Entheogenesis - Planting seeds for earth, body, and mind
Entheogenesis - Planting seeds for earth, body, and mind

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Garden States 2021 Speakers
DAVID HOLMGREN
DAVID HOLMGREN
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David Holmgren is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of Permaculture One, co-authored with Bill Mollison in...
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DR MARGARET ROSS
DR MARGARET ROSS
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Dr Margaret Ross is a consultant clinical psychologist and the clinical lead in Australia’s first ever psychedelic clinical trial....
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BRUCE PASCOE
BRUCE PASCOE
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Bruce Pascoe has published widely in both adult and young adult literature. He has won numerous awards, including the...
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JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE
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Janet Laurence is a leading Sydney-based artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. Her practice examines our physical, cultural and...
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DR ALISON POULIOT
DR ALISON POULIOT
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Dr Alison Pouliot is an ecologist, environmental photographer and honorary fellow at the Australian National University. Her research spans...
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KEEPER TROUT
KEEPER TROUT
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Keeper Trout is an author and archivist living in Northern California.  Trout has published 11 books and numerous articles;...
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GIULIANA FURCI
GIULIANA FURCI
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Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the...
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DR SURESH MUTHUKUMARASWAMY (NZ)
DR SURESH MUTHUKUMARASWAMY (NZ)
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Dr Suresh Muthukumarasway is currently an Associate Professor in psychopharmacology at The University of Auckland. Suresh started studying psychedelic drugs...
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MONICA BARRATT
MONICA BARRATT
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Monica Barratt is a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University. She...
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DR MARTIN WILLIAMS
DR MARTIN WILLIAMS
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Martin Williams, PhD, is a research fellow in Medicinal Chemistry at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University,...
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THE SEED SISTAS (UK)
THE SEED SISTAS (UK)
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The Seed SistAs, Karen and Fiona, are writers, speakers, eco-activists and Sensory Herbalists who have dedicated their lives to...
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DR PRASH PUSPANATHAN
DR PRASH PUSPANATHAN
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Dr Prash Puspanathan, a medical doctor and former Neuropsychiatry Fellow at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, is one of...
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JOHN SEED
JOHN SEED
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John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct...
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KIRSTY MACLEOD (NZ)
KIRSTY MACLEOD (NZ)
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Kirsty MacLeod is a counsellor and addictions practitioner from Dunedin, New Zealand. She began training as an ibogaine provider after...
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DR STEPHEN BRIGHT
DR STEPHEN BRIGHT
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Dr Stephen Bright has worked as a psychologist within the Mental Health & Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) field...
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DR ALANA ROY
DR ALANA ROY
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Dr Alana Roy is a Psychologist, social worker and therapist and has spent the last 14 years working in...
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LILA LIEBERMAN
LILA LIEBERMAN
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Lila has been working with medicinal plants and indigenous methodologies of healing for twenty-five years. She began her journey...
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VINCE POLITO
VINCE POLITO
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Vince Polito is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia...
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MEREDITH DRINKELL
MEREDITH DRINKELL
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Meredith Drinkell (She/Her) is a musician, vocalist, music therapist, psychotherapist and facilitator currently residing on Wurundjeri Land. She has experience working in early...
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STEPH TZANETIS
STEPH TZANETIS
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Steph has close to a decade’s experience providing formalised psychedelic support at music festivals in Australia and overseas, including...
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DAVID NICKLES (NZ/US)
DAVID NICKLES (NZ/US)
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David Nickles is an underground researcher and harm reduction advocate who serves as an editor for Psymposia Media, co-host of...
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AGNIESZKA SEKULA
AGNIESZKA SEKULA
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Agnieszka is a scientist with a background in biomedical engineering and medical imaging. She uses cutting edge biotech tools,...
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MELISSA WARNER
MELISSA WARNER
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Melissa’s mission is to cultivate an evidence and experience-based understanding of psychological well-being, with the aim to translate this...
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SIMON GREEN
SIMON GREEN
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Simon Green is a Huachumero and Curandero who has worked for the past two decades in service to a...
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DARKLIGHT
DARKLIGHT
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Darklight has been working with aseptic medicinal and endangered plant species propagation for over 20 years. Moving into fungal...
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CAINE BARLOW
CAINE BARLOW
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Caine Barlow is a Mycologist and Fungi Educator based in Melbourne, Australia.  He gives regular talks on mycology, fungi...
