Entheogenesis Australis - 4 Day Outdoor Conference Gathering - Fri 6th to Mon 9th Nov 2009
Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment to foster mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. EGA hosts an annual conference to encourage informed dialogue on the role of such sacraments in culture, history, spirituality, art and sciences. EGA addresses many of the myths surrounding psychoactive chemicals and also examines aspects of safety, harm reduction, psychology and the law within an Australian context.
EGA 2009 will create a space for growth of the spirit, mind and body, hosting over 25 speakers from around Australia and abroad. The speakers make up the backbone of our event and are supported by a great host of other fantastic happenings including discussion panels/groups, workshops and performances. This will take place over 4 days in November nestled in the beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria, Australia.
EGA aspires to create an active, transformative experience with a real focus on intention, ritual and art, as well as cultivating a community ethos and feel. We aim to create inspiring spaces that reflect and resonate with the overall philosophy of the event. The main conference space will be a work of art in its own right. Accompanying it will be the ~Mykopod~ space designed to help you 'relax ~ connect ~ integrate' during the gathering. To additionally help you tune in and play your part in the EGA experience, there will also be a healing tent, meditative crystal mandala dome and a visionary art space all connected by a very lush market area.
The event will also host a communal banquet, some ambient music and films as well as Masquerade Corroboree to keep you all on your toes.
Bear (Owsley) Stanley
Talk 1 - 'The economic consequences of black markets, specifically in reference to drug prohibition'.
Talk 2 - 'The affects of certain psychedelics in mind function, including interactions with electronic circuits- a possible route to mental machine control'
"By conservative estimates, Bear Research Group made more than 1.25 million doses of LSD between 1965 and 1967, essentially seeding the entire modern psychedelic movement" - Joel Selvin
Bio
Considered by many as one of the legends of the sixties counterculture, Bear Stanley denies his heroic status, and spends his days working on various sculptures and writing essays on subjects such as the importance of carbon dioxide, the primary and only ‘plant food’, to the expansion of food crops and life on earth. Fair and equitable taxation (equal and low percentage on all ‘income), a proper runoff method to determine the results of elections, and how to unify and balance lawmaking. Writing laws in ordinary language rather than legalese. Including ‘sunset clauses’ to allow change to adjust to the rapid changes in today’s world-- amongst others. He is renowned for his contribution to sound engineering, particularly working with live gig iconoclasts, the Grateful Dead, and perfecting the idea of on-stage monitors and high quality PA’s. A tireless archivist, he kept a ‘diary’ of his front-of-house mixes, including hundreds of Grateful Dead performances, and has seen the release of a number of albums from his “sonic journal” tapes of PA mixes. Bear was a minor participant in the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He was the first underground cook to produce high-purity LSD in the 1960s, when it was legal, including the famous White Lightning and Monterey Purple. Bear Stanley now lives in Australia.
http://www.thebear.org/
Robert Jesse
Talk 1 - 'Psilocybin and Spirituality:Notes from the Johns Hopkins Study'
Talk 2 - -'(Entheogens), Awakening, and Spiritual Development'
Bio
Bob Jesse is organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices (csp.org/about), which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience (csp.org/PRE). CSP also encourages people to imagine and develop social contexts to contain such experiences and help them yield lasting benefit.
Through CSP, Bob and his colleagues initiated a study, conducted at Johns Hopkins (http://csp.org/psilocybin/) and reported around the world, of the psychospiritual effects of psilocybin in healthy volunteers (csp.org/psilocybin). This expands the emphasis in hallucinogen research beyond the medical treatment of ill people to include the betterment of well people, contributing to a science of pro-social development.
On his home front, Bob is co-founder of a spiritual community formed around ecstatic dance. His formal training is in engineering and lives in San Francisco.
http://csp.org/about.html
*** Other Speakers ***
Des Tramacchi - 'Entheogens and The Discarnate'
Michael Bock - 'Oils ain't oils: Essential oils in Australiasian flora'
Rak Razam - 'AYA: The Shamanic Resurgence'
Rob Bruce - 'Shamanism and Sorcery in South America - Andes and Amazonia'
Ray Thorpe - 'The Benefits of Herbs and Entheogens in Society'
Paul Elliott (Gonzo) - 'Psychedlic Literature Over the Years'
Faustus - 'Psychedlics and Psychosis: Dimethyltrytamine as an Endogenous Psychotogen'
Robin Rodd - 'Chemicals, not Symbols: The Chemical Ecology of Shamanism as a Healthcare System'
Dan Schreiber - 'Tryptamines at the End of Time - Birthing a spheroid awareness'
Jeremy J - 'Entheogenic Acacias of Australia: A review of known active species and an introduction to more previously unreported species'.
Killindi Lyi - 'The Interdimensional Village: The African Uses of Entheogens'
Stephen Bright - 'Legal Highs: Legal Loopholes or Harm reduction?'
