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Amanita Dreamer is a former high school science teacher whose life was changed by Hurricane Katrina but the aftermath left her in a state of panic attacks for which she was prescribed a high dose of benzodiazepines. After 5 years she started developing early onset dementia and started trying to get off of them. She learned that that would be very painful and difficult and she suffered long term nerve damage, pain and worse panic attacks until she was non-functional. The Amanita muscaria mushroom changed all that for her. She dedicated her life to correcting the information on the internet and helping to spread awareness about what this mushroom has to offer. She experiments, interviews leaders and researchers, and parses through the research. She believes that one day we will know as much about this mushroom as we do cannabis. Her goal is to bring awareness of its biochemistry as well as the magic and lore, back to humanity.

Anne LaForti

Pasadena, CA

Presentations

Mycelial Biomimicry: Social Innovation Through Nature's Genius (90 min.)
Session IV – Friday, 11:00 am
The Grail

Biomimicry is emulating nature's patterns as design templates to solve human design challenges. Let's take the functional superpowers of fungi and use them as design patterns for social innovation. Mycelium can protect its network, provide communication within the network, and share resources between the nodes of the network. How can we learn to be more like mycelium?

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Anne LaForti is "That Soil Nerd" who is excited and amazed by the power of fungi to do all-the-things. She has a master's degree in Biomimicry and geeks out over the soil food web.

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Anne LaForti is fondly called That Soil Nerd, due to her voracious appetite for soil knowledge. By day, she manages corporate sustainability software; by night she can be found learning how to heal soil systems. By leveraging her MS in Biomimicry and studying nature's patterns for optimized human innovation, she hopes to help heal the soils of California, and sees regenerative agriculture as a way to renew ecosystems globally. At Biomimicry LA, Anne served as a lead-researcher, as she collected and curated knowledge on bioremediation of contaminated soils for Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles. She was also awarded the Alternative Residency Fellowship for Spring 2022, from Nature, Art and Habitat Residency to explore “Soil as Pattern Language: Emulating Healthy Soil Communities”, digging into meta metaphors of healthy soils (microbes, land, community, and regional food system).

Ash Ritter

Tucson, AZ

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Balms & Broomsticks: Entheogenic Plants & Fungi of Europe (90 min.)
Session VI – Friday, 4:00 pm
The Rhize

Toxin and tonic. Nectar and poison. It is said that there is a “secret” drive in our genetic wiring to seek out intoxication. But why?

In Eastern Europe and beyond, powerful conscious-altering balms allowed for spirit flight- a means to gather insight from higher ground, revel in ecstatic edges, and bring down embodied data to better self and community.

In this class, we will take a lively look at the mythology and taboo history of European witches, inner alchemy, and the ethnobotany of entheogenic fungi & plants, including it’s modern adaptations, with philosophical considerations for the especially pertinent nuance between & beyond the binary of poison and medicine.

One Drop: An Animist's Take on Herbal & Fungal Compounding (60 min.)
Session XIII – Sunday, 4:00 pm
The Deliquesce

As the popularity of therepeutic fungi finds it's foothold in the colonized west, attitudes and approaches of the industrialized mind influence how we perceive medicine. How does our worldview & language inform the quality, approach and efficacy of mushrooms and botanicals? How has the influence of war-medic allopathy informed our methodolgy in traditional medicine ways? What would it look like to engage with these organisms as beings nested in a living, relational terrain, as opposed to compounds that we use solely for personal gain?

Together we will explore animist philosophies & practical methods to compound potent teas, tinctures and tonics to awaken our experience of reciprocity, where the medicine of place nourishes the body of self and the body of world alike.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Grail

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Ash Ritter is a west coast born, desert dwelling ethnobotanist with a poets heart. She explores, counsels & creates in her practice Black Sage Botanicals as an herbalist, educator, writer, and confectioner.

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Ash Ritter is a west coast born, desert dwelling ethnobotanist in a poet’s body. Her entire adult life, 20 years & counting, steadily revolves around botanical medicine reverence & studies, encompassing traditional, academic, clinical, and directly relational terrains. Ash currently shares her loyalty to collective wellness as a practicing herbalist, educator, writer, and herbaceous confectioner. Her approach places emphasis on plants & planet as relations, and is manifested through her practice as fostering engagement with & as the living world, rather than ""using"" plants as commodity. She counsels & creates in her practice, Black Sage Botanicals.

One-on-one longterm apprenticeships are the cornerstone of her training, with a focus in Druid herbalism, clinical botanical medicine, Mexican & Peruvian curanderismo & ""guerilla"" urban first aid. Her bachelors degree thesis focused on botanical & fungal agents for initiation, and altered states as evolutionary technology. Ash's longstanding commitment takes shape as gathering the remnants to forge a cohesive & unique synthesis that pays homage to past, present and future generations.

Ash feels blessed beyond measure to have shadowed naturopathic Dr. Kenneth Proefrock in his office for 2 years upon her relocation to the Sonoran Desert, and almost went to medical school, until coming to recognize the potency of keeping her practice out of bureaucratic matrices. Previously, she apprenticed with Charles ""Doc"" Garcia, and worked for several years as a plant-based personal chef, and apothecarist in a bustling California Bay Area clinical herbal practice.

She currently lives in a century-old gnome house on an old ranch outside of Tucson, Arizona, and enjoys tracking deer through the spiny brush, sitting with 200-year-old cacti, and waiting for monsoon season thunderstorms as she writes her first book

Ashley Bonn

Portland, OR

Presentations

The Mycelium Metaphor: Mutually Beneficial Relationships (60 min.)
Session I – Thursday, 2:30 pm
The Deliquesce

In this workshop, I will describe how the intricate web of mycelium is a metaphor for community relationships, particularly those that are mutually beneficial. Through useful illustrations and diagrams, I will explain the difference between three relationship types (mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism), as well as the difference between an egocentric mindset and ecocentric mindset. I will conclude the workshop with an interactive activity that can be an impactful tool to create mutually beneficial relationships in communities.

