Ayahuasca Healing Retreat
January 11-20, 2004 (with three optional extra days)
Bahia, Brazil
There will be ceremonies with ayahuasca and salvia divinorum (ska pastora), lectures, as well as workshops in art, group sharing, transpersonal exercises and local excursions.

Invited Staff:
Robert Venosa, visionary artist
Martinna Hoffmann, visionary artist
Zoe Seven, consciousness researcher and author
Silvia Polivoy, psychologist
Find more information as well as an application form at our web site, please visit: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact Silvia at silviap@house.com.ar

Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. turns 99. Everyone grateful for their experiences with LSD and psilocybin can send some loving vibes to Albert today, at his home in Switzerland.

Sundance Film Festival MAPS Lectures

The trailer for the movie, Entheogen: Awakening the God Within, produced by Critical Mass Productions, directed by Rod Mann, which focuses in part on MAPS-sponsored psychedelic research, will be shown at a party at the Sundance Film Festival. Speakers at the party will include Dr. John Halpern (MAPS' MDMA/cancer anxiety study), Dr. Charles Grob (Heffter-sponsored psilocybin/cancer anxiety study), and Rick Doblin, Ph.D. The party will be held at the club Suede and all MAPS members and friends are invited to attend.

Resonance: A Convergence of Perspectives on Music and Spirituality
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Music is an incredibly powerful phenomenon that touches us in profound ways. For more and more people, music has transcended being simply a form of art or entertainment to become much more: a source of spirituality, of religious experience, and of connection to the divine. This approach to music points the way toward a new paradigm of the sacred for the twenty-first century, a universal spiritual language that unites rather than divides. This conference will examine music from this emerging paradigm of the sacred, exploring the connection between music and spirituality from a variety of perspectives, weaving them together into a larger whole, and providing a glimpse of a new landscape of sound and spirit.

Presenters
Silvia Nakkach, award winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, psychologist, and author of Music and the Human Process, Music in Human Adaptation, and The Transpersonal Consciousness.
Petr Janata, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California Davis, and leading researcher in brain science as relates to music.
Shanti Shivan, practitioner of Nada Yoga (Hindu mysticism of sound) and Indian classical vocal music in the Dhrupad tradition.
Luisah Teish, Lucumi/Yoruba priestess of Oshun, author of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, and Jump Up: Seasonal Celebrations from the World's Deep Traditions.
Robin Sylvan, Ph.D, leading researcher on the spiritual and religious dimensions of popular music, founder and director of the Sacred Center, and author of Traces of the Spirit.

More information, registration and questions: http://resonance.explorespirit.org

February 20-21 Ibogaine Forum-New York City
(Sunday Noon-7 PM, Monday 10 AM - 7 PM)
Location: Alex Grey's Gallery
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
540 West 27th Street, Fourth Floor
Registration: $20 per day
212-677-4899
Sponsored in part by: CURESnotWARS
www.cures-not-wars.org
(212) 677-7180, info@cures-not-wars.org
Speakers include:
Rommel Washington, Benu Project
Dana Beal, author, The Ibogaine Story
Carl Ruck, PhD, author, The Apples of Apollo
Bwiti Nganga Awolowo Johnson, sociologist
Rev. Ron Sala, Unitarian
Rob Gordon, Cures Not Wars
Howard Lotsof, Patrick Kroupa, Dimitri Mugianis
Adam Nodelman, Chris Laurance and Andrea Aplementos

Screening of Ibogaine: Rite of Passage with Ben De Loenen
Carl Anderson, PhD
Jeffrey Kamlet, MD, with intro by Patrick Kroupa
Kenneth R. Alper, MD
Emmanuel Onaivi, PhD
John Freelander
Vic Hernandez, PhD, Chris Laurance, Jason Farell, Richie D.

The 2005 NYC Ibogaine Conference, Feb 20-21.
Sponsored by Cures Not Wars. Held at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 540 West 27th St., Fourth Floor, New York City, NY, 10001, Planet Earth, Milky Way.
Registration: $20 per day
212/677.4899
More information here.

