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David Jay Brown

Brown in circa 2009

Born 1961 (age 5556)

Residence Ben Lomond, California

Nationality American

Education B.A. University of Southern California

M.A. New York University

Occupation Writer, interviewer, researcher

Website http://mavericksofthemind.com/

David Jay Brown (born 1961) is an American writer, interviewer and consciousness researcher.
Brown has studied parapsychology, and the effects of psychoactive drugs. With
parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, he studied pets and people who apparently anticipate
events. Brown has served as a guest editor for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Studies (MAPS), and he has published many interviews of prominent thinkers.

Contents
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1Education
2Anticipatory behavior
3Interviews
4Psychoactive drugs
5Personal life
6Writing
7Notes
8External links

Education[edit]
Brown earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Southern
California (USC) in 1983. At New York University in 1986, Brown earned a master's degree in
psychobiology. At USC, he assisted with research in a doctoral program for behavioral
neuroscience.[1]

Anticipatory behavior[edit]
For Rupert Sheldrake's book Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, Brown
researched reports of animals anticipating earthquakes. Summarizing this research, Brown wrote
"Etho-Geological Forecasting", which was published by Oxford University.[1][2] Brown
subsequently appeared on television programs about unusual animals: "Extraordinary Cats" for
PBS Nature, and the "Psychic Animals" episode of Animal X for the BBC and the Discovery
Channel.[1]
Sheldrake and Brown co-authored a paper titled "The Anticipation of Telephone Calls: A Survey
in California", published in the Journal of Parapsychology in 2001.[3]

Interviews[edit]
Brown has interviewed psychedelic artist Alex Grey,[4] Jacob Teitelbaum[5] and John C. Lilly;[6] a
collection of interviews was published in 1993 as Mavericks of the Mind. A second collection was
published two years later as Voices from the Edge.
Brown's Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse was published in 2005, containing
interviews with political scientist Noam Chomsky, comedian George Carlin, alternative
medicine expert Deepak Chopra and others.
In 2007, Brown published Mavericks of Medicine which presented 22 interviews with doctors and
biomedical researchers holding an unconventional stance on medicine.[7] These interviews
included viewpoints from Andrew Weil, Jack Kevorkian, Bernie Siegel and Ray Kurzweil.
In turn, Brown was interviewed in July 2012 for R. U. Sirius's counter-cultural technology website
"Acceler8or". Brown said he met author Robert Anton Wilson in the 1980s and asked him to write
a blurb for a science fiction book Brown was working on; this resulted in Wilson writing an 11-
page foreword for Brown's first published fiction: Brainchild (1988).[8]

Psychoactive drugs[edit]
Brown has experimented on himself with psychoactive drugs, including the anesthetic ketamine.
He appeared on The Montel Williams Show in the early 1990s to defend the use
of nootropic substances popularly known as "smart drugs". Brown said Montel Williams did not
want to hear about any notional "smart" use of drugs and instead warned his viewers
against methamphetamines.[8]
Brown claims that MDMA, an illegal psychoactive drug popularly known as "ecstasy", may be a
useful treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[9] Brown wrote in Discoverin 2009 and
in Scientific American in 2010 that a study by Michael and Annie Mithoefer showed potential for
mitigating the suffering of chronic PTSD.[10][11][12]

Personal life[edit]
Brown lives in Ben Lomond, California, in Santa Cruz County, where he was named the "Best
Author" of 2012 by Santa Cruz Weekly.[13] With sex educator Annie Sprinkle, Brown has taught
workshops about the effects of drugs on sex.[14]
According to Andrew Leonard, writing in Salon magazine, Brown's Wikipedia article was one of
those targeted by Robert Clark Young, a novelist who used Wikipedia to attack people involved
in the pagan community or pagan related events.[15]

Writing[edit]
1988 Brainchild. New Falcon. ISBN 9780941404921
1992 "Critique Interview" (with Rebecca McClen), in Terence McKenna's The Archaic
Revival. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062506139
1993 Mavericks of the Mind. Crossing Press. ISBN 978-0895946010
1995 Voices from the Edge. Crossing Press. ISBN 978-0895947321
1999 Virus: The Alien Strain. New Falcon. ISBN 9781561841448
2001 "The Anticipation of Telephone Calls: A Survey in California", Journal of
Parapsychology, volume 65, pages 145156 (with Rupert Sheldrake)
2005 Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam
Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, and Others.
Palgrave/Macmillan. ISBN 9781403965325
2007 Mavericks of Medicine: Conversations on the Frontiers of Medical Research. Smart
Publications. ISBN 9781890572198
2007 Detox with Oral Chelation: Protecting Yourself from Lead, Mercury, & Other
Environmental Toxins (with Garry Gordon, M.D.) - Smart Publications ISBN 978-1890572204
2013 The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and
Spirituality. Inner Traditions/Bear. ISBN 9781594774928

Notes[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b c "Psychedelics and Health". Psychedemia. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
2. Jump up^ Brown, David Jay. "Etho-Geological Forecasting: Unusual Animal Behavior &
Earthquake Prediction". Levity.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 1997. Retrieved May
25,2013.
3. Jump up^ Brown, David Jay; Sheldrake, Rupert (2001). "The Anticipation of Telephone Calls: A
Survey in California" (PDF). Journal of Parapsychology. 65: 145156.
4. Jump up^ "BBC World News: David Jay Brown, Seattle 1993". Alex Grey. Retrieved May
25,2013.
5. Jump up^ "Understanding and Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Jacob Teitelbaum. 2004.
Retrieved May 25, 2013.
6. Jump up^ Check, Erika (October 12, 2006). "Depression: Comfortably Numb". Nature. 443: 629
631. doi:10.1038/443629a.
7. Jump up^ Strasser, Bruno J. (2007). "Book Review: How alternative is alternative
medicine?". Nature Medicine. 13: 775. ISSN 1078-8956. doi:10.1038/nm0707-775.
8. ^ Jump up to:a b Orion, Damon (July 17, 2012). "Altered Statesman: An Interview With Psychedelic
Explorer David Jay Brown". Acceler8or. R. U. Sirius. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
9. Jump up^ Grusauskas, Maria (January 25, 2012). "Critics Counter Countys Claim of Ecstasy
Epidemic". San Jose Weekly. SanJose.com. p. 2. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
10. Jump up^ Brown, David Jay (July 19, 2010). "Treating Agony with Ecstasy". CBS News.
Retrieved May 25, 2013.
11. Jump up^ Brown, David Jay (November 2009). "Treating Agony With Ecstasy". Discover.
Retrieved May 25, 2013.
12. Jump up^ Brown, David Jay (September 14, 2010). "Ecstasy Triumphs over Agony: MDMA Helps
with Recovery from Trauma". Scientific American. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
13. Jump up^ "2012 Gold Awards Arts & Culture". Santa Cruz Weekly. SantaCruz.com. April 5,
2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
14. Jump up^ "About Dave". David Jay Brown. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
15. Jump up^ Andrew Leonard (2013-05-24). "Wikipedias anti-Pagan crusade: A rogue editor
targeted witches, warlocks and psychedelic scientists -- and cast doubt on the site's
judgment". Salon magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2014-03-
04. Qworty the Wikipedia editor unmasked as the writer Robert Clark Young in Salon one
week ago played a leading role in instigating Browns deletion. As Qworty, Young denounced
Brown as a self-appointed spiritual savior who had styled himself a modern-day messiah who
combined all of the powers of Jesus and Freud and Einstein and Marx and, oh why the heck not,
Timothy Leary, lol.