http://www.plantconsciousness.com/sacred_elixirs_podcasts.htmSacred Elixirs: A conference on the role of drug plants in the history of religion. San Jose, CA 10-22, 10-23, 2005 Entheogens, poetry, psychedelic and visionary art, mind machines, workshops on meditation and breathwork techniques for achieving altered states of consciousness. http://www.sacredelixirs.comen-usSacred Elixirs 2005se@plantconsciousness.comse@plantconsciousness.comSun, 18 Dec 2005 03:32:08 GMTentheogencommunityreligionhttp://plantconsciousness.com/images/sacred_elixirs/small_se.jpg144144http://plantconsciousness.com/sacred_elixirs_podcasts/small_se.jpghttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/sacred_elixirs_podcasts.htmSacred Elixirs: A conference on the role of drug plants in the history of religion. San Jose, CA 10-22, 10-23, 2005 Entheogens, poetry, psychedelic and visionary art, mind machines, workshops on meditation and breathwork techniques for achieving altered states of consciousness. http://www.sacredelixirs.comSacred ElixirsFeedSpring - http://feedspring.com/Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:54:11 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/dale_pendell.mp3http://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/dale_pendell.mp3Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:45:38 GMTWhere Entheogens Aren't, and WhyentheogensDale Pendellpsychedelicshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/tom_riedlinger.mp3A basketful of interesting facts few people know about Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and her husband R. Gordon Wasson, whose startling discoveries in Mexico 50 years ago introduced sacred mushrooms to Western society. Includes choice informational specimens plucked by hand from the now-dispersed Tina and Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection at Harvard Botanical Museum and harvested from personal discussions with many remarkable people the Wassons encountered on their mushroom quest. http://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/tom_riedlinger.mp3Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:30:31 GMTSacred Mushrooms Stems and PiecespsychedelicsmushroomsWassonhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/peter_moore-pendragon.mp3Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:38:14 GMTPendragon - Poetry readingpoetrypsychedelicsentheogenshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/panel_discussion-what_was_soma.mp3A panel discussion with David Flattery Scott Hajicek-Dobberstein Clark Heinrich Dale Pendell John Winslow The Hindu religion venerates four ancient scriptures above all others. These texts are the four Vedas. For millennia, each generation of Brahmin priests passed the Vedas to the next generation in an oral tradition. This practice of faithful repetition continued long after its language, known as Vedic, had fallen into disuse. Remarkably, no Veda was ever written down before the 1800s. The oldest of the Vedas is the Rig Veda, believed to be at least 4,000 years old, making it the oldest scripture still in daily use. It is a collection of "hymns" chanted by Brahmin priests during a fire ritual. Much of this litany is in praise of soma which, depending on context, may be a sacred psychoactive potion, the plant from which it is made, or a divine being. As the potion which renders the gods immortal, soma is analogous to the nectar of Greek mythology. Also, being a liquid that was poured out in a sacrificial act, it is analogous to the wine libations of the ancient Romans. During the fire ritual the soma plant was ground up with water, strained through sheep's wool, diluted with milk and drunk, but neither the Rig Veda, its commentaries nor any other Hindu scripture identifies the plant in plain language. What was this soma plant? http://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/panel_discussion-what_was_soma.mp3Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:25:21 GMTWhat Was Soma?psychedelicsentheogensSomahttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/marlene_dobkin_de_rios.mp3Recently, Dr. de Rios co-authored the book LSD, Spirituality and the Creative Process with the late Dr. Oscar Janiger, based on his research from l954-l962 when he administered LSD to almost l,000 men and women in Los Angeles, CA. Janiger's data shows LSD constants and provoked both spiritual and creative energies among participants. Dr. de Rios contrasts the major themes found by this original research with data from her cross-cultural studies to see similarities and differences among cultures and peoples who accessed LSD-like altered states of consciousness for spiritual and healing purposes.http://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/marlene_dobkin_de_rios.mp3Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:17:33 GMTLSD in Los Angeles, l954-l962psychedelicsentheogensLSDhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/cliff_anderson.mp3A recital by one of the visionary poets, Cliff Anderson.se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/saturday/cliff_anderson.mp3Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:31:52 GMTCliff Anderson, Poetry recitalentheogenspsychedelicspoetrymedia/sacred_elixirs/saturday/cynthia_palmer_and_michael_horowitz.mp3Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz present an overview of the history of Women with a knowledge of psychoactive and healing plants. Their presentation was accompanied by an extensive slide show.se@plantconsciousness.commedia/sacred_elixirs/saturday/cynthia_palmer_and_michael_horowitz.mp3Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:03:59 GMT"Plant Goddesses and Shaman Women from Myth and Antiquity to Now"entheogensshamanimshistoryhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/paul_devereux.mp3Paul Devereux is an author and researcher on archaeological, ethnological, and consciousness themes. His work ranges from academic to popular, but is always factually based. He has written or co-written over 25 books since 1979. He also has major contributory material in other publications, and has written a range of peer-reviewed academic papers. He has numerous affiliations, including being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Full Member of the Society for Scientific Exploration. In addition, he lectures worldwide and broadcasts, is the Director of the Dragon Project Trust, and is a Research Fellow of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group, Princeton. http://www.pauldevereux.co.uk/se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/paul_devereux.mp3Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:56:34 GMTPaul Devereuxhistoryanciententheogenshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/cliff_anderson_before_sasha.mp3An example of the visionary poetry heard at the Sacred elixirs conference. This recitation by Cliff Anderson was just prior to the talk by Sasha Shulgin and Earl Crockett, entitled "A New Elixir" (podcast #1).se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/cliff_anderson_before_sasha.mp3Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:17:10 GMTCliff Anderson, short poetry recitalpoetrypsychedelicsentheogenshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/pendragon_before_shulgin.mp3An example of the visionary poetry heard at the Sacred elixirs conference. This recitation by Pendragon was just prior to the talk by Sasha Shulgin and Earl Crockett, entitled "A New Elixir" (podcast #1).se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/pendragon_before_shulgin.mp3Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:13:10 GMTPendragon, short poetry recitationpoetrypsychedelicsentheogenshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/brian_preece_before_sasha.mp3An example of the visionary poetry heard at the Sacred elixirs conference. This recitation by Brain Preece was just prior to the talk by Sasha Shulgin and Earl Crockett, entitled "A New Elixir" (podcast #1).se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/sacred_elixirs/sunday/brian_preece_before_sasha.mp3Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:05:59 GMTBrian Preece, short poetry recitalpoetrypsychedelicentheogenshttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/clark_heinrich.mp3The only thing more obscure and bizarre than the writings of the alchemists was their artwork, a type of visual riddle called a rebus. They claimed that alchemy's most closely guarded secrets were openly displayed in these drawings and paintings, yet the riddles posed by the pictures have remained unsolved for hundreds of years - until now. Clark Heinrich has discovered the key that unlocks these "open secrets," and will reveal all in this colorful and unusual presentation. You may never look at artwork in the same way again.se @plantconsciousness.comhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/clark_heinrich.mp3Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:52:58 GMTHidden in Plain Sightreligionmushroomsalchemyhttp://www.plantconsciousness.com/media/a_new_elixir_pt1.mp3Earl Crockett has discovered that the cactus Pachycereus pringlei has psychedelic properties, he has also discovered cave paintings which reveal its ancient use as a sacrament.His talk describes the discovery of this remarkable plant, and was accompanied by slides of the cactus and of the cave paintingsse@plantconsciousness.comhttp://plantconsciousness.com/media/a_new_elixir_pt1.mp3Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:32:19 GMTA New Elixir part 1Entheogenpsychedeliccactihttp://plantconsciousness.com/media/a_new_elixir_pt2.mp3Dr. Shulgin will describe the processes of gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy, how one goes about determining what alkaloids are in a plant and what he found to be present in this cactus (Pachycereus pringlei)se@plantconsciousness.comhttp://plantconsciousness.com/media/a_new_elixir_pt2.mp3Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:33:57 GMTA New Elixir part 2entheogenpsychedeliccacti