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TORSTEN WEIDEMANN
TORSTEN WEIDEMANN
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Torsten is the owner of Shaman Australis Botanicals, which specialises in the supply of shamanic and other ethnobotanical plants....
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BENJAMIN MUDGE (UK)
BENJAMIN MUDGE (UK)
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Benjamin Mudge has a background in music, art and political activism, and is now a PhD candidate in the...
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EMA CORRO
EMA CORRO
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Ema Corro is a mycologist who believes that the best way to protect the environment is to involve the...
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DR CHRIS LETHEBY
DR CHRIS LETHEBY
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Dr Chris Letheby is a philosopher working on issues related to the therapeutic and transformative potential of classic psychedelic...
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ASHLIE MANWARING
ASHLIE MANWARING
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Ashlie Manwaring is a 4th year Psychology Honours student at the University of Canberra and chapter lead of the...
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DR LIAM ENGEL
DR LIAM ENGEL
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Dr Liam Engel is a drug science researcher and communicator. Liam's passion is illicit drugs, particularly the areas of...
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RACHEL GAGEN
RACHEL GAGEN
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"I have come to understand herbal medicine as a part of mankind's placement and movement across the land. Not...
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NICK WALLIS
NICK WALLIS
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Nick Wallis is a broadcaster and drug law reform advocate and harm reduction worker. Nick has a background in radio...
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ANDREW GOODMAN
ANDREW GOODMAN
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Andrew Goodman is a visual artist and writer with an interest in science fiction, process philosophy, more-than-human consciousness and...
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BEAU MEISTER
BEAU MEISTER
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Beau Meister (karode13) is a Horticulturist and Mycologist. After studying Horticulture in New Zealand, Beau took an interest in the unusual fungi...
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NICK SUN
NICK SUN
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Nick Sun was an award-winning, international stand up comedian for 13 years. Then he drank Ayahuasca and had a...
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JEF BAKER
JEF BAKER
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Jef Baker heads the Sydney chapter of The Australian Psychedelic Society, is global moderator at The 5-Hive forum and...
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AMANDA MORGLUND
AMANDA MORGLUND
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Amanda Morglund is the Founder of Mycelium Made and Director of Fungi Solutions where collaboration with Fungi is used...
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RODNI CHISAR
RODNI CHISAR
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Rodni is known for having one of the best Trichocereus collections in Australia, and many made the pilgrimage to...
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JESS SAUNDERS
JESS SAUNDERS
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Jess is a botanical illustrator and tattooer living in Northern Rivers NSW/ Bundjalung country. A love of the natural world,...
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EUGENE-NRG (DJ KRUSTY)
EUGENE-NRG (DJ KRUSTY)
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DJ Krusty have been spanking the planks and enjoying DJing for a long time now, he has performed at...
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ADEM JAFFERS (VJ MANDALA)
ADEM JAFFERS (VJ MANDALA)
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During a photography gig during the late ’80s, Adem was first introduced to analogue and digital video art during...
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Garden States 2021 Presentations
‘Deep Ecology’ (and the power of ethnobotanical plants)
‘Deep Ecology’ (and the power of ethnobotanical plants)
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I have worked for worldwide rainforests since 1979. Although many of our efforts succeeded, for every forest saved 100...
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Some more thoughts and observations on cacti
Some more thoughts and observations on cacti
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A lot has happened in the two decades since Trout’s cactus books went into print. Cactus lover Keeper Trout...
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The St Vincent’s Melbourne Psilocybin-Palliative Care Trial – Much behind us, but so much still ahead…
The St Vincent’s Melbourne Psilocybin-Palliative Care Trial – Much behind us, but so much still ahead…
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Friday 31st January 2020 was a momentous day in the history of psychedelic research in Australia, as the clinical...
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Between Sex and Death – A Journey in the Mycosphere
Between Sex and Death – A Journey in the Mycosphere
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The scent of the prized Périgord truffle is somewhere 'between sex and death', according to one Australian forager. This...
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New World Technology and Old World Wisdom: Use of virtual reality in facilitating movement through phases of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
New World Technology and Old World Wisdom: Use of virtual reality in facilitating movement through phases of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
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This talk explores VR scenarios designed to promote movement through phases of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and discusses a novel protocol...
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Discovering the ancient through native power plants.
Discovering the ancient through native power plants.
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Belladonna, Henbane and Datura are some of the European power plants, holding the key to an altered mind perspective,...
