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Entheogenesis:
Exploring Humanity’s Relationship with Sacred Plants, Past, Present and Future
Jan 31st
to Feb 1st
http://www.entheogenesis.ca/index2.html
Featured
Speakers
Prof. Carl
Ruck, Prof. Blaise Staples;
Lecture 1:
The entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras
Lecture 2:
Survivals of Pagan Shamanism
a)
European Fairy Tales
b)
Heretical Visionary Sacraments
Dr. Ethan
Russo;
Day 1:
Bhang, Ganja and Charas. Ancient Cannabis Claims and their Scientific Rationale
Day 2: The
Myth of Schedule I: Medical Uses of Forbidden Plants and Compounds
Marc Emery
Iboga
Therapy House
Chris
Bennett
Kaneh
Bosem: The Hidden Story of Cannabis in the Bible
www.forbiddenfruitpublishing.com
David
Aaron
Liberating
the Plants of Consciousness: The Law is on Our Side
Renee Boje
Trials of
the Ancient and Modern Witch
www.urbanshaman.net
Luke Brown
Art Show:
Entheogen inspired Creations.
Sponsors:
www.pot-tv.net
www.theibogatherapyhouse.org
www.urbanshaman.net
_________________________
Author,
Lecturer and Proffessor of Classical Mythology at Boston University, Carl P.
Ruck,was instrumental in coining the term "entheogens", ('becoming
divine within') that designates the use of psycho-active sacraments in the
context of spiritual practice..
CARL ANTON
PAUL RUCK
Carl Ruck
Born:
December 8, 1935, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Clark University,
psychology 1953
Yale
University, pre-medical, psychology, Classical philology: BA
University
of Michigan, Classical philology: MA 1959
Harvard
University, Classical philology: PhD 1965
New since
last report: Entries on “Diana” “Castor and Pollux” Encyclopedia of Myth, Brown
Publishing Group, London Entries on “entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and
Shamanism” (with Mark Hoffman) “Shamanism in the Classical World” “European
Shamanism” (introductory overview) Encyclopedia of Shamanism, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara,
CA “Snow White, Odysseus, and the Mushroom: Soma’s Fairytale Ending in the
West,” (with José Alfredo González Celdrán, Mark Hoffman, & Blaise Daniel
Staples), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no. 2,
(Winter), 2002.
IG II2
2323 The List of Victors in Comedy at the Dionysia, Leiden, Brill, 1967.
Pindar:
Selected Odes (with W. Matheson) (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press,
1967.
Ancient
Greek: A New Approach, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1968, 1972.
Ancient
Greek: A New Approach, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 19792, new completely revised
edition.
The Road
to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (R. Gordon Wasson, Albert
Hofmann, & B.D. Staples) (New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978: Los
Angeles, Hermes 1998.
Translations
of The Road to Eleusis:
El camino
a Eleusis: Una solution al enigma de los misterios, Fondo de Cultura Economico,
Mexico, DF, 1980.
O Dromos
yia ten Eleusina, Synergatikes Ekdoseis Koinoteta, Athens, 1982.
Der Weg
nach Eleusis: Das Geheimnis der Mysterien, Insel Verlag, 1984, Suhrkamp, 1990.
Alla
Scoperta dei Misteri Eleusini, Apogeo, Milan, 1996.
The Road
to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, (20th year commemorative
augmented reissue, Los Angeles, Hermes Press, 1998.
Strategies
in Teaching Greek and Latin: Two Decades of Experimentation, (Floyd L.
Moreland, ed.), 'Reading Greek,' Scholars Press, 1981.
On Nature
(L:. Rouner, ed.) “The Wild and the Cultivated in Greek Religion,” Notre Dame,
University of Notre Dame, 1984.
Persephone's
Quest: entheogens and the Origins of Religion (with R. Gordon Wasson et al.)
New Haven, CT, Yale 1986.
