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)