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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Ashley Bonn is holistic educator, event producer, and community networker. She is the Founder of Conscious Growth, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon with a mission to build community resilience by producing transformational events that support regenerative culture.

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Ashley Bonn is a holistic educator, event producer, and community networker. She grew up in the Midwest (St. Louis and Chicago), where she completed an International Business program from the University of Missouri. In 2015, Ashley accepted an internship in Chile, where she witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of extreme poverty and pollution. It was from this new perspective that Ashley became inspired to learn more about equitable practices for sustainable living. Upon returning to the U.S., she enrolled in Portland State University’s Leadership for Sustainability Program. Two years later, she graduated with a Master's Degree Education and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management. In 2019, Ashley founded Conscious Growth, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to build community resilience by producing transformational events that support regenerative culture. For the past three years, Ashley has organized numerous events all over Portland, focusing on the intersection of education, art, music, and restoration. She currently operates Conscious Growth out of two local community centers: EARTH Space PDX and The Haven PDX.

Ayla Realta

Portland, OR

Presentations

Fungi Singing Workshop: Commune with Armillaria through the Voice (90 min.)

Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Rhize

This singing workshop is aimed at preparing participants to begin communing with fungi spirits through the voice. For this RMC workshop, we will be sing-studying Armillaria. All levels of singing experience welcome. The workshop begins with learning the personality of the fungi, where it grows and what it eats, before moving to its cultural significance and human relationships. After learning a bit about the fungi we warm up the voice with a variety of strength building vocal exercises. Finally we commune with the physical form, first meditating with mushrooms and/or mycelium, gathering auric data, then listening for sounds and songs. Together we invite the fungi spirit to channel through our voices, leading us into a flowing fungi filled singing session.

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Ayla Réalta has been singing since she was a small child and training her voice for over 15 years and has been teaching singing in the Portland area and beyond for over 6 years. Since becoming enamored with mushrooms in 2019, she has been practicing the art of channeling their songs by combining ethnomycology with intuitive songwriting practices.

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Ayla Réalta has been singing since she was a small child and training her voice under the guidance of New York City vocal coach Dr. Michael Warren (michaelwarrenvoice.com) and professional opera singer Ted Dougherty (strongvoicestudio.wordpress.com) for over 15 years. She has been teaching singing in the Portland area and beyond for over 6 years. She believes that everyone has the potential to uncover their unique and powerful voice, and that singing is the most vulnerable and healing form of expression.

Since becoming enamored with mushrooms in 2019, Ayla has been practicing the art of channeling their songs. She does this by combining ethnomycology with the intuitive songwriting practices of listening, being a hollow bone channel for the song to come through. This unique practice starts with learning the about the fungi’s behaviors and human relationships, before moving to inviting the spirit of the fungi to move through the voice.

Chris Adams

Corvallis, OR

Presentations

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

Mushroom Art Foray (with Rebecca Chandler) (90 min.)
Session VIII – Saturday, 11:00 am
Anastamose Zone

In this workshop, we will walk around the woods of Brown Bottle Farm, chatting about one artist's process of collecting visual information for their art, while also learning to identify the fungi encountered.

Chris Adams is an illustrator & printmaker from Corvallis, OR who primarily creates pen and ink illustrations of mushrooms and other mushroom related wildness. Although much of his work is a bit out there, he tries to keep a layer of scientific accuracy in the natural elements within each piece.

The foray will consist of essential mushroom identification information, as led by Rebecca Chandler, as well as a first-person view from Chris on how you might collect information to later use for creating morphologically-accurate drawings. Among other things we will talk about sketching & photography techniques specifically for taking home a comprehensive look at each specimen.

We will also discuss how to create a mushroom journal and make spore prints to further our understanding of mushroom identification. All levels are welcome to join!

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Drawn to mycology through foraging & an amateur interest in fungal biodiversity, Chris has been making mycocentric art for almost a decade.

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Growing up in Oregon, Chris has always had a fascination with & appreciation of the outdoors. When he was introduced to foraging in his 20s, the lens through which he interacted with the woods changed from distance hiking, skiing and fishing to all mushrooms, all the time.

At the same time, he was already knee deep in trying to make his lifelong love of drawing a livelihood. The stars aligned between his newfound love of mycology & his art, and Chris has been making mushroom art & apparel ever since.

Chris is the Founder & Creator of Corvidopolis, The Mushroom Tarot, and most recently Sporelust!. His work merges nature, magic, absurdity, and sort-of-accurate science in an illustrative style fueled by punk-skate culture of the 80s & 90s and 60s counterculture at large.

Fascinated with the emerging mycoculture we are all watching unfold in real time, he hopes his newest project can become a community center & catalyst for collaboration between mushroom fascinated individuals.

Dr. Christopher Hobbs

Placerville, CA

Presentations

Medicinal Mushrooms, the Essential Guide (120 min.)
Session VIII – Saturday, 11:00 am
The Rhize

Kingdom fungi have so much to offer--healthy food, building materials, bioremediation agents, and especially powerful medicines. We will discuss how mushroom medicine can transform our health in many ways.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Grail

Treating Infections with Medicinal Mushrooms and Natural Medicine (90 min.)
Session XII – Sunday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

Will offer a lively and holistic scientific review of clinical studies supporting effectiveness of medicinal mushrooms supported by herbal medicine for prevention, relief of symptoms, and for re-balancing the underlying constitutional issues that form the basis of disease. Standard of practice western, traditional Chinese herbs will be emphasized, along with food pharmacy, diet, and lifestyle factors with research.

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Dr. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth-generation, internationally renowned herbalist and mycologist, licensed acupuncturist, herbal clinician, research scientist, consultant to the dietary supplement industry, expert witness, botanist, public speaker, and author of over 20 books and numerous articles with over 35 years of experience. He co-founded the only national professional herbal practitioner’s organization in the U.S., the American Herbalist Guild.

