Regarding your film of interviews of which you speak. Hundreds of such videos already exist and have since the first conference on drugs in San Francisco, California. I alone have participated in over 50 such films and lectures. I see no need to further those lectures and panels on drugs as every time there is a conference or symposium or drug workshop, all lectures are recorded and offered for sale through various media outlets..
Here is a list of such symposiums and they only touch a small amount of them. All have been recorded for use and are available on tape and cd and dvd at most major Universities in their libraries for public viewing or listening in the USA and Europe.
These conferences run per person at $150.00 per person for three or four days to $1600.00 for four or five days in A foreign country. Airfare is separate and sometimes so are hotels. Others sometimes offer free room and board. Most members at the Shroomery cannot really afford to go to these symposiums.
My friend Don Hemmis who wrote Mushrooms of Hawaii is fromthe U of Hawaii at Hilo. He 'actually got a grant for 27 of his students to attend one of Paul Stamets Mushroom Growing workshops at $500.00 per person, and they had funds to pay for their hotels and foods on top of the cost of Paul's classes.
1. An example of the lectures at the Annual Breitenbush 2000 Mushroom Conference
Thursday
6:00-7:00 DINNER
7:30-8:15 Welcome and Orientation Faculty Introductions
8:30-9:45 Slideshow Jim Berlstein “An idiot for every mushroom: Unwise mycophagy and other stories”
10:00-11:15 Slideshow Paul Kroeger “The Biology of hot springs”
Friday
8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST
9:30-10:45 Mushroom Cookery Demonstration Patrice Benson
11:00-12:15 Slideshow Jim Trappe “Something about Something”
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:30-3:45 Slideshow John Allen “Mushrooms and Art in History”
4:00-5:15 Slideshow James Arthur “Amanita Muscaria One”
4:30- 6:00 Cultivation Workshop with Ed Foy
6:00-7:30 DINNER
7:30-8:45 Slideshow Bryce Kendrick “Something”
9:00-10:15 Slideshow Taylor Lockwood “Pictures of Something”
Saturday
8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST
9:30-10:45 Slideshow Bryce Kendrick “Something Else”
11:00-12:15 Slideshow Paul Kroeger “Hallucinogenic Mushrooms”
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:30-3:45 Slideshow James Arthur “Amanita Muscaria Two”
4:00-5:15 Slideshow John Allen “psilocybes”
4:30-6:00 Cultivation workshop with Ed Foy
6:00-7:00 DINNER
7:15-8:15 Slideshow Jim Trappe “Something else About Something else”
8:30-9:30 Slideshow Taylor Lockwood “Other Pictures”
9:30-11:00 Mushroom Tasting with Patrice Benson
Sunday
8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST
9:30-10:45 Jim Berlstein “East vs. West”
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-4:00 Hit the road Jack
2. 29 conferences, some of even which I lectured at and served on panels of discussion. All of these have been recorded and are available on both casette tape and dvd versions.
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Well I dug through my files and found flyers and advertisements for dozens of various psychoactive and mushroomic Conferences presented since 1967. I have compiled these for viewing and they list the cost, room and board included at some of these seminars and symposiums, and I listed the speakers who presented at these conferences.
1. The first conference on entheogenic healing plants and drugs took place in San Francisco in 1967 and was known as “An Ethnopharmacological Search for Psychoactive Drugs.} Among the presenters at that conference were R. Gordon Wasson, Richard Evans Schultes, Andrew Weil, Carlos Castaneda and Alexander Shulgin among others.
2. The next conference was the First International Conference on hallucinogenic Mushrooms which took place at Millersylvania State Park in Washington in October, 1976 and included the following speakers: Jeremy Bigwood, Lynn R, Brady, W. Scott Chilton, Gastón Guzmán, Dale T. Leslie, Stephen H. Pollock, David B. Repke, Paul Stamets and R. Gordon Wasson. This was $125.00 per person, outdoor camping and meals.
3. The 2nd International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, Ft. Wordon, Port Townsend Washington from October 27-30, 1977 (extracts published in Teonanacatl: Hallucinogenic Mushrooms of North America, Ott and Bigwood, 1978). Among the speakers here were: Jeremy Bigwood, Scott Chilton, Gastón Guzmán, David Harnden, Albert Hofmann, Dale T. Leslie, Jonathan Ott, David B. Repke, Richard Rose, Carl A. P. Ruck, Richard Evans Schultes, R. Gordon Wasson, Andrew T. Weil and Norman Zinsburg. Room and board at the military post were included.
