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

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment to foster mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. EGA hosts an annual conference to encourage informed dialogue on the role of such sacraments in culture, history, spirituality, art and sciences. EGA addresses many of the myths surrounding psychoactive chemicals and also examines aspects of safety, harm reduction, psychology and the law within an Australian context.

EGA 2009 will create a space for growth of the spirit, mind and body, hosting over 25 expert speakers from around Australia and abroad. The speakers make up the backbone of our event and are supported by a great host of other fantastic happenings including discussion panels/groups, workshops and performances. This will take place over 4 days in November nestled in the beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria, Australia.

Our aspiration is to create an active, transformative experience and
cultivate a community ethos and feel, through the synergy of science,
art, and ritual. We aim to create inspiring spaces that reflect and resonate with the overall philosophy of the event. The main conference space will be a work of art in its own right. Accompanying it will be the ~Mykopod~ space designed to help you 'relax ~ connect ~ integrate' during the gathering. To additionally help you tune in and play your part in the EGA experience, there will also be a healing tent, meditative crystal mandala dome and a visionary art space all connected by a very lush market area.

The event will also host a communal banquet, some ambient music and films as well as Masquerade Corroboree to keep you all on your toes.

We hope you can join us in the trees for an exploration of more than mind, body and spirit.


EGA 2009 Program

Bear (Owsley) Stanley
Talk 1 - 'The economic consequences of black markets, specifically in reference to drug prohibition'.

Talk 2 - 'The effects of certain psychedelics on mind function, including interactions with electronic circuits- a possible route to mental machine control'

"By conservative estimates, Bear Research Group made more than 1.25 million doses of LSD between 1965 and 1967, essentially seeding the entire modern psychedelic movement" - Joel Selvin

Bio
Considered by many as one of the legends of the sixties counterculture, Bear Stanley denies his heroic status, and spends his days working on various sculptures and writing essays on subjects such as the importance of carbon dioxide, the primary and only ‘plant food’, to the expansion of food crops and life on earth. Fair and equitable taxation (equal and low percentage on all ‘income), a proper runoff method to determine the results of elections, and how to unify and balance lawmaking. Writing laws in ordinary language rather than legalese. Including ‘sunset clauses’ to allow change to adjust to the rapid changes in today’s world-- amongst others. He is renowned for his contribution to sound engineering, particularly working with live gig iconoclasts, the Grateful Dead, and perfecting the idea of on-stage monitors and high quality PA’s. A tireless archivist, he kept a ‘diary’ of his front-of-house mixes, including hundreds of Grateful Dead performances, and has seen the release of a number of albums from his “sonic journal” tapes of PA mixes. Bear was a minor participant in the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He was the first underground cook to produce high-purity LSD in the 1960s, when it was legal, including the famous White Lightning and Monterey Purple. Bear Stanley now lives in Australia.
http://www.thebear.org/


Robert Jesse
Talk 1 - 'Psilocybin and Spirituality:Notes from the Johns Hopkins Study'

Talk 2 -'(Entheogens), Awakening, and Spiritual Development'

Bio
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 - 'Tryptamines at the End of Time - Birthing a spheroid awareness'
Jeremy J - 'Entheogenic Acacias of Australia: A review of known active species and an introduction to more previously unreported species'.
Killindi Lyi - 'The Interdimensional Village: The African Uses of Entheogens'
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'
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 Their Use'
Mulga - 'Dreamtime or Delusion? Ways of seeing and the transfer of knowledge'
Richard King - The Archaic Revival Road - Whitefella Jump Up - Indigenising Guest
Australians (Kanyini, Deep Reconciliation, Power Plants & Continuum
Consciousness)
Colonel Kurtz - '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 or Why the daytime party is something else entirely.'
Darklight - ‘ High Tech Overdrive’
Julian Palmer - 'For what and why do we do This?'
Even Dawn – ‘About Time... Shift Happens!’
ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE - 'ENTHEOGENS and MAGICAL RITUAL'
Chris Hansen - 'Me and Ralph.....'


