Practically the co-inventor of the 2012 cultural phenomenon, Dennis McKenna is also a pioneer of natural products and medicine. Co-author (with his brother Terence McKenna) of The Invisible Landscape, and Psilocybin- Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide, Dennis literally wrote the book on the DMT experience, neo-shamanism, and DIY mushroom cultivation. This year’s Keynote Speaker, Dennis will give two seminars on human / plant co-evolution and the commercialization, exploitation, and criminalization of nature that are not to be missed!

If you’d like to check out some of Dennis’s past speaking engagements, download this torrent:

Dennis McKenna multimedia collection featuring:

“Plant Allelochemicals and Plant/Human Co-Evolution” (audio)

“The Ayahuasca (Hoasca) Project” (audio)

“Neuroscience and Spirituality” (video)

“The Experiment at La Chorrera” (from the talking book True Hallucinations read by Terence and Dennis McKenna (audio)

Art Bell interviews Dennis McKenna on Coast to Coast AM (audio)

And a teaser for the documentary Cognition Factor (video)

(photo swiped from ronnysimulacrum)

The new issue of Trevor Blake’s OVO Magazine features many Esozone participants: Anonymous, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Vincent Al Ken, Wes Unruh, and Edward Wilson. Plus many other fine contributors.

Download OVO 18: Money for no money.

For those not in the know, OVO has been published by Trevor Blake since 1987. Trevor says of his work:

When I started publishing OVO I was just a self-important hayseed living in a small town making a dumb little zine among thousands of others. But OVO did accomplish a few things in the first fourteen issues. OVO was the first to publish several essays by Hakim Bey that later appeared in his book T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone. OVO published work by Mike Diana long before his work drew the attention of State and Federal employees. Photographs of body piercing appeared in OVO two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search. The phrase ‘phone tag’ appears in print for the first time in the first issue of OVO. ‘Liberating Wednesday’ by PM, author of bolo’bolo, appears in OVO for the first (and only) time; this is nearly a decade before and fifty-two times more radical a suggestion than ‘Buy Nothing Day.’ Crop circles and the Men in Black are referenced at a time when they were still obscure. The first appearance of Ride Theory in print occurs in Ignatz Topolino’s contribution to OVO. And OVO was aware enough of the outer edges of scientific ethics to mention gene patents in the same year they first were granted.

Nice long interview in Key 64:

MG: Both Leary and Wilson felt that the bottom circuits imprinted at acute, random moments in early childhood and adolescence, but I do not see the biological basis for such small windows of imprinting. Certainly birth is the primary C1 imprinting process and a universal human event, but I suspect it only accounts for roughly 30 to 80% of the C1 imprint depending on the individual and the circumstances of birth. It seems that C1 imprinting starts in the womb and continues well into the first several months of life. I suspect that C4 imprinting occurs over a period as long as several years and I find it hard to agree with Wilson’s assertion that the entire C4 imprint is taken on at the moment of first orgasm. How do you feel about these early childhood imprints?

AA: My experiences parallel Wilson’s and Leary’s here regarding the early childhood imprints of the first four circuits. Once imprinted, however, there are years and decades of affirmative conditioning that fortify and maintain those imprints, habits that can run throughout the rest of our lives and can run or rule the rest of our lives. Though C-1 imprinting does start with the infant dependency event with the mother, or surrogate mother, I think circuits two through four (especially C-4) can remain “un-imprinted” for years to come differing, of course, with each person and their circumstances.

As for the entire circuit four imprint occurring with the first orgasm, this sounds ridiculous to me. If only it were that simple and easy yet circuit four has proven to be anything but easy and simple. It’s not just me; look at the world, look at our human history of warfare, genocide and social tragedy. Other equally complex imprints such as religious upbringing, courtship rituals, woman and manhood rites of passage, pregnancy, and parenting also inhabit the web of fourth circuit realities.

Full Story: Key 64.

This weekend only there will be a special “early bird” ticket price of $40 for the whole weekend. Tickets will go on sale at 6:00 am on Friday April 11th and will remain $40 dollars until the stroke of Midnight on Sunday the 13th. After the 13th, the presale price will be $50.

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October 10-12

Watershed Building
5040 SE Milwaukie Ave
Portland, OR

Confirmed speakers:

Dennis McKenna, ethnopharmacologist and co-author of Invisible Landscape and Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide

Antero Alli, author of Angel Tech, filmmaker (”The Invisible Forest“) and director of Paratheatrical Research

Paul Laffoley, acclaimed visionary artist

Rex Church, surrealist/occult artist and Magister Templi of the Church of Satan

Lupa, author of A Field Guide to Otherkin and Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone, and co-author Kink Magic

Taylor Ellwood, author of Multimedia Magic, Inner Alchemy, and co-author of Kink Magic

Alex Ansery, host of the television show Outside the Box

Thirtyseven, MC also known as Humpasaur Jones, member of the hip hop outfits Wombaticus Rex and the Algorhythms and editor of Brainsturbator

Trevor Blake, editor of OVO Magazine

Bianca Lee, creator of the Nysidra symbol system.

Bill Whitcomb, author of Magician’s Reflection and the Magician’s Companion

Edward Wilson, co-author of the Art of Memetics

More TBA!