Remembering Beckley Foundation Founder, Amanda Feilding (1943–2025) – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies – MAPS

‘Crackpot Countess’ or ‘Queen of Consciousness’? Remembering Amanda Feilding, the Countess of Wemyss and March, who dedicated her life to LSD research

As the Countess of Wemyss and March passes away at the age of 82, Tatler recounts the extraordinary life of the aristocrat who partied with Allen Ginsberg, married in an Egyptian necropolis, and once drilled a hole in her own skull in the name of scientific investigation

Remembering Beckley Foundation Founder, Amanda Feilding (1943–2025) – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies – MAPS

Visionary Researcher, Beckley Foundation Founder, and Psychedelic PioneerThe MAPS community mourns the passing of Amanda Feilding — a towering figure in psychedelics, an unwavering advocate for cognitive liberty, and a dear friend to MAPS and our founder, Rick Doblin.Amanda was many things: a researcher, policy reformer, and artist; a countess who once ran for Parliament on a platform of consciousness expansion; a woman whose intellect and deter…