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Permaculture: Stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance
Permaculture: Stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance
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David Holmgren draws on a lifelong passion for ethnobotanical knowledge and practise to tell stories that celebrate abundance and...
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The alchemical life
The alchemical life
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I am thinking about the dreams of plants in order to enter into an intimate relationship with them and...
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Every nectar needs a vessel to hold it. The greater the vessel, the more potent the nectar can be.
Every nectar needs a vessel to hold it. The greater the vessel, the more potent the nectar can be.
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As we go through rites of passage, initiations, plant medicine inductions, we are strengthening our capacity and crafting the...
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Encrypted communications, digitally mediated drug trading and psychedelics
Encrypted communications, digitally mediated drug trading and psychedelics
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In 2011, the first darknet market or cryptomarket for illegal drugs (Silk Road) began trading. It marked a key...
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Microdosing psychedelics: Placebo or panacea
Microdosing psychedelics: Placebo or panacea
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Large doses of psychedelic drugs like LSD/DMT/Psilocybin are well-known to produce enduring changes in creativity, mood and cognition in...
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Philosophical issues in psychedelic research: A review of emerging themes
Philosophical issues in psychedelic research: A review of emerging themes
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Philosophical issues in psychedelic research: a review of some emerging themes Serotonergic (or “classic”) psychedelics have struck many researchers as...
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MDMA research down under: What does a decade of persistence look like?
MDMA research down under: What does a decade of persistence look like?
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Prior to MDMA being banned internationally in 1987, it was showing promise as a pharmacological adjunct to psychotherapy. In...
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Whose Stories Are We Telling: Ethnobotanical Understandings in the Corporadelic Era
Whose Stories Are We Telling: Ethnobotanical Understandings in the Corporadelic Era
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Storytelling has played a central role in the creation and transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge throughout time. Entheogenic plants have...
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What we know so far about microdosing
What we know so far about microdosing
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Microdosing has exploded in popularity over the past six years. A microdose can be 1/10th or less of a...
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DanceWize: Trip sitting and psychedelic harm reduction
DanceWize: Trip sitting and psychedelic harm reduction
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The principles for psychedelic support (otherwise known as ‘trip sitting’) that are promoted by international groups like MAPS Zendo...
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Some Traps, Pitfalls and Questions of the Psychedelic Path
Some Traps, Pitfalls and Questions of the Psychedelic Path
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With the increasing acceptance within the mainstream, many people are seeking psychedelics for many reasons. Healing, meaning, spiritual awakening,...
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Victorian Fungi: Secrets of the V kingdom
Victorian Fungi: Secrets of the V kingdom
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Victoria isn't often thought of as a place for exotic mushrooms but the State has diverse habitats and with...
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The Problems of the Throwing Out of Babies with Bathwaters: Traditional Medicines in the context of mental, physical and social health and their divergences and convergences with Western scientific clinical concepts
The Problems of the Throwing Out of Babies with Bathwaters: Traditional Medicines in the context of mental, physical and social health and their divergences and convergences with Western scientific clinical concepts
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For at least 25 years I have worked in the Healing Arts, and for 20 deeply engaged with the...
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Ibogaine therapy in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ibogaine therapy in Aotearoa/New Zealand
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I will be giving an overview of Ibogaine as a treatment for addiction, particularly to opiates, and discussing the...
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Strychnine
Strychnine
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What is strychnine and why do people seem to believe that it is in so many different plants and...
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A New Trip: towards a path of representation, inclusion and safety in the psychedelic movement
A New Trip: towards a path of representation, inclusion and safety in the psychedelic movement
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Psychedelics have moved to the forefront of global mainstream consciousness and research continues to show their efficacy and promise...
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Ayahuasca: A Complex Elixir With Variable Effects
Ayahuasca: A Complex Elixir With Variable Effects
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While researching the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca from a Psychiatry perspective, I have realized that ayahuasca is a highly...
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A Prescription of NeuroGnostics; Entheogenic Herbalism
A Prescription of NeuroGnostics; Entheogenic Herbalism
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We are going to explore psychotropic herbalism, that is organic biological organisms used as medicine that have an affinity...
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Mapping Entheogenesis Through The Ecological-Self
Mapping Entheogenesis Through The Ecological-Self
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Evolving from my 2015 Honours thesis examining the overlaps, intersections and parallels between the philosophy of Deep Ecology and...
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