*** Discussion Panels ***

Facilitator by Rak Razam - "SPIRITS OF THE VINE: Ayahuasca the new global sacrament?" - Passionate
aussiehuasqueros share their experiences with this vegetal medicine

Facilitator by Rak Razam - "REC-CHEMS: Language of the gods?" - Pharmauscas glossalize and tantalize
in their quest for the divine spark

Facilitator by Rak Razam - "PSY-TRIBES: Entheogenic Communities Past, Present and Future" - Is a
psychedelic community merely a state of mind? Or can meaningful change be
manifested in the material world?

Facilitator by Julian Raxworthy - "YOU HAD TO BE THERE - Psychedelia, Representation"
Its hard to describe the psychedelic experience, because, really, you had to be
there, but lots of people have tried to. Accompanied by amazing images of mind
bending artwork, Julian will introduce this panel with an overview about how
psychedelia represents itself in literature, but particularly in art.

Facilitator by Neil Pike - "THE UNBROKEN CHAIN: A Hidden History of the International Drug Trade"


*** Discussion Groups ***
Robert Jesse – ‘Communities of Spirit’
Margaret Cross – ‘Keeping it Real Shamanism 101’
Shane Huebner – ‘The Crazy Cactus Wisdom of Chavin-Ancient Knowledge-Hidden Truths!’


*** Workshops ***
Torsten and Brian - 'Propagation of ethnobotanicals and plant trade space'
Keith King - 'Spreading The Mycelial Love- Introduction to cultivating woodlovers'
Becca Dakini and Don Peyote - Talk & Sound Workshop -'Eternal Now – Keys To Being Present in the Moment As the Observer of the Ego'
Timothy John Payne - Dyad Workshop - 'Dichotomy – the Face and the Core'
Jewelli Dollman - 'Dropping with the Devas - Austrlian Bushflower Essences'
Kitty Forest - 'Non-violent community action'
Natasja Sproat - 'Yoga - Exploring the Physical and Energetic Body'
Even Dawn - 'The Art of Time'
Michele Maselli - 'Yoga and Consciousness'
Richard King - 'The Experience of Delightenment (A modern application of Thundernaut Shamanism. Electro Luminescent Efflluve and Sound as an Earth Sacrament)'
Helga Maria Lovejoy - 'Plants, their consciousness, healing properties and how to connect deeper to them'

+ EGA will have a pinch of sound


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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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?” or “is MDMA really a more dangerous drug than alcohol?” - then EGA is for you.

Entheogenesis Australis is a collection of thinkers from all walks of life, we come together to share knowledge about sacred plants, chemical alchemy and states of consciousness.

We hope you will join us in the trees for this exploration

[RonnySimulacrum]

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Entheogenesis – What We Can Do
Bob Jesse - EGA Headliner

Much of the world’s suffering is unnecessary. Where can we turn for help in healing the world and building more joyful lives?

Across cultures and eras, profound experiences of unity with the cosmos – called, variously, mystical experiences, non-dual consciousness, unitive consciousness, or primary religious experiences – have sometimes lead to lasting, and lastingly beneficial, changes in the lives of those who encounter them. Some of them (Moses at the Burning Bush, the Buddha under the Bodhi tree, Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, Bill Wilson in Towns Hospital) are not only life-changing but world-changing.

Many different activities – meditation, prayer, chanting, fasting, and dancing among them – have been used with the intention of preparing for such experiences or for occasioning them, and their nature seems to be largely independent of how they come about. The skillful, careful use of certain plants and chemicals is one of the least demanding means in terms of time and among the most likely to bring about a profound experience on any given occasion.

The wisdom traditions emphasize the critical importance of ongoing practice for spiritual development and to stabilize what may be gained in a primary experience. Today’s interconnected world presents a rich, even bewildering, array of old and new techniques and paths. Tradition and reason also say that the existence of a social "vessel" to contain the process – a group of people with some shared understanding of what the experience means and what is to be done with it – reduces risks and increases the chances that a given experience will lead to lasting benefit.