Translation
of Persephone's Quest:
La
busqueda de Persefone. Los enteogenos y los origenes de la religio, Fondo de
Cultura Economico, Mexico, DF, 1996.
Latin: A Concise
Structural Course, University Press of America, 1987.
The Sacred
Mushroom Seeker (T. Riedlinger, ed.) 'Mr. Wasson and the Greeks,' (Portland,
OR, Dioscorides Press, 1990)
The World
of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes (with B.D. Staples),
(Carolina Academic Press 1994)
Ethnobotany:
Evolution of a Discipline (Richard Evans Schultes & Siri von Reis, eds.)
“Gods and Plants in the Classical World,” Portland, OR, Dioscorides Press,
1995.
Decisions,
Decisions: Ancient Empires (academic advisor for computer tutorial Program)
(Watertown, MA, Tom Snyder Productions, 1996).
Mushroom
(consultant for video program):"a 26 minute journey into Americans'
passions for an extraordinary product of the earth" Premiered March 30th,
1996 at Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc (by Angelica
Allende Brisk & Rachel Libert).
Consultant
for video program on R. Gordon Wasson, prepared for German Public Television,
Third Program (broadcast November, 1996).
The
Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology (Thomas J. Bayfield, ed.) entry on “Myth.”
Intensive
Latin: First year and Review (with computer tutorial Vade Mecum) Durham, NC,
Carolina Academic Press, 1997.
The Apples
of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist (with Clark Heinrich
and B.D. Staples), Durham, NC, Carolina Academic Press, 2000.
Ancient
Greek: Intensive Review and Reference, Durham, NC, Carolina Academic Press,
2001.
Essays
published in scholarly journals:
“Marginalia
Pindarica I-VI,” Hermes, 1968-1972.
“Euripides'
Mother: Vegetables and the Phallos in Aristophanes,” Arion 1975.
“On the
Sacred Names of Iamos and Ion: Ethnobotanical Referents in the Hero's
Parentage,” Classical Journal, 1976.
“Duality
and the Madness of Herakles,” Arethusa, 1976.
“A Mythic
Search for Identity in a Male to Female Transsexual,” (with M. Fleming),
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 1979.
“Mushrooms
and Mysteries: On Aristophanes and the Necromancy of Socrates,” Helios, 1981.
“Mushrooms
and Philosophers,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1981
“The Wild
and the Cultivated: Wine in Euripides' Bacchae,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology
1982
“The
Offerings from the Hyperboreans,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1983
“Mistletoe,
Centaurs, and Datura,” (with B.D. Staples) Eleusis n.s. 1.2 1999, 3-23.
“Perseus,
the Mushroom Picker,” (with Clark Heinrich & B.D. Staples), Eleusis n.s.
1.2 1999, 25-55.
“Jason,
the Drug Man,” (with Clark Heinrich & B.D. Staples) Eleusis n.s. 1.3, 1999,
27-68.
“Mixing
the Kykeon,” (with Peter Webster & Daniel M. Perrine), Eleusis n.s. 1.4
2000, 55-86
“Conjuring
Eden: Art and the entheogenic Vision of Paradise,” (with Mark Hoffman &
Blaise Staples, Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 1,
Summer 2001, 13-50. Website gallery of additional images cued to the text at
<http://www.entheomedia.org/eden1.htm>
“entheogens,”
(with Bigwood, Ott, Staples, & Wasson), reprint of 1979, Entheos: Journal
of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 2001, 4-5.
“Daturas
and the Virgin,” (with José Alfredo González Celdrán), Entheos: Journal of
Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 2, 2001 (Winter), 49-74.
“The
Miskwedo of the Ahnisinaubeg,” (CAPR editor, unpublished manuscript of R.
Gordon Wasson, Harvard Botanical Archives), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic
Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 2, (Winter) 2001, 3-12.
“The
entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras,” (with Mark Hoffman and B.D. Staples),
Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no. 1, (Summer), 2002.
