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🌍 2025 🌍

UPCOMING....



1st time in Seattle, WA! • click the pic for details... 



Portland, OR • click the pic for details... 



Nevada City, CA • click the pic for details... 



SUMMER



Returning to the GMC, now in beautiful 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!

*Looking for a discounted ticket? I may have an extra one for you- send me a message!*


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EARLIER THIS YEAR....

The Mushroom Tip :: Aphrodisiacs for Fungi Lovers
February 18th, 2025 • online & free!

SPRING

Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, 42nd annual conference
May 1-3rd, 2025 • Las Vegas, NV

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🌍 2024 🌍

EARLY WINTER



AUTUMN

Immateria Medica :: Ethnobotany of Datura
December 1st, 2024 • ONLINE
live + recorded, available anytime

Oklahoma Fungi Fest
October 12-13, 2024 • Oklahoma City, OK

SUMMER

Good Medicine Confluence
July 10-13, 2024 • Durango, CO

MycoFest 
August 2-4, 2024 • Centre Hall, Pensylvannia

TABOO TONICS & TREASURED TOXINS: ETHNOBOTANY OF THE MISUNDERSTOOD ENTHEOGENS
August 16th • 1-3pm • Minneapolis, MN

Big Psych Symposium
August 17-18, 2024 • Minneapolis, MN

SPRING

• April 21st pm • Nevada City, CA •  Keystone Cacti: Desert Ethnobotany 
• April 25th pm • Arcata, CA • Merry Mushroom: Amanita muscaria Ethnomycology (the abridged version!) 
• May 5th pm • Portland, OR • Immateria Medica: Ethnobotany of Datura

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PRIVATE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS

One-on-one studies are one of my favorite things to offer. Custom-tailored, co-creative, and beautifully woven curriculum for head, heart, spirit, and collective. This is not just about understanding the medicine of the outer terrain, but also innerstanding the medicine you've carried all along, connecting the two into a cohesive, functional, living, breathing, practical synthesis. 

A full term syllabus includes :: ethnobotany, traditional and clinical herbalism perspectives, mycology, history, botany, phytochemistry, hands-on apothecary techniques, and ancestral medicine, along with adjunct explorations based on your unique interests.

Mentorship programs are a minimum 1 year committment, and can be held in-person or via online video calls- though at least one visit to connect in the Sonoran Desert is highly recommended.

🖤 FULL-IMMERSION MENTORSHIPS HAVE REACHED CAPACITY FOR 2024 🖤 

2025 MENTORSHIP UPDATES

For the past 7 years, I have been quietly working 1:1 with a small handful of mentees, offering personalized long-form curriculum in the art, science, and magic of ethnobotany and beyond...

Think of it as an extended personalized consultation where, along with your trusty guide, you get to learn, taste, touch, and feel history & herbalism through your beautiful, unique body.

This year, I am dreaming up something a little different, and am excited to share with you!

If you have been curious, I thank you in advance. Stay tuned for an announcement about a very special upcoming year-long immersion... or shall we say, decoction!

New mentees will be welcomed in AUTUMN!
Applications will open with the monsoons.

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