But this knowledge is scattered, incomplete, and tacit; there is more of it in the minds and hearts of teachers than there is in the writings of scientists. We know little, for example, about which practices work best for which people. There is much to be learned.

These observations lead us to believe that bringing more focus to this area would tend to decrease suffering and increase prosocial behavior in the world. We can pursue this goal by catalyzing research to improve scientific knowledge of the phenomena and their consequences, by working to create social understandings that make seeking out primary experiences seem less unusual than it now does to most westerners, and by encouraging people to find or imagine and develop social contexts that serve as appropriate vessels.
Foremost, we can redouble our commitment to our own spiritual growth, to the long personal work of tilling the soil for awakening, and to the communities that hold these intentions.

[obieone]

wow what a great line up of speakers.......

This will be a great event with a lot of great information
i have just read all about it and i am pumped. cant belive
you have bear stanley (owsley) talkin there he is a dead
set legen and talkin in melbourne this is one not to be
missed

[RonnySimulacrum]

A positive story about LSD- Augustus Owsley Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4XK8lkzEM&NR=1

[RonnySimulacrum]

Hey Everyone
Just a very quick note, as our event is coming up fast and getting tickets and make your plains to travel to the event must be on your mind.

Pleases read our FAQ before coming to the event, it will help you with what to expect and what you will need to bring with you to make the most of the weekend.
http://www.entheo.net/2009notices.htm


Also the General admission tickets are almost sold out, and on this coming Friday the price goes up to latecomer’s admission, so best get in and grab the last of the general admission tickets why you can.
See
http://www.entheo.net/2009tickets_1st_round.htm

We can certainly feel the anticipation building up for this very unique conference gathering.

Sure hope you can be a part of it

[RonnySimulacrum]

[RonnySimulacrum]

**** EGA Opening/Closing Ceremony - Coordinator – Margaret Cross ****

The EGA Opening Ceremony has been designed to connect us all, one to
the other in Unity consciousness so we may create in harmony,
tolerance and understanding. The ceremony will be simple and powerful
as we gather together in celebration of our connection and to seed
dream the future. .

We will gather around a sacred fire just as our ancient ancestors did.
Wound together by billions of strands of love, light and remembrance
of who we are and why we are here.

We will join together as one to Plant a Dreaming Tree. This act will
embody our shared Reverence for nature and our intention to
create heaven of Earth through our collective visions. Tomchia Raven
Wolf will close the ceremony with a sacred Shamanic Chant to seal us
as one in Love and Collective vision.

[RonnySimulacrum]

**** EGArts ****

Art contributions for EGA'09 have evolved and grown enormously, everybody attending this year's event is in for a massive treat!

Featuring well over a massive 200 square metres of visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases, giant interactive luminous bionic sculptures, a labyrinth, a crystal mandala housed in a tipi, aural valve tuned hifi sound scapes, visual projections, flags, hammocks, chill lounge and live art space!

'EGArts' will be an inspirational experience for all senses and provide a vast and detailed insight into the realms of the imagination and elements intrinsic to the shamanic and visionary experience!

Contributors:

Izwoz.com.au visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases. See http://www.izwoz.com.au

Pixelogix- visionary banner arts and video projections.

Futurelic- an installation of interactive botanic organisms sculpture. The self illuminated sacred deity organisms are made from redundant machines and industrial waste reanimated into new botanic life. See http://www.futurelic.va.com.au/

Carla and Barbi- exhibiting a large collection of banner arts from Australian and international visionary artists to create a high quality visually aesthetic experience.

Pixie lou- providing a range of sculptured lighting installations, as well as a range of handmade vines and leaves to decorate the space and suit the organic plant theme of EGA.

Kylie Robinson- creating a crystal and sacred object mandala, displayed inside an 18foot tipi. the space will be similar to the one at RSF ’09 – a plant/crystal/symbolic space that all can enjoy and contribute to. please bring objects along!