4. A Mushroom Identification Workshop was held between October 14-15, 1978 at Shinn Lodge of the YMCA’s Camp Dudley, near Clear Lake, Washington. Cost was $25.00 per person and included bunk beds and a pot luck meal. This workshop was especially designed for amateur mycologists interested in further perfecting mushroom identification skills. Limited to 50 people.
5. Then came the Conference on Hallucinogens and Shamanism in Native American Life. This was held in October-November of 1978 at the Japan Trade Center In beautiful San Francisco. Tickets for this happening were $125.00. Speakers included: Jeremy Bigwood, Scott Chilton, José Luis Díaz, Stanislav Grof, David Harnden, Albert Hofmann, Bo Homstedt, Reid Kaplan, Keewaydinoquay (K. M. Paschel), Weston LaBarre, Timothy Plowman, Carl A. P. Ruck, Richard Evans Schultes, Alexander Shulgin, R. Gordon Wasson, Andrew T. Weil and Norman Zinsburg. And much of these proceedings were later published in the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol. 11(1-2), 1979. Meals were included but hotel accommodations were separate.
6. Mushrooms 1. November 2-4, 1979. This workshop was held along the Oregon coast, cost was $90.00 per person and room and board. This conference was in honor of Dr. Gaston Guzman who had just completed his long awaited monograph on the genus Psilocybe, although the book did not appear in print until 1983. Speakers included: Gasón Guzmán, Daniel Stuntz, Andrew Weil, Michael Beug, Steven H. Pollock, Catherine Scates, Jeremy Bigwood, Scott Jeffreys, James Q. Jacobs, Dale T. Leslie, Gary P. Menser, Freeman Rowe, and Paul Stamets.
7. Now the conferences became part of Myco Media and the first one of those was Mushrooms II held on Orcas Island in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in the San Juan Islands at Camp Orkila between October 31-November 2, 1980. Here one camped out in open door cabins usually attended by Girl Scouts. This particular conference was expressly designed for those interested in developing their identification skills and furthering their understanding of the taxonomy, chemistry, cultivation and ecology of mushrooms. Emphasis is placed on the delineation of edible, poisonous and psychoactive species. By now the cost was up to $100.00 dollars with room and board. Speakers included: Alexander H. Smith, Daniel Stuntz, Gastón Guzmán, Michael Beug, William C. Denison, Claude Fordyce, James M. Trappe, Joseph Ammirati, Emanuel Salzman, Andrew T. Weil, Stephen H. Pollock, Catherine Scates, Dale T. Leslie and Paul Stamets.
8. Mushrooms III, again held on Orcas Island at the same girl Scout Camp. This time from October 30-November 2, 1980. Again a $100.00 fee and room and board included. This conference held the theme of the one the year before and included the following speakers, many who came back from the previous year to add new info to their research: Daniel Stuntz, Michael Beug, William C. Dennison, Ralph Kurtzman, Rick Kerrigan, Gary Lincoff, Andrew T. Weil, Catherine Scates, Michael Foley, Dale T. Leslie, Paul E. Stamets, James Q. Jacobs and Jeffrey S. Chilton.
9. Wild Mushrooms Telluride. This is an annual mushroom show and workshop in Colorado. This one was held on August 27-30, 1981. Included were the workshops and seminars and camping with meals, an all outdoorsy atmosphere in Telluride, an historic Colorado ghost town on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide. The cost here for camping out in the cold was $125.00 per person, meals included. This is generally a very straight atmosphere with many straight shroomers. But in the last five years has lightened up on the topics. Speakers included in this 1981 gathering included: Rolf Singer, Bob and Jennifer Harris, Gary Lincoff, Paul Stamets, Andrew Weil and Emanuel Salzman.
10. Mushrooms IV, An Educational Conference held October 27-30, 1983 in the foothills in Oregon At Breitenbush Hot Springs in Lake Detroit. Fee is $135.00 and room and board in a geothermal heated cabin. Very friendly atmosphere and really cool people. Meals include and room included. Speakers at this event included: Michael Beug, Andrew T. Weil, Gary Lincoff, Catherine Scates, James Q. Jacobs, Terence McKenna, Paul Stamets, Jeffrey Chilton, Rick Kerrigan, Michael Foley, Dale Leslie and Steve Morgan.