There will be a live chat between Ethan Nadelmann and psychedelic chemist Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin and psychotherapist Ann Shulgin. Ethan Nadelmeann is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. The chat will begin 6 PM EST, at http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/shulginchat . The Shulgins will be online to address your questions on a range of topics from the "war on drugs" to the therapeutic use of MDMA.. Please email before February 22 to submit questions.

Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
Presented by Heart of the Initiate
Bahia, Brazil
Feb. 23 - March 03 March 06 - 13 March 16 - 23, 2005

We welcome you to a series of one and two week experiential workshops, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting along the coast of Bahia, located approximately 700 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. During each week we will be hosting three ayahuasca journeys along with lectures on this plant medicine, it's history, and healing properties on the body. We have found that "the medicine" and the heart opening process work together synergistically, allowing us to very quickly move past our self imposed limitations. We will spend the week exploring and opening the subtle doorway through the heart energy and into the inner trans-dimentional worlds long forgotten by mankind. This is the path back to remembering your true divinity and awakening of the true self. As we work through our old, limiting patterns, we begin to heal and reclaim our lost power.

Guest Facilitators and Staff:

Ralph Miller - Respected facilitator Ralph Miller utilizes the gifts of our Earth Mother to awaken the Truth and Proof of our real selves. His gentle, quieting stillness creates a soothing and safe environment necessary to reach the depth of our inner being. It is here that you are awakened to the true you; opening your eyes and mind to the many hidden dimensions that surround us.

Kajuyali Tsamani - Step into a tradition where the shaman will lead you to his world of the supernatural. Initiated by the legendary Kogi Indians of Northern Colombia, Kajuyali Tsamani will host an interactive ayahuasca experience with drumming, singing, dancing and movement.

We have chosen a beautiful and comfortable beach front property on the coast of Bahia, Brazil. We will have exclusive and private use for our stay and includes 10 bungalows, a restaurant, which we'll have full use of, and swimming pool. Creating it's own little village, the buildings are individually designed and constructed of local raw materials and carefully inserted into the rainforest. Some of the buildings are almost 3 meters high offering stunning views of the sea and surrounding jungle, giving the sensation of being in treehouses. A shallow and gentle Atlantic Ocean, which in its low tide reveals up to 200 meters of nearly deserted white sand beach and natural pools, meanders by, providing us a place to relax and play.

For booking and additional information please visit our website at www.heartoftheinitiate.com.

Ayahuasca Healing Retreat
March 3-11 2005
Bahia, Brazil
There will be ceremonies with ayahuasca and salvia divinorum (ska pastora), lectures, and a special workshop in Capoeira Angola (an Afro-Brazilian dancing martial art) and percussion.

Invited Staff:
Cabello, percussionist and dancer
Zoe Seven, consciousness researcher and author
Silvia Polivoy, psychologist
Find more information as well as an application form at our web site, please visit: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact Silvia at silviap@house.com.ar

Israel MAPS Conference

As part of MAPS' efforts to sponsor a pilot study in Israel into the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with war and terrorism-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), MAPS is sponsoring a one-day conference in Israel on Thursday, March 24, 2005, in association with the Israeli Ministry of Health, the Israeli Anti-Drug Authority, and the Israeli Society of Addiction Medicine. MAPS is inviting all MAPS members and friends to attend and may also organize a 6-day tour of Israel, scheduled around the conference. If you are interested in attending, or would like more information, please contact Valerie Mojeiko, MAPS staff person, at valerie@maps.org.

