Amanda Feilding, Date of Birth

Amanda Feilding

British activist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1943

Profession: scientist, artist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, is an English drug policy reformer, lobbyist and research coordinator.
In 1998 she founded the Foundation to Further Consciousness, later renamed to the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust which initiates, directs and supports neuroscientific and clinical research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and cognition.
She has also co-authored over 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, according to the Foundation.
The central aim of her research is to investigate new avenues of treatment for such mental illnesses as depression, anxiety and addiction, as well as to explore methods of enhancing well-being and creativity. Feilding has been a proponent of exploiting the cognitive effects of cannabis since the 1960s.
She has experimented with trepanning, drilling a hole into the skull to expose the dura mater, a technique used in some cultures to treat mental illness, and considered by some to provide a calming effect or a higher state of consciousness.Feilding is also a proponent of the use of LSD to trigger long-term improvements in creativity.