11. Andrew Weil gave a lecture and workshop Tuesday May 3, 1988 at the CC Ballroom at Campus Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus.
12. Wild Mushrooms 1989 was the Seventh Annual Breitenbush Mycological Conference held from October 26-29, 1989. Room and board included. This one was now $150.00 per person. Speakers included David Arora, Walt Sturgeon, Paul Przybylowics, Annette Simonson, James Q. Jacobs, Kent Powloski, John W. Allen, Nancy Weber, Karl L. R. Jansen, Tjakko Stijve, Paul Stamets, Miriam C. Rice and Brendan McFarlan.
13. Wild Mushrooms 1990. Again held at Breitenbush between November 1-4, 1990 and the cost for room and board was again $150.00 per person. Speakers included: Jim Trappe, Bryce Kendrick, James Q. Jacobs, John W. Allen, Maggie Rogers, Walt Sturgeon, Michael Beug, Thom O’Dell balafon (Raggae Music band).
14. Wild Mushrooms 1991. Also at Breitenbush. This was $175.00 and room and board. Speakers included, John W. Allen, Jochen Gartz, David Arora, Lorelei Norvell, Bryce Kendrick, Thom O’Dell and Efran Cazares..
15. Plants, Shamanism, and States of Consciousness (Plantas, Chamanismo y Estados de Consciencia) held in San Luis Potosi, México on the 16-22 of November 1992. Jonathan Ott and many speakers on various aspects of Entheogenic plants. Cost for this was phenomenal at about $1200 dollars or more per person but iut was a large conference with many speakers. I could not find the list of speakers. Sorry.
16. Psychedelic Summit, April 16th, 1993. This one is one the 50th anniversary of Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD, held in San Francisco. Hosted Bruce Eisner, author of Ecstacy and founder of the Island Group. It cost $100.00 dollars per person and include meals. Speakers included Rick Doblin, Oscar Janiger, taped messages from both Albert Hofmann and Humphrey Osmond, Tim Leary, Ralph Abraham, Alura Huxley, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen Gaskin, Paul Krassner, Willis Harman, Donna Dryer and Richard Yensin, Lester Grinspoon, John Robbins, and Claudio Naranjo.
17. And on the following day another conference titled, “Psychedelics and Cannabis: Spirituality, Medicine and Policy. April 18th, 1993.. This was an all day conference for $45 dollars with the following speakers present: Rick Doblin, Dale Gieringer, Stephen Gaskin, Timothy Leary, Ken Goffman, Terence McKenna, Caroline Garcia, Alan Cohen, Ed Rosenthal, Donald Abrams, Lester Grinspoon, Ralph Metzner, Kat harrison, Dennis McKenna, Richard Yensin and Donna Dryer, Bob Sisko, Igor Koungourtsev, Claudio Naranjo, Jerry Beck, Bruce Eisner, Nina Graboi, Laura Huxley and others.
18. The Maui Botanical Preservation Corp Conference was held at a boyu scout camp Keanae on August 13-17th in the late summer of 1993. Cost was $175.00 and room and board at the camp was included. Speakers included Jonathan Ott, David Orr, Jonathan “Sparrow” Miller, John W. Allen ,Brett Blausser and Jonathan Ott’s wife Djahel who dance for us. There were other speakers there but again I could not find the flyers.
19. The Gathering of the Minds was the brain child of Ron Piper and James Kent, publisher and editors of the now defunct magazine Psychedelic Illuminations, The conference was phenomenal with more than 50 guest lecturers and presenters and was held at Chapman University in Orange County Los Angeles on April 28, 1994. Meals were only for the speakers. And the cost was $35.00 per person for all day, $25.00 prepaid. Speakers include: John W. Allen, Michael Benner, Cliff Benton, Peter Bralver, Gary Bravo, Chris Conrad, Valeri Corral, Jim DeKorne, Rick Doblin, Troy Donahue (not the movie actor but president of the Mt. Shasta Mycological Society), Donna Dryer, Bruce Eisner, Genie Erstad, Robert Forte, Diana Gail, Jochen Gartz, Steven Gaskin, Michael Gilbert, Charles Grob, Peter Gorman, Nina Graboi, Roberta Hamilton, Jack Herer, Oscar Janiger, James Kent, Leeona Klippstein, Ellen Komb, Paul Krassner, Lorin Lindner, Timothy Leary, Bernard McCrane, Dennis McKenna, Ralph Metzner, David E. Nichols, Judy Osburn, Lynn Osburn, Jonathan Ott, Ron Piper, Caroljo Papac, Thomas Pinkson, Ram Das (Richard Alpert), Retinalogic, mark Riva, Ya’Anna Vera Rocha, Peter Stafford, Cliff Shaffer, Lynnette Shaw, Steven Starsparks, Starroot, Daniel Tvedt, and Richard Yensen.