Speakers at the conference include:
* Rick Doblin, Ph.D. President of MAPS
* Dr. Michael Mithoefer, MD. Principal Investigator, MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD study
* Jose Carlos Bouso, Ph.D. candidate, Principal Investigator, proposed MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD study in Spain
* June May Ruse, Ph.D., director of MAPS' MDMA Treatment Manual Project
* Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, Hebrew University, Marijuana/PTSD Study to be conducted in Israel
* Dr. John Halpern, MD. (Harvard), Principal Investigator, MAPS-sponsored MDMA/Cancer Anxiety study
* Valerie Mojeiko, MAPS' ibogaine outcome study
* Dr. Udi Bastiaans, ibogaine outcome study

Ayahuasca Healing Retreat
April 7-15, 2005
Bahia, Brazil
There will be ceremonies with ayahuasca and salvia divinorum (ska pastora), lectures, and a special workshop in Capoeira Angola (an Afro-Brazilian dancing martial art) and percussion.

Invited Staff:
Robert Venosa, painter of Fantastic Realism
Martina Hoffmann, painter and sculpter
Brandy Doyle, MAPS staff
Zoe Seven, consciousness researcher and author
Silvia Polivoy, psychologist

Find more information as well as an application form at our web site, please visit: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact

Altered States and the Spiritual Awakening gathering.
San Francisco, California.

MAPS' Rick Doblin will be among the speakers and MAPS will have a table. Other speakers include Stan Grof and Ralph Metzner.

Marijuana: Medicine, Menace, or Both?
A Panel of Experts Address Cannabis Controversies
Wednesday, 4/20, 2005 5-7 p.m.
San Francisco Medical Society
1409 Sutter Street (at Franklin), San Francisco

Featuring:
Donald Abram, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Leading HIV and medical canabis researcher

Timmen Cermak, MD
California Society of Addiction Medicine
Author, Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?

Mitch Earlywine, PhD
University of Southern California
Author, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence

Moderators: Steve Heilig, MPH, San Francisco Medical Society, Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco

Remarks: Russell Giuntini, JD, Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco, Ethan Nadelmann, PhD, JD, Drug Policy Alliance, New York Free to the public
Co-sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco Medical Society, and the Office of the District Attorney of San Francisco

For more info and to RSVP contact the Drug Policy Alliance at (415) 921-4987 or e-mail sf@drugpolicy.org.

Ayahuasca Perspectives thérapeutiques d'une tradition amazonienne millénaire
Lyon, France
23-24 Avril 2005

An event organized by the Takiwasi Center and "Le Maison Qui Chante" on April 23-24, 2005 that includes the showing of the film, ""L'Ayahuasca, le serpent et moi". The announcement, in French, follows below. For more information, contact

Congrès Lyon 2005

Ayahuasca: Perspectives thérapeutiques d'une tradition amazonienne millénaire

Soire le 22 Avril de présentation avec le film d'Armand Bernardi "L'Ayahuasca, le serpent et moi"
Organisateurs :
Association La Maison Qui Chante
Centre TAKIWASI
Lieu : L'Embarcadre, 13 bis Quai Rambaud, 69002 Lyon, France.
Renseignements et inscriptions :
LMQC Bourgogne, 105 Bd de la Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon. tl. 04-78.28.87.90 mail:

Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) 10th Anniversary Fundraising Gala!
MPP celebrates ten years of working for marijuana policy reform with two fundraising gala events, one in Washington, D.C. on May 4th and one in Los Angeles on May 9th.
All proceeds from the galas will support MPP's work to reform marijuana policies.

Entheogenesis 2: From Darkness Back to Light
Rediscovering The History Of Psychoactive Substances
Vancouver BC Canada
Simon Fraser University's Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
May 21-23, 2005
This years theme is "From Darkness Back to Light" and will have a focus on the use of
entheogens from the time of the Dark Ages, when these substances were widely surpressed
and were limited to occult use following up to our modern age of information when the
entheogens returned to their former popularity.

Featured Speakers: Dr. Michael Aldrich, Prof. Susan Boyd, Prof. Francis Thackeray, Prof. Carl
Ruck & Prof. Blaise Staples, Kenneth Tupper, Chris Bennett, Renee Boje, Allan Piper,
Rev.Damuzi, Michael Horowitz & Cynthia Palmer, Martin A. Lee and Phil Lucas.

• Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
  Presented by Heart of the Initiate
  Bahia, Brazil
  May 21 - June 27, 2005

  We welcome you to a series of one and two week experiential workshops, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting along the coast of Bahia, located approximately 700 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. During each week we will be hosting three ayahuasca journeys along with lectures on this plant medicine, it's history, and healing properties on the body. We have found that "the medicine" and the heart opening process work together synergistically, allowing us to very quickly move past our self imposed limitations. We will spend the week exploring and opening the subtle doorway through the heart energy and into the inner trans-dimentional worlds long forgotten by mankind. This is the path back to remembering your true divinity and awakening of the true self. As we work through our old, limiting patterns, we begin to heal and reclaim our lost power.

  Guest Facilitators and Staff:

  Ralph Miller - Respected facilitator Ralph Miller utilizes the gifts of our Earth Mother to awaken the Truth and Proof of our real selves. His gentle, quieting stillness creates a soothing and safe environment necessary to reach the depth of our inner being. It is here that you are awakened to the true you; opening your eyes and mind to the many hidden dimensions that surround us.

  Kajuyali Tsamani - Step into a tradition where the shaman will lead you to his world of the supernatural. Initiated by the legendary Kogi Indians of Northern Colombia, Kajuyali Tsamani will host an interactive ayahuasca experience with drumming, singing, dancing and movement.

  We have chosen a beautiful and comfortable beach front property on the coast of Bahia, Brazil. We will have exclusive and private use for our stay and includes 10 bungalows, a restaurant, which we'll have full use of, and swimming pool. Creating it's own little village, the buildings are individually designed and constructed of local raw materials and carefully inserted into the rainforest. Some of the buildings are almost 3 meters high offering stunning views of the sea and surrounding jungle, giving the sensation of being in treehouses. A shallow and gentle Atlantic Ocean, which in its low tide reveals up to 200 meters of nearly deserted white sand beach and natural pools, meanders by, providing us a place to relax and play.

  For booking and additional information please visit our website at www.heartoftheinitiate.com.

Mind States VI "Technology & Transcendence"
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
San Francisco, California

MAPS' Rick Doblin will be among the speakers and MAPS will have a table.

THREE FULL DAYS
Featuring presentations on topics such as:

visionary art,
brain fingerprinting,
future pharmaceuticals,
transcranial magnetic stimulation,
robotics, artificial intelligence, A-life
EEG-mapping of altered states,
video game environments,
intelligence increase,
harm reduction,
and more

International Conference on Drugs in the Future
London, England

Join Dr. Wrye Sententia of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics as well as the Shulgins and the Erowids at this one day event, where "visionary thinkers take a bold look into drug use trends over the next 20 years and beyond..."

June 25th & 26th
Entheogenesis Australis
A two-day drug conference at the foot hills of the Grampians in the Land Down Under.

PRESENTERS:

Des Tramacchi, Michael Bock, Carl Turney, Thomas Munro, David Cameron, Tim, Shane Huebener & Margaret, Santillan de Pinto, Krusty, Martin Williams, Julian, Matt Soltau, Darren Smith, Adrian, and others!

July 14-18th, 2005
Paonia, Colorado

Dreamtime, a non-profit organization, is throwing a huge festival that uniquely combines live music and world class bands with educational workshops, theme camps and art installations. This fusion includes dancing, interactive sculptures, costumes, fire performances, theater, multimedia, creative fashion shows, DJs, a myriad of workshops, movement classes, healing camps, acoustic stages, and YOUR INSPIRED CONTRIBUTION.

For more information about the festival, please take a moment to visit them on the web at DreamTheFuture.org

July 16-22, 2005
Iquitos, Peru
Amazonian Shamanism Conference
Sponsored by the Church, "Soga del Alma" - "Vine of the Soul"
Speakers: Dr. Dennis McKenna, Luis Eduardo Luna, Peter Gorman and Alan Shoemaker.
This International Conference is open to all people in the world willing to drink the medicina with local curanderos and to meet with people sincerely and seriously interested in the Knowledge from the Amazon forest.

