Schedule of Events
March – August
2008
1. March 20
- 31.
'Art, Technology and Altered States
of Consciousness'
A series
of lectures with Professor Roy Ascott, along
with Trance Dance and percussion sessions
with Rodolfo Schlachet and three lectures
by Luis Eduardo Luna.
Three lectures by Professor Roy Ascott
• From Cezanne to Cybernetics.
• The Three VRs: virtual reality, validated
reality and vegetal reality.
• Art and the Syncretic Paradigm.
Rodolfo Schlachet, will
lead two free trance dance sessions, in the
beginning and the end of the seminar. he will
also lead four percussion sessions.
Three Lectures by Luis Eduardo Luna
• Visionary Art in pre-Columbian America.
• Art and Ayahuasca.
• Our Ever Changing Cosmology - Towards the
Big Picture.
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2.
June 9 -
22.
'Psychointegrators,
Holotropic
Breathwork,
Spirituality
and the Mind' with
Dennis McKenna,
ethnopharmacologist,
Karen
Helle Grue,
Jungian psychologist,
and Holotropic
Breathwork
facilitator and Luis Eduardo Luna.
Four lectures by Dennis McKenna
• Healing
Journey: Psychedelics
in Medicine.
• Plant
Human Coevolution.
• The Neuroscience
of Spirituality.
• Mushroom
and the Mind.
Lecture
by Karen Helle
Grue
• The
rejection of
masculinity
in Christian
culture seen
through dreams
and the H.C.
Andersen fairytale "The
Travel Companion".
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3.
July 7 -
20.
'Sacred Plants,
Creativity
and the Human
Imagination' with
Dale Pendell,
poet, and
David Presti,
neurobiologist
and Luis
Eduardo Luna,
anthropologist,
combined
with a mask
seminar by
Adriana Rosa,
cultural
producer.
Three
lectures
by Dale Pendell
• The
Poison Path
and the Wisdom
of Eve.
• Divination
and the Modern
Worldview.
• Psychoactive
Plants and
History .
Three
lectures
by David
Prestil
• Neurobiology
and Consciousness.
• Steps
Toward a
Revolution
in the Mind
Sciences.
• Death,
Near-Death,
Out-of-Body
Experiences,
and the
Mind-Body
Problem.
Three
lectures by
Luis Eduardo
Luna
• Psychointegrator
Plants of Ancient
South America.
• Ayahuasca
and Creativity.
• Jigsaws
from the Big
Puzzle.
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4.
July 30 -
August 12
'DMT, Shamanic
Consciousness
and the Supernatural' with
Rick Strassman,
psychiatrist,
Graham Hancock,
writer, and
Shanta Hancock,
photographer.
Three lectures
by Graham Hancock
• Recovering
the Fingerprints
of a Lost Civilisation.
• As Above, so Below – The Ancient
System of Sky-Ground Magic in Architecture, Myth
and Measurement.
• Shamanistic consciousness: The supernatural
and human evolution.
Three lectures by Rick Strassman
• From
Fireworks to
Biblical Prophecy
- A Long and
Winding Trip
through Other
Realities"
• DMT - The Spirit Molecule.
• Prophecy - What it is, How it Works, and
Why it is our Natural Birthright.
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5.
August 18
- 31
'Theoretical
and Experiential
Seminar on
Shamanism' with
Hank Welsseman,
paleoanthropologist
and shamanic
journeyer,
Michael Winkelman,
anthropologist,
Ede Frecska,
psychiatrist,
and Luis
Eduardo Luna,
anthropologist.
Two lectures
by Hank Wesselman
• Hawaiian perspectives
on
the Nature
of the Soul Cluster,
the Nature
of Reality
and on Life
Roles.
• Experiential Shamanism.
Three lectures by Michael Winkelman
• Cross-cultural
and Neurophenomenological Perspective on Shamanism.
• The
Biogenetic
Bases of
Shamanism and its Roles
in the Evolution
of Human Consciousness.
• Psychointegators: Cross-cultural and Neurophenomenological
Perspectives on Psychedelic Medicines.
Lecture by Ede Frecska
• Embodied Spirituality, Embodied Consciousness:
Integrative View on the Human Experience.
Lectures by Luis Eduardo Luna
• Amazonian Shamanism
and Animal Transformation.
• Entities in the Ayahuasca
World. A Discussion.
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Check
out last year's seminars (2007)