Wednesday April 12, 2023 5:30-8pm
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Documentary Film Screening
Dancing Pandavs (Sudheer Gupta, 2012, 72 minutes) Followed by a discussion with Dr. Sadhana Naithani |
Thursday April 13, 2023 5:30-8pm
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Excerpts from A Table of Our Own, followed by a discussion with Ayize Jama-Everett
The Complexity of Documenting Indigenous Knowledge by Sunflower Sutras | Francisco Lopez Rivarola & Solei Sarmiento |
Friday April 14, 2023 9am-7pm
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9:00-9:30 - Opening remarks, with a grounding exercise led by Professor David Presti
9:30-10:30 - Experiential Design Workshop with Tracy Deluca and Elysa Fenenbock: What is the Role that Design Can Play in Expanding Psychedelic Consciousness? 10:30-10:45 - Break 10:45-11:45 - Lenny Duncan: The Colonization of the Astral Plane: Ethical Dimensions of Plant Medicine and Opening the Doors of Perception 11:45-11:50 - Short Break 11:50-12:30 - Psychedelics and the Church of Latter-Day Saints (speakers will be remote) Alex Criddle: Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism Brandon Wilson: Respondent 12:30-1:15 - Break for Lunch 1:15-2:30 - Tools for the Trip Erika Rosenberg: Meditation, Compassion, and Psychedelic Exploration: A Discourse on Tools for the Trip Valeria McCarroll: Non-dual Ontologies and the Training of Psychedelic Guides 2:30-2:40 - Break 2:40-3:50 - Psychedelics and Jewish Tradition: A Dialogue between Prof. Sam Shonkoff and Madison Margolin 3:50-4 - Break 4-5:10 - Healing Intergenerational Trauma Marlena Robbins: The Transcendence of a Diné Woman with Sacred Fungi Allison Hauser: Culturally-Integrative Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy with the Jewish American Elderly 5:10-5:20 - Break 5:20-6:30 Psychedelics and Ecology Michael Goos and Manuel Padua: Garden as a Gateway to Forest: Gardening as a Community Spiritual Practice Connecting Us Beyond the Human Larry Norris: Learning from Mother Nature’s Wisdom 6:30-7 - Reception |
SATURDAY APRIL 15, 2023 9am - 7pm
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9:00-10:30 - Surrender
Kayla Krut: Tallying Surrender: John Ashbery’s “The System” & the Mystical Experience Questionnaire Martina Bengert and Devin Zuber: Surrender as Style: the Emptying Selves of Teresa of Avila & Emanuel Swedenborg Emily Pothast: Improvisation and the Psychedelic Somaesthetic 10:30-10:45 - Break 10:45-11:45 - Maria Mangini: Unseen Women in Psychedelic History 11:45-11:50 - Break 11:50-1:30 - A Meaningful Mirror: A Conversation between Lama Tsultrim Allione and Eve Ekman on the Relationship between Psychedelics and Meditation, with a "Feeding Your Demons" practice led by Lama Tsultrim Allione 1:30-2:15 - Break for Lunch 2:15-4 - Acid Forms / Acid Aesthetics Erik Davis: Rick Griffin’s Psychedelic Revelations John Semley: The Acid Western Revisited J Christian Greer: The Mothership Connection: The Funkadelic Turn in Psychedelic Culture 4-4:15 - Break 4:15-5:45 - Gene Hightower: Visioning from an American Indian Perspective 5:45-6 - Break 6-6:45 - Leslie Grasa: Songs from the Wood: An Oracular Psychedelic Zoom Performance 6:45-7 - Closing dialogue 7:30 - Wilson van Dusen Closing Reception (by invitation only) |