WAMM - The Wo/Mens Alliance for Medical Marijuana will host a March for Medical Marijuana

Saturday, July 16th, 2005 at 12 noon on the Pacific Garden Mall, in downtown Santa Cruz.

More than 1,000 people are expected to participate in this demonstration of community solidarity opposing the recent decision of the Supreme Court and of Congress that leaves sick and dying Californians vulnerable to persecution from the federal government.

In a symbolic act of compassionate access, WAMM patient members will lead the March carrying live medical marijuana plants. This solemn event will honor the 154 WAMM members who have died since the WAMM inception in 1993.

For more details, please visit www.wamm.org/march.htm.

August 2 to 14, 2005
"Mind States, the Higher Self & Self Empowerment"
Ayahuasca Healing Retreat in Bahia, Brazil by the Ocean Intermediate Program

A 12-day program that has been carefully designed and is based on proven and effective techniques from various disciplines, including teachings from shamanic practices, ancient mystery schools, and modern transpersonal studies. It is geared towards exploring mind states associated with heart opening, transcendence and deep spiritual healing. Actual initiations into higher states of being by way of ayahuasca, Salvia divinorum, guided meditations and one's own higher self are also part of this program. A light and sound hemispheric synchronization workshop which demonstrates the delta, theta, alpha and beta brainwave states and how they relate to healing and the development of psychic abilities is also included.

Staff:
Silvia Polivoy, transpersonal psychologist
Zoe Seven, writer and researcher

For more information, please visit us at: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact silviap@house.com.ar

Family Members and Friends of People Incarcerated March on D.C.
Washington, D.C.

"Two million imprisoned - too many!"

Family Members and Friends of People Incarcerated, an organization based in Montgomery, Alabama is calling for individuals and organizations to travel from their respective communities.

The United States imprisons its citizens at rates three to ten times higher than other democratic societies. Rigid sentencing laws and 'get tough' policies have made prisons crowded, dangerous and don't make us safer. The impact of continued punishment after a person's release from prison adds to despair that keeps our communities weak.

The March on August 13th and associated events will send a message to our leaders, and is an opportunity for the world to support our demands. We must stop relying on incarceration, give people an education and rehabilitate our communities. People who pay their debt to society should be able to participate in society again.

Millions of citizens can no longer vote. Laws that partially or permanently discourage good citizenship from formerly incarcerated people cannot be supported by evidence and is bad policy.

Please support the call of Family Members and Friends of People Incarcerated, marking August 13th, 2005 a historical day. We will no longer be silent victims of criminal justice policies that target the most vulnerable citizens. We are meeting in Washington, DC to make a unified demand for justice.

August 17-25, 2005

Psytopia is a 7 day charity event in Jamaica to raise money for MAPS, NORML, The Drug Policy Alliance, The Hofmann Foundation and The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. It's all inclusive week of Speakers, Bands, and events at Hedonism III and Breezers Bay resorts. The event is being organized by Alex Pearlstein, and the Coalition for Cosmic Consciousness.

Information on Psytopia is also available in PDF format.

Toward a Science of Consciousness: Methodological and Conceptual Issues
Copenhagen, Denmark
August 18-20, 2005

The fourth "midway" TSC conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It will focus on the methodological and conceptual challenges that face an interdisciplinary investigation of consciousness. In recent years, scientists have made increasing use of philosophical notions such as "consciousness" or "subjectivity". In a parallel move, a number of philosophers have employed experimental results in their own theoretical enterprise. However, the precise relation between the philosophical and the scientific takes on consciousness is far from obvious. The current discussion is characterised by a complicated melange of differing methodological approaches and different philosophical traditions. If headway is to be made, a reciprocal metareflection on the current philosophical and scientific practice is required. This is the kind of headway that TSC 2005 will try to bring about.

Confirmed speakers include: Robert van Gulick, Petra Stoerig, Patrick Haggard, Evan Thompson, Shaun Gallagher, Tony Jack, Michael Antony, Tim Crane, Victor Lamme, Thomas Metzinger, Alva No, and Jean-Luc Petit.

