Our Goals
The Beckley Foundation has two main aims:
- to gain recognition that altered states of consciousness – including those produced by certain drugs – can be beneficial as well as hazardous and can be used for medicinal and therapeutic purposes.
- to change global drugs policy to reflect a more rational, evidence-based ideology, thereby shifting the emphasis from criminalisation to health.
The Foundation’s goals grew out of Amanda Feilding’s intense personal interest in expanded states of consciousness, and the physiological mechanisms underlying them. Through the Foundation she has since initiated an extensive programme of ground-breaking Scientific Research; including the first human LSD study to be carried out for more than thirty years, and the first study to examine the effects of psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) using fMRI.
The Foundation’s Drug Policy Programme is aimed at producing a scientifically-based alternative to the current “War on Drugs”, and gaining its acceptance and eventual implementation around the world.
The Foundation works at both the national and international levels.
