In Yalila's talk you will learn: 1) about her PhD research on how plant teachers can heal sexual trauma and enhance sexual vitality. 2) how your daily experience of sexuality can be expanded when the body is purified and activated. 3) what is possible for...

I’m excited to report that we’ve secured Kilindi Iyi as a presenter at this year’s Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, Oct. 24 and 25 at UBC in Vancouver. I was recently at a conference in Ashland, Oregon where Kilindi gave a brilliant presentation. Without a doubt it...

Jonathan Thompson has been added to the conference presenter roster. Stephen Gray caught Jonathan’s extremely well-received Skype presentation on psychedelic parenting at a recent conference in Ashland, Oregon and invited him to reprise it for our conference in...

Martin W. Ball is one of the feature presenters at the 2015 Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 24 and 25. You can view his bio at the “Guides and Visionaries 2015” page on the conference website. In his talk, Martin will present his...

Last year we put the title: “The Next Level: Deepening the Conversation” on the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (SPMC) homepage. That title sprang from the intuition that in some important sense the ‘community’ of those working with entheogens had to some extent...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...