Past Presenters
2019 Presenters

Zoe Helene
Zoe Helene is an artist and cultural activist best known for coining and popularizing the term Psychedelic Feminism and founding the...

Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who promotes natural, plant-based medicines, sustainable trade and...

Michael Stuart Ani
Michael Stuart Ani has been a student of plant wisdom for fifty years. As a young man, the Lakota sage, John Fire Lame Deer, guided...

The Dank Duchess
Oakland, California-based The Dank Duchess, an internationally recognized cannabis cultivator, hashmaker, and writer who believes...

Jamie Wheal
Jamie Wheal is theauthor of the global bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominated Stealing Fire:How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs and Maverick...

Dennis McKenna
Dennis McKenna’s professional and personal interests are focused on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant...

Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia...

Rachael Carlevale
Rachael Carlevale, a permaculture farmer, yoga instructor, mindfulness educator, cannabis activist, and cultivator, is working toward an...

William Richards, Ph.D.
William A. Richards (Bill) is a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview...

Antoinette Cruz
Vancouver-based Antoinette Cruz has a deep passion for her history and the history of colonialization, she claims the biggest gift...

Brigitte Mars
Boulder, Colorado-based master herbalist, author and university professor Brigitte Mars (@brigitte.mars) has been working with plant...

Tonye Aganaba
Tonye Aganaba (@tonyeaganaba) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and facilitator in the unceded territories of the Squamish,...

James Jesso
James W. Jesso is an author, public speaker, and podcast host with a deep respect for psychedelic medicines. His work is inspired by...

Sabrina Pilet-Jones
Sabrina Pilet-Jones received Cosmic Sister’s immersive Plant Spirit Grant in 2018 to experience ayahuasca ceremonies at Temple of The Way...

Christopher Bache
Christopher M. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he...

Vanessa Lefan Yuen
Vancouver, BC-based Vanessa Lefan Yuen (@van_lefan), is a performing artist, adventurer, holistic wellness counselor, life coach and...

Mark Haden
Psychedelic Research in Vancouver Mark Haden is a major figure in the field of psychedelic medicines, with a long list of past and present...

Sarinda Hoilett
Sarinda Hoilett @sarindah) is a plant food alchemist and chef, yoga instructor, holistic massage practitioner, philosopher, and mother....

Soheil Samimi
Soheil is the Founder & CEO of a Vancouver based company called "The Plant Medicine Company", with its current focus on innovative...

Mauro Perez
"The plants and animals of the rain forest are my teachers." Mauro Reategui Perez is becoming one of the most visible and sought after...

Theda Phoenix
Theda Phoenix is a sacred sound channel, intuitive singer, sound-healer, songwriter and recording artist whose enchanting voice, shamanic...

Shine
Renowned Australian didjeridu master Shine has been performing, teaching, and offering sound healing for close to 30 years. He has...

Briege Farrelly
Briege is a dedicated Yogini and Yoga teacher, Medicine Woman, Counselor and Psychospiritual Facilitator. She is passionate about...
2018 Presenters

Paul Stamets
Psilocybin Mushrooms Are Medicinal: The Case for People Medicine vs. Profit Medicine Watch this recent Interview with Paul Stamets Paul...

Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who promotes natural, plant-based medicines, sustainable trade and...

Dennis McKenna
Dennis McKenna’s professional and personal interests are focused on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant...

Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia...

Christopher Bache
Christopher M. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he...

Theda Phoenix
Theda Phoenix is a sacred sound channel, intuitive singer, sound-healer, songwriter and recording artist whose enchanting voice, shamanic...

Dr. Claudia Ford
Dr. Ford’s career in international management, development, and women’s health spans three decades and all continents. Claudia holds a PhD...

Elizabeth Bast
The Evolution of Our Intimacy: An Iboga Medicine Love StoryAuthor Elizabeth Bast was originally brought to the iboga medicine to help...

Dawn Musil
Women’s Empowerment Through Entheogens—A Psychedelic Feminism Liberation Story Dawn Musil has a bachelor’s of science in Biochemistry and...

Samantha Retrosi
Waking Up the Sacred Warrior: Viral Culture, Social Illness, and Disrupting the Structure that Lives Inside. Samantha Retrosi, a PhD...

