The Entheogenic Evolution

Exploring Psychedelics welcomes back Amanda Noconi for her talk, "Psychedelics, Feminism, and Oppression: How Cognitive Liberty is a Feminist Issue"

Making her second appearance at Exploring Psychedelics, here's Kirra Katine Swenerton with her talk, "Spirit Guides, Energetic Hygiene and Ritual Containers - Relational Technologies for Navigating Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness"

Kristina Castleberry makes her first public talk at the 2018 Exploring Psychedelics Conference, sharing her personal story of "The Power of Psychedelic Plants to Transform Trauma: A Survivor's Mystical Perspective"

History was made in Mexico City this past weekend with the World Bufo Alvarius Congress. I sat down with Hal Lucius Nation of the Temple of Awakening Divinity to share our thoughts on the amazing gathering. Listen in to get the inside download.

Local author and workshop facilitator Ana Holub takes to the Exploring Psychedelics stage with her work on "The Role of Forgiveness in Entheogenic Journeys"

Tara Rose joins Exploring Psychedelics for her first time, sharing her insights on "Cleansing the Ego with Entheogens: Kambo, Cannabis, and Ayahuasca"

Rev Aryshta Dean is welcomed back to the Exploring Psychedelics stage with her talk on "The Mystical Experience: Quantum Consciousness, Entheogens, and Container Theory - Beyond Set and Setting"

Here's John Harrison's talk on "So You Want to be a Psychedelic Therapist," discussing current trends in formalizing psychedelic therapy as well as the world of underground practitioners

Here's my own talk from the conference on "Nondual Energetic Therapy with 5-MeO-DMT," sharing just a few details of what the practice is, how it started, what I learned, and why I stopped, and some of the ideas contained in my book, Entheogenic Liberation

Andrew Joseph finishes off the first morning of Exploring Psychedelics 2018 with his talk, "Prohibition, The Constitution, and the Path to Legalization"

Novelist, Robert Owings, was recently my guest on the podcast. Here's his talk of "Fiction as a Gateway into Psychedelics" from the 2018 conference.

In this episode, I directly address some of the concerns, controversies, and issues surrounding the methods and practices employed by Octavio Rettig and how he works with toad medicine. This is not a defense, nor a condemnation, but more of an exploration of the issues to encourage more informed and balanced discussion.

Here's Cody Noconi's talk on "EntheoMagus: The Secret Psychedelic History of Mormonism." However, before we get to his talk, I address Cody's critical blog post regarding Exploring Psychedelics 2018, my comments, and I issue apologies in ways that I see fit. For anyone wanting to skip to Cody's talk, it starts around the 1 hour mark.

To get us started with the first talk from Exploring Psychedelics, we have Esteban DeCorazon, speaking about "Metaphysical Phenomena: Approaching the Psilocybin Spectrum"

Due to controversy and demand, we're starting off talks from the 2018 conference with the final section from Friday afternoon with the 5-MeO-DMT panel - featuring myself, Merrill Ward, Mario Garnier, Octvaio Rettig, Angela Ward, and Amanda Stevenson, moderated by Rak Razam.