James Fadiman

Fadiman was born in New York City to a Jewish family and grew up in Bel Air. His father, William Fadiman, was a producer and story editor,[8] and book reviewer in Hollywood,[9] one of his credits being The Last Frontier.[8]

Fadiman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Master's degree and a doctorate (both in psychology) from Stanford University – the PhD in 1965. While in Paris in 1961, his friend and former Harvard undergraduate adviser, Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert), introduced him to psychedelics (reportedly LSD or psilocybin).[2][10][11][12] As a graduate student at Stanford, Fadiman was Stewart Brand's LSD guide on Brand's first LSD trip in 1962, at Myron Stolaroff's International Foundation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park, California.[2][11][13] While living in Menlo Park, Fadiman and his wife were Ken Kesey's Perry Lane neighbors and friends.[14]

In 1963, Fadiman worked at Stanford's Augmentation Research Center, a division that did research on networked computing.[13] Fadiman was also part of the team in the psychedelics in problem-solving experiment at the International Foundation for Advanced Study, which was abruptly halted in 1966.[2][15]

He is currently a proponent of microdosing [16] and collects anecdotal reports from those who practice it.

Fadiman and Robert Frager co-founded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now known as Sofia University) in 1975.[12] Fadiman was a president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology.[17] He was also a director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1975–77.[12]

Fadiman and Frager published a textbook on personality theory in 1976 titled Personality and Personal Growth, which was one of the first to incorporate Eastern theories of personality alongside Western approaches and the first of its kind to include chapters on women.[12][18] Personality and Personal Growth has been republished in seven editions as of 2012.[18]

He is married to documentary filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman[19][20][21] and is the father of Florida Atlantic University professor Maria Fadiman.[21] His uncle was Clifton Fadiman[9][20] and he is a cousin of Anne Fadiman.[9]

Books

• The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys Paperback (2011) ISBN 978-1594774027
• Be Love Now (with Rameshwar Das) (2010) ISBN 1-84604-291-7
• Personality and Personal Growth (7th Edition) (with Robert Frager) (2012) ISBN 0-13-144451-4
• The Other Side of Haight: A Novel (2004) ISBN 0-890-87984-2
• Essential Sufism (1998) Castle Books ISBN 978-0785809067
• Unlimit Your Life: Setting and Getting Goals (1989) ISBN 0-890-87562-6
• Motivation and Personality (with Robert Frager and Abraham Harold Maslow) (1987) ISBN 0-06-041987-3
• Transpersonal Education: A Curriculum for Feeling and Being (1976) Co-edited with Gay Hendricks. Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-1393-0461-4

Workshops and Talks

• Psychedelic Horizons Beyond Psychotherapy,[22] Psychedelic Science 2013 Conference - April 2013, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
• Psychedelics and Buddhism,[23] October 12, 2012, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Films

• 2013 documentary film, Science and Sacraments[24]
• 2009 documentary film, Inside LSD from National Geographic[25]
• Late 1960s documentary film, Drugs in Our Culture from the Prelinger Archives[26]

• Official website