The author or co-author of over 20 books, including the new “Christopher Hobbs’s Medicinal Mushrooms, the Essential Guide (Storey Publishing).

Christopher Hobbs has lectured on herbal medicine world-wide. He earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with research and publication in evolutionary biology, biogeography, phylogenetics, plant chemistry, and ethnobotany, and now faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Courtney Tyler

County Wicklow, Ireland

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Make your own Medicinal Mushrooms Extract (120 min.)
Session V – Friday, 2:00 pm
The Rhize

A hands-on workshop discussing a diverse range of tasty and health promoting methods to incorporate medicinal mushrooms into your diet, your regime, your palate.

We will discuss, taste, explore how and why to add more mushrooms into your diet. How to pickle or ferment them, etc. We will talk about why making medicine from mushrooms is so different than when working with plants. How mushrooms impact our micro-biome (our myco-biome) and how they benefit our immune system. We will learn about how to best extract the medicinal compounds from fungi and have a hand-on section making medicine to bring home with you.

Make Your Own Medicinal Mushroom Coffee (60 min.)
Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Deliquesce

Come learn (and taste) how to make delicious and immune enhancing drinks with a blend of medicinal mushrooms and herbs.

Courtney Tyler of Hips and Haws Wildcrafts delights in the ceremony of sharing hot drinks made from a mix of medicinal mushrooms, roots, herbs, and tree medicine in her events in Ireland.

Join this workshop to learn how to make some of your own and go home with some new recipes and wow your friends and family with your new concoctions and brews.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Grail

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Courtney Tyler is a keen forager and spends much time wandering the hedgerows and forests of Ireland for wild local food and fungi to preserve as food or medicine or to add to her fermented food and drinks. A strong interest in the medicinal side of fungi, but with a special affinity to the Fly Agaric. She has much to share of how to add fungi to your life in many different tasty and medicinal applications.

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Hips and Haws Wildcrafts – Exploring the Alchemy of: Foraging. Fungi. Wild Food. Medicinal Mushrooms. Herbal Medicine. Fermentation.

“I am passionate sharing how nature nourishes, connects and grounds me. To offer an experience that ignites others’ curiosity for the wild with food and medicine.” –Courtney

Courtney lives in the stunning County Wicklow, Ireland, happiest surrounded by trees and observing the changing seasons. A keen forager, she spends much time wandering the hedgerows and forests for wild local food to preserve as food or medicine. Processing and transforming wild plants, roots, berries and fungi into herbal extracts, teas, salves, ferments and delicious food to share with her community.

She delights in sharing her hard-won knowledge and experience that she has acquired, but more than anything prides herself in the ability to teach others about the magic of the natural world and how to feed and nourish our bodies and souls with these wild foods and in particular wild fungi.

The passion and enthusiasm with with Courtney shares this knowledge is infectious and clearly communicated, breaking down complex and often dry mycological or complex terminology into snippets of interesting facts and hands-on learning experiences.

A proud member of the Association of Foragers. Courtney can teach you to identify many edible, medicinal, toxic or deadly fungi and show you how to increase your knowledge and confidence step-by-step.

Ireland has an abundance of wild fungi that you can safely learn to identify and enjoy for its culinary properties, medicinal qualities or just to learn new skills or to deepen your connection to nature. You will learn how begin to safely identify mushrooms species and also discuss the medicinal qualities of mushrooms. The emphasis on her events is from a foraging perspective- however your interests may lie in many areas: from nature photography, nature connection, mycology, natural sciences, forestry, food, medicine- you will be most welcome. Courtney’s workshops are inclusive and accessible.

Courtney shares her knowledge, skills and experience in foraging walks, workshops and events throughout Ireland and invited as a speaker in various seminars such as: The Radical Mycology Convergence 2022, Herb Feast, Fumbally Stables EAT:ITH, Body & Soul etc.

“Courtney’s passion, knowledge and her ability to clearly explain and share the excitement and to re-kindle the reconnection to the wild around and within us is what you can expect if you join her on one of her events.”

Jason Scott

Oregon City, OR

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Spagyric Anatomy of Fungi (60 min.)
Session III – Friday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

Drawing from the ancient alchemical traditions we will explore the art of Spagyrics, starting with the principles behind what a Spagyric is, and leading into how that relates to fungi. We will bridge philosophy and practice with methods on how to produce mushroom spagyrics, as well as other lesser known types of preparations.

AstroMycology (90 min.)
Session VIII – Saturday, 11:00 am
The Grail

Join us in an exploration of the planetary archetypes and how they are expressed through fungi and applied through medicinal applications.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Grail

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Jason is a co-organizer of the Radical Mycology Convergence and an explorer of medicinal mushrooms. Jason draws from a broad background in traditional medicine and synthesizes it into his teachings and preparations.

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Jason Scott is a Mycologist, Ethnobotanist and Spagyricist who has studied traditional Hermetic Alchemy, from history and philosophy to practice, for over a decade. He has a background in Ethnobotany and Plant Medicine that started on the Big Island of Hawaii, and has carried back with him into his home: the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Oregon, Jason has an intrinsic interest in the Fungal Queendom and all of its aspects: from cultivation and mycoremediation, to historical and cultural relationships. Jason has studied various different healing modalities including Ayurveda in Nepal and Western Herbalism all over Oregon and Washington. He is on an ever-deepening journey of education to understand the practical applications of his interests, and the golden threads that connect them.

Jasper Degenaars

Guatemala

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Ethnomycology of the Mayan Highlands (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Deliquesce

Dive deep into the pyramids of fungal history. This historic exploration shines light on the undeniable reference the Mesoamérican people have for these organisms and how they morphed their societies

During this talk, we explore the lives of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamérica and how they found to work with their local mycosphere for food, medicine, and psychedelic exploration.