Tony- Djalu -an ongoing informal workshop with the aim of completing a series of large scale mosaic murals. The murals will relate intrinsically to EGA – the people, the country, the ideology, the energy, the community – and will be a representation of rainbow fella. Contribution from as many people as possible will be encouraged. The completed murals will be added to the prizes in the EGA fund raising raffle.

Imogen- creating a sculptural and poetic labyrinth created primarily of surrounding natural materials.

Pussy cat lounge- an ultra comfy chill space, bringing a bunch of soft and squishys to lounge around on!

Molecular Octave Sound System- a valve powered high fidelity surround sound system for a completely immersive auditory experience!

.....and not to forget the Hyper Spatial Chrysalis hammock space in the trees!

[RonnySimulacrum]

History of Entheogenesis Australis:

Entheogenesis Australis has grown organically over the years, starting out as a Victorian based Ethnobotany interest group who had attended and were inspired by the "Ethnobotanica" Australian Ethnobotany conference [www.ethnobotanica.org] in Nth NSW in 2002. After the event a small Victorian network developed and started holding a ‘Mini EB’ in Ringwood library. The meetings grew over the years and eventually underwent a formal transformation to become Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) in 2004. The first formal EGA conference, held at Ruby's Lounge in Belgrave, introduced us to a wider audience and moved our interest more towards the lecture/panel/workshop format, also introducing art, music and a spiritual dimension.

In 2004 the core group - Martin, Michael, Carl, Ronny and Tim - came together and started to chart a more conscious and intentional direction, leading to incorporation as a non-profit association in 2008. EGA currently holds a conference every year alternating biannually between an indoor event at Melbourne University and a larger outdoor conference gathering in Swanpool nestled in the beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria, Australia. In 2009 EGA launched an ongoing journal publication to supplement the conferences. As EGA has grown so has its commitment to providing a supportive environment for mature and open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals.

Our aspiration is to create an active, transformative experience and cultivate a community ethos and feel, through the synergy of science, art, and ritual. We aim to create inspiring spaces that reflect and resonate with the overall philosophy of the event.


What is Happening at this year Conference or more like it, what is not happening

INTERNATIONAL GUEST
Bear (Owsley) Stanley
Talk 1 - 'The economic consequences of black markets, specifically in reference to drug prohibition'.
Talk 2 - 'The effects of certain psychedelics on mind function, including interactions with electronic circuits- a possible route to mental machine control'
Robert Jesse
Talk 1 - 'Psilocybin and Spirituality:Notes from the Johns Hopkins Study'
Talk 2 -'(Entheogens), Awakening, and Spiritual Development'
Killindi Lyi -
'The Interdimensional Village: The African Uses of Entheogens'
Ms Anomalous -
"Santo Daime: Ritualised Ayahuasca for Maximised Healing"
Jeremiah Abrams - EGA Healing Temple




Other Speakers

Des Tramacchi - 'Entheogens and The Discarnate'
Michael Bock - 'Oils ain't oils: Essential oils in Australiasian flora'
Jeremy J - 'Entheogenic Acacias of Australia: A review of known active species and an introduction to more previously unreported species'.
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 - 'Tryptamines at the End of Time - Birthing a spheroid awareness'
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'
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 Their Use'
Mulga - 'Dreamtime or Delusion? Ways of seeing and the transfer of knowledge'
Richard King - The Archaic Revival Road - Whitefella Jump Up - Indigenising Guest
Australians (Kanyini, Deep Reconciliation, Power Plants & Continuum
Consciousness)
Colonel Kurtz - '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 or Why the daytime party is something else entirely.'
Darklight - ‘ High Tech Overdrive’
Even Dawn – ‘About Time... Shift Happens!’
ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE - 'ENTHEOGENS and MAGICAL RITUAL'
Chris Hansen - 'Me and Ralph.....'
Julian Palmer - 'For what and why do we do This?'



