Ayahuasca Pharmacology, Spirituality and Holotropic Breathwork
Invited speakers: Dr. Jordi Ribas, Pharmacologist, Karen Helle Grue, Jungian Psychologist, and Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator.
Lectures by Jordi Riba:
Chemistry and Pharmacology of Psychedelics.
Human Pharmacology of Ayahuasca.
Long-term Psychedelic Use and Cognitive Functioning
Lectures by Karen Helle Grue:
Freedom, Repression and the Great Mother, seen through fairytales and dreams.
How the Psyche Creates a Deeper Understanding of Itself Through the Language of Symbols.
The process of lifting the curse of the loss of deeper connection to inner and outer reality, seen through the fairytale East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
The Scientific Investigation of Psychointegrator Agents.
Invited speakers: Dr. Davis Nichols, Pharmacologist Dr. Dennis McKenna,
Ethnopharmacologist
Lectures by David Nichols:
A Basic Primer on The Chemistry of Psychedelics for Nonchemists
From 1938 To 2008, the 70 Year “Evolution” of Psychedelic Chemistry, with a Historical Timeline
The Contribution of Modern Molecular Pharmacology to Understanding Psychedelics: The Devil is in the Details.
Lectures by Dennis McKenna:
Basic Psychopharmacology:
The Psychopharmacopoeia; Licit and illicit psychoactive drugs; their actions, applications, uses and mis-uses; psychoactive drugs from nature; synthetic psychoactive drugs.
Psychoactive drugs in neuroscience and consciousness research.
Drugs and spirituality; do drugs have a role in spiritual practices?; cross-cultural perspectives; drugs and spirituality in the modern world; psychedelics as medicine: therapeutic applications of psychedelics; medicines for the spirit.
Invited speakers: Dr. Christian Rätsch, Anthropologist. Dr. Claudia Mueller-Ebeling, Art Historian. Dr. Manuel Torres, Art Historian and Archeologist. Donna Torres, Artist.
Lectures by Christian Rätsch:
Ethnobotanical parallels between Central and South America
DMT and Nature
The World Heritage of Shamanism
Lectures by Claudia Mueller-Ebeling:
Visionary Art
Types of Shamanism
Ayahuasca Paintings
Lectures by Manuel Torres:
The Antiquity of Psychoactive Plant Use in the Americas
Tiahuanaco Iconography, Landscape, and Sacred Plants: A Precolumbian Writing System?
The fee for each seminar is $2,200 Euros per person, everything included, except airfare: i.e. transportation to and from the airport, double occupancy, all meals and laundry. The seminar also includes several excursions around the beautiful Island of Santa Catarina, as well as other activities.
Seminars are open for a maximum of twelve participants except for the August 5-18 seminar, open for only ten participants.