Upcoming Seminars

  • October 12- October 25, 2024

    From the Very Large to the Very Small. Musings about the Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness

  • May 14 – May 27, 2024

    Psychedelic Sacred Plants and Health An Interdisciplinary Approach

Past Seminars

  • November 28-December 8, 2023

    Interdisciplinary Etnobotanical Seminar

  • October 3-16, 2023

    Sentient Nature in a More-Than-Human World

  • November 9-22, 2023

    Animism and Plant Ethology

  • November 15-28, 2022

    Psychedelics, Shamanism, and Human Evolution

  • October 11-24, 2022

    Animism, Sacred Plants, and Healing Through History

  • June 14-27, 2022

    Plant Sentience, Evolutionary Cognition, and Amerindian Animism

  • October 15-28, 2019

    Interdimensional and Plant Intelligence, Amerindian Animism, and the Anthropocene

  • March 30-April 12, 2019

    Micro and Macrocosmos, Animism, Science and Spirituality

  • October 1-14, 2018

    Consciousness, Neuroscience and Cosmology

  • October 18-31, 2017

    On the Nature of Consciousness, Death, and the Psychedelic Experience

  • August 1-14, 2017

    Sacred Plants, Religion, Spirituality and the Unexplained

  • October 5-18, 2016

    Visionary Art, Sacred Plants and the Imagination

  • August 1-14, 2015

    The Botany and History of Visionary Plants

  • April 27–May 10, 2015

    Visions, Epistemology, Death and Rebirth

  • March 30–April 12, 2015

    The Scientific Study of Psychointegrator Plants

  • April 28–May 11, 2014

    Entheogenic Education, Epistemology, Sound and Consciousness

  • April 22–May 5, 2013

    Spirituality, Fairy Tales, Sacred Plants and Holotropic Breathwork

  • March 29–April 11, 2013

    Traditional Societies, Creativity and the Holotropic Mind

  • October 1-14, 2012

    Shamanism, Biological and Cognitive Considerations

  • September 9-22, 2012

    Mayan Cosmology, Amazonian Lore and Holotropic Breathwork

  • August 6-19, 2012

    Frontiers of Spirituality and Consciousness Research, complemented by a workshop on Artistic Expression

  • April 21–May 4, 2012

    Visionary Art and Shamanism in Ancient South America and Amerindian Radical Epistemology

  • March 11-24, 2012

    Opening the Creative Channel

  • October 1-14, 2011

    October 1-14, 2011

  • August 1-14, 2011

    August 1-14, 2011

  • July 12-25, 2011

    July 12-25, 2011

  • August 28-September 10, 2010

    Consciousness, Evolutionary Theory and Creativity. An Interdisciplinary Seminar

  • August 9-22, 2010

    Entheogens, Consciousness and Spirituality

  • July 22-August 4, 2010

    Mayan Cosmology, Shamanism, Trance Dance, Percussion and Holotropic Breathwork

  • July 3-16, 2010

    Ancient Pre-Columbian Art and Shamanism, Visualizing Nature and Holotropic Breathwork

  • August 5-18, 2009

    Psychoactive Substances and Art Through History

  • July 16-29, 2009

    Psychoactive Sacraments, Society and the Mind

  • June 27-July 10, 2009

    The Scientific Investigation of Psychointegrator Agents

  • June 4-18, 2009

    Ayahuasca Pharmacology, Spirituality and Holotropic Breathwork

  • August 18–31, 2008

    Theoretical and Experiential Seminar on Shamanism

  • July 30–August 12, 2008

    DMT, Shamanic Consciousness and the Supernatural

  • July 7–20, 2008

    Sacred Plants, Creativity and the Human Imagination

  • June 9–22, 2008

    Psychointegrators, Holotropic Breathwork, Spirituality and the Mind

  • March 20–31, 2008

    Art, Technology and Altered States of Consciousness

  • August 11-24, 2007

    Ayahuasca, Shamanism & DMT

  • June 25-July 8, 2007

    Shamanistic Consciousness: The Exploration of the Supernatural and Its Role in Human Evolution

  • June 4-17, 2007

    Consciousness, Nature, Biodanza and Holotropic Breathwork

  • April 1-14, 2007

    From Ancient Egypt to our Moment in History