Organising committee: Dan Zahavi, Andreas Roepstorff, Morten Overgaard, Nini Prtorius and Oliver Kauffmann

For more information, please contact the committee at tsc2005@cfs.ku.dk

Or see updates at the website www.cfs.ku.dk/tsc2005.

25th Anniversary of the Telluride Mushroom Festival
Telluride, Colorado

This three-day festival is designed for people interested in edible, psychoactive, and poisonous mushrooms. The festival includes mushroom lectures, forays, identification and cultivation workshops, poetry, the third annual "Mushroom Cook-off Feast," and a parade! Check out the website link for more information, registartion, lodging, and travel arrangements.

Science and Response: 2005
1st National Conference on Methamphetamine, HIV, and Hepatitis
August 19-20, Salt Lake City

Abstract submission deadline May 1. If interested in submitting, please call Amanda at 801/355-0234 ext 3.

www.harmredux.org

August 30 - Sept 4
MAPS @ Burning Man

This year Palenque Norte and MAPS are joining forces to produce a lecture program as our gift to the Burning Man community. For those of you who are lucky enough to make it to the burn, we hope you will join us for some of these talks. Our setting is informal, and usually there is time for questions from the audience.

Talks will be held at The Psychedelic Centre in the Snowflake Village on the Esplanade.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005
10am - 2pm: Grof Holotropic Breathwork Workshop
Sheelo Bohm, Grof Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner

2pm: "Responsible Use of Sacred Medicines"
Sandra Karpetas, Sobey Wing, RafaelO Aisner, moderated by Jon Hanna.

Beginning between 4 & 5pm: "Achieving Conscious and Subconscious Mastery of Your Psyche"
RafaelO Aisner

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

2pm: "Ritual Uses of Ayahuasca"
Marcelino Sepulveda, Tony Moss, and Michael Nickel, round table discussion led by Daniel Pinchbeck.

5pm: "Holotropic Breathwork Discussion"
Stasia, group dicussion moderated by Daniel Pinchbeck

Thursday, September 1, 2005

10am - 2pm: Grof Holotropic Breathwork Workshop
Sheelo Bohm, Grof Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner

2pm: "Psychedelics, Psychotherapy and Mystical Experience"
Brian Richards, Psy.D.

3pm: "Psychedelic Therapy: A Critical Review of Experimental Evidence"
Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D.

4pm: "The Hope of MDMA for the Dying"
John Halpern, M.D.

5pm: "Ibogaine Research: Is this the drug to stop drug addiction?"
Sandra Karpetas, Leah Martin, Valerie Mojeiko

Friday, September 2, 2005

1pm: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dimensional Shift"
Daniel Pinchbeck

2pm: "Visionary Art/Visionary Design"
Erik Davis

3pm: "The Infinite Improbability of Us"
Bruce Damer

4pm: Panel discussion and Q & A with all of this year's speakers

Saturday, September 3, 2005

1pm: "Recent EEG and Ayahuasca Findings and Implications for the Development of Awareness"
Frank Echenhofer, Ph.D.

2pm: "LSD and Psilocybin in the Treatment of Cluster Headaches"
Andrew Sewell, MD

3pm: "Want to Legally Research Psychedelics? - Everything You've Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask"
John Halpern, M.D.

4pm: "Psychedelics and Marijuana Research: Therapy, Politics and Future Visions"
Rick Doblin, Ph.D

Please go here for details about the speakers and their talks.

Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
Presented by Heart of the Initiate
Bahia, Brazil
August 25 - October 03, 2005

Staff:
Ralph Miller
Stuart Wilde
Kajuyali Tsamani

For booking and additional information please visit the website at www.heartoftheinitiate.com.

September 16,17,18
Earthdance 2005
Laytonville, CA - USA

The Earthdance event in Laytonville is one of over 150 global events celebrating peace on September 17, 2005, and this year members of MAPS will be attending.

