Is now in its fifth year of bringing strong and clear voices to Vancouver to help usher in effective and sustainable engagement with these “entheogens” in all respects as they spread their influence deeper and wider. Now that so many have encountered spirit medicines like these, it appears we’ve reached a new level. The conversation is deepening and clarifying so that the remarkable benefits of these substances can take their place in a variety of forms of healing and awakening work. This shared intention links a heterogeneous community of those who are called to work with entheogens. As well as the exciting information and inspiration that have come to define the conference, we see this as a key event to strengthen that community for individual and collective benefit.

What, Why & Where

In this period of rapid change, the call to individual and collective awakening is clear. It’s beyond coincidence that the use of visionary/healing/awakening plants such as ayahuasca, psilocybe mushrooms, iboga, peyote, cannabis, and others is spreading rapidly at this time. When encountered in the best of conditions, these plants may be the most effective teachers we have now—direct conduits to the deepest, most enlightening truths.

Our intention with this fifth Spirit Plant Medicine Conference is to offer accurate, respectful, and most of all beneficial information and inspiration on the use of and larger context around such plants. It’s an intention arising from a vision and a prayer carried in the hearts of many. To that end we have assembled an exceptional group of knowledgeable, engaging, and heartfelt speakers to share their wisdom. You’re warmly invited to join us for a remarkable weekend of insight, inspiration, compassion, and yes, humour.

Schedule

Saturday October 24

10:00 – Opening Ceremony: Native Elder (TBA)

10:15 – Keynote address: Dr. Bruce Damer: “Dancing the Liminal Ridge”

11:15 – Mark Haden: “The Psychedelic Renaissance: Learning from History”

12:00 – 1:00 – lunch: onsite meals available from Eternal Abundance

12:30 – 1:00 – Gabor Maté book signing

1-1:15 – Theda Phoenix: meditative, shamanic music

1:15 – Gabor Maté: “Manifesting the Mind: Inside the Psychedelic Experience”

2:15 – Jason Silva: brilliant youtube rants

2:30 – Marguerite Rigoglioso: “From on High: Women’s Sacred Use of Hallucinogens in Antiquity & What It Means for the Future”

3:30 – tea break: meeting each other

4:00 – Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta: “Andean Wisdom Teachings of a Traditional San Pedro/Huachuma Master: A Sharing of Tradition through the practice of Saminchay, Ayni and Suma Causay”

5:00 – Martin W. Ball: “Non-Dual Energetic Therapy with Entheogens”

6:00 – Angela Prider and Gerald Thomas: “Roots to Treasure: Integrating Deep Healing with Plant Spirits”

7:00 – end of presentations, VIP dinner with presenters to follow.

Note: There will be a VIP/supporter dinner with several of the presenters on Saturday evening. Details and price TBA www.spiritplantmedicine.com/tickets/

Sunday October 25

10-10:15 – Matthew Kocel

10:15 – 10:50 – Devon Christie MD: “3 Pillars of Support for Healing with Spirit Plant Medicines”

10:50 – Jason Silva: more brilliant youtube rants

11:00 – Kathleen Harrison: title TBA (confirmation pending)

12:00 – lunch

1:00-1:15 – Theda Phoenix

1:15 – Jonathan Thompson – “Five Psychedelic Family Values”

2:00 – Annie Oak: “Rekindling Our Relationship with Traditional European Spirit Plants”

3-3:15 – short break

3:15- 4:15 – Panel: “Using Entheogens with Integrity: Problems, Pitfalls & Possibilities”: A discussion on sacred medicine’s role in planetary evolution. Marguerite Rigoglioso, Annie Oak, Bruce Damer, Donny Blaikie, (and maybe Kathleen Harrison).

4:15-4:45 – Kilindi Iyi: Closing Keynote Address “The Mushroom and Our Trans-Human Future”

4:45-5 – closing ceremonies with Native Elder (TBA)