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In Conversation
– with Douglas Rushkoff

By secretary@entheogenesis.org on September 30, 2022

From hanging with Tim Leary in the 80s underground psychedelic culture to playing a crucial role chronicling the rise (and maybe fall) of cyberpunk rave culture in the 90s, Douglas Rushkoff has been at the frontline of some startling cultural…

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

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Douglas Rushkoff will be streaming into the conference for a live ‘in conversation’ piece with writer and long-term friend of EGA, Rich Haridy. Winner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement…

Plant tissue culture
– Darklight & Jess

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Plant tissue culture can be an easy way to produce large numbers of disease-free clones much faster than more conventional propagation techniques. It’s also a starting point for further plant molecular and metabolic studies, mutation breeding,…

Embodied Plant Wisdom
– Stephanie Hazel

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Entheogens and psychedelic journeys can facilitate communication and relationships with plants, and provide ecological and medicinal insight. In fact, they have done just this for healers throughout plant people throughout the ages.…

Permaculture: Stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance
– David Holmgren

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David Holmgren draws on a lifelong passion for ethnobotanical knowledge and practise to tell stories that celebrate abundance and diversity pushing the boundaries of social and at times legal norms. These true stories cut paths through…

Psychedelics in Medicine. Placebo or panacea?
– Dr Suresh Muthukumarasway

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There is increasing interest in the potential for psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, LSD and ketamine to treat several mental health disorders, with a growing number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) being conducted to investigate…

Strychnine
– Keeper Trout

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Strychnine What is strychnine, and why do people seem to believe that it is in so many different plants and drugs? Has that ever been true? If so, why, when, and where And why do so many people want to believe that strychnine causes symptoms that…

Tobacco Substitutes in Australia – the Whitefella Perspective
– Snu Voogelbreinder

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Following on from my previous EGA presentation on pituri and tobacco substitutes used by Aboriginal Australians, we revisit the topic from another angle by looking at plants used by non-indigenous Australians as tobacco substitutes. The…

The 3F Initiative: Conservation of Fungi
– Giuliana Furci

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In this talk Giuliana will discuss how The Fungi Foundation and other organisations are committed to using “mycologically inclusive” language in their internal and public-facing communications (“Fauna, Flora and Funga” and “animals,…

A European Mind
– Bruce Pascoe

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Entheogenesis Australis recently caught up with Aboriginal Australian writer and historian Bruce Pascoe for a meandering yarn. To tide our ethnobotanical appetites over until our main event on December 5th we are screening our meeting…