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Dr. Bruce's Levity Zone

Dr. Bruce Damer kicks off Palenque Norte 2012 with a brief 15 minute history of the lecture series. He discusses the revivification of Terence Mckenna and Timothy Leary through Palenque Norte events.

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Daniel Pinchbeck gives a riveting talk at Palenque Norte from Burning Man 2012.

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Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl(Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002). His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, ArtForum, Arthur, and many other publications. He is currently the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a national columnist for Conscious Choice magazine.

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John Allen and Tango Parrish Snyder get into the magic of biospheres in this riveting talk.

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John Allen, inventor, conceiver and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 project - the world’s largest laboratory for global ecology. Biosphere 2 set a number of world records in closed life system work including, among others, degree of sealing tightness, 100% waste recycle and water recycle, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years). Allen has also conceived and co-founded nine other projects around the world, pioneering in sustainable co-evolutionary development.

Tango Parrish Snyder has been the publisher of Synergetic Press since 1984. She is also Exec. VP of Global Ecotechnics Corporation (globalecotechnics.com), an international project development and management company, of which Synergetic Press is a division. She has published books in biospherics, ethnobotany, psychedelics, vanguard fiction and poetry. She founded and directed the Biosphere Press publishing division for the Biosphere 2 project, set-up its educational programs department, and produced over twenty books, video and educational curriculum titles in the first two start-up years (1990 -1994). She is also a Director of the Institute of Ecotechnics (ecotechnics.edu), a non-profit ecological think-tank,helping to manage a number of the international conferences it has hosted over the years on global trends and in the field of closed ecological systems.

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This talk features the filmmaker Ken Adams, who was a neighbor, friend, and collaborator of Terence McKenna in their search for new ways of explaining the psychedelic experience. Ken is the producer/director of a new, and experimental, film titled “The Terence McKenna Experience” which features never before seen and heard raps by Terence.

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Amanda Sage kicks off the Palenque Norte Lecture Series from Burning Man 2012!

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Talk Description: As we hurl through space into a future of limitless possibility we are at a turning point as people all over the world are waking up. More than ever the visionaries are called to the front lines to be models and give examples for bridging and building the new world. Be it through paint, music, teaching, healing, writing, networking, inventing, thinking or dreaming we are mapping our future... It's only going to be more amazing then your wildest dreams if you believe it to be. I In this talk Amanda will share her vision with you.

Amanda Sage is a visionary artist using her painting as a tool for spiritual and planetary growth and transformation. Her paintings represent multidimensional aspects of humanness in harmonious balance.While affecting the senses on a visceral level, they explore the potential to activate the audience in spiritual areas and provide access to deeper planes of being.

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Brian explains the ethnobotanical roots of cacao, from the neurophysiology of the sensory experience that starts at one's tastebuds, to the underpinnings of chocolate's widely touted health benefits, to the slave labor practices that the chocolate industry doesn't want you to know about. He discusses the therapeutic and ceremonial applications of the "food of the gods", and the ancient cultures that used cocoa beans as currency.

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Charles Shaw gives the 4th talk of the opening day of Palenque Norte at Burning Man 2012.

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Charles takes you on a journey through the history of the War on Consciousness and Cognitive Liberty, more commonly known as the “War on Drugs.” Through an examination of the political agenda behind drug prohibition, we will explore the various mechanisms of social control inherent in the prohibition model. Also discussed will be the 40+ year war on psychedelic medicine, the recent sea change in opinion regarding decriminalization, the history of drug trafficking, and the experiences of Portugal as a 10-year world leader in decriminalization.

Charles Shaw is an award-winning journalist and editor, and the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality. His work has appeared in Alternet, Guardian UK, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Reality Sandwich, and Znet. In 2009, he was recognized by the San Diego Press Club for excellence in journalism. He lives in Sebastopol, California.

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Dr. Maddy Corbin shares her thoughts at Palenque Norte from Burning Man 2012!

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Dr. Michelle Corbin earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and her Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies in 2010 from the University of Maryland. Her dissertation project titled "Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the Politics of Knowledge in the Psychedelic Sciences" analyzed scientific research on psychedelics and spirituality from the 1930's to the present. Given the traditionally demarcated and historically hierarchical relationship between science and spirituality, she examined how the epistemological, ontological and political implications of this unusual intersection were negotiated in these sciences.

This project brings together Dr. Corbin's interests in spirituality, psychedelic consciousness exploration, science and social justice. As a spiritual practitioner and member of consciousness-oriented communities, she shares a belief in the emancipatory possibilities of spirituality and consciousness transformation. As a feminist scholar committed to liberatory politics she seeks to investigate how we can ensure that our spiritual practices and consciousness transformations can best be accountable to the multiple politics of location which constitute our lives, communities and traditions. See michellecorbin.com for additional information.

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Dr. Brian Hewlett gives the 3rd talk on the first day of Palenque Norte 2012 at Burning Man.

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This workshop offers a brief history of the conceptualization of human consciousness and intelligence before outlining the process of conscious perception of experience proposed by Qualitative Field Perception Theory (QFPT). QFPT is a contemporary theory by Dr. Brian N. Hewlett (2012) that proposes human consciousness has a default formula for constructing experience that can be explained by the rules of quantum mechanics and in terms of the divine proportions of the golden ratio. The theory argues that each human acts as an observer constructing experience from an infinite field of qualitative material that is either shared or is a set with a fractal dimension. QFPT presents for conscious observers a set-based algorithm that has implications for human agency in manifesting experiences both psychedelic or otherwise, subjective reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and time space manipulation. As such the workshop concludes with a discussion that focuses on the social and moral significance of introducing such an algorithm into AI and the further implications that may have for human society.

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