“De rebus
Mithraicis POSTSCRIPTM,” (translated by CAPR from the Spanish of José Alfredo
González), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no. 1,
(Summer), 2002.
“An
Entheobotanical Interpretation of Two Paintings by J.M. Turner,” (translated by
CAPR from the French of Vincent Wattiaux), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic
Spirituality, vol. 2, no. 1, (Summer), 2002.
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Prof.
Blaise Staples:
Classical
scholar, Blaise Staples, of Boston University worked along side R. Gordon
Wasson, Johnathan Ott, and Carl Ruck to coin the term entheogen. He is the
co-author of such entheo-botanical classics as Persephone's Quest and Apples of
Apollo.
Blaise
Daniel Staples
Date of
birth: July 13, 1948
Place of
birth: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Education:
Boston
University, B.A., Comparative Religion, Greek Language and Literature, 1972
Brown
University, post-graduate studies, Classics
Boston
University, Ph.D, Classical Studies, 1978
Dissertation:
(unpublished)
PEA
PTEROENTA: Plot and Metaphor in Aristophanes
Publications:
books
The Apples
of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist
(with
C.A.P. Ruck and Clark Heinrich) Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A.,
2000
ISBN
0-89089-924-X
The World
of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes
(with
C.A.P. Ruck) Carolina Academic Press, 1994 ISBN 0-89089-575-9
The Road
to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
(with R.
Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann & C.A.P. Ruck)
translation
of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1978; reissued commemorative edition, 1998 ISBN
0-915148-20-x
Publications:
articles
Entheogens
(with R. Gordon Wasson, J. Bigwood, J. Ott, C.A.P. Ruck) Journal of Psychedelic
Drugs, 11 (1-2), 1979
Mistletoe,
Centaurs, and Datura (with C.A.P. Ruck) Eleusis n.s. 1.2, 1999
Perseus
the Mushroom Picker (with C.A.P. Ruck and Clark Heinrich) Eleusis n.s., 1.2,
1999
Jason the
Drug Man (with C.A.P. Ruck and Clark Heinrich) Eleusis n.s., 1.3., 1999
-----Message-----
From: Chris Bennett
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:57 PM
Now that ticket sales are getting close to being finished, it is OK to alert anybody and everybody that you want to, that Entheogenesis www.entheogenesis.ca will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.pot-tv.net where it will be enjoyed by a global audience.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the pc is mightier than the atomic bomb.
Cheers,
CB
-----Original
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From:
owner-freerenee drugsense.org
Sent:
Saturday, December 13, 2003 1:45 PM
Subject:
RB: Cannabis/Sacred medicine Conference in Vancouver
Hello
friends...
Spiraling
warm winter solstice wishes to everyone!
I just
wanted to let you all know about the Entheogen Conference coming up in January
in Vancouver, because I think it is something many of my friends and acquaintances
would enjoy attending and the tickets are limited & going fast!!! One of my
personal heros in the cannabis movement, Dr. Ethan Russo, will be speaking as
well as many other heros & heroines in the cannabis & entheobotanical
community. It will be another magikal gathering of like minded activists
joining together to share with one another & to co-create positive changes
on this planet for the freedom of Gaia's sacred plant medicines &
sacraments!
Here is
the info:
Entheogenesis:
Exploring Humanity’s Relationship with Entheogens, Past, Present and Future
Saturday
& Sunday, Jan 31st to Feb 1st, 2004
Featuring
2 days of lectures & slide presentations, Psychedelic art on display, and
one evening gathering with Guest DJ’s, A live acid jazz band, a chill room with
special film screenings, treats, prizes & more!
Featured
Speakers, thus far:
* Prof.
Carl Ruck & Prof. Blaise Staples;
Lecture 1:
The Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras
Lecture 2:
Survivals of Pagan Shamanism
a)
European Fairy Tales
b)
Heretical Visionary Sacraments
http://www.entheomedia.org/
* Prof.
Benny Shanon;
Entheogens
in the Hebrew Bible - Some speculations.