Earthdance, the Global Dance Festival for Peace has grown to become the world's largest simultaneous music and dance event. Founded in 1997, with 22 cities and 18 countries participating, Earthdance events have occurred in over 240 cities in 50 countries, with locations ranging from the club-lands of New York to the rainforests of Brazil. Every year, in alignment with the International Day of Peace, over 200,000 people unite in dance with hundreds of thousands more joining online in support of global peace and humanitarian aims.

Please visit the Earthdance International Website at: to see what cities are participating in 2005, to find out which charities are being supported, and to find out more about the Global Webcast.

September 20 to 28, 2005
"Ancient Healer of the Soul"
Ayahuasca Healing retreat in Bahia, Brazil by the ocean

Ceremonies with Ayahuasca, meditation, lectures, transpersonal exercises, and excursions.

Staff:
Sue Minns, past life therapist and author of "Be Your Own Doctor"
Gary Reich, psychic and lecturer
Alistair Appleton, TV presenter, meditation instructor
Silvia Polivoy, transpersonal psychologist
Zoe Seven, writer and researcher

For more information, please visit us at: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact silviap@house.com.ar

September 24, 2005 - November 29, 2005
Minds Wide Open

Light Space Gallery
1732 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90921
310-301-6969

Featuring Works By:
Luke Brown
Dean Chamberlain (featuring portrait of Albert Hoffman)
J Garcia
Alex Grey
Allyson Grey
Paul Laffoley
Kenny Scharf
Carey Thompson
Stacy Valis
Oliver Vernon
Robert Williams
Susan Williams

October 4 to 12, 2005
"Ancient Healer of the Soul"
Ayahuasca Healing retreat in Bahia, Brazil by the ocean

Ceremonies with Ayahuasca, meditation, lectures, transpersonal exercises, and excursions.

Staff:
Sue Minns, past life therapist and author of "Be Your Own Doctor"
Gary Reich, psychic and lecturer
Silvia Polivoy, transpersonal psychologist
Zoe Seven, writer and researcher

For more information, please visit us at: www.ayahuasca-healing.net or contact silviap@house.com.ar

Heart of the Shaman Workshop
October 5-10, 2005
Spring Hills Farm in Pennsylvania

After 20 years of Rave Reviews at Esalen Institute in California and Hollyhock Farm in Canada, we welcome you to our first East Coast Initiation Intensive

For more information contact:
Orenga.org
Donna Dryer
410-367-6945

Synergenesis 2
Saturday October 8, 2005
Sanfrancisco, CA
www.synergenesis.org

a full day of visionary culture design...

Full interactive hands on workshops with
Alex and Allyson Grey
Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann

Visionary Downloads from
Erik Davis and Jennifer Dumpert
Daniel Pinchbeck
Jenny Pell

Crystal and Spore interactivated metamedia environment

Visionary Beatbox Puppet Shenanigans with the Funginears

Cultural Visionaries Panel with amazing creators from up and down the coast, illuminating the process and informing the (r)evolution

Group Art Show including new work from:
Luke Brown
Carey Thompson
Vibrata Chromodoris
Roman Villagrana
Mariela de la Paz
David Heskin
Micheal Brown
Xavi
Rob Newell
and many more!

Tribal Market of independant artisans
Dancefloor Activation and Integration of the Day with Bluetech, Rodman and Naasko

Ritual Prayerformance with Matrixters, Mirroracle, BenBenStone and Mayku, Ulantia Studios, and amazing altared space and found object alchemy by Shrine

October 22-23, 2005
"Sacred Elixirs, a conference on the role of drug plants in the history of religion"

Montgomery Theater, San Jose, CA
Further details are available at Sacred Elixirs

In Conjunction with MOCAs Ecstasy: In and About Altered States:

Film - Richard Linklaters Waking Life (2001)
Discussant - Thomas M. Brod, M.D.

