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Erica Wohldmann: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World.
"Erica Wohldmann: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World" is the second in a series featuring the remarkable presenters at the 2016 Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC), scheduled for Oct. 29 and 30 at UBC in Vancouver BC. The first post in this series was published...
Cvita Mamic – In the Center of Ayahuasca Work
This post, "Cvita Mamic - In the Center of Ayahuasca Work," is the first in a series of blog posts on the remarkable presenters who'll be speaking at the 6th annual Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC), Oct. 29 and 30, 2016, University of British Columbia,...
Safe and effective use of Entheogens
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Just Added at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference
We have two exciting new additions to the conference 1. We've just added a special presentation on Sunday Oct. 25. Donnie Blaikie is a longtime roadman (ceremony leader) in the Native American Church (NAC). At 12:30 in the lecture hall Donnie will reprise a...
More Brilliant Presenters at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference
Sunday (Oct. 25) will be packed with remarkable presenters; shamanic, spacious music; a delicious vegan lunch courtesy of Eternal Abundance; and more opportunities to develop connections with fellow participants. Here’s what’s on for the day. Martin W. Ball, Ph.D will...
SPM Conference, Cannabis, and Canada’s Election – a crucial connection
Hmm, odd linkage perhaps? Here's the connection: The intention driving the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (Vancouver, Oct. 24, 25) is to provide a container and a community to deepen and extend knowledge and practice with entheogenic medicines for individual and...
THE POWER OF AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
This is the "and spirituality" side of Cannabis and Spirituality. Despite much misuse and misunderstanding, cannabis, among its benefits, is in fact a spirit medicine, an entheogen, when it is treated with respect as the holy herb and used skillfully. Cannabis has...
The Role of Music at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference
We’ll be absorbing and sifting brilliant ideas for two full days at the conference. Brains will be hard at work, synapses firing energetically. As a counterbalance to that kind of processing, we’ve intentionally spliced periods of spacious shamanic, meditative music...
The Women Emerging are the Hearts of the Nations
“Our people predicted through oral teachings, and as we say in Central America, it was written in stone; the gliffs were made, they were carved, left for the generations to come, and we were told that exactly at this particular time, the women would lead the nations.”...
Bringing Leading Guides and Visionaries Together
An international group of over a dozen exceptionally knowledgeable and engaging speakers has been assembled to share knowledge and insight to advance the development of entheogenic/Psychedelic medicine work.
Beginning & Deepening Your Personal Relationship with the Medicine of Master Plants
Join Traditional Curandero Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta from Cusco, Peru as we open our 2015 Conference with the Energy of deep reverence and coming together in community. This intimate evening will share an overall history and context of working with plant masters and the...
Sexual Healing Plant Medicines: The Possibility of Global Harmony
Gillian Maxwell will talk about her sexual healing through the use of plant based medicine, particularly how she has let go of old stories and consequent patterns that were deeply embedded in her psyche. As a result she has transformed her relationship with her...