20. The Ethnobotany and Chemistry of Psychoactive Plants Conference. This one again by Jonathan Ott and Rob Montgomery’s Botanical Preservation Corps. Two 7 day intensive field courses held in the Mayan temples of Palenque in the remote tropical rainforests of southern México between 15-21 January and from 25-31 January, 1995. Cost per person is $1200.00 plus room and board. Speakers included Terence McKenna, Jonathan Ott, Ralph Metzner, Christian Rätsch, Stacy Schaeffer, Constantino Manuel Torres and Rob Montgomery.
21. Ethnobotany: Shamanic Plant Science held October 18-20, 1996 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco, California.. This conference cost $225.00 per person without any room or board. Speakers included: Albert Hofmann, Peter T. Furst, Bo Holmstedt, James C. Callaway, Antonio Escohotado, Josep María Firicgla, Jochen Gartz, Luis Eduardo Luna, Dennis J. McKenna, Deborah C. Mash, Richard Evans Schultes, Alexander T. Shulgin, Johannes Wilbert, Kary B. Mullis, Robert Montgomery, Jonathan Ott, Christian Rätsch, Giorgio Samorini, Stacy B. Schaefer, C. Manuel Torres.
22. Ethnobotany and Chemistry of Psychoactive plants. Again we have the annual 1996 Botanical Preservation Corp conference from 13-19 January and 22-28 January 1996 BPC Conference held in the Mayan Temples of Palenque in the remote tropical rainforests of México. $1200 per person with room and board. Speakers included; Sasha and And Shulgin, Terence McKenna, Jonathan Ott, Luis Eduardo Luna, Paul Stamets, Christian Rätsch, Stacy Schaefer, Ken Symington and Rob Montgomery (Founder of BPC).
23. Ethnobotany and Chemistry of Psychoactive Plants, again a Botanical Preservation Corps field course in psychoactive plants from BPC held in Palenque in the tropical rainforests of southern México. Cost again is still $1200.00 per person with room and board. Speakers included: Albert Hofmann, Sasha and And Shulgin, Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna, Jonathan Ott, Constantino Manuel Torres, Christian Rätsch, Deborah Mash, Ken Symington and Rob Montgomery.
24. Wild Entheogenic Mushrooms 1997. Cost for a four hour mushroom Identification Workshop by John W. Allen is 35 dollars per person. Held in University -Used Bookstore in Seattle, Washington. Speaker: John W. Allen.
25. Psychoactivity. A large conference held at the Tropen Museum in Beautiful Amsterdam, Netherlands 1-4 October, 1998. Cost 474 florins ($235.00 U.S.) . No Room or Board. Speakers included: Simon Vinkenoog, Antonio Escohatabo, Peter Cohen, Pat O’Hare, Patricia Ochsner, Hans van den Hurk, Dick Bierman, Christian Rätsch, Stacy Schaefer, Claus Deimel, Bruno Illius, Jonathan Ott, Ralph Metzner, And Shulgin, Sasha Shulgin, Richard Yensen, Donna Dryer, Michael Szukaj, Thomas Heinz, Michael Schilichting, Manuel Torres, Peter de Smet, Claudia Mueller-Ebeling, Alex Grey, Hans Plomp and Arno Adelaars.
26.All Chemical Arts Presents “Psychoactivity Creativity held on the big Island of Hawaii between 12-17 September 1999. Cost per person was $1500.00 plus Room and Board. Organizers for this art conference regarding the influence enthegenic plant use has in art included Terence Mckenna, Manuel Torres and Ken Symington. Speakers also included Lewis John Carlino, Bruce Damer, Alex Grey Ben Hightower Neil, Mark Pauline, Mark Pesce, Tom Robbins Robert Nevosa and Alice Walker.
27. Ethnobotany Shamanic Plant Seminars In Palenque held on 16-22 January and 25-31 January 1999 in the beautiful tropical rainforest of southern México. Again the cost plus room and board is $1200.00 per person. Speakers included: Giorgio Samorini, Paul Stamets, C. Manuel Torres, Terence McKenna, Rob Montgomery, Ken Symington, Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Christian Rätsch, Michael Bock, Jonathan Ott and Wade Davis.