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Jasper Degenaars is the Hyphae Headmaster of Fungi Academy and the co-founder of the Sacred Mycology Online School.

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Jasper Degenaars is the Hyphae Headmaster of Fungi Academy and the co-founder of the Sacred Mycology Online School. He has taught thousand of people how to successfully grow and relate to all kinds of mushrooms.

Born and raised in the Netherlands he knows the potential of a legal psychedelic landscape where the cultivation and consumption of Psychoactive substances are not punished by law. He believes that the indigenous knowledge of sacred, medicinal and edible mushrooms have the potential to deepen our connection with nature, ourselves, and our communities.

Kaitlin Bryson

Santa Fe, NM

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MycoMythologies: Storytelling Circle (90 min.)
Session X – Saturday, 4:00 pm
The Deliquesce

MycoMythologies: Storytelling Circle is a performative workshop that guides participants to through a storytelling and myco-myth-making workshop to facilitate the creation of their own speculative mythologies.

Imbrications (120 min.)
Session IV – Friday, 11:00 am
The Rhize

This workshop imbricates biodiverse soil systems with human stories and intentionality, performed through textile-making, to facilitate plant and fungal partnerships and a deeper appreciation for and accountability to the soil web and the succession of life.

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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Kaitlin Bryson is a queer, ecological/bio artist concerned with environmental and social justice. She primarily works with fungi, plants, microbes, and biodegradable materials to engage more-than-human audiences, while also facilitating human communities through social practice and environmental stewardship. Her practice is research-based and most often collaborative, highlighting the potency of working like lichens to realize radical change and justice. In 2019, Bryson co-founded The Submergence Collective, an environmental arts collective focused on multidisciplinary projects that imagine more collaborative, creative, hopeful, and ecologically connected futures for our human species and rest of the living world.

Bryson received an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico in 2018, where she concurrently studied art and mycology with research in ecotoxicology. Currently she works as a practicing artist, land-steward, and radical educator. Bryson has received support from the Lannan and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation(s) to create ecologically remediative artworks nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the 2022 Future Art Award: Ecosystem X from Mozaik Philanthropy, a 2022 Fulcrum Fund from 516 Arts, and has exhibited throughout the Unites States and Europe, and in Mexico, Ireland, and Nepal as well as in notable festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT) and Politics of the Machine (DE). Her artwork and activism have been featured in books such as, “In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms”, by Doug Bierend and The New Farmer’s Almanac “The Grand Land Plan” and will be included in the November 2022 Edition of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.

Kevin Blue

Sagrada, Montana

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My name is Kevin Blue, I am an entheogen enthusiast, permaculturista, radical mycologist, evolutionary herbalist, yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator and sound ceremonialist. I am a viajero traversing the inner and outer landscapes, exploring the frontiers of human consciousness and concreating a path of personal and planetary evolution.

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My story is one of unfolding synchronicities, each underlying the next evolutionary expansion of my journey. In the spring of 2012 I completed my Permaculture Design Course with Casacadia Permaculture and then in the autumn I participated in the Telluride Mushroom Festival and Radical Mycology Convergence. The next autumn I returned to Earlwood and participated in a 5 day Mushroom Cultivation course with Ja Schindler of Fungi for the People. I had some free time before the course and made a trip to the Bullock Brothers Homestead on Orcas Island. While having a conversation with Doug Bullock he mentioned he had designed the permaculture master plan for an ayahuasca center called the Temple of the way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon. It was one of those auspicious moments where I knew instantly this was my calling to the medicine.

The next autumn I arrived in the Amazon to participate in the Temples 3 month work exchange program. I usually describe my experience as beautiful, amazing, incredibly challenging, somewhat disappointing and ultimately life changing. After spending three weeks in the Sacred Valley I spent a month volunteering with the Amazon Mycorenewal Project in Ecuador and then traveled to Envision Festival in Costa Rica for the first time. During my initial exploration of viajero life I had several conversations with close friends and random encounters where someone would ask “Have you ever been to Lake Atitlan?” At the time I had never heard of the place but it was obviously calling to me.

When I finally decided to heed the calling of the Lake I spent a month volunteering at the Fungi Academy before being blessed with an opportunity to volunteer at the Yoga Forest. I’ve been living at the Lake and working at the Forest teaching yoga, practicing permaculture and offering sound ceremonies, seasonally for the past six years. It has been such an amazing blessing to be part of one of the most thriving counter culture communities in the world.

I recently participated in my first traditional Shipibo plant dieta, returning to the Amazon eight years after embarking on the medicine path. One of the messages of my dieta was to step fully into my potential, my purpose, my dharma, the unique expression of personal and planetary evolution that lives within me. My intention is to embody and express that vision in my evolution and expansion, to evolve my offerings, grow my mycelial network and continue to engage in a symbiotic relationship with the living Mother Earth.

Kevin Feeney

Everett, WA

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Fly Agaric: A Mushroom's Journey from the Taboo to the Utilitarian (90 min.)
Session V – Friday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

This panel will provide a broad overview and introduction to the mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the Fly Agaric. Panelists will discuss historical taboos as well as emerging trends regarding the therapeutic and culinary use of this unique species.

Fly Agaric Panel (90 min.)
Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

Amanita muscaria & the Three Filters of Soma (90 min.)
Session X – Saturday, 4:00 pm
The Grail

There are many theories regarding possible historical and ritual uses of the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), but none have been quite as compelling or enduring as R. Gordon Wasson’s theory identifying the ancient Vedic sacrament, Soma, as Amanita muscaria. Today, it is generally accepted that Soma was a hallucinogenic substance, but the identity of this substance remains a point of controversy. In this talk, Wasson’s theory is revisited, with a specific focus on the three filters described in the Vedic Hymns as essential to the preparation of Soma. When these ancient Vedic techniques are applied to Amanita muscaria significant pharmacological changes take place that affect the quality of the fly agaric’s psychoactive effects in several vital respects. Background on Wasson’s theory will be provided and the intriguing parallels between Soma and Amanita muscaria preparation will be discussed and explored.

