RonnySimulacrum Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 (edited) Hey SAB alumni There been a lot of rumors about the future and the next not-for-profit Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) psychedelic symposium (conference/gathering) and I was hoping to answer some of those questions with this post, and additionally ask a question of all of you at the same time. The purpose of this post was to confirm that the next EGA conference will take place on the 8-11 of December 2017. It will be announced officially in the coming weeks and we would love your support getting the word out there amongst the community. It will be on an altogether new site with a slightly different set up and idea than any that has taken place before. The main conference space will be outdoors and there will be camping on site. The event will cover a diverse range of fields from the botanical, academic, and philosophical, to arts and drug law reform. The event is going to be a hybrid between the classic outdoor and the more academic indoor events with the site having one indoor lecture space so we can display PowerPoint presentations throughout the day during lectures. The new location is stunning and situated 2 hours drive from Melbourne CBD and airport. So place a hold in your diary’s now and please start spreading the word around the plant head community. Now to my main question. We are working over the initial headliner invitations and I was hoping to get input from SAB crew for a choice of headliner nominees. If you have a suggestion for an international headliner speaker you would like us to consider please let us know now so I can shortlist them at our programming meetings in the coming weeks. We will be opening up applications for speaker submission at the start of next year where anyone can apply for a place on the program; we get hundreds of applications for this but feel free to also throw down some local names down but identify them as local please. So for the most part here I am really just asking who you would love to see in oz for the coming EGA from overseas as this take a lot of early orginizing. Its best to not nominate anyone over 65 as they simply do not like traveling. If people could also add a web page or link to people work, that would be helpful for us. Hey we can only ask and try right ;-) If your reading this post and think what the hell is EGA? Well EGA is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment to foster mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemical. Cheek out our web page and YouTube channel or FB page to answer that question further: http://www.entheogenesis.org https://www.youtube.com/entheotv http://facebook.com/EGA.plant.org The SAB community was the birthplace of EGA and we are proud of that and just how strong the entheogethic and psychedelic community has become in Australia. Please feel free to suggest who you would most like to see down under and on the program and we will try and approach the lead contender/s and see if we can make it happen. Fill free to add a line here also about why you like or support EGA as it might help newbies better understand the event/gathering. As always thanks for your support over the last 12+ years everyone. Kind regards RonnySimulacrum http://www.entheogenesis.org Edited July 13, 2016 by RonnySimulacrum 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazonian Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Thanks Ronny, This is great news. Really looking forward to December 2017. I'd like to nominate Evil Genius (our SAB mod') to be a guest speaker at EGA. He is an authority on cactus, written books on cactus etc... Maybe someone else can put forward a more convincing spiel as to why we should have Evil Genius attend EGA as a speaker, lol, but he is seriously the man, the cactus man 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watertrade Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 a bit of a long shot but Douglas Rushkoff. he would be kind of an awkward fit in a EGA program but is very interesting and interested in alternative digital media cultures. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obtuse Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 (edited) Douglas Rushkoff is a really interesting suggestion. it was his book cyberia that introduced me to dmt as being part of the psychedelic community rather than a curiosity, the long winding spiels of terrance mckenna, and that nootropics were a real thing rather than a curiosity ala Omni magazine. ala mid 90's Edited July 5, 2016 by obtuse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strontium Dawg Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 It would be awesome to get some artists in, salviadroid? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeti101 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I'd like to see Rob Lovering and Peter Sjöstedt-H there in some capacity, even if they aren't high-profile enough to be headliners. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnySimulacrum Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 Maybe if people could also add a web page or link to people work, that would be helpful ;-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeti101 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 My bad Rob Lovering: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137548764 https://csi-cuny.academia.edu/RobLovering Peter Sjöstedt-H: http://www.philosopher.eu/ http://psypressuk.com/2015/01/01/philosophy-and-psychedelic-phenomenology/ https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/noumenautics 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strontium Dawg Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 The art of salvia droid. http://salviadroid.deviantart.com/gallery/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I am with Glaukus vote 2 for Salvia Droid his art is simply amazing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flux Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 vote 3 for Salvia Droid ! and also second Yeti's suggetion of Peter Sjöstedt-H, his work covers a fascinating intersection of ideas...and while we're at the psychedelic crossroads, it would be cool to get Dr David Luke out here http://www.parapsych.org/users/dluke/profile.aspx It would also be great to see James Jesso In Australia again too; http://www.jameswjesso.com/ On the local level it would be nice to hear from Graham St John; http://www.edgecentral.net/ and Alex Gearin; https://culturaladmixtures.wordpress.com/ For any members who have not been to an EGA event, the 10 Year Anniversary Symposium in 2014 was my first and it was an amazing 'formal' introduction to the broader Australian psychedelic scene, saw so many great speakers and panels, bought heaps of cool books and met a tonne of awesome fellow plant people 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoStu Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 maybe gary weber? he's done some cool stuff wrt to the intersections between mushrooms and meditation 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Hillbillios Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 6 hours ago, Amazonian said: Thanks Ronny, This is great news. Really looking forward to December 2017. I'd like to nominate Evil Genius (our SAB mod') to be a guest speaker at EGA. He is an authority on cactus, written books on cactus etc... Maybe someone else can put forward a more convincing spiel as to why we should have Evil Genius attend EGA as a speaker, lol, but he is seriously the man, the cactus man Seconded 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obtuse Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 yes i agree, be lovely to see Evil Genius out in Oz. another name touted has been Alan Rockefeler, of shroomery fame. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklight Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Gis scientists. Lots of lovely hard science presentations. Pretty please Can we have the wonderful David Cameron doing something? A walk, an historical perspective, anything. Love that guy. I missed his walking tour at the last outdoor EGA but I won't miss it this time. Love yr work Ronny, and the EGA crew. I absolutely cannot wait for this, it'll be a corker 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderIdeal Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) Yes we all love David Cameron https://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkjQzlR4E_RiUT5vKwBL7dj9CgXNccpxyOynekIKqcgxUIFONsFP4GLxAj&key=b475e92e391d1787a3530c8d0c7355375d4813db1a8df833d8048fde5a69e137 Edited July 9, 2016 by ThunderIdeal LOL (lots of love) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Another vote here for EG! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obtuse Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 i have received another vote to put towards salvia droid. seems a very popular choice for the arts part of EGA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Hillbillios Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 alan rockefeler doing a talk about cold weather psylocybe types in asutralia would be awesome. I know he has been involved in some work iding things that arent subs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnySimulacrum Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) Thanks everyone for there suggestions, I will further add here some of the names that have come up over the table on this end over the last 2 months. There is some cross over. But its good to see other names suggested also. Erik Davis - https://techgnosis.com Tom Lloyd - International Drug Policy Adviser Casey Hardison - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/casey-william-hardison-psychedelic-chemist-254 Charles Eisenstein - http://charleseisenstein.net/ Matt Johnson - http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0800020/matthew-johnson?pagecount=10&clearpagecache=false&modalpref=false&currpage=1 Martin Ball - http://www.martinball.net/ Carhart Harris - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.carhart-harris *Dave Nutt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt *Dave Nichols - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Nichols David Nickles - https://www.dmt-nexus.me *David Luke - http://www.parapsych.org/users/dluke/profile.aspx Rick Doblin - http://www.maps.org Kathleen Harrison - http://botanicaldimensions.org Ben Sessa - http://www.drsessa.com Jennifer Dumpert - http://oneironauticum.com James Oroc - http://www.dmtsite.com Giorgio Samorini's - https://www.facebook.com/giorgio.samorini?fref=ts *Paul Stamets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets Jag Davies - http://www.drugpolicy.org/about-us/staff-and-board/staff/jag-davies-director-communications-strategy Julie Holland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Holland Thomas Roberts - http://niu.academia.edu/ThomasRoberts - Nese Devenot - http://www.psymposia.com/magazine/preview/coming-out-of-the-psychedelic-closet-final-thoughts Peter Sjöstedt - http://www.philosopher.eu * Due to time frame, other conditions or cost it is unlikely this speaker can attend in 2017 Edited July 13, 2016 by RonnySimulacrum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naja naja Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 EGA could be likened to a pan galactic gargle blaster? Or maybe the restaurant at the end of the universe. If you have been before, I'm sure I'll see you all there again. If you haven't been to EGA and you frequent this forum. You must go, you will not regret it! and yay to Ronny! And crew. I now have a good excuse to come again as traveling as far as I have to seems too decadent for a single day event. You have all my support as usual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naja naja Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 If there's anything more important than EGA, I want it caught and shot. NOW! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Nice work Ronny. Another vote for EG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obtuse Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 There was a small discussion at the Melbourne meet about how Evil Genius needs to be invited along to EGA 2017. with jokes about maybe even a kickstarter to help with costs! Naja be great to see you again at an EGA, be great to talk mycology with you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnySimulacrum Posted August 20, 2016 Author Share Posted August 20, 2016 I hope to see some of the old school EGA freaks out for this one, thanks for the support naja naja & toast and other. Everything still coming together for this one, but as volunteer projects go it is taking longer than expected to get all the pieces to line up (WHATS NEW). Thanks for all the above speaker suggestions and its interesting to see who people are keen to see over. Hey Evil Genius, how do we get a hold of your book? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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