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This year, well, the last few years -for me- has been building up to something - culture overload. It's happening, I need to get out. I haven't yet left my parents home, but wish to now ASAP. I have been wistfully thinking of commune life for the past few months and today decided to see what I could find out online. I found this site http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/commune_land.html There are many many Australian links, most of them don't work though. This surprised me greatly, these places exist! Does anyone here have any information on any particular communes in Australia? Perhaps point me in the right direction? Are there communes with a basis on the use of entheogenic plants? And is anyone else here interested in this also? Any info would be greatly appreciated. I don't know how much longer I can sustain existence within the cola-guzzling, who wants to be a millionaire-watching society. too much.

Yes its true, this years Entheogenesis talks are finally ready to be heard! :D >>> http://www.cuodan.net/~being/index.html ...There are a few quality issues, mostly due to the space heater that was blaring away keeping us all cosy in the hall during the talks, however i've cleaned them up as best i could, and compressed them down as much as possible without too much distortion. I've also attempted to amp up the volume on peoples questions so you can make them out, but particularly when they're at the back of the room (or just have tiny little voices such as myself) you're just not going to hear them... Particularly Krusty's talk being one big discussion, mostly without microphone (and the only one to be recorded originally in MP3 instead of WAV - losing a lot of quality), its a bit of a strain at times. but that's enough disclaimers! They're all still a bloody good listen! Big thanks to Ronny for supplying all the info for the site, apothecary for actually making this possible by supplying the temp home, (while i get my shit together and buy a permanent home for the site) and of course to J for actually recording the talks while i was having sleep-deprived fun all weekend! so yeah dig in! and share the addy around -would be awesome to get these unique aussie perspectives around the globe! edit: almost forgot.. Shane and Margaret, Carl and Michael's talks which are missing will most likely be available early next year... they were stored on a mac which died somewhere between Germany and Hong Kong on our travels and its a delayed mish right now to recover the data...

EDIT: ah drama... sorry if this post doesn't make sense anymore, but my sense of consensus reality is back and it was on holidays when i wrote this. Peace

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You can hear sarahtonin' if you make it to the end Venerable Sarah Thresher - Healing The Pain Broadcast Live at Women at Wisdom Lectures, San Francisco, CA September 26, 2002 http://www.lamrim.net/archive/misc/mp3/16k...ng_the_Pain.mp3 "The essence of healing is to not allow the wounds of the past to affect the present and the future..."

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I find this really interesting and overall very positive! The reason i am here today is by seeing Tori Amos talk on the Rosanne Barr show about her Ayahuasca experience on a tape from '96.. I was 17, but led a pretty sheltered existence and never even knew psychedelics existed! The Roseanne show = total revelation!! who woulda thunk it.. All people need is the inspiration and then they go on to do their own research.. The only issue i can see, is this encourages sham shamans taking advantage of the gringos, giving the whole experience a bad name.. but then sham shamans have always been around, a little research and good intuition will steer you clear of those, and mainstream info such as this on Aya has been available for quite some time anyway, and nothing is 'ruined'.. Personally, i don't feel Aya can be perverted.. anyone who has the real deal (especially with the vine) is going to experience deep healing and transformation. It's great to see this info cracking into the larger Australian consciousness.. there's some weird inexplainable connection between Australia and Peru (perhaps because it was once part of the same land mass?) It's like (in the Aya experience and the different plants used in both countries) Peru is the roots and Australia is the top of the tree. 'Aya' - is you want any tips for your Peru trip let me know, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on in June this year if you're going around that time also.

Thanks, guys! much appreciated Bacchant - those flowers are amazing! thanks

Hey Ronny, that would be great. I've already promised my last spare to someone here -i could burn a copy before i hit the road (..if i had any cdrs) but apoth deserves the whole printed cd for his contribution of the server space for all that time i reckon.. so have forwarded details check your pm muchos gracias!

ummmm yeah i'm into it.. but currently have no home therefor no stable internet connection. hopefully i'll have found somewhere within three weeks, but where i'm looking is mega tricky this time of year.. so maybe if anyone else has some extra time and enthusiasm + a copy of the cd they'd like to upload them?