* Mike
Crowley:
Secret
Drugs Of Buddhism.
* Prof.
Thomas Roberts:
The New
Gutenberg Reformation - Entheogenic Experience as the Basis of
Religion
* Jean
Millay
PSI and
Psychedelics: stories from the Underground
* Dr.
Ethan Russo;
Lecture 1:
Bhang, Ganja and Charas. Ancient Cannabis Claims and their Scientific Rationale
Lecture 2:
The Myth of Schedule I: Medical Uses of Forbidden Plants and Compounds
http://www.maps.org/media/potpioneer.html
* Rick
Doblin, Ph.D
Founder Of
MAPS.org
"Psychedelics:
Return of The Repressed."
* Marc
Emery & Sandra Karpetas
Iboga
Therapy House
http://www.ibogatherapyhouse.org/
* Chris
Bennett
Kaneh
Bosem: The Hidden Story of Cannabis in the Bible
http://www.forbiddenfruitpublishing.com
* Jon
Hanna
Psychedelics,
Altered Consciousness, and Visionary Art
* David
Aaron
Liberating
the Plants of Consciousness: The Law is on Our Side
http://www.goadave.org
* Phil
Lucas
Science,
Spirituality, and Compassion: the Modern Cultivation and
Distribution
of an Ancient Healing Plant
* Renee
Boje
Trials of
the Ancient and Modern Witch
http://www.reneeboje.com
http://www.urbanshaman.net
* Aurora
Catamo
Introducing
her new entheobotanical forum
http://www.psychoaction.org
* Luke
Brown
Art Show:
Entheogen inspired Creations.
DJ's
Include: Nils, Androgynoid
Acid Jazz
Band: Charley Higgins Quartet
Tickets:
Canadian $125.oo, American $95.oo
Make Check
or money order Payable to: Pot TV
Mail to:
307 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1H6
For more
information, Visit: http://www.entheogenesis.ca
Phone:
604-682-0039
email:
info~at~entheogenesis.ca
Sponsored
By: http://www.pot-tv.net, http://www.theibogatherapyhouse.org,
http://www.urbanshaman.net
Accomadation:
http://www.expedia.ca
Please
visit the website for more detailed information, at:
http://www.entheogenesis.ca
In unity
& love,
Renee Boje
From:
Chris Bennett [mailto:info@entheogenesis.ca]
Sent:
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject:
Entheogenesis Conference Lectures posted on Pot TV
The
complete set of lectures from Entheogenesis 2004 are now available in a video
format online.
Available
for free in Realmedia on the main page www.pot-tv.net or go straight to
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/series/pottvseries-124-0.html
>>The
complete set of lectures from Entheogenesis 2004 are now available in a video
format online. Available for free in
Realmedia on the main page www.pot-tv.net or go straight to
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/series/pottvseries-124-0.html
Here are
the lectures, with likely most relevant listed first.
The New
Gutenberg Reformation - Entheogenic Experience as the Basis of Religion
Prof.
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. (Stanford), professor of educational psychology at
Northern Illinois University
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2468.html
Heretical
Visionary Sacraments
Prof.
Carl Ruck and Prof. Blaise Staples, of Boston University
Explores
potential entheogenic symbolism in medieval paintings.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2473.html
The
Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras
Prof.
Carl Ruck and Prof. Blaise Staples of Boston University
The
Entheogenic Eucharist and homo-erotic rites of the all male cult of Mithras,
the pre-Christian Persian deity popularized in ancient Rome.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2466.html
The Secret
Drugs of Buddhism
Mike
Crowley, British researcher
Entheogenic
references and icons in Buddhist scriptures and art
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2465.html
Entheogens
in the Hebrew Bible - Some Speculations
Prof .
