SPMC 2014: More Brilliant Speakers

SPMC 2014: More Brilliant Speakers

As I write this, the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference is barely more than a week away. For anyone seeing this blog post before having read any of the eight previous ones, the conference is bringing together nearly twenty authoritative voices from near and far with the...
Radical Reconnection

Radical Reconnection

Please allow me to explain the title. Let’s take “reconnection” first. Last year, several months ahead of the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC), I had a phone conversation with a friend and elder in the peyote prayer way of the Native American Church. I asked...
Plant Wisdom and the Sacred Feminine

Plant Wisdom and the Sacred Feminine

Greetings all. This is the seventh blog post featuring different aspects of and presenters at the upcoming Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, www.spiritplantmedicine.com, to be held at UBC Oct. 24-26. The previous six can be viewed here. In case you haven’t checked it...
Gathering of the Entheogenic Clans

Gathering of the Entheogenic Clans

Although “clans” may not be the perfect metaphor in this case, it serves the purpose of underlining the importance of gathering the loose community of all those connected to the development of work with entheogenic plants and substances. Laying it Down...
Sustainability, Set and Setting

Sustainability, Set and Setting

Greetings from the writing dungeon on behalf of the fourth annual Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC), scheduled for Oct. 24 to 26 at UBC in Vancouver, BC, Canada. There are several pre-conference events coming up very soon. Rather than list them here again,...