Dr. Michael James Winkelman, B.A, M.P.H, Ph.D.
Join me for a Once in a Lifetime Experience Antarctica and the Role of Psychedelics in Future Human Evolution
Wonder Summit | Seventh Continent
From November 17th to 25th 2025 we’ll explore not only the outer reaches of our planet but the frontiers of human potential. Please join me on the WONDER Summit, an expedition to Antarctica, Earth’s last frontier, leaving from Ushuaia Argentina.
Join a curated group of 150 visionaries and experts at the intersection of wellness, psychedelic science, and exploration of consciousness for nine days of discovery, transformation, and awe-inspiring landscape.
See the lineup of impressive speakers here on the WONDER Summit link. I will elaborate on my previous publications on Psychedelics and Future Human Evolution with perspectives on how psychedelics can enhance our evolution, including through augmentation, symbiosis, and social and self-transformation.
Choose Your Perfect Cabin, Limited to just 150 spots.
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Biography
Michael James Winkelman
Michael James Winkelman, Ph.D. (University of California-Irvine), M.P.H. (University of Arizona) is retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Winkelman engages cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism and its biological bases in Shamans, Priests and Witches (1992) and Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2010).
He addressed the therapeutic applications of psychedelics in his co-edited Psychedelic Medicine (2007) and Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019).
Winkelman examined the intersection of psychedelics and the evolutionary origins of religion in his co-authored Supernatural as Natural (2008) and a Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue on Psychedelics in History and World Religion (2019).
He has also explored the applications of shamanism and psychedelics to treatment of addiction (International Journal of Drug Policy 12:337-351; Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 7:101-116).
His most recent work involves a special issue of Frontiers on “Psychedelic Sociality” where he publishes an article on Psychedelics, Sociality and Human Evolution. He currently lives in central Brazil where he lives as a gentleman farmer practicing permaculture and continues his research.
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Articles written and published by Michael James Winkelman.
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