Benny Shanon of the Hebrew University in Israel
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2477.html
Kaneh
Bosem: The Hidden Story of Cannabis in the Bible
Chris
Bennett, Pot TV manager and Conference organizer
Biblical
References to Cannabis
Humurous
introduction from Marc Emery.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2467.html
Psychedelics:
Return of The Repressed
Rick
Doblin, Ph.D. is the founder (in 1986) and president of MAPS, The
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2470.html
Entheogenesis
Conference Opening Ceremony
Sponsor
Marc Emery, Organizer Chris Bennett.
Prof. Carl Ruck and Prof. Blaise Staples give their definition of the
word which helped inspire this event; they helped co-create
"entheogen".
Over
7,000 people joined the live broadcast of this historic Pot TV Conference.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2463.html
Psychedelics,
Altered Consciousness, and Visionary Art
Jon
Hanna, organizer of the Mind's State Conferences and Editor of the Enthogen
Review
Altered
consciousness resulting from the consumption of various drugs has had a
creative effect on art throughout the ages.
The use of psychedelics in current times has greatly influenced the
visions depicted by modern artists from the 1960s to today. This lecture and slide presentation--a
visual delight--will introduce and discuss works by artists who have been
inspired by their drug use. The primary
focus will be contemporary art, and the incredible twists and turns that it has
taken on the psychedelic path.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2471.html
Entheogens
and the Goddess
Renee
Boje - Conference co-organizer, proprietor of the Urban Shaman, American Drug
War Refugee
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2475.html
Science,
Spirituality, and Compassion: the Modern Cultivation and Distribution of an
Ancient Healing Plant
Philippe
Lucas, founder and director of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2469.html
The
Concepts of Psychoactivism
Aurora
Girraffe of the Urban Shaman
Discusses
the need for activism to liberate entheogens and talks about the website she
co-created with partner Knigel, www.psychoaction.org
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2474.html
Bhang,
Ganja and Charas. Ancient Cannabis Claims and their Scientific Rationale
Dr.
Ethan Russo
Ancient
Medicinal Cannabis Claims
There are
audio problems midway for about twenty minutes with this file
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2464.html
Liberating
the Plants of Consciousness: The Law is on Our Side
David
Aaron, Vancouver lawyer
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2480.html
PSI and
Psychedelics: Stories from the Underground
Jean
Millay
Jean
Millay, Ph.D. is a sort of grandmother to the entheogenic community. Includes a clip from her 1965 movie 'The
Psychedelic Experience'
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2479.html
The Myth
of Schedule I: Medical Uses of Forbidden Plants and Compounds
Dr.
Ethan Russo
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2478.html
The Iboga
Therapy House
Marc
Emery & Sandra Karpetas
Vancouver's
Iboga Therapy House sponsor Marc Emery and manager Sandra Karpetas discus their
work treating hard-core drug addicts with a shamanic plant that has been
reported to break addictive cycles.
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2476.html
The full
quote below correctly appears on page 422 of the 1994 Modern Library Edition of
the book. Thomas Roberts is a cataloger
of book coverage of entheogens.
http://www.csp.org
Thomas
Roberts wrote:
>>Sooner
or later everyone poking around writings on states of consciousness or
psychedelics comes across Wm. James's "filmiest of screens"
quotation. But the first sentence of the paragraph, which shows that James
arrived at this insight from taking a psychoactive chemical, is usually
omitted.
>>In
the sentences that continue the quotation, James describes mystical aspects of
his experience, including the sense of unity, resolution of opposites, and
noetic quality.
================================================
In the
book
Varieties
of Religious Experience
page
298, Mentor edition, 1958
Mysticism
-- Lectures XVI and XVII
William
James wrote:
>>Some
years ago I myself made some observations on this aspect of nitrous oxide
intoxication and reported them in print. One conclusion was forced upon my mind
at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever remained unshaken. It is
that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is
but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by
the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely
different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply
the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all completeness,
definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of
application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be
final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to
regard them is the question for they are so discontinuous with ordinary
consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish
formulas, and open a region through which they fail to give a map. At any rate,
they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality.
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