Yessia Muse
Yessia Muse is the first certified Kambo practitioner in the state of Oregon. She received her certification through the International...

Bruce Sanguin
“Opening Your Beautiful Heart: The Work of Integration and the Perils of Spiritual Bypassing” Bruce Sanguin is a psychotherapist living on...

Tom & Sheri Eckert
As husband-and-wife founders of the Oregon Psilocybin Society (OPS) and authors of the Psilocybin Service Initiative (PSI), Tom and Sheri...

Thomas Hatsis
Thomas Hatsis is an historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia. He...

Laurel Sugden
Opening the Gates of Heaven: 4,000 years of Mystery and Medicine in the Andes Often called “the heart medicine,” the mescaline-containing...

Selena Wong
Educator, Cannabis Entrepreneur, Ordained Metaphysical Minister Selena Wong is a devotee to the Cannabis Plant as a Spirit Plant Medicine...

Christopher Solomon
Salvia Divinorum: The New Teacher Christopher Solomon has been cultivating a relationship with Salvia Divinorum for over a decade. After...

Rama Achala
Lunch Hour ‘Mini-workshop’: Healing Chronic Illness with Amazonian Medicines.Rama (HeartOfKambo.com) is the first and only advanced IAKP...
2017 Presenters

Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who promotes natural, plant-based medicines, sustainable trade and...

Mark Haden
Psychedelic Research in Vancouver Mark Haden is a major figure in the field of psychedelic medicines, with a long list of past and present...

Thomas Hatsis
Thomas Hatsis is an historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia. He...

Mary Porter
Mary Porter is a descendant of the Nez Perce; Yakama, Wasco tribes, and is the co-founder of Looking Glass Peyote Church of Oregon. Mary...

Sonja Myllymaki
Sonja Myllymaki has been learning and practicing shamanic plant medicine for the past ten years, primarily within several Shipibo-Conibo...

Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal is the Founder and Executive Director of the American Botanical Council (ABC), an independent, nonprofit research and...

Dr. Natalie
Dr. Natalie is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor, Herbalist, and Core Faculty member in the Integrative Health Studies Department at the...

Nese Devenot
Nese Devenot is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches classes...

Dawn Davis
Dawn D. Davis, M.A., is a tribal person belonging to the membership of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall, Idaho. She holds a...

Cristina Orbé
Cristina Orbé is a non-profit founder, artist, educator, and seeker. In 2008, she co-founded FEEST, a nationally (USA) recognized youth...

Joe Tafur
Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine...

Kateri Walker
Kateri Walker is a tribal member of the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation, Ontario, Canada, and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of...

Terry Sidhu
Terry Sidhu, International Life Coach and CEO of VanCity Life Coach Inc., launched his coaching practice with a mission to help evolve of...

Trevor Millar
Trevor Millar is a social-entrepreneur and owner of Liberty Root Therapy Ltd., serving those called to experience the healing properties...

Soheil S.
Soheil Samimi’s professional background is in business and technology, having been a pioneer and a founder of innovative start-ups in the...
2016 Presenters

Bruce Damer
Join Marc Caron and Stephen Gray as we speak with Dr. Bruce Damer, one of this years speakers at the Virtual Spirit Plant Medicine...

Mark Haden
Psychedelic Research in Vancouver Mark Haden is a major figure in the field of psychedelic medicines, with a long list of past and present...

Thomas Hatsis
Thomas Hatsis is an historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia. He...

Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist, artist, and photographer who researches the relationship between plants and people, with a...

Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham~"The Shaman’s Pharmacy - Indigenous Psychedelic Pharmacology" Chris Kilham, known globally as The Medicine Hunter, conducts...

Ralph Metzner, Ph.D
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. is a recognized pioneer in psychological, philosophical and cross-cultural studies of consciousness and its...

Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is the cofounder and director of Project CBD, an educational service that reports on cannabis science, therapeutics and...

Dr. Erica Wohldmann
Dr. Erica Wohldmann holds a joint Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from the CU, Boulder, and is a Professor at CSU, Northridge...

Mark Haden
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Learning from History The Psychedelic Renaissance: Learning from History Mark Haden is a major figure in the...

