was a nice festival, though it was kinda dirty & overcrowded compared to two years ago. I also didn't like waiting in line for 15 hours that much. People should get their shit together, because you could sense the depression a lot of people got from waiting in line up to a day and a half without anyone handing out water (while it was 35 degrees+) or spreading information on how long it would take. Fortunately they are moving to another location with better logistics next time, because this was a major turn-off.
Once inside the grounds, everything was nice. Had a great time. Really liked the liminal village and the groovy beach.
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misery a dit:
Unfortunately they only told that at the entrance. We heard some things here and there but it is hard to separate the rumours from the facts if you don't know anything.
BTW, I heard of two deaths (only one confirmed by organization). 1 person apparantly drowned while swimming under the influence (unknown substance, unconfirmed rumour). 1 Frenchman died on the way to the hospital after a heart attack. He was already very ill on the dancefloor where they picked him up. Not a good thing. This will attract more attention from the outside, ruining the 'temporary autonomous zone'.
When will people learn to know their body, mind, drug and dose???? :roll:
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Forkbender a dit:
o.o
I was right in the near when they picked up that frenchman. didn't know he was french though, doesn't matter that much anyway... but damn. I don't know if there is anything worse than dying on a festival, where you go to have fun. not only you lose your life, but you ruin it for so many people. in austria was a festival at the same time for three days, again, 2 deaths..
damn french people. I met like 50 of them, but none of them could speak any language except for french. a real shame.
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Here's a nice Boom report (with pictures) by Erik Davis:
http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=5045
[quote:1r1067fa]This year’s Boom festival compelled at least 25,000 people to make the long trek to a hot and dusty corner of Portugal near the Spanish border, where they decamped along the shores of a large lake whose presence mitigated the ferocity of the sun and the sear environs. The bi-annual festival has been running for over a decade, and it has long been recognized as one of the more underground and intentional of the larger festivals devoted to psytrance—that intensely trippy electronic dance genre whose ferocious metronomic beat sends dancers surging and stomping through interdimensional portals fringed with swirling sonic filigrees and creepy “lurker at the threshold
http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=5045
[quote:1r1067fa]This year’s Boom festival compelled at least 25,000 people to make the long trek to a hot and dusty corner of Portugal near the Spanish border, where they decamped along the shores of a large lake whose presence mitigated the ferocity of the sun and the sear environs. The bi-annual festival has been running for over a decade, and it has long been recognized as one of the more underground and intentional of the larger festivals devoted to psytrance—that intensely trippy electronic dance genre whose ferocious metronomic beat sends dancers surging and stomping through interdimensional portals fringed with swirling sonic filigrees and creepy “lurker at the threshold
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misery a dit:
Confirmed.
Idiot tried to swim across the lake from the teknival on the other side to boom. 8 km swimming while drunk. Hey, that's a good idea.
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Such festivals look like a collective mystical ride to me.
Would be cool to drop 100 mics of acid or something, although I'd expect some interventions since travelling back and packing stuff and so on burns mental energy.
Would be cool to drop 100 mics of acid or something, although I'd expect some interventions since travelling back and packing stuff and so on burns mental energy.
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Forkbender a dit:
Would love to know where you got that information. Boom always engenders many rumours. Last time it was said that Boom 2008 was going to be in Brazil. This time I have heard that repeated - especially by Brazilians!! Personally, I hope it doesn´t move because I love the site and live right near it. Although I would have to agree - the logistics of getting in is a major downer for everyone.
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Boom is a weeklong festival that began as a psy-trance event in 1997 with 3500 attendees. Located on a lakeside in Portugal,
this year more than 25,000 people descended upon the land to enjoy music, art, culture, and knowledge; 10,000 more people
were turned away because the land couldnât host any more participants.
Since Portugal has decriminalized the personal possession of drugs, the Boom organizers are able to implement harm reduction
methods without fear. This is not the case for event organizers in the United States. Vice presidential candidate Democrat
Joe Biden, sponsored the â RAVE Act and maneuvered it into law. This law makes organizers of events subject to criminal
prosecution if they knowingly permit drug use to take place at their events. The Rave Act has helped criminalize harm
reduction methods at festivals and other music events.
â Sadly, as opposed to Portugalâ s harm reduction approach, in the US we have a harm maximization approach,â Rick said.
The Boom organizers provided a psychedelic emergency facility that was large and visible to everyone at the festival. Next to
the facility a team from Spain called â Energy Controlâ had an onsite drug testing facility using thin-layer chromotography.
The team was able to test most of the drugs that were sold at the event, and they created a slideshow that identified what
drugs were being sold and what the drugs really contained. The slides were projected on the side of the tent, visible to
passers by. Sylvia Thyssen and Jon Hanna of Erowid provided information about various drugs.
Two years ago MAPS helped the Boom Festival organizers provide psychedelic emergency service teams at Boom, but the teams
felt burnt-out and frustrated because of insufficient facilities and resources. In March, 2008, Diogo Ruivo came to the World
Psychedelic Forum in Basel to meet with Rick Doblin, MAPS Director of Operations Valerie Mojeiko, and Harm Reduction
Coordinators Sandra Karpetas and Svea Nielsen to discuss the lessons learned from the 2006 event.
â Diogo and his team did a tremendous job of putting lessons learned into practice. They deserve tremendous credit for
creating what now is a world model for how to handle psychedelic emergency services at festivals like this. They are leaders
to be recognized in preparing for a post-prohibition world said Rick.