28. Ethnobotany Plant Seminars two 7-day intensive field seminars at the portal to the Palenque Mayan ruins and México’s mysterious tropical forests. Well now costs run $1300.00 dollars per person with room and board. This time the conference covers Archaic Art and Archeology of Ambrosia; Identification and Cultivation of Mushroomic Entheogens; South American Visionary Snuffs and Ayahuasca; Tryptamines, Phenethylamines, Allied Amritous Alkaloids; Soma, Kykeon, Iboga and Kindred Pschotica; and Collection, Cultivation, and Preparation of Psychoactive Plants.
29. Wild Mushrooms 2000. The 17th Annual Wild Mushroom Conference held October 26-19,2000 at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Lake Detroit, Oregon. Cost per person was $295 Dollars with room and board. Speakers include John W. Allen, Patrice Benson, Jim Berlstein, Ed Foy, Bryce Kendrick, Paul Kroger, Taylor Lockwood, James Arthur and Jim Trappe.
3. Chapman University in )Orange County at the gathering of the Minds. This is also available on two tapes of 14 hours of lectures.
The following article on the Gathering of the Minds is from Psychedelic Illuminations, Which also had a few interviews in each issue.
There area also dozens of interviews of Tim Leary, Baba Ram Das, the late (Richard Evans Schultes, Rolf Singer, Roger Heim, R. Gordon Wasson), Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Rick Doblin, Allen Shoemaker, Dennis and the late Terence McKenna, Jonathan Ott, Gary Menser, Gary Lincoff, the late Steven Pollock, Rick Strassman, Mark Merlin, Tjakko Stijve, Wolfgang Baeur, Rich Gee, Jule Stevens, Jochen Gartz, Paul Stamets, Gaston Guzman, Giorgio Samorini, Peter Stafford, Arno Adaalars, Hans van den Hurk, Jeremy Bigwood, Michael Beug, Sasha Shulgin, James Q. Jacobs, Freeman Rowes, Claudio Naranjo, and many dozens of others, Including me.
Unless you are in a major school or profession such as a journalist or photographer and have a pre3ss card or work for a major magazine or newspaper, I find it rather difficult for you to get an interview from anyone and the language does not help in the least at all.
One final bit from the Bibliography of Entheogenic fungi by Allen and Gartz, a list of some famous interviews.
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INTERVIEWS: Baba Ram Dass (Brown & Novice, [No Date]). Jochen Gartz (Gartz, 1998c). Rich Gee (Poole, 1998). Albert Hofmann (Horowitz, 1976). Michael Hollingshead (Stafford, 1975). Timothy Leary (Sheff, 1987; Unsigned, 1966). Dennis Mckenna (Pinchera, 1997). Terence McKenna (Brown & McClen, 1992; Ebert, 1997; Gorman, 1997; Jacobson, 1992; Krassner, 1997; Miller, 1993). Thomas Lyttle (Goldster, 1994). María Sabina (Ongaro, 1971; Rätsch & Liggenstorfer, 1996; Rosales, 1969). Alexander (Sasha) and Ann Shulgin (Eisner & Stafford, 1998). Stijve, Tjakko (Delaroière, 2000; Montag, 2000). Toynbee, J. Andrew (Butler, 1999). Bas van Doesburg (Adelaars, 1997c). R. Gordon Wasson (Forte, 1988; Ott & Pollock, 1976). Andrew Weil (Fremont, 1975).
That does not include interviews in Life Magazine, Holliday Magazine, Rolling Stone, Playboy, High Times, Original Head Mag, Hi-Life, Flash, Rush, Paraphenalia,and other monthly ppublications or scientific and aMedical Journals interviews, etc.
One more point. Mark D. Merlin teaches a Psychoactive Drug Plant course at the U of Hawaii at manoa every other semester. Many colloges and Universities form Harvard to UCLA teach similar courses. IF one goes to school and studies some of these subjects noted above then he or she could easily obtai9n grant money to follow in the footsteps of those who came before.
mjshroomer
Who would you try to interview. All of the above have many tapes of interviews from symposiums, conferences, annual mushroom foray conferences, recorded over the past 30 years and many more whom I did not list are also working in these particular sundry fields of endeavor in the world of entheogenic compounds and hallucinogens
Edited by mjshroomer (07/22/07 04:37 PM)
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