Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy research is being expanded to examine its effectiveness for people with a variety of diagnostic presentations. Is there a one-size-fits-all model, or do we need to consider expanding our models? …
The St Vincent’s Melbourne Psilocybin-Palliative Care Trial
Friday, 31st January 2020, was a momentous day in the history of psychedelic research in Australia, as the clinical team of St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne’s landmark trial of…
Between Sex and Death – A Journey in the Mycosphere
The scent of the prized Périgord truffle is somewhere 'between sex and death', according to one Australian forager. This fungus vies with Iranian caviar as one of the most expensive foods in…
New World Technology and Old World Wisdom
This talk explores VR scenarios designed to promote movement through phases of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and discusses a novel protocol that utilizes unique features of VR as the moderator…
Discovering the ancient through native power plants
Belladonna, Henbane, and Datura are some of the European power plants holding the key to an altered mind perspective, as well as being important physically-active medicine. Since ancient…
The alchemical life
Working with the potency of an alchemical language to explore plants enables me to imagine their dreams and desires. A series of collected images of
artworks that reference the lives of plants forms this presentation.…
Lila has been working with medicinal plants and indigenous methodologies of healing for twenty-five years. She began her journey in the Atacama Desert of Peru and later initiated as sangoma - traditional healer and seer - in the Shona tradition…
Philosophical issues in psychedelic research: A review of emerging themes
Serotonergic (or “classic”) psychedelics have struck many researchers as raising significant philosophical questions that, until recently, were largely unexplored…
MDMA research down under: What does a decade of persistence look like?
Prior to MDMA being banned internationally in 1987, it was showing promise as a pharmacological adjunct to psychotherapy. In the past decade, there has been significant…
Whose Stories Are We Telling: Ethnobotanical Understandings in the Corporadelic Era
Storytelling has played a central role in the creation and transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge throughout time. Entheogenic plants have…
