Friday, May 21, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
You Are an Explorer: Searching for the Right Questions for These Times

The Psychedelic Renaissance has finally achieved legitimacy within mainstream culture and at the same time issues are arising around the commercialization of these medicines and the potential commodification of the sacred. As venture capitalists invest in psychedelics, are these once-revolutionary substances being tamed? Is this the only path we envisage as a community?

As Terence McKenna once wrote: “You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.” Scientists tell us that global warming has reached a tipping point and as extreme weather and viral outbreaks wrack the globe, we seem to have reached a civilizational zenith. Can the full potential of psychedelics and entheogens reconnect us to nature and assist in lowering the egoic mind that has brought us to the point of planetary extinction? Can we create a new collective myth to steer us through these times?

Can we tap into the seedbed of the psychedelic societies, the integration groups, the now visible global psychedelic community to vision together in search of not just answers, but the right questions for these times? And can we do so in a mature way that learns from the lessons of the 60s to go deeper, together, with intention, beyond the medical paradigm and towards a true renaissance of the soul?