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Kevin Feeney, PhD, JD, is an author and researcher trained in the fields of law and cultural anthropology. His primary work, “Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, and Exploration,” was published as an edited volume in 2020. His research and writings have been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Human Organization, and Curare, among other books and journals. He is a current member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants, and recently joined the Board of Advisors for Psyched Wellness, a Canadian health supplements company specializing in medicinal mushrooms.

Mack Kleiva & Jade Swor

Olympia, WA

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Creating a Culture of Remediation (60 min.)
Session I – Thursday, 2:30 pm
The Rhize

Join Metamimicry for a presentation and discussion on strengthening your community’s ability to access self-generated healing through fungal remediation of the land, our bodies, and our culture. Together we will delve into the benefits of building a remediation resource and hope to inspire participants to help construct a web of interconnected centers.

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Metamimicry is an environmental nonprofit operating out of (what is currently known as) Olympia, Washington. We explore accessible biological solutions for our time’s most pressing environmental pollutants.

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Metamimicry does work in the realm of bioremediation with a focus on mycoremediation. Our aim is to, whenever possible, utilize pre-existing infrastructure to restore the environment’s ability to remediate soil, water, and air. One of our main goals is to advance grassroots bioremediation methods through a research-centric approach. We do this through in-house research and experiments, making these techniques more accessible to the public. We also work with Indigenous peoples to further food sovereignty and traditional medicine efforts. We consider bioremediation to be an outer and inner process, meaning the treatment of toxins through biological organisms needs to be used outside on the land, inside of the body, and throughout our communities. Building resource centers and mushroom programs with tribes bolsters community access and provides groups with tools to produce viable traditional foods.

Empowering communities to develop effective bioremediation designs as well as the know-how to cultivate their own medicinal mushrooms allows for a kind of social remediation. Through connecting experts and knowledge holders of ecological management and fungi-based medicine we work to create pathways for self-generated healing that can be used for a range of colonial-industrial-capitalist inflicted damage that many tribal members and other community groups face.

A part of the web of decentralized action, Metamimicry provides tools for communities to respond to pollutants and environmental stressors independently, strengthening interdependent ties and promoting resilience. When our communities have access to knowledge, skills, resources, and space to experiment, share, learn, and enact bioremediation, we build capacity for adapting to change.

Paul Lynn & Jack Allard

Walla Walla, WA

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Three FUNgal Games with Professor Sporadicus (60 min.)
Session I – Thursday, 2:30 pm
Anastamose Zone

Learn about fungal biology in three simple, hands-on, collaborative outdoor games: get digested by a Spitzenkörper, join other spores to form a dikaryotic mycelial web, and then help make a giant mushroom!

Cultivating Continuity: Managing a Mushroom Culture Library (60 min.)
Session II – Thursday, 4:00 pm
The Deliquesce

Learn some useful tips and tricks for building, maintaining and managing a mushroom culture library, including the basics of breeding, preventing senescence, backup and storage techniques, tracking codes and some reflections on the future of decentralized fungal genetics exchange.

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

How to Make Liquid Culture (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

Learn a simple, reliable and affordable technique for quickly producing large quantities of dense, vigorous liquid culture for mushroom cultivation.

The Sporechain: A Radically Decentralized Gene Bank and Seed Library (90 min.)
Session XII – Sunday, 2:00 pm
The Rhize

Discover the Sporechain, a giant catalog of life on Earth, modeled on mycelium, leveraging new open-source technology to track the world’s biodiversity, collectively verify the work, and facilitate an exchange-based community of scientists, hobbyists and gardeners.

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Sporechain advocates Paul and Jack combine their passions for mycology, field biology, environmental activism and open-source programming to create a unique genetics preservation and exchange network and a nonprofit foundation to support its development.

Fungaia is a heart-centered, donation-based mushroom culture library and spawn laboratory. Driven by deep passion and a vision for sustainable symbiosis, we endeavor to demystify fungi and make mushroom cultivation accessible to everyone.

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Over the last 50 years, biodiversity loss has accelerated exponentially. Meanwhile, plant patents and an overall shift in intellectual property law has led to a corporate monopolization of genetics. Vast ecosystems face collapse and human populations face famine. The situation has reached a tipping point, and the consequences pose an existential threat to all of us. We need to act now.

It is with this sense of urgency that the idea for the Sporechain was born. If we are to reverse our trajectory down this dark path, we must have systems which allow us to work together towards preserving and documenting the world’s genetics while legally and conscientiously circumventing the stranglehold of seed monopolies. New developments in decentralized technology bring this daunting task into our reach.

The ambitious nature of this project demands a robust community of amateur and professional scientists and developers who share in the vision for a system of genetics preservation which works for the people. We believe that the source code, like the seeds and spores themselves, are of the commons. Many hands make light work, and a high tide raises all ships.

The Sporechain Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering the development, integration and promotion of the Sporechain. We work to educate and spread awareness about the project, and support the boots-on-the-ground efforts of a community of developers, geneticists and independent seed producers. The Foundation was created by Paul Lynn, mycologist, educator and founder of Fungaia, and Jack Allard, an eco-centric software developer.

A donation-based business, Fungaia is rooted in the principle of open-source mycology: life is a gift, to be shared. We believe genetics are of the commons, and should be accessible to anyone who is willing to dedicate the time and care to maintain them. There is nothing in life so precious as life itself. Who is to say what a single seed, or spore, is worth? Its value lies in the possibility of its growth. Alone it is nothing, inert, but given the right opportunity and care, it may yield immeasurable results.