I can see how this thread is now confusing.. so i've changed the title.. this is from EGA two years ago.. the '05 talks were hosted on apoth's server but has been long gone for some time now apparently.. I think Ronny ran out of the '05 cd's you could buy ages ago - but if you don't mind waiting till after new years i have about three extra cds in storage somewhere i could dig out and send to anyone still interested. PM me if so.. in terms of EGA '06 & '07 talks they were bothed filmed and it's all up to CS to edit etc, so we may be waiting a while yet.

jono, thanks for the kind words.. yeah 2007 ... somewhat like a collective sapo trial... ..at the time i thought i was the only one, but have heard too many reports from other people going through it this year to think that way anymore... glad to hear you made it through too.. for sure we'll catch up! send my luv to the rest of the crew 'round there

Well i've been out of the loop all things enthno for some time, having had many months of some pretty full on personal issues to deal with, some here are aware of... but in that time i've undergone a major transformation / healing and am feeling pretty awesome! So i'm happy to say i'll be in attendance at this years EGA.. looking forward to catching up with some dear friends and no doubt meeting some new interesting folk! You and the crew have already done an outstanding job putting all this together, Ronny, well done.. just make sure to allocate some chill / fun time for yourself this year!

Moses, or the Core of Creation - Frida Kahlo 1945

Listen, Little Man - Only you yourself can be your liberator! Wilhelm Reich, 1948 Excerpts

Hey everyone hello again! Yeah okay so it's actually been available for at least a month! but Ronny hasn't had time to write anything up, and i've just come back onto the forums after a massively transitional, transformational, crazy.. crazy month away from the net, and realised you guys may not know.. so here's a very late announcement: The EGA 2005 mp3 CD is NOW AVAILABLE @ http://www.entheo.net/notices.htm Talks from Entheogenesis Australis 2005 and original, entheogenically inspired music by members of this forum! 1 EGA Intro 1 - botanika 2. DMT in Australia: are we shamanising yet? - Des Tramacchi 3. EGA Intro 2 - Prier 4. Psychobiology & Sociobiology of Phenethylamines in the 21st Century - Tim 5. further revelations from beyond the compost heap - Spiders of Zen 6. Shamanism, Neo-Shamanism and the Doof Phenomena - Matt Soltau 7. retro 1 - Spiders of Zen 8. Trance Dance, Rave Culture & the Psychedelic Shamanic Experience - Krusty 9. EGA Intro 3 - ballzac 10. Secrets from the Dancefloor - Darren Smith 11. fingeroo - Julian Palmer 12. Human / Plant Orientations - Julian Palmer 13. Blackwood Forest People - Spiders of Zen 14. Mushrooms in OZ - Michael Bock 15. Spice Trader - beneaththestorm 16. Relationships Between Psychedelics And Archetypes In Western Art - Santillan de Pinto 17. EGA Intro 4 - botanika 18. Lagochilus: the intoxicating mint of Central Asia - Carl Turney 19. Erin's 16th Dream - Spiders of Zen 20. Native Australian Tobbacco Species - Michael Bock 21. EGA Intro 5 - Pelinster 22. Drugs and Demonisation - Des Tramacchi 23. Cyanese Triangles - Spiders of Zen Ronny says there's only about 15 or so left, but if the response is good more can be reprinted in about a month's time. All proceeds go toward making EGA bigger and brighter next year!

yum! is lookin like i will be up that way then, so how could i miss this?! might even dust off the ol red tutu for this one!

