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🌍 2026 🌍
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Detroit Psych-delic Conference
September 11-13th, 2026 • Detroit, Michigan
Honored to join in circle with the Kilindi Iyi lineage-holders to present one of my special field-work talks ~ Mound-Builders, Archeoastronomy, and the Plants that Bridge Worlds !
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Good Medicine Confluence
October 12-15th, 2026 • Abiquiu, NM
Delighted to share two brand new talks this year (descriptions below), amongst a community I have the privledge of building with for well over a decade now! Click the pic to get the full scope of this wonderful event.
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Pillar Between Earth & Star:: Ethnobotany of Saguaro Cactus
Part ecosexual love poem to the life-giving botanical phallus of the Sonoran desert, part ethnobotanical deep-dive into one of the most unique plants of the wild west- join us for a lively history & mystery lesson on the holy union of Saguaro cactus, land, people, animal, and sky.
Iconic enough to have it’s own emoji, Saguaro stands tall as an aesthetic ambassador to the American southwest, while holding firm as Axis Mundi and keystone species to traditional peoples of Southern Arizona. Modern day psychonauts spread hearsay of psychedelic compounds, while ants, morning doves, and javelinas, feast without restraint on sun-cooked,
magenta fruits.
From seed to flesh to ribs to fruit, there is a dynamic story to tell, one of rain magic and celestial origins, phytochemistry and ancestral food-ways, bats and bobcats, life and death, harvesting and offering, taboo and toads, ancient memories that reach to the firmament, stars and sweat, and orienting to the elixir vitae of place.
Meta-Morphosis:: Herbs, Shapeshifting, & the Adventure of Becoming
What if healing isn’t something to effort towards, but a state we walk with?
While the notion of shapeshifting is often cornered towards the fringe, pseudo-spiritual memes, and dank catacombs of yesteryear, there is a transformative spark available here-now that can change us from the core. We find ourselves initiated- altered, not simply by things, but by places- in relationship.
In modern pop culture, the term “embodiment” lands with gravity, but what if embodiment included transcendence from fixed boundaries? Metagnomigenic herbs and fungi can be transportive vehicles within an enchanted terrain of self and world- inspirited compound-rich beings that we can temporarily become, and
walk with, in kinship.
Join for a tale of homecoming, field notes from walking ancestral lands, tripping, surviving, thriving, and discovering the medicine of place viscerally, through the terrain of self.
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SPRING
Society For the Anthropology of Consciousness Annual Conference
March 29th-April 1, 2026 • Las Vegas, NV
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Fruiting Bodies :: A Sentient and Sensory Cypher on Sacred Fungi
SAN DIEGO, CA • May 15th, 2026
with special guest, Mama de la Myco!
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Stepping Light :: Africa meets Wild West Psychedelic Herbalism
OAKLAND, CA • May 21st
with special guest, Ayize Jama-Everett!
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The Tale of Telepathine :: Botanical Way-Openers & the Organic Algorhythm
NEVADA CITY, CA • May 24th
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All Mushrooms are Magic :: A Global Survey of Entheogenic Fungi... and beyond!
PORTLAND, OR • June 3rd
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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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