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Manuel jordi

Prof. Manuel Torres

donna

Donna Torres

karen

Karen Helle Grue

john

John Major Jenkins

rodolfo

Rodolfo Schlachet

dennis

Dr. Dennis Mckenna

william

Prof. William A. Richards

ede

Dr. Ede Frecska

tony

Tony Wright

Schedule for 2010
July 3-16

Ancient Pre-Columbian Art and Shamanism, Visualizing Nature and Holotropic Breathwork

Invited speakers:
Prof. Manuel Torres Art Historian and Archaeologist
Donna Torres Artist
Karen Helle Grue Jungian Psychologist, and Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator

Lectures by Manuel Torres:
  • Art and Shamanism I: Mesoamerica
  • Art and Shamanism II: South America
Lectures by Manuel Torres and Donna Torres:
  • Visionary Agents and Contemporary Art
Workshops by Donna Torres:
  • Workshop I: Visualizing nature: capturing the human/plant connection in graphite and watercolor
  • Workshop II: Shamanic Plants, Text, and Image (two sessions).
Lectures by Karen Helle Grue:
  • Kissing the Frog/In Contact With the Divine Dimension: Who Benefits From It, the True or the False Self?
  • Death and Rebirth Seen Through Carl Jung and Stanislav Grof.
  • Two Holotropic Breathwork Sessions facilitated by Karen Helle Grue.
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July