The greatest benefit of the seeds we plant and the spores we liberate is not the fruit we harvest at maturity, but what lies in the acts of caring, tending and nurturing. The messages and lessons we receive in the course of upholding the biological alliance draw us closer to our shared source, and last much longer than a fine meal or a dose of medicine, as salutary as these may be. Holistic education is the cornerstone of our philosophy. From our unique Learn-As-You-Grow mushroom kits, to education and consultation services, to our life dream of Free School, we live and breathe creative, collaborative learning. We believe that fungi are the finest teachers, and some of our greatest allies in the quest for prosperity—both our own and that of the living planet we call home.

Fungaia founder Paul Lynn is a diehard DIY mycologist with a deep love for the Earth, who believes wholeheartedly in the spirit of creative collaboration, gift economies and the capacity of life to overcome adverse circumstance.

Peter McCoy

Portland, OR

Presentations

Fearing Fungi: Behind the Veil and Below the Surface (60 min.)
Session I – Thursday, 4:00 pm
The Grail

Whenever mycophobia emerges as a cultural phenomenon, its origin is often minimally explained. While a fear of fungi may in some cases arise in response to the connection between fungi and decay, such an explanation is narrow and unlikely to be universal. What compels humans of various backgrounds to avoid a significant portion of the natural world – one that not only leads to loss, but also to new life. Has mycophobia risen out of deeper aspects of the human psyche? Has it been a guise for controlling access to select mushroom species? These questions and others will be explored by Peter during this talk. An audience Q&A session will follow to discuss how Radical Mycologists and all mycofolk of today can continue to dissolve outdated taboos and fears around the world’s fungi.

Descendants of Fungi: The Mycelial Succession of Life on Earth (60 min.)
Session III – Friday, 9:45 am
The Grail

Prevailing theories on evolutionary history point toward fungi or similar organisms as being the first forms of complex life, making animals and plants their descendants. In this talk, Peter will detail the chronology of life’s development, noting how at key speciation events fungi are found as agents of change. The notion of whether life came from outer space (“panspermia/pansporia”) will be briefly discussed before more concrete evidence of fungal influences on evolution are explored – from the first eukaryotic cells to the biota of our modern era. This talk is for anyone wishing to have a rich understanding of what it means to honor constant change in the world and in ourselves, as guided by the perennial wisdom of wild mycelium.

Brigid, the Amanita Icon: A Mycological Assessment of the Celtic Fertility Goddess (30 min.)
Session VI – Friday, 4:00 pm
The Grail

As one of the ancient Irish Druid’s most revered deities, the Goddess Brigid embodies an array of attributes that not only made her cultural influence vast, but which also frame her as a Western parallel to various Eastern Earth Mother Goddesses. Though many of these latter goddesses have been reviewed in recent decades for their potential relationship to the Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, Brigid has been overlooked for her reflections in this important mushroom.

In this talk, Peter will review the essential traits of this great deity and how they suggest an occulted reverence amongst the ancient Celts for the iconic red-and-white Amanita. Following the talk, Ayla Réalta and others will embody many of these traits in their performance, Brigid’s Caoineadh.

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

Fly Agaric Panel (90 min.)
Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

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Peter is an original founder of the mycological advocacy organization Radical Mycology and the Radical Mycology Convergence, a founder of the Fungi Film Festival, and the founder and lead instructor at MYCOLOGOS, a mycology school and certified organic demonstration Fungi Farm based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi (Chthaeus Press, 2016), a 650-page compendium of applied and theoretical mycology, as well as the forthcoming book The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi (Microcosm Publishing, 2022).

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At the age of 21, Peter McCoy coined the term Radical Mycology on a couch in Olympia, Washington. Two years later he anonymously wrote a zine on a thesis he attributed to that title. Two years after that, he organized the first RMC with a group of friends on a community farm in northern Washington.

What started as an eclectic passion discovered in his teens quickly led Peter down an ever-winding path of teaching, writing about, and envisioning an increasingly resilient future for the modern mycoculture. His work with fungi has spanned nearly two decades and includes years of field work in mycoremediation practices, extensive writing on the history of human-fungal relations, and in the presentation of novel hypothesis on the nature of fungal growth, communication, and evolution.

Peter is the author of Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi (Chthaeus Press, 2016), a 650-page compendium of applied and theoretical mycology, as well as the forthcoming book The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi (Microcosm Publishing, 2022). His work has been featured in the films Fantastic Fungi and The Mushroom Speaks, and in the books Entangled Life, In Search of Mycotopia, and The Future is Fungi.

Peter is an original founder of the mycological advocacy organization Radical Mycology, a founder of the Fungi Film Festival, and the founder and lead instructor at MYCOLOGOS, a mycology school and certified organic demonstration Fungi Farm. From his hometown in Portland, Peter’s daily practice centers on pondering, designing, cultivating, and researching ever-healthier relations between humans, fungi, and the habitats we share.

Rebecca Chandler

Portland, OR

Presentations

Mushroom Art Foray (with Chris Adams) (90 min.)
Session VIII – Saturday, 11:00 am
Anastamose Zone

In this workshop, we will walk around the woods of Brown Bottle Farm, chatting about one artist's process of collecting visual information for their art, while also learning to identify the fungi encountered.

Chris Adams is an illustrator & printmaker from Corvallis, OR who primarily creates pen and ink illustrations of mushrooms and other mushroom related wildness. Although much of his work is a bit out there, he tries to keep a layer of scientific accuracy in the natural elements within each piece.

The foray will consist of essential mushroom identification information, as led by Rebecca Chandler, as well as a first-person view from Chris on how you might collect information to later use for creating morphologically-accurate drawings. Among other things we will talk about sketching & photography techniques specifically for taking home a comprehensive look at each specimen.

We will also discuss how to create a mushroom journal and make spore prints to further our understanding of mushroom identification. All levels are welcome to join!