Leanna J. Standish ND, PhD, L.Acup., FABNO
Dr. Standish is a neuroscientist and physician living and working in Seattle WA. She holds faculty appointments at the University of...

Robyn Griggs Lawrence
Robyn Griggs Lawrence is sharing the tremendous health and wellness benefits of cannabis with the world. She envisions a world in which...

Cvita Mamic
Cvita Mamic is a healer, artist and co-founder of Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual Ayahuasca Healing Center in Peru. Her journey with plant...

Galen R. Brandt
Galen R. Brandt is a writer, cross-cultural storyteller, performer, songwriter and singer. She pioneered the exploration and use of...

Anand David Embry
Anand David Embry (B. of Music in flute and Certified Clinical Musician) studied vocal awareness with Chloe Goodchild of ‘The Naked Voice’...
2015 Presenters

Bruce Damer
Join Marc Caron and Stephen Gray as we speak with Dr. Bruce Damer, one of this years speakers at the Virtual Spirit Plant Medicine...

Mark Haden
Psychedelic Research in Vancouver Mark Haden is a major figure in the field of psychedelic medicines, with a long list of past and present...

Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist, artist, and photographer who researches the relationship between plants and people, with a...

Mark Haden
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Learning from History The Psychedelic Renaissance: Learning from History Mark Haden is a major figure in the...

Martin W. Ball
Nondual Energetic Therapy with Entheogens Nondual Energetic Therapy with Entheogens Martin W. Ball, received his Ph.D. in Religious...

Annie Oak
Rekindling Our Relationship with Traditional European Spirit Plants. Rekindling Our Relationship with Traditional European Spirit Plants....

Marguerite Rigoglioso
Tales of a Reincarnated Delphic Oracle: Tales of a Reincarnated Delphic Oracle: How the Plants Have Informed My Life & Given Vision to...

Jonathan Thompson
5 Psychedelic Family Values 5 Psychedelic Family Values Jonathan is the Founder of PyschedelicParenting.org, a resource for building...

Gerald Thomas
Roots to Treasure – Integrating Deep Healing with Plant Spirits Roots to Treasure – Integrating Deep Healing with Plant Spirits Rites of...

Kilindi Iyi
Psilocybin Tool Of Consciousness Exploration Psilocybin Tool Of Consciousness Exploration This talk will explore psilocybin as an...

Angela Prider
Roots to Treasure - Integrating Deep Healing with Plant Spirits Roots to Treasure - Integrating Deep Healing with Plant Spirits Rites of...

Don Blaikie
Using Entheogens with Integrity: Problems, Pitfalls, & Possibilities - Panel Discussion Using Entheogens with Integrity: Problems,...

Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta
Andean Wisdom Teachings of a Traditional San Pedro/Huachuma Master: A Sharing of Tradition through the practice of Saminchay, Ayni and...

Dr. Gabor Mate
Manifesting the Mind: Inside the Psychedelic Experience Manifesting the Mind: Inside the Psychedelic Experience Gabor Maté is a medical...
2014 Presenters

Zach Walsh
Zach Walsh, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he...

Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett has been researching the history of cannabis for 25 years, with a particular focus on its role in magic and religion. He has...

Aletheia
Aletheia is an ecumenically minded, classically trained Spiritual Director and Vajrayana Tantrika whose work has been deeply informed by...

Dennis McKenna
Dennis McKenna’s professional and personal interests are focused on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant...

Evgenia Fotiou
Evgenia Fotiou is Assistant Professor of anthropology at Kent State University. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology and Latin American...

Don Blaikie
Don Blaikie has been about as steeped and processed as anyone in the Earth and Spirit wisdom worldview of Native North American...

Gillian Maxwell
Gillian Maxwell is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is an experienced coach and facilitator, public speaker, and knowledge exchange...

Kenneth Tupper
Kenneth Tupper is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, where his...

Mark Haden
Mark Haden has provided public education on drugs and drug policy for over thirty years. He works with the Health Officers Council of...

Oliver Hockenhull
Oliver Hockenhull works in film, video, hyper media installations, writing, and design. He has taught at Northwestern University in...

Paul Kroeger
Paul Kroeger has studied mushrooms for over thirty-five years and is a founding member and current president of Vancouver Mycological...

