Charing, author of Plant Spirit Shamanism, talking about his latest work, the forthcoming Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo. On Friday, August 6, 2010, 7:00–9:00 pm, I will be reading and discussing Singing to the Plants, and talking about shamanism, the sacred visionary plants, and the medicine path. Life Force Arts Center, 3148 N Lincoln Ave, is Chicago’s space for spiritually-based visual, literary, and performing art. On April 21, 2010, at the Tonic Room, 2447 N Halsted St in Chicago, 7:30–9:00 pm, I will be the guest speaker at the Chicago Evolver Dream Spore, having a conversation on The Mystery of Dreams, Ayahuasca, and Shamanic Reality. During three days of programming, there will be twenty papers on all aspects of ayahuasca, including my own presentation on Ayahuasca Shamanism, Cognitive Psychology, and the Phenomenology of Hallucination.Įvolver, publisher of the Web magazine Reality Sandwich, coordinates as many as fifty regional chapters that put on monthly themed events called Evolver Spores - community meet-ups, creative salons, hubs of ecological activation and social inspiration that, like spores, are intended to form rhizomatic networks. This important conference will bring together international experts on psychedelic research, psychotherapy, and public policy. On April 15-18, 2010, in San Jose, California, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies will hold a medical and educational conference entitled Psychedelic Science in the Twenty-first Century, intended for physicians, therapists, and the general public. I think this panel is shaping up to be groundbreaking in many ways, bringing together academic and nonacademic voices and showcasing many rising young stars in the study of ayahuasca. Panelists will include Rich Doyle, Erik Davis, Francis Jervis, Stephen Trichter, Brian Anderson, Frank Echenhofer, and Evgenia Fotiou, and I am slated to be the discussant. There will be a panel on Ayahuasca and Healing at the conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, March 17-21, 2010, at the University of California–Berkeley. The conversation will be from about 4:00 to 6:00 pm at Transamoeba, 1325 S Wabash Ave, Suite 101, in Chicago’s South Loop. The Cafe was founded May 11, 2003, and has since had over forty gatherings. On Saturday, February 27, 2010, I will be reading from and discussing Singing to the Plants at the Consciousness Cafe - a floating cafe that meets in the Chicago area for the exchange of ideas relating to all aspects of consciousness, including altered states of consciousness and new spirituality. The panel will consist of Ralph Metzner, Charles Grob, Valerie Mojeiko, and Evgenia Fotiou, and will be moderated by David Lukoff. There is lots more information at the launch party website.Īt the annual conference of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, February 12–14, 2010, there will be a panel discussion entitled Singing to the Plants, Ayahuasca Shamanism, and Transpersonal Psychology, devoted to discussing some of the substantive and methodological issues raised by Singing to the Plants. We will have genuine Peruvian snacks, South American wine, traditional Aztec drumming and dancing, and the kind of Peruvian jump-up tin-roof jungle cantina dance music called cumbia amazónica. On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, please join me in launching Singing to the Plants at the historic No Exit Cafe in Chicago - opened in 1958, named after Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist play, and one of the oldest coffeehouses in the country. If you can’t be in Chicago, you can catch the program live on the WLUW website. Join the live audience while you eat buffalo steak and cornbread, omelets and buckwheat cakes with real maple syrup. Even better, come on down to the Heartland Cafe for breakfast at 7000 North Glenwood Avenue in Rogers Park. I will be on the program Live from the Heartland with Katie Hogan, broadcast every Saturday from the stage of the Heartland Cafe. If you’re in Chicago on Saturday, January 9, 2010, tune in to WLUW, 88.7 FM, Independent Community Radio, from 9:00 to 10:00 am. More information on the Reality Sandwich website. Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck, and a party after the talks. Other speakers will include famed visionary artist Alex Grey, author Margaret De Wys, Marvel comic book artist Adam Pollina, and Hamilton Morris, drug columnist for Vice Magazine. On Thursday, November 5, 2009, I will be speaking at Reality Sandwich’s 3rd Annual Ayahuasca Monologues, New Tales from the Spirit Vine, at the historic Webster Hall Grand Ballroom in New York.
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