The Boom festival happens every two years. The next one will take place in 2010.
2. MAPS Flagship MDMA/PTSD Research to be Presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference:
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the largest organization in the world for researchers and
therapists working with PTSD patients, has accepted a paper by MAPS-sponsored researcher Michael Mithoefer MD about his
pioneering study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 21 subjects with treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The 24th annual conference will take place in Chicago from November 13th through 15th.
The opportunity to offer a seminar at the ISTSS annual conference is a great accomplishment for Michael and the entire MAPS
community. Last year, an application from Michael to present a poster about our PTSD research was rejected. The acceptance of
the paper this year, now that his study has generated a clear safety record and compelling evidence of efficacy, demonstrates
that information about MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is of interest to the organized, international community of PTSD
researchers
Mithoefer is very pleased that his paper has been accepted rather than just a poster. â It will not only be more satisfying,
I think it suggests a greater degree of interest in what we're doing, he said.
There is a "Burning Man Decompression Heat the Street Faire" on the 12th of oktober . You can find out more here :-
http://www.burningman.com/
There youi can also find out about :-
Psychedelic Lecture Series at Burning Man---Now Available Online:
From Thursday August 28th through Saturday August 30th, MAPS hosted a psychedelic lecture series in Entheon Village at
Burning Man. Hundreds of Black Rock City Citizens attended talks by Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex and Allyson
Grey, Rick Doblin, Charles Shaw, Andrew Sewell, Amanda Neidpath, Sameet Kumar, Matt Johnson, Alicia Danforth, Troy Dayton,
Valerie Mojeiko, and Randolph Hencken. Psychologist and longtime MAPS member Neal Goldsmith, PhD superbly hosted the lecture
series.
this year more than 25,000 people descended upon the land to enjoy music, art, culture, and knowledge; 10,000 more people
were turned away because the land couldnât host any more participants.
Since Portugal has decriminalized the personal possession of drugs, the Boom organizers are able to implement harm reduction
methods without fear. This is not the case for event organizers in the United States. Vice presidential candidate Democrat
Joe Biden, sponsored the â RAVE Act and maneuvered it into law. This law makes organizers of events subject to criminal
prosecution if they knowingly permit drug use to take place at their events. The Rave Act has helped criminalize harm
reduction methods at festivals and other music events.
â Sadly, as opposed to Portugalâ s harm reduction approach, in the US we have a harm maximization approach,â Rick said.
The Boom organizers provided a psychedelic emergency facility that was large and visible to everyone at the festival. Next to
the facility a team from Spain called â Energy Controlâ had an onsite drug testing facility using thin-layer chromotography.
The team was able to test most of the drugs that were sold at the event, and they created a slideshow that identified what
drugs were being sold and what the drugs really contained. The slides were projected on the side of the tent, visible to
passers by. Sylvia Thyssen and Jon Hanna of Erowid provided information about various drugs.
Two years ago MAPS helped the Boom Festival organizers provide psychedelic emergency service teams at Boom, but the teams
felt burnt-out and frustrated because of insufficient facilities and resources. In March, 2008, Diogo Ruivo came to the World
Psychedelic Forum in Basel to meet with Rick Doblin, MAPS Director of Operations Valerie Mojeiko, and Harm Reduction
Coordinators Sandra Karpetas and Svea Nielsen to discuss the lessons learned from the 2006 event.
â Diogo and his team did a tremendous job of putting lessons learned into practice. They deserve tremendous credit for
creating what now is a world model for how to handle psychedelic emergency services at festivals like this. They are leaders
to be recognized in preparing for a post-prohibition world said Rick.
The Boom festival happens every two years. The next one will take place in 2010.
2. MAPS Flagship MDMA/PTSD Research to be Presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference:
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the largest organization in the world for researchers and
therapists working with PTSD patients, has accepted a paper by MAPS-sponsored researcher Michael Mithoefer MD about his
pioneering study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 21 subjects with treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The 24th annual conference will take place in Chicago from November 13th through 15th.
The opportunity to offer a seminar at the ISTSS annual conference is a great accomplishment for Michael and the entire MAPS
community. Last year, an application from Michael to present a poster about our PTSD research was rejected. The acceptance of
the paper this year, now that his study has generated a clear safety record and compelling evidence of efficacy, demonstrates
that information about MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is of interest to the organized, international community of PTSD
researchers
Mithoefer is very pleased that his paper has been accepted rather than just a poster. â It will not only be more satisfying,
I think it suggests a greater degree of interest in what we're doing, he said.
There is a "Burning Man Decompression Heat the Street Faire" on the 12th of oktober . You can find out more here :-
http://www.burningman.com/
There youi can also find out about :-
Psychedelic Lecture Series at Burning Man---Now Available Online:
From Thursday August 28th through Saturday August 30th, MAPS hosted a psychedelic lecture series in Entheon Village at
Burning Man. Hundreds of Black Rock City Citizens attended talks by Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex and Allyson
Grey, Rick Doblin, Charles Shaw, Andrew Sewell, Amanda Neidpath, Sameet Kumar, Matt Johnson, Alicia Danforth, Troy Dayton,
Valerie Mojeiko, and Randolph Hencken. Psychologist and longtime MAPS member Neal Goldsmith, PhD superbly hosted the lecture
series.