Gerald Thomas
Gerald Thomas is an Associate with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse in Ottawa and a Collaborating Scientist with the Centre for...

Yalila Espinoza
Yalila Espinoza is a spiritual health practitioner and intimacy coach who integrates art, music, dream-work, ancestral ritual and sacred...

Stephen Gray
Stephen Gray has been a lifelong student, teacher and researcher of spiritual paths, in particular Tibetan Buddhism and the peyote...

Philippe Lucas
Philippe Lucas has a Masters degree in Studies in Policy and Practice from the University of Victoria and is a PhD student in the...

Soheil S.
Soheil Samimi’s professional background is in business and technology, having been a pioneer and a founder of innovative start-ups in the...

Rielle Capler
Rielle Capler, MHA. After obtaining her masters degree in health administration, Rielle worked at Canada’s first medical cannabis...

Andrew Feldmár
Andrew Feldmár is a psychologist who has worked as a psychotherapist in private practice, in Vancouver, for 45 years now. He first...
2013 Presenters

Bia Labate
Beatriz Caiuby Labate has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas,...

James W. Jesso
James W. Jesso is a Calgary, Alberta based author, conference speaker, workshop leader, and event coordinator who used psilocybin...

Sean Hamman
Sean Hamman has a longstanding and intimate relationship with visionary, healing plant medicines. He has undoubtedly been called to this...

TJ Dawe
Presenting “MEDICINE” at SPMC TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, performer and director. He’s participated in more than one hundred...

Martin W. Ball, Ph.D
Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., is a writer, independent publisher, energy worker, visionary artist, and musician currently living in Ashland...

Natasha English
An Entheological Guide to the Nature of Reality Natasha English is a Nondual / Transpersonal Therapist . In her practice she employs a...

Richard Yensen
Richard has been a pioneer in transpersonal psychology since 1972 when he began his psychedelic research career at Maryland Psychiatric...

Robert Tindall
Robert Tindall, M.A. is a writer, classical guitarist, long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism, and an inveterate traveler, whose work...

Susana Bustos
Susana Bustos, Ph.D., holds degrees in Clinical Psychology (1992) and in Music Therapy (2002) from Chilean universities, as well as a...

Steve Dyer
Steve Dyer has been deeply engaged with spiritual practices, including entheogens, throughout his adult life. Steve’s initiation into what...

Gabor Mate
Gabor Maté M.D. is a bestselling author whose books have been published in nearly twenty languages worldwide. Dr. Maté is highly sought...

Don Blaikie
Don Blaikie has been about as steeped and processed as anyone in the Earth and Spirit wisdom worldview of Native North American...
2012 Presenters

Sitaramaya
Sitaramaya began working in the physical and spirit plant realms after a thirteen year period of abstinence from all alcohol and drugs and...

Satyen Raja
Satyen Raja, Founder of WarriorSage and Ignite Passion Now. He is a living synthesis of Eastern wisdom and Western practicality,...

Dee Dussault
Dee Dussault is a teacher of yoga, tantra, and sacred sexuality. She is one of the only western yoga teachers to publicly advocate and...

Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson is a traveller, writer, and organizer with a longstanding passion for ceremony, and the healing and inspirational...

Kenneth Tupper
Kenneth Tupper is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, where his...

Stephen Gray
Stephen Gray has been a lifelong student, teacher and researcher of spiritual paths, in particular Tibetan Buddhism and the peyote...

Stephan Beyer
Stephan V. Beyer, Ph.D., J.D. For more than forty years, Steve Beyer has been fascinated by the sorts of anomalous human experiences that...

Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist, artist, and photographer who researches the relationship between plants and people, with a...

James Fadiman
Author of The Psychedelic Explorer, talk title: “New Applications for Visionary Plant Wisdom” James Fadiman B.A. (Harvard) M.A., Ph.D....

Jennifer Rae
Jennifer Rae, MSc, Botanist based in Saskatchewan, Canada. "What the Plant Kingdom is Telling Us" Jennifer Rae is a plant ecologist and a...

Ayasmina Flores
AyasminA Flores is a professional interpreter, translator, legal advocate, and documentarian fluent in six languages, whose lifelong...