Hey a bit late, but am finally in the desert and have just now managed to find internet... So EGA Wow what an intense weekend!!! The first night while laying in bed, totally straight i was having the most intense and intricate visuals for about half an hour. It was a very intense time energetically to hold the conference, i think everyone was really going through it to different degrees, but that made it a very transformative time.. and i will never be the same again that's for sure, in a good way, and am so grateful for that. Had the Best time on Sunday night with some old friends in the tree house watching the matrix reloaded, blue planet and 'the trip' on that amazing cinema screen... it was Perfect and Hilarious. I really would have liked to meet more of you from the boards, but it's tricky when you don't know someone and don't know what to look for. However it was excellent to meet you and your girlfriend, Pelinster, and awesome to hang out with you, Bacchant (that soup was amazing!!!) ^_^ And sorry to anyone who was hanging out for my talk, it will defintely go ahead in full glory next year (with some performance art thrown in!), but it was at least interesting to show the ayahuasca moon footage.. and we discovered a whole new layer to it by viewing it blown up on the projector.. that footage will go up on the web in a few weeks. Super thanks to everyone involved, you've all done a great service to consciousness.

Well it's 1:30 in the morning, and i finally have everything wrapped up, literally.. i am moving out of the most amazing house i've ever been in, (but with great and surprising acceptance..) and am hitting the road tomorrow morning and heading to the desert for two weeks, then onto pre ega stuff down south. I won't be back on the forums properly for about five / maybe six weeks so i wanted to take this oppertunity to give a huge thanks to everyone involved in the EGA 2005 mp3 cd.. this project has grown way beyond what i initially conceived when i made that first post about it asking for plant pics and thats all thanks to you guys! The music that has been submitted to the cd is of such great quality and creativity, i'm so happy to know the works of these artists within our community will be heard. And of course sharing the wisdom and knowledge of the speakers with even more people is a reward in itself. Unfortunetly out of the plant pics submitted, only those from one member really worked with the design i was doing, for various reasons.. but even still big thanks to all those who did go to the trouble of getting some pics to me. The cds will hopefully be printed this week or next week, Ronny will let you know when it's ready, it will be available to purchase at EGA O6 and also via the website. Here's a sneak preview of the front cover: May catch some of you katz at the conference next month! And as this is my last post before the conference can i just take one last opportunity to talk it up and say EGA 06 will be a totally kick-ass event! the kicking of oneself for not attending after one reads the feedback on these forums will be a hard kick indeed, a painful kick. Avoid pain, go to EGA 06!!!! :D

this thread in the chill space: http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...?showtopic=9755 explains more of what i'm talking about.. in regards to music contributions, a pm from someone offering to make a ten second song recently in regards to this got me thinking... what would some music making people here think about creating specific short music as an introduction to each talk.. which could (and i think this could be cool) perhaps sample the talks themsevles? so if a few people are interested, you could chose a talk, creat about.. lets say 15-20 seconds of music of how you feel about the content of the talk etc... ? i'm not too attached to the idea... this all depends on you guys and what you'd like to add.. if its too much work or just not that inspiring, simply some more offering of people's already existing music contribution would be great.. so yeah i leave these idea with you, thanks!

Happy Birthday, planthelper!!!!! It is very fitting on your birthday, the day of celebration of you, you are helping plants ^_^

Hey welcome, TIHKAL.. There's some invisible barrier i've never been able to overcome to any real degree on the ayahuasca.com forums.. but i have occasionally posted and read it over the years, and have noticed some great stuff coming from you there. Glad to have you here. re - Intra Cortex.. i spoke to the organizers the other week, and it will no longer be a part of the Exodus festival. Exodus as you may or may not know has changed organizers and is now affiliated with a Japanese company which does not want to be in any way connected to "illegal drugs".. as well as the fact that a significant enough amount of money was put in to setting up intra cortex at this years festival and due to lack of organization, didn't happen at all... So it may be resurrected in some other form / fashion but for now is dead -_-

Hey i''ve thought for a while now it could be great to have a little drum circle go down during EGA.. Not! in a hippy way..! you know what i mean... it can be really good to journey with a drum or say a dozen sometimes well i'll be bringing mine anyway if anyone wants to join in... thanks to a very savvy dude deciding to simply set up his full drum kit in the chai tent at Exodus this year, with about ten other drums random people started playing and some singing and rapping, there was some very awesome sounds coming out of that little tent.. i was also thinking if when talks aren't on, the main lecture hall could be turned into a spontaneous music space, utilizing the mics and having some on the fly setup for live laptop music making!