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🌍 2026 🌍
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Society For the Anthropology of Consciousness Annual Conference
March 29th-April 1, 2026 • Las Vegas, NV
Good Medicine Confluence
October 12-15th, 2026 • Abiquiu, NM
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The Mushroom Tip :: Aphrodisiacs for Fungi Lovers
February 18th, 2025 • online & free!
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May 1-3rd, 2025 • Las Vegas, NV
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No Mushroom is an Island :: Entheogenic Fungi and their Forest Familiars
Seattle, WA
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Keystone Cacti :: Entheogenic Ethnobotany of the Southwest
Portland, OR
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Tea Time in Ancient America :: Legends and Legacy of Yaupon Holly
Nevada City, CA
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Southwest Funga Fest
August 1st-3rd • Tucson, AZ
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Good Medicine Confluence
August 17th-20th • Abiquiu, NM
Presenting two brand new lectures ::
• Misunderstood Pharmakon of Ancient America: Mound-Builders, Archeoastronomy & The Plants That Bridge Worlds
Across the eastern United States rests a pre-history of unsuspecting proportions. Mounds and earthworks conventionally dated up to 5,000+ years old reflect an untold story of mathematical and astronomical prowess not unlike Newgrange, Teotihuacan, Gobekli Tepi, and the Giza pyramids. Yet these monumental world heritage sites are scarcely visited, and have over the past hundred or so years, been effectively mowed over, dug up, or split down the middle with highways and byways.
While curious researchers focus on the how and the who, often romanticizing aliens and giants, I travelled first-hand to several of these remaining mound sites with libations in hand, notepad in tow, and a question in heart: What plants are here? Where are they endemic to? How did they spread? And how does this reflect the routes of cultural exchange, language, and ideas- botanical medicine traditions included!
Join in for a very special story hour, reflecting on Yaupon holly, Cacao, Sassafras, American Lotus, Tobacco, and the ethnobotanical echoes, and impact of these plants on modern day botanical commerce, drug culture, and medicine ways.
• Open Sesame: Botanical Way-Openers & the Organic Algorithm
What is the difference between organic & artificial intelligence?
At any crossroads, you need a good password. Nuanced combinations of plants, fungi, and critters are indeed the hidden-in-plain-sight keys that exalt, enhance, and unlock our relationships, not just to a wider-bandwidth of notable floral and fungal chemistry, but to an enriched intimacy with our very own inner-drugs, our neurotransmitters!
In our predominant narrative, people are transfixed by the “cure”- a single heroic ingredient adorned in power, promise, potency, and might. But what about the seemingly subtle way-openers and perception-tinkerers? How does the terrain (inner & outer) inform and enhance our experience of medicine? What is the tale of telepathine and indole alkaloids? How do so-called hypnotic compounds enhance our awareness? How can we play with our receptivity to better meet the “higher intelligence” of mushrooms, self, plants, and others as unified kin?
Whether by artful formulation, song, ambiance, or orientation, sometimes the sacrament becomes stronger, not by taking a larger dose, but by opening and anchoring in the present moment.
Join in for an ethnobotanical exploration in celebrating the organic intelligence of plants and planet- and the animate technologies that usher us through the thresholds. Open the gates, the way-makers have arrived!
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Merry Mushroom :: Ethnomycology of Amanita muscaria
September 11th • Prague, Czechia
Honored to present in my ancestral homelands!!
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Amanita Online Congress:: International and interdisciplinary: Congress on Science, Practice and Integration around the Fly Agaric
October 24th- November 2nd • ONLINE 🖤 my interview airs on October 26th
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The 2026 foundations cohort is now closed, and 2027 is reserved for advance topics, year 1 graduates only.
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