Discussion Panels/Groups

Facilitator by Rak Razam - Spirits Of The Vine, Leaf & Flower
Facilitator by Rak Razam - REC-CHEMS: Language of the gods?
Facilitator by Rak Razam - Psy-Tribes: Entheogenic Communities Past, Present And Future
Facilitator by Julian Raxworthy - You had to be there - Psychedelia, Representation.
Facilitator by Neil Pike - The Unbroken Chain: A Hidden History of the International Drug Trade
Facilitator by Robert Jesse – ‘Communities of Spirit’
Facilitator by Margaret Cross – ‘Keeping it Real Shamanism 101’
Facilitator by Shane Huebner – ‘The Crazy Cactus Wisdom of Chavin-Ancient Knowledge-Hidden Truths!’




EGA ARTs

Art contributions for EGA'09 have evolved and grown enormously, everybody attending this year's event is in for a massive treat!
Featuring well over a massive 200 square metres of visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases, giant interactive luminous bionic sculptures, a labyrinth, a crystal mandala housed in a tipi, aural valve tuned hifi sound scapes, visual projections, flags, hammocks, chill lounge and live art space!
'EGArts' will be an inspirational experience for all senses and provide a vast and detailed insight into the realms of the imagination and elements intrinsic to the shamanic and visionary experience!

Contributors:
Izwoz.com.au visionary banner arts and hand painted canvases. See http://www.izwoz.com.au
Pixelogix- visionary banner arts and video projections.
Futurelic- an installation of interactive botanic organisms sculpture. The self illuminated sacred deity organisms are made from redundant machines and industrial waste reanimated into new botanic life. See http://www.futurelic.va.com.au
Carla and Barbi- exhibiting a large collection of banner arts from Australian and international visionary artists to create a high quality visually aesthetic experience.
Pixie lou- providing a range of sculptured lighting installations, as well as a range of handmade vines and leaves to decorate the space and suit the organic plant theme of EGA.
Kylie Robinson- creating a crystal and sacred object mandala, displayed inside an 18foot tipi. the space will be similar to the one at RSF ’09 – a plant/crystal/symbolic space that all can enjoy and contribute to. please bring objects along!
Tony- Djalu -an ongoing informal workshop with the aim of completing a series of large scale mosaic murals. The murals will relate intrinsically to EGA – the people, the country, the ideology, the energy, the community – and will be a representation of rainbow fella. Contribution from as many people as possible will be encouraged. The completed murals will be added to the prizes in the EGA fund raising raffle.
Imogen- creating a sculptural and poetic labyrinth created primarily of surrounding natural materials.
Pussy cat lounge- an ultra comfy chill space, bringing a bunch of soft and squishys to lounge around on!
Molecular Octave Sound System- a valve powered high fidelity surround sound system for a completely immersive auditory experience!
.....and not to forget the Hyper Spatial Chrysalis hammock space in the trees!



Workshops

Torsten and Brian - 'Propagation of ethnobotanicals and plant trade space'
Keith King - 'Spreading The Mycelial Love- Introduction to cultivating woodlovers'
Becca Dakini and Don Peyote - Talk & Sound Workshop -'Eternal Now – Keys To Being Present in the Moment As the Observer of the Ego'
Timothy John Payne - Dyad Workshop - 'Dichotomy – the Face and the Core'
Jewelli Dollman - 'Dropping with the Devas - Austrlian Bushflower Essences'
Kitty Forest - 'Non-violent community action'
Natasja Sproat - 'Yoga - Exploring the Physical and Energetic Body'
Even Dawn - 'The Art of Time'
Michele Maselli - 'Yoga and Consciousness'
Richard King - 'The Experience of Delightenment (A modern application of Thundernaut Shamanism. Electro Luminescent Efflluve and Sound as an Earth Sacrament)'
Helga Maria Lovejoy - 'Plants, their consciousness, healing properties and how to connect deeper to them'