Seeing Mushroom With New Eyes (90 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
Deliquesce

This class is designed for all levels of mushroom enthusiasts who want to delve into mushroom identification and further their mycological journey! We will discuss mushroom anatomy and morphology through touch, smell, and artistic observational skills. Participants will walk away with the confidence to start identifying mushrooms in the field using observation skills and dichotomous keys.

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Rebecca Chandler is one of the founding members of Nebraska Mycological Society, a certified ethnobotanist through the University of Alaska, butterfly conservation specialist, and Nebraska Master Naturalist.

For the past 10 years, she has worked in the field of conservation, local food systems, and outdoor education. Rebecca loves foraging for wild mushrooms and sharing her passion with others. When she isn't foraging for wild food, she is either riding her horse or playing with her dogs

Richard Clarke

Albany, OR

Presentations

Cold Pasteurization and Low Input Fungi Cultivation (60 min.)
Session VI – Friday, 4:00 pm
The Deliquesce

Workshop focused on low input cold pasteurization of substrata to grow many types of medicinal and gourmet mushrooms

Mycoculture Panel (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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Rick Clarke is an enrolled member of the Numunu tribe, working with permaculture and biodynamic systems with an emphasis on low input cold pasteurization cultivation of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms

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Richard Clarke has been a lifelong devotee of nature, striving to think like a forest and raised with a love for the serendipity of soil. his main source of inspiration is the continuous wonder of nature itself and the humbling knowledge and resilience of indiginous communities, their ancestry and the debt permaculture and society itself owes to the wisdom of people who came before and tended this land.

Working with permaculture design principles and study for over fifteen years- homesteading in the hills of northern california, working and maintaing the sepp holtzer installation at the place of gathering in dayton, montana from 2013-2015, designing and implementing a productive diversified homestead in potomac, montana from 2018-2020 . he has consulted for private large scale farm/ranch design for soil erosion and water remediation/wetland restoration/rotational grazing projects throughout northwestern montana as well as native seed and plant propagation projects throughout montana, idaho and oregon. his work emphasizes whole system design, ecological balance and focuses on silvopasture, silvoculture, food forest developement, and integrated agroforestry. richard has also worked with missoula parks and rec seasonally, teaching homestead camp and permaculture skills with children ages 5-12.

Richard has taught and worked throughout central america and mexico, from small private estates and community garden design, helping coffee farmers switch to organic methods, water retention and soil erosion prevention, to teaching workshops on cold pasteurization and low energy input fungi production and waste reduction in indigenous communities as well as natural building/cobb construction and eco community design. he has worked in puerto rico with indigenous families to help restore reclaimed family farms near el yunque cloud forest.

Richard has worked with organic olive farms in southern spain, learning and working with syntropic food forest in the mediterranean climate as well as diversified permaculturally designed farmsteads in subalpine climates. he now calls a small permaculture farmstead home, nestled in the willamette valley in what is ancestral kalapuya/suislaw territiories, and is the president of high quality gardens, inc. he studied fine art and painting in philadelphia at the university of the arts as well as the university of montana .

if not getting his hands dirty in the gardens, he’s most likely getting happily lost in the woods, in a book or in a painting

Robert Rogers

Edmonton, AB

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The Sweet Secrets of Honey Mushrooms (60 min.)
Session X – Saturday, 4:00 pm
The Rhize

Armillaria species have been valued for health benefits for millennium. As research continues, more of its secrets and valuable constituents are revealed, leading to medicinal benefit for human health concerns.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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Professional herbalist (AHG), ethnobotanist, author (58 books), amateur mycologist, 20 years of clinical practice, clinical professor family medicine U of Alberta.

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Robert has been an herbalist for nearly 50 years and specializes in plant and mushroom medicine of the boreal forest. He has studied with indigenous healers in northern Canada and South America. He also has written books and prepared essential oils and vibrational flower/mushroom essence. He is presently finishing a documentary The Cosmos of Mushrooms, which will be completed in 2023.

Robin Gunkel

Baltimore, MD

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Remediations & Reciprocal Relations with Healers and More-than-Human Healers (90 min.)
Session XII – Sunday, 2:00 pm
The Deliquesce

Remediations & Reciprocal Relations is an exploration of reciprocity in both plant medicine and sacred mushroom practice, as well as a practice of reciprocity with a local phytoremediation project. Healers and more-than-human healers (plants & fungi) have much to teach about place-based healing, more-than-human personhood, and the role of reciprocity as an antidote to capitalism.

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Robin is a doctoral candidate in a Sustainability Education program with Prescott College where she is exploring in her studies aspects of remediations and reciprocity as related to sacred medicine practices and in relation to earth repair work. She is also the founder of Rhizae Renewal Collective, a group working to phytoremediate a lead contaminated lot in East Central Baltimore with sunflowers.

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Robin Gunkel holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and is currently a doctoral candidate in a Sustainability Education program with Prescott College. Robin is exploring in her studies aspects of remediations and reciprocity as related to sacred plant & mushroom medicine practices and in relation to earth repair work. She is the founder of Rhizae Renewal Collective, a group working to phytoremediate a lead contaminated lot in East Central Baltimore with sunflowers, and is the Creator and Director of the 9th Annual Mushroom City Art Festival held since 2015 at Gwynn Falls Leakin Park in West Baltimore.

Ryan Falk

Mulino, OR

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Companion Farming Culinary Mushrooms, A Field Tour (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
Anastamose Zone

Take a walk around the Brown Bottle Farms fields and discover ways to companion plant with mushrooms. Whether you're interested in production-based incorporation or want to add mushrooms to your home garden this class will walk you through the steps to grow produce and mushrooms together. We'll get hands on by spreading spent blocks in the field and discuss the methods and benefits of adding mycelium to soil and farming systems. We'll collect and identify edible species of mushrooms and check out the mycelial networks that make the farm productive and healthy.

