Awakenings & Epiphanies: Catalyzed by Entheogens and Life Events
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What does it mean to awaken? Is it a peak experience that lasts forever? Is that even possible given the cyclic nature of life? Is it a steady state that one can maintain? Are there levels to it? What are the life conditions that catalyze a peak experience and how can a person successfully navigate such an awakening, or series of awakenings? Is awakening for the select few, or is it an experience that anyone can access? Are there different kinds of awakenings?
What roles do entheogens play in awakening?
Join us us to hear narratives about a transformative personal awakening catalyzed by ayahuasca, iboga, psilocybin, cannabis, personal growth workshops, breath work, trauma, addiction, tragedy, crisis, curiosity, or other life events and the impact they have had or are having upon the speaker’s life.
TOPICS & SPEAKERS
each presentation is 20 minutes+10 minute q&a
GUEST OF HONOR
9:30 - 10 am
JERRY BROWN, PHD
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
And Mystical Experiences
Anthropologist, ethnomycologist, and award-winning educator. Founding Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University, Teacher, “Psychedelics and Culture.” course. Author, The Psychedelic Gospels
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LAKSHMI NARAYAN
10 – 10:30 am PST
Event organizer/host, Co-founder, President, Awake.net , Creative Director, Awake Media, Sedona, AZ
CRISIS AS CRUCIBLE
My ecstatic near-death awakening and what it taught me about the entheogenic journey
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MARTIE UNDERWOOD
10:30 – 11 am PST
Transpersonal Psychologist, South Africa
ARCHETYPAL
Peak Experiences and Transpersonal Psychology
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DARINA JOY
11 – 11:30 am PST
Chernobyl Survivor, Self-healer, Villcabamba, Ecuador
OPTIMYSTICAL PSYCHONAUT
From 40 year old Psychedelic Virgin to exploring 5 MEO DMT, Psilocybin, Aya, San Pedro, Bufo, Kambo and beyond
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MARK BORAX
11:30 am – 12 pm PST
Soul Level astrologer, author and headmaster of the College of Visionaries & Wizards
JOHN BARLEYCORN
How My First Acid Trip at a Traffic Concert in 1970 Changed My Life
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JON DENNIS
12 – 12:30 pm PST
Activist, lawyer, co-host of “Eyes on Oregon: a Psychedelics Today podcast,” and champion of religious and spiritual freedoms under Oregon’s fledgling psilocybin program.
BEING GOOD
Religions, Values, and Entheogenic Experiences
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LUNCH BREAK
12:30 – 1 pm PST
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KRIS SHANKAR
1:00 – 1:30 pm PST
Microsoft executive turned writer
ANCIENT THREAD
My Awakening with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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SHIVADASA GRADY MORTON
1:30 – 2 pm PST
Retired US Air Force Colonel, former F-16 jet fighter pilot, licensed attorney and guitar-playing philosopher and philanthropist
5 MEO DMT AS ROCKET FUEL
A spiritual awakening launched by the Toad, but stabilized and maintained through serious spiritual practice.
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DOCTOR ANDREW MACLEAN PAGON
Multicultural psychiatrist, physician, shaman
2:30 – 3 pm PST
I THINK THUS I'M NOT AWAKENING
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VAL CANINO
2:30 – 3 pm PST
Certified Parent-Teen Life Coach and a co-author in the International Best Selling Book, Business Life and the Universe
REMEMBER TO GUIDE
My Awakening to Parenting
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TIM CEBULA
3 – 3:30 pm PST
Writer and Editor, Maine, USA
A Non-Dual Awakening
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SUZY ROSS
3:30 – 4:00 pm PST
Professor and Coordinator of Recreation Therapy in the Department of Health Science and Recreation at San José State University.
The Hidden Half in Transformational Integration
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RYAN LARRAMAN
4 – 4:30 pm PST
Father/forester/coach/creative/pilot/astral projector. South African living in New Zealand seeing the planet as home.
Awakening from Fear with Salvia Divinorum
FEAT FUNDRAISER TICKET $20
This educational event is a FEAT Fundraiser to raise a $10k healing scholarship for one individual suffering from opioid addiction to interrupt their dependency with an ibogaine flood-dose clinical treatment and nine-month integration program. Learn more about FEAT's mission to end opioid addiction.