Martin Williams - 'The Inaugural Drug Darwin Awards – A tribute to those who have pushed the boundaries in the name of psychedelic exploration and excitement'
Erik van Keulen - 'Drinking and The Other: Reflections on the Poetry and the Politics of Drinking Alcohol'
Greg Kasarik - 'Entheogens vs Drugs: Framing the Sacraments'
Stuart Smith - 'The Role of Ritual'
Penny Scott - 'Pleasure and Pain - A Brief Social History of Opiates and Their Use'
Mulga - 'Dreamtime or Delusion? Ways of seeing and the transfer of knowledge'
Richard King - The Archaic Revival Road - Whitefella Jump Up - Indigenising Guest
Australians (Kanyini, Deep Reconciliation, Power Plants & Continuum
Consciousness)
Colonel Kurtz - 'Conceptual Hallucinogens and the Altered Shulgin Scale'
Eugene (DJ Krusty) - 'The Entheogenic Shamanic Imperative of the Bush Doof Trance Dance Experience
is the Darkness of the Night or Why the daytime party is something else entirely.'
Darklight - ‘ High Tech Overdrive’
Julian Palmer - 'For what and why do we do This?'
Even Dawn – ‘About Time... Shift Happens!’
ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE - 'ENTHEOGENS and MAGICAL RITUAL'
Chris Hansen - 'Me and Ralph.....'
*** Discussion Panels ***
Facilitator by Rak Razam - "SPIRITS OF THE VINE: Ayahuasca the new global sacrament?" - Passionate
aussiehuasqueros share their experiences with this vegetal medicine
Facilitator by Rak Razam - "REC-CHEMS: Language of the gods?" - Pharmauscas glossalize and tantalize
in their quest for the divine spark
Facilitator by Rak Razam - "PSY-TRIBES: Entheogenic Communities Past, Present and Future" - Is a
psychedelic community merely a state of mind? Or can meaningful change be
manifested in the material world?
Facilitator by Julian Raxworthy - "YOU HAD TO BE THERE - Psychedelia, Representation"
Its hard to describe the psychedelic experience, because, really, you had to be
there, but lots of people have tried to. Accompanied by amazing images of mind
bending artwork, Julian will introduce this panel with an overview about how
psychedelia represents itself in literature, but particularly in art.
Facilitator by Neil Pike - "THE UNBROKEN CHAIN: A Hidden History of the International Drug Trade"
*** Discussion Groups ***
Robert Jesse – ‘Communities of Spirit’
Margaret Cross – ‘Keeping it Real Shamanism 101’
Shane Huebner – ‘The Crazy Cactus Wisdom of Chavin-Ancient Knowledge-Hidden Truths!’
***First Round of Workshops ***
Torsten and Brian - 'Propagation of ethnobotanicals and plant trade space'
Keith King - 'Spreading The Mycelial Love- Introduction to cultivating woodlovers'
Becca Dakini and Don Peyote - Talk & Sound Workshop -'Eternal Now – Keys To Being Present in the Moment As the Observer of the Ego'
Timothy John Payne - Dyad Workshop - 'Dichotomy – the Face and the Core'
Jewelli Dollman - 'Dropping with the Devas - Austrlian Bushflower Essences'
+ a pinch of sound
And over 10 workshops
Entheogenic Artwork from around Oz and loads more... to be announced ... Get in Tune...EGA 2009 :happydance:
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EGA is a presale only event with strictly limited numbers.
Estimated Ticket Pricing
01/06/09 - Early Bird------------------ $135.00
------------------ Concession----------- $115.00 (in store and mail order only)
14/09/09 - General Admission------- $175.00
---------------------- Concession-------- $145.00 (in store and mail order only)
14/10/09 - Latecomers Admission -- $190.00
EGA Tickets may purchased in person from the following locations
Melbourne
Hippy Heaven
1/186 Barkly Street St. Kilda Vic
Phone: 03 9534 9361
The Happy Herb Shop
317 Smith Street Fitzroy Vic
Phone: 03 94191277
NSW
Nimbin - Happy High Herbs
58A Cullen Street, Nimbim
Phone: 02 6689 1365
Sydney - Newtown - Happy High Herbs
347 king st, newtown
Phone:02 9550 1345
Perth
Happy High Herbs
Shop 6/20 Elder Place, Fremantle WA 6160
Phone: 08 9430 9449
Adelaide
Happy High Herbs
28 Bank St, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: 08 8211 8885
Brisbane
Gooble Warming
73 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane QLD 4101
Phone: 07 3844 6006
ON LINE
http://www.entheo.net/2009tickets_1st_round.htm
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http://www.entheo.net/EGA09RaffleFAQ2009.doc
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Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment that fosters mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. We seek to explore ways to assess societal impacts and examine the positive applications of plant-based psychoactives and empathogens.
Altered states of consciousness have long been a fundamental part of human culture, and as our world becomes increasingly fast-paced, alternative modes are becoming ever more significant and consciously explored.
The Entheogenesis Australis 2009 Symposium aims to address the issues relating to drug use/misuse from social, cultural and historical/traditional perspectives. EGA speakers will draw on the backgrounds of physiology, biology, pharmacology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, botany and more to provide a more realistic context to the role drugs and altered states play in the modern world.
If you’ve ever asked yourself “has the ‘War on Drugs’ created more problems than it tried to solve?” or “is MDMA really a more dangerous drug than alcohol?” - then EGA is for you.
Entheogenesis Australis is a collection of thinkers from all walks of life, we come together to share knowledge about sacred plants, chemical alchemy and states of consciousness.
We hope you will join us in the trees for this exploration
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