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Ryan is a Land Steward, Produce and Mushroom Farmer, and Forager in the Oregon Willamette Valley. He uses regenerative field practices that incorporate outdoor mushroom cultivation with field crops.

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Ryan moved from Pennsylvania in his early 20’s to explore the beauty of the mountainous west coast. His love for mushrooms developed while Head Chef at Windell's Academy on Mount Hood. For nearly 20 years his focus has been on food, land stewarding, mycology, herbalism, and their interconnectedness.

He is a Graduate of Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine, a certificate holder in Mycoremediation from Paul Stamets, and a student of many educators in the myco-world. However, most of his knowledge is self-taught and experimentally based.

6 Years ago, he and his partner Anna Wilson started Brown Bottle Farm on the location of the 2018, and now 2022 Radical Mycology Convergence. They've incorporated techniques of companion planting with mushrooms and lo-tech systems for Certified Naturally Grown foods.

They actively practice farming, foraging, and fermenting as a business- Selling locally at the Oregon City Farmers Market and restaurants.

Saša Spačal

Ljubljana, Slovenia

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MycoMythologies: Storytelling Circle (90 min.)
Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Rhize

MycoMythologies: Storytelling Circle is a performative workshop that guides participants to through a storytelling and myco-myth-making workshop to facilitate the creation of their own speculative mythologies.

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Saša Spačal is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman condition, where human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns. Therefore abandoning the Cartesian system of classification and accepting the fact that the field of technology has expanded not only from hardware to software but also to wetware resulting in hybrid phenomena inscribed in mechanical, digital and organic logic.

Seri Robinson

Corvallis, OR

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Spalting Fungi in Historic Art (60 min.)
Session III – Friday, 9:45 am
The Deliquesce

Explore the colorful history of spalting fungi in historic marquetry from the 1400s-1700s in Western Europe, and follow it through to the modern US studio woodturning movement.

Extract and Paint with Spalting Fungi (90 min.)
Session IV – Friday, 11:00 am
The Deliquesce

Learn how to extract the colors from spalting fungi and reapply them to wood and textiles.

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Professor at OSU in wood mycology. World expert on spalting fungi.

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I’m an associate professor of wood anatomy at Oregon State University and work within the field of art science as a bio artist. I’m invested in maintaining a balance in my work, striving to not be ‘just’ an artist or ‘just’ a scientist, but to blur the line between the two disciplines. Neither science nor art can exist without the other, and the intersection of the two disciplines–the substantial Venn diagram overlap, is critical for excellence in either field.

Intersections, in particular, fascinate me, and spalted woodturning is the perfect medium to explore both internal and external intersections. The intersection of science and art. The intersection of old and new methodology–from historic spalted intarsia and marquetry work in the 1400s in Europe to modern spalting methods today that use extraction methods and pipettes. The intersections of form and self–the duality of being an intersex person–the understanding of biological sex in its most primitive form and the communication of those concepts in turned and reversed curves. And underlying it all, the intersection of how humans perceive fungi–both reviled/feared and celebrated as a food source. Spalted wood offers endless opportunities to explore and expose intersections both historic, modern, personal, and external.

Shane Norte

Moreno Valley, CA

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Working with High Doses in a Natural Setting (60 min.)
Session VII – Saturday, 9:45 am
The Grail

Talk about high doses in natural setting.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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First psychedelic assisted therapy church on the reservation in Southern California. Work with people on high doses in natural setting.

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From Morongo Band of Mission Indians located in Southern California. Worked 6 years in Native American Movement. Worked with Earth Based Sacraments for 9 years. Also board member of Decriminalize Nature National.

Shephali Patel

Bothell, WA

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Mycelial Education as Liberation Practice (60 min.)
Session V – Friday, 2:00 pm
The Deliquesce

A basic primer on non-hierarchical, participatory education techniques to design mushroom education workshops and experiences for communities. We will discuss how these approaches are informed by fungal ways of being and embody practices toward equity-in-action.

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

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Shephali is joyfully engaged in the intertwined work of ecological and cultural regeneration. She explores this work through her roles as a traditional ecologist, farmer, educator, and artist-activist. She designs, builds, and empowers projects that gather and weave our fragmented worlds back together into a whole more beautiful, resilient, and powerful than before.

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Shephali is a traditional ecologist, regenerative farmer, and educator. Her work is focused on building models and thought leadership around ecological stewardship, restoration, education, and justice that centers equity, dignity, and interconnection. As a farmer, she is learning not only how to grow food to feed stomachs and soil, but also how to nourish social and racial justice movements so intimately tied with the Earth. As an educator, she strives to engender the study of the original 3 R's - regeneration, reverence, and re-membering. Through a lens of “land as pedagogy” she has designed and facilitated several flagship educational programs to train beginner farmers, K-12 youth, and climate activists that empower them to develop pathways of access to underserved communities, and lay the foundations for a more-than-human future powered by ancestral wisdom and interspecies collaboration. She currently serves as Bastyr University's Director of Gardens and Sacred Seeds Project and is engaged in council and earth activism work with organizations like Global Peace Initiative of Women, Plum Village Earth Holders, and Just Food.

In the spaces between, you can find her staring at stars, hiking, rock climbing, practicing yoga and qi gong, and falling into the ocean over and over again. You may find her writing in Spiritual Ecology (2nd edition, 2016) and “Sacred Soil” in Parabola Magazine (Fall 2017).

Medicinal Fungi Panel (60 min.)
Session XI – Sunday, 9:45 am
The Rhize

William Rubel

Santa Cruz, CA

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Fly Agaric: A Mushroom's Journey from the Taboo to the Utilitarian (90 min.)
Session V – Friday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

This panel will provide a broad overview and introduction to the mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the Fly Agaric. Panelists will discuss historical taboos as well as emerging trends regarding the therapeutic and culinary use of this unique species.

Fly Agaric Panel (90 min.)
Session IX – Saturday, 2:00 pm
The Grail

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