The Return of the Delphic Oracle

The Return of the Delphic Oracle

That title is a somewhat obscure (and slightly lighthearted) way of referring to a key development in work with the sacramental medicines. It might also be termed “the return of the sacred feminine”. As we all know, the wisdom and power of women has been severely...
A Strengthening Vision

A Strengthening Vision

  Greetings fellow workers and seekers of wisdom and healing. This is the first post of 2015 for the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC). If you’re new to the conference you may want to take a look (under “Past Guides and Visionaries” at the SPMC website) at...
More Strong Voices to Represent the Entheogens

More Strong Voices to Represent the Entheogens

To borrow from Alan Watts, our collective intention is to “eff the ineffable and unscrew the inscrutable.” And as mentioned on the the About statement on the conference home page, our aim is also to deepen the conversation on sane and sustainable use of these...
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...