Jordi Riba
Karen Helle Grue
Dr. David Nichols
Dr. Dennis Mckenna
Dr. Ede Frecska
Dr. Thomas Roberts
Dr. Christian Rätsch
Dr. Claudia Mueller-Ebeling
Dr. Manuel Torres
Donna Torres
Ayahuasca Pharmacology, Spirituality and Holotropic Breathwork
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
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Psychoactive Sacraments, Society and the Mind.
Dr. Thomas Roberts, Educational Psychologist.
Lectures by Ede Frecska:
- Expanded reality, and the Rules of Engagement in the Beyond
- The Origins of Creativity
- Synchronicities and Close Encounters of the Ancient Kind
- The Dark Side of the Brain
- The Emerging Era of Experienced-based Religion
- Multistate Mind Theory
- Prospectus for Community Psychedelic Centers, Inc.
- An Initial Public Stock Offering Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A Grofian Interpretation
Psychoactive Substances and Art Through History
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
- Visionary Art
- Types of Shamanism
- Ayahuasca Paintings
- The Antiquity of Psychoactive Plant Use in the Americas
- Tiahuanaco Iconography, Landscape, and Sacred Plants: A Precolumbian Writing System?
- Preserving indigenous plant traditions: botanical illustration in the Atacama Desert
(see Indigenous Botanical Illustration Project and
Chile Illustration Project)
- Visualizing nature: capturing the human/plant connection in graphite and watercolor (workshop).
Seminars are open for a maximum of twelve participants except for the August 5-18 seminar, open for only ten participants.
If you are interested or require further information, please contact Luis Eduardo Luna at luna@wasiwaska.org or
leluna47@hotmail.com.
Check out the 2007 seminar