Dj Krustys - Da Masquerade Corroboree - An Experimental Sayonara PSY Soiree/workshop[/b]
http://www.entheo.net/KrustyMasqueradeCorroborree.pdf




EGA Market Space

FOOD STALLS :
1. Semilla's Kitchen - Organic vegetarian food: Breakfasts, Lunch, Dinner, Desserts.
2. Jerry's burger stall - Vegetarian burgers, chocolates, soft drinks and bottled water
3. PsyBusSpace - Chai tea, blended herbal teas, organic fairtrade coffee, hot choc. Lentil soup, Quesadillas (vegetarian and mexican wraps). Sweets - carrot/zuchini cake, chocolate balls and other treats.

OTHER STALLS:
1. Astrophyte - plant stall.
2. Logical Unsanity - Artworks, books, literature.
3. Leafy Creations - clothing, Artworks, leaf cushions and blankets.
4. Sycamore Stuff - Clothing, Artworks, dreamcatchers, wings and other things.
5. Earthpod - Plants, Nootropics/ "Smart drugs", Supplements, aphrodisiacs, Herbals.
6. Happy High Herbs - Plants, herbals etc etc.. (not specified, bet we know the go..)
7. Green Shaman Australis - herbal supplements, music and more.
8. Tutu's N Stripes N All things nice - clothing
9. Cicada - Artworks and jewellery
10. Lil' n' Smith Trading House - Clothing, artworks, books, ritual and elemental tools.
11. Izwoz + Spiral Harmonics - Clothing, artworks, crystals etc..
13. Sage Dreaming - Sage, White sage (salvia apiana). Also will set up small space where he will smudge anyone who choses.
14. Traditional Health Care Inc - Info desk mainly about acupuncture and herbalism.



EGA Opening/Closing Ceremony - Coordinator – Margaret Cross

The EGA Opening Ceremony has been designed to connect us all, one to the other in Unity consciousness so we may create in harmony, tolerance and understanding. The ceremony will be simple and powerful as we gather together in celebration of our connection and to seed
dream the future.We will gather around a sacred fire just as our ancient ancestors did. Wound together by billions of strands of love, light and remembrance
of who we are and why we are here.We will join together as one to Plant a Dreaming Tree. This act will embody our shared Reverence for nature and our intention to create heaven on Earth through our collective visions. Tomchia Raven Wolf will close the ceremony with a sacred Shamanic Chant to seal us
as one in Love and Collective vision.



EGA Healing Temple
Featuring local & international healers & therapists, providing holistic services to all patrons of EGA free of charge – a space for personal development & healing

Jeremiah Abrams (USA)
Rob Wilkie – I Ching diviner
Mike – massage therapist & energetic healer
Jenji San – bodywork & sound healer
Chris James – Tarot diviner
Cian – Huna bodywork & massage



Just Some of the sound taking place at EGA

Pagan Love Cult
Schofield
ORRYELLE
Dr Zaius
Paul Abad
Don Peyote
Oblique Industries VS J-Dub
Oli
Rythmic
KDent
Shagga
Psilonaut
Zowzi
Dakini
SeeWa
Phoebe Kiddo
Rainbow Architect
GroovyBoots



So what do I get when I buy an EGA 2009 ticket?

• Access to the Conference with over 25 lectures / 10 workshops / 8 discussion spaces / Visionary Art, Sculpture & Sound scapes/ A Masquerade Corroboree - An experimental Sayonara PSY Soiree / Free Healing space/ a market space/ all nestled in the beautiful Strathbogie Ranges in north east Victoria.

• A Copy of the EGA 2009 Journal

• A lite communal Banquet on Sunday night.


If you can not attend, pleases support the continuation of the event via the Raffle, for without your support, the event will simpley not be.
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As you can see a amazing event is about to take place, with unprecedented effort from the EGA team (that have all volunteered).
We Sure Hope you can be a part of the download.

All the best with your travels and preparation attending this mind blowing event B) See you in the Trees

Thanks again everyone for keeping EGA what it is
In Plants We Trust
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