Friday October 28, 2005, 7-9:30 pm
New Center for Psychoanalysis (formally LAPSI) Auditorium
2014 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Call NCP office for reservations (310.478-6541)

Ecstasy & Experience: Lessons From Sacred and Illusory Journeys
Co-Sponsored with MOCA by New Center for Psychoanalysis and the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles

Featuring Charles Grob MD, Ralph Metzner PhD, and other speakers

Saturday October 29, 2005 (6 hrs)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Auditorium
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Reception follows at:
Geffen Contemporary MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Program chair: Thomas M. Brod, MD

From Visionary Experience to Spiritual Life: Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals

November 2, 2005 at 6pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington Street
Chicago, IL

Free admission
Click here for content and speaker informaiton

For more information contact:
312-744-6630
chicagoculturalcenter.org

Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
Presented by Heart of the Initiate
November 04-21, 2005
Bahia, Brazil

Heart of the Initiate offers tours to Brazil where we help people make sacred inner journeys through an intensive workshop experience. Our Brazil workshops incorporate shamanic ceremonies using the ancient plant teacher, Ayahuasca.

Guest Facilitators and Staff:
Ralph Miller - Respected facilitator Ralph Miller utilizes the gifts of our Earth Mother to awaken the Truth and Proof of our real selves. His gentle, quieting stillness creates a soothing and safe environment necessary to reach the depth of our inner being. It is here that you are awakened to the true you; opening your eyes and mind to the many hidden dimensions that surround us.

Stuart Wilde - Well known and respected for the 17 books he's written on consciousness and spirituality, Stuart Wilde has spent the last 25 years exploring the trans-dimensional doorway and helping others to find it themselves. Those who work with him quickly realize that at heart, Stuart is an enormously loving, generous and caring teacher, whose primary mission is to help seekers recognize their own truth.

Kajuyali Tsamani - Step into a tradition where the shaman will lead you to his world of the supernatural. Initiated by the legendary Kogi Indians of Northern Colombia, Kajuyali Tsamani will host an interactive ayahuasca experience with drumming, singing, dancing and movement.

For booking and additional information please visit our website at www.heartoftheinitiate.com.

Visionary Painting
with Roberto Venosa and Martina Hoffmann
November 7-13, 2005
Boulder Colorado

For more information contact:
workshop@venosa.com
303-440-8905

www.venosa.com
www.hoffmann.com

2005 International Drug Policy Reform Conference
November 10-12, 2005
The Westin
Long Beach, CA

Topics will include cannabis, civil liberties, drug treatment, GLBT people and drug law reform, harm reduction, hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, methadone, methamphetamine, psychedelics, racial injustice, teen issues, and more.

Go to www.drugpolicy.org for more information.

Moksha Family Presents: Venosa Saturday, December 3, 2005 228 NE 59th Street Miami, FL Moksha Family Presents: The Visionary Art of Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Jeff Vaughan & Meelo Atch 12/1-12/4 Gallery Open, Free Admission 12/3 Event: $15 includes gallery, music, DJs, performance art, visuals, food and vending

"Telling the Truth" Luncheon with MAPS
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Portland, Oregon
1pm-2pm

We've designed a short one hour program and lunch, with time for extended discussion after the luncheon for those who want to stay longer.

This is a free lunch for people to come and learn more about MAPS. Though it is a fundraiser and you will be asked to consider making a special contribution, there is no minimum gift required. As much as anything, we want people to come and learn about the important work being done by our organization.

We would be delighted if you could join us. The Telling the Truth luncheon will be on December 4th, 1-2pm at the CenterRing, located at 5339 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR. If you are interested in coming to the event, please RSVP to Sara Haimowitz, the event coordinator, at mirandah9@hotmail.com. If you wish to bring a friend or friends with you to the event, that would be fine. Just give Sara the names of invitees and their contact information.

December 15, 2005 - January 11, 2006
Minds Wide Open

MicroCosm
540 West 27th Street - 4th Floor
New York, NY 1001
215-594-8841

Featuring Works By:
Luke Brown
Dean Chamberlain (featuring portrait of Albert Hoffman)
J Garcia
Alex Grey
Allyson Grey
Paul Laffoley
Kenny Scharf
Carey Thompson
Stacy Valis
Oliver Vernon
Robert Williams
Susan Williams