Entheogenesis Australis - 4 Day Outdoor Conference Gathering - Fri 6th to Mon 9th Nov 2009

The 2009 Entheogenesis Australis conference will be held over four days and will consist of a variety of lectures, discussions, workshops and performances. This year EGA will have over 20 lectures, 5 discussion panels and variety of on-site workshops. All this will be taking place over 4 days nestled in beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria Australia.

Headliner 1 - Bear (Owsley) Stanley
Unofficial Bio Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

Headliner 2 - Robert Jesse
http://www.entheo.net/POP_Bob.htm

Bob Jesse is organizer of the Council on Spiritual Practices (csp.org/about), which aims to shift modernity's awareness and practices with respect to primary religious experience (csp.org/PRE). CSP also encourages people to imagine and develop social contexts to contain such experiences and help them yield lasting benefit.

Through CSP, Bob and his colleagues initiated a study, conducted at Johns Hopkins (http://csp.org/psilocybin/) and reported around the world, of the psychospiritual effects of psilocybin in healthy volunteers (csp.org/psilocybin). This expands the emphasis in hallucinogen research beyond the medical treatment of ill people to include the betterment of well people, contributing to a science of pro-social development.

On his home front, Bob is co-founder of a spiritual community formed around ecstatic dance. His formal training is in engineering and lives in San Francisco.
http://csp.org/about.html


*** Other Speakers ***
Des Tramacchi - 'Entheogens and The Discarnate'
Michael Bock - 'Oils ain't oils: Essential oils in Australiasian flora'
Rak Razam - 'AYA: The Shamanic Resurgence'
Rob Bruce - 'Shamanism and Sorcery in South America - Andes and Amazonia'
Ray Thorpe - 'The Benefits of Herbs and Entheogens in Society'
Paul Elliott (Gonzo) - 'Psychedlic Literature Over the Years'
Faustus - 'Psychedlics and Psychosis: Dimethyltrytamine as an Endogenous Psychotogen'
Robin Rodd - 'Chemicals, not Symbols: The Chemical Ecology of Shamanism as a Healthcare System'
Dan Schreiber - ''
Stephen Bright - 'Legal Highs: Legal Loopholes or Harm reduction?'
Martin Williams - 'The Inaugural Drug Darwin Awards – A tribute to those who have pushed the boundaries in the name of psychedelic exploration and excitement'
Killindi Lyi - 'The Interdimensional Village: The African Uses of Entheogens'
Erik van Keulen - 'Drinking and The Other: Reflections on the Poetry and the Politics of Drinking Alcohol'
Greg Kasarik - 'Entheogens vs Drugs: Framing the Sacraments'
Stuart Smith - 'The Role of Ritual'
Penny Scott - 'Pleasure and Pain - A Brief Social History of Opiates and Addiction'
Mulga - 'Dreamtime or Delusion? Ways of seeing and the transfer of knowledge'
Richard King - 'Continuum Return'
Kurt Svendsen - 'Conceptual Hallucinogens and the Altered Shulgin Scale'
Eugene (DJ Krusty) - 'The Entheogenic Shamanic Imperative of the Bush Doof Trance Dance Experience
is the Darkness of the Night'
Darklight - ‘ High Tech Overdrive’
Julian Palmer - 'What and why do we do This?'

More To Come...

+ 5 discussion Panels
+ 3 discussion Groups
+ a pinch of sound
And over 10 workshops

Entheogenic Artwork from around Oz and loads more... to be announced ... Get in Tune...EGA 2009

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EGA is a presale only event with strictly limited numbers.

Estimated Ticket Pricing
01/06/09 - Early Bird------------------ $135.00
------------------ Concession----------- $115.00 (in store and mail order only)

14/09/09 - General Admission------- $175.00
---------------------- Concession-------- $145.00 (in store and mail order only)

14/10/09 - Latecomers Admission -- $190.00


EGA Tickets may purchased in person from the following locations

Melbourne
Hippy Heaven

1/186 Barkly Street St. Kilda Vic
Phone: 03 9534 9361

The Happy Herb Shop

317 Smith Street Fitzroy Vic
Phone: 03 94191277

NSW
Nimbin - Happy High Herbs

58A Cullen Street, Nimbim
Phone: 02 6689 1365

Sydney - Newtown - Happy High Herbs

347 king st, newtown
Phone:02 9550 1345

Perth
Happy High Herbs

Shop 6/20 Elder Place, Fremantle WA 6160
Phone: 08 9430 9449

Adelaide
Happy High Herbs

28 Bank St, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: 08 8211 8885

Brisbane
Gooble Warming

73 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane QLD 4101
Phone: 07 3844 6006

ON LINE
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Market Submission
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http://www.entheo.net/EGA09MarketsV3.doc

Support EGA with a donations to the Official Raffle
http://www.entheo.net/EGA09RaffleFAQ2009.doc

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Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment that fosters mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. We seek to explore ways to assess societal impacts and examine the positive applications of plant-based psychoactives and empathogens.

Altered states of consciousness have long been a fundamental part of human culture, and as our world becomes increasingly fast-paced, alternative modes are becoming ever more significant and consciously explored.
The Entheogenesis Australis 2009 Symposium aims to address the issues relating to drug use/misuse from social, cultural and historical/traditional perspectives. EGA speakers will draw on the backgrounds of physiology, biology, pharmacology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, botany and more to provide a more realistic context to the role drugs and altered states play in the modern world.

If you’ve ever asked yourself “has the ‘War on Drugs’ created more problems than it tried to solve?