Beto Basilio

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Beto facilitates toad sessions with the purpose of connecting mind, heart, body and soul to the experience of being human, in order to recognize and experience spirituality through earthly life. He stands firmly against the philosophy of ego dissolution. He is a post-treatment therapist and integrator of ancestral tools, dealing with cases of traumatic experiences with the medicine, including uncontrolled fear, panic, anxiety, depression, stress, depersonalization and the handling of entities.

Fernando Barba Castillo

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Master Architect from ITESM Campus Guadalajara, Fernando is the president of Fernando Barba Amezcua Foundation A.C., intended to protect and spread our traditional cultures around the globe. After quitting alcoholism and drug addiction thanks to sacred medicines, he decided to start a life of service and share his own experience to help people overcome their addictions. He is now a member of the indigenous communities that protect the medicine and traditions, and has been studying with his teachers form the Wixarica, Cofán and Seri tribes. Fernando has been working with several medicines, including Kambo, Xanga, Rape, Yopo and Bufo Alvarius for one year with a team of healers from his home town, Irapuato. He is also Co-founder of Pacha Moma Museum hosting visionary, contemporary and indigenous art.

Ian Benouis

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Ian Benouis is a West Point graduate, former Blackhawk helicopter pilot, former US Army officer and combat veteran who participated in Operation Just Cause in the Republic of Panama.  Having healed himself of trauma using ethnobotany and a spiritual practice, he supports veterans healing from PTSD, addiction and TBI using earth medicines.

www.psychedelicmusalman.com

Joël Karamdeep Singh Brierre

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Joël began his relationship with psychedelics as a teenager in an exploratory manner. Marveling at the chance to explore the unexplored, Joël began training with Curanderos in Peru in 2001 where he further pursued these heightened states of awareness. He studied yoga in India and now leads retreats and workshops around the world on the plant medicine and yoga connection. With over 10 years of teaching and multiple teacher trainings, Joël is certified at 500 ERYT. Joël works with the venom of the Bufo Alvarius toad and the pure molecule itself. Joël believes the toad medicine’s effect of a non-dual experience is congruent with the Samadhi states that can be attained through yoga. He assists individuals through pre and post integration using a program he has derived from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Ivan Ceniceros

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Ivan has been a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous 24-hour movement for 22 years and is the founder of the first group in the United States. He has taken the conference "Emotions and Addictions" to multiple countries in Central America. He is currently coordinator of mental and emotional health centers in northern Mexico, where they attend universities, schools and government offices. He presides RESONAC, Social Regeneration, helping young people with addiction problems, given that the region where he lives occupies second place in suicides mainly as a result of addictions. His purpose is to help others see toad medicine as a tool of deep healing that he personally recommends; and is working on joining the government and civil society efforts to achieve the goal. His motto has always been: Live to Serve.

Chad Charles

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Through the 5Hive (5meodmt.org), the Facebook group Toad & 5-MeO Forum & Support, the Conclave, retreats for new practitioners, and speaking about the topic with various Psychedelic Societies, Chad has been an active witness to the global status quo of practice and participation of the experience offered by both the secretion of the bufo alvarius and jaguar (the molecule, 5-MeO-DMT).

Mario Garnier

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Mario is a documentary filmmaker, founder of WBAC and a social activist nurturing the community and the medicine of Bufo Alvarius ethically and sustainably into the modern world.

Draupadi Gershewitch

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Draupadi is a magical grandmother from Avalon, England. She offers a wealth of experience and knowledge. Having cleared her own traumas and past addictions, she has been walking with the great master teacher plants for 15 years and runs retreats worldwide. She works a lot, essentially in women groups to clear violations and is fully committed to being part of the awakening, so that we as a species can release our traumas and programs and walk this Earth as holy humans doing no harm and respecting all living beings. 

Alberto Guzman Aguilar

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Clinical psychologist. 30 years of Initiation with the Ancestral Medicines. Researcher of Transpersonal Psychotherapy and Shamanism. Creator of a form of containment and accompaniment of the Medicine Bufo Alvarius, using Song, Temazcal and Ancestral Magic, which he has shared in Italy, Portugal, Holland, Spain, Canary Islands, Israel, Mexico, Brazil and others. He is also the general coordinator of the "Danza por la Tierra" Project, a gathering of the Tribes of Mexico, the United States and Canada, using 5 fundamental pillars; Song, Dance, Healing, Temazcal and Visionary Substances, a project that researches and promotes the various Arts of Healing and Human Development strategies of men and women with knowledge of Indigenous Cultures. 

Dean Jefferys

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Dean is a film maker and activist, currently making a Documentary called ‘The Toad the Whale and the Sun’ Dean is the administrator of a FB group called “Toad and 5 Meo Forum and Support” with 7000 members. He is Skipper of the marine conservation Yacht, Migaloo 2, regularly communes with Whales and is a regular Sun gazer. Dean is working to assist this sacrament come into the human experience with maximum efficiency and minimum trauma. www.toadwhalesun.com

Matt Kahl

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Psychedelics found me in the 90's, and I began advocating in 2014, appearing in two films, Soldiers of the Vine and From Shock to Awe. I worked on the Denver Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative. I first encountered 5-MeO in 2016 and have been serving medicine to other veterans since February 2018.

Rita Kocárová

Rita is a researcher and postgraduate student in clinical psychology at the Charles
University (Prague, CZ) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH CZ) in the research program of Applied Research, trainee of Gestalt therapy and MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and founder of Beyond Psychedelics initiative and Czech Psychedelic Society. Her research focuses on the psychoactive substances, with the special emphasize on psychedelics: psilocybin, ayahuasca, MDMA, 5-MeO-DMT containing secretion from Bufo alvarius toad, and others.

Tom Mendola

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Tomas has worked with nonprofits and studied Wisdom Traditions for decades, including being past president of Arizona Yoga Association and Tucson Peace. He has served for 10 years on the Tucson Medical Center’s professional ethics committee and is currently CEO for Harmony and Health Foundation which owns land in the Sonoran desert. Harmony and Health is located in the larger meta-community of Sacred Earth Community, just west of Tucson, which is also his home. From studies and experience in the Yoga tradition and reference to Upanishads, Dao te Ching, Bhagavad Gita and other Wisdom Traditions, he has proposed a map of what the toad experience opens up to an individual, the realms passed through to the Divine/the white light/God. In other words, “what actually happens when you die.”

Dr. Pedro Javier Molina

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Physicist, Mathematician and Chemistry Technician, he has studied the molecule and its interaction with other substances, achieving to optimize its highest potential. He will be sharing his progress and methods.

Hamilton Morris

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Hamilton Morris is an American journalist, pharmacologist, and psychonaut from New York City who investigates the chemistry, effects and history of various psychoactive drugs. He is a science editor of Vice Magazine and a correspondent and producer for Vice (TV series) on HBO, as well as a regular science columnist for Harper's Magazine.

Dr. Fernando Quitian

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Director of the Transpersonal School in Bogota, Colombia, Fernando is a Chemical Engineer, holds a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology and is a Holotropic Breathing specialist. He has 21 years of clinical experience treating addictions, anxiety, panic attacks and people with terminal diseases. His expertise is in accompanying patients in expanded states of awareness, psycho-spiritual crisis and spiritual emergencies. Facilitator of psychotherapeutic processes for chronic depression and addictions. 

Rak Razam

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Rak is the world’s leading ‘experiential’ journalist, writing about and helping shape the emergence of a new cultural paradigm in the 21st century. A writer, film producer and culture maker, he bridges the worlds of shamanism, consciousness and popular culture. As Executive Director of the Terra Incognita Project he helps investigate the nexus between neuroscience and shamanism with scientific studies on tryptamines like 5-MeO-DMT.  www.terra-incognita-project.org

Raul Rivera

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Born in the desert of Coahuila, Raul grew up with his mother, grandmother and aunt in the company of his older brother. His academic studies concluded at high school due to the lack of credibility of this and other community systems (academic, religious and political). He has found his personal purpose, serving through his work as a holistic therapist working on the psychosomatic, energetic, plant and molecule fields through introspection and self-knowledge at ceremonies, treatments and post-medicine integration.

Anahí Ochoa

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Resident of Vicam, Sonora, where she was born, one of the eight towns in the Yaqui territory. Psychologist, traditional therapist, social worker and activist for indigenous rights and Mother Earth, she promotes and manages cultural initiatives to strengthen indigenous identity. She is currently working towards the creation of an intercultural traditional medicines clinic for treating drug addictions in members of the Sonora tribes. She is a leader and member of Yaqui women's organizations in defense of their territory and water. Avid promoter of the respect for the bufo alvarius toad, endemic to that region, she speaks out in favor of best collection practices and for its preservation within its habitat.

Scott Olsen, Ph.D.

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Scott is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. He studied with David Bohm, Huston Smith, Keith Critchlow and John Mitchell. Lecturing widely on ancient wisdom, Plato and transformative experience, his books include international bestseller 'The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret' and 'Mysteries of the Amazon: Visionary Artwork of Pablo Amaringo'.  

Julian Palmer

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Julian Palmer has been deeply exploring psychoactive plants for the last 19 years and has spoken at conferences in Australia and overseas on this subject over the last 16 years.  He facilitates non-traditional spaces for psychedelic plant medicine work and is also the inventor of ‘Changa'. In 2014 Julian published his 1st book, 'Articulations: On The Utilisation and Meanings of Psychedelics', which is his summation and understandings related to how psychedelics work and how they can most effectively utilised. Read more about his amazing journeys at www.julianpalmerism.com

Pit Prieto

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Spiritual healer, Pit has been studying and practicing spiritualism, along with other disciplines for more than 20 years. He is the guardian of lightning, among his teachers are the Taita Edilberto Criollo Queta of the Cofán lineage of the upper Putumayo in Colombia, Samuel Amistron of the Tohono O'odham town of Sonora, among others. He is a member of the Bufo Alvarius Therapists Association in Mexico, content producer and admin of CDMX BUFO ALVARIUS Medicina Sagrada, the largest Facebook group about 5-MeO-DMT in Spanish.

Barry Richardson

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Barry is a veteran of the US Coast Guard. Upon discharge he spent many years on a cocktail of medications and had several psychiatric hospitalizations due to PTSD, depression and anxiety. He has found healing through sacred medicines and is an advocate for supporting healing using entheogens.

Robin Rivera

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As a pioneer in the survivor leadership movement and a psycho-spiritual healer, Robin teaches transformation from an integrative and shamanic perspective, sourcing from her experience overcoming complex trauma and training in non-traditional therapies. Robin holds a Master's degree in consciousness and transformative studies and has worked with marginalized populations, such as minor victims of domestic sex trafficking and exploitation. Robin has a private coaching practice in California while also facilitating  healing ceremonies and limpias for her community. Her mission to support the evolution of consciousness through alternative healing and a reconnection to the sacredness of being human. You can hear her story on her podcast: The Cosmic Creatrix ⁣⁣www.robinriveraignites.com.

Yannina Thomassiny

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Mexican journalist, sound therapist trained at the Woom Center in New York, Bufo Alvarius facilitator for over five years, plus creator and voice of Sabiduría Psicodélica, which has long ranked among the Top-10 podcasts on Spotify Latin America.

Moyenei Valdés ​

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Born in Chile in 1978. Composer, interpreter, visual artist, therapist. Her reflective and conscious lyrics have marked the tone of her compositions since 1996. Her verses combine Latin American music, afro-soul and medical songs. To date, she has released 3 albums and has been nominated for a Grammy four times. Her first album, FE*, was awarded a Golden Disc. She has traveled to over 30 countries in America, Europe and the Middle East, sharing her world through art and medicine music. She works as a therapist on unlocking the voice through the workshops she conducts worldwide. She is currently directing her first documentary feature film "La Herencia", where she shares with humanity the teachings of medicine, healing and forgiveness. A path where the blessing of deeper awareness and subtle arts has led to fertile creative processes.    www.moyenei.com.

Clare S. Wilkins

Clare is a former intravenous drug user and methadone patient who shed those chemical dependencies with the aid of ibogaine in 2005. As founder of Pangea Biomedics, she has facilitated over 800 treatments with a diverse team and has collaborated with MAPS to study the long-term effects of patients undergoing detoxification therapy with ibogaine for opiates. Since 2010, she has been an active board member of The Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance (GITA), is co-author of the Clinical Guidelines for Ibogaine-Assisted Detoxification, as well as co-author of a successful case study published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies. Clare is also part of a team of experts who are advancing Parkinson's Disease treatment, utilizing a successful combination of ibogaine, orthomolecular medicine and nootropics. As a member of INPUD, an international drug user rights organization, she is devoted to reducing stigma and harm, promoting the health of and compassion for people who use drugs and every human’s basic right to medicine.

Dominique Wolf Amanzi

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Dominique is a Seer and a trained somatic bodyworker of 25 years who developed her own unique style of bodywork marrying many traditions together. She is an expert in tapping into the auric field, the chakras and the meridian system. Her longtime fascination and love is the human energetic system. She reads your Soul blueprint and is devoted to the clearing, liberation and reclamation of the Souls freedom and sovereignty. Her passions are the Waters of the Earth, Song, Dance and working with the Breath.