Exploring Psychedelics 2017 Schedule, Thursday, May 25th and Friday, May 26th

Click on Highlighted names to learn more about presenters

 

Thursday, May 25th, 9:45 am - 9 pm

 

9:45 am: Opening Remarks, Martin Ball

10 am – Kirra Swenerton, “The Medicine of Reciprocity: Conservation and Sustainable Relationships with Entheogens”  

10:30 am – Michael Scott, “Cannabis”

 

Oregon Activism and Culture

11 am – Tom and Sheri Ekert, “Consciousness Reclaimed:  The Rise of Psilocybin Services in Oregon: Oregon Psilocybin Society” 11:30 am – Paul J Von Hartmann, “Southern Oregon Ministry Association, SOMA”

 

12-1 pm, Lunch break

Author book signing, Joseph Tafur, MD, The Fellowship of the River

 

Sacred Mushrooms in Christian Art? – a Dialectical Conversation

1-2:30 pm, with Tom Hatsis, MA, & Jerry Brown, PhD

 

2:30 pm – Amanda MB Noconi, “Entheogens and the Eucharist: Altered States and the Origin of Sacrament”  

3 pm – Rev. Aryshta Dean, “The Mysteries of the Blue Lotus”

3:30 pm – Dr. Mary Porter, “Spiritual Evolution Reset/Reconnect”

 

5-MeO-DMT

4 pm – Merrill Ward, “Holding Space”

4:30 pm – Rak Razam, “The Flowering Soul”
5 pm - The Teafaerie, "Carrying the Light"

5:30 pm – Martin Ball, PhD, “Embodying Nondual Psychedelic Energy via Fractal Energetic Yoga”

 

6-7 pm, Dinner Break

 

Cultural Histories of Psychedelics in the West

7 pm – John Harrison, M.A., PsyD (c), & Ian Michael Hebert, M.A., “Esalen & Birth of the Psychedelic Movement”

8:00 pm – Robert Mitchell, “LA – the Benares of the West”

9 pm – end of the day/clean up

 

Friday, May 26th, 8:30 am - 6 pm

 

SOU Student Presenters

8:30 am – Shannon Connolly, “Ayahuasca: Mechanism of Action of Harmine and N,N-dimethyltryptamine”
9 am – Alexander Fitzhugh, “Psychedelics & System Change: Why the Prohibitionists Were Correct” 

9:30 am – Yashpal Jayne, PScD, ND(ret), “Reclaiming Entheogenic Rights”

10 am – Caitlin Thompson, “Psychedelics as a novel approach to autoimmune conditions”

10:30 am – Matthew Targett, “Entheogenic Training Aids”  

11 am – Brain Paul Smith, “DMT Visuals and Fractal Vision”

11:30 am – Martin Ball, PhD, “A Phenomenological Inventory of MDMA Psychedelic Visuals”

 

12-1 pm, Lunch Break

 

Neuroscience & Consciousness

1 pm – Thomas Ray, PhD, “Depth and Breadth of Consciousness”

2:30 pm – Eugene Alliende, MA, MFT,  “Dimensions of Being and the Ever-Present Singularity”
3 pm – Justin Panneck, M.Ed., M.S., Ph.D., “Entheogenic Subtlergy: The Psychoalchemical Science of Subtle Energy”

 

3:30 pm – Gerald Thomas, PhD,  “Integration and Therapy with Ayahuasca”

 

Iboga/Ibogaine, Addiction & Therapy, Panel Discussion

4-5:30 pm, Clinton Montgomery, Charles Johnston, & Spencer “Skip Wicked” Burton

 

5:30 pm – closing remarks, Martin Ball

 

Exploring Psychedelics After-party @ Jackson Wellsprings, 7:30-11 pm

 

$10-20, sliding scale, all ages

 

Live Music with Fractal Love Jam

DJ Dance set with SOLUS
Experience the Lucia Hypnogogic Light Machine!
Black Light Art and Live Painting
Vending by Super Mylk!

2017 Visionary Art Ambassadors and Featured Artists (click on highlighted names to see art or artist profiles):

Martin Ball, Erial Ali, Whitney Rolfe, Timothy White, Nate McClennen, Orchid Mandala, Azriel Hartmann, Jessalynn Jones, Sean Kyle Allum, Brian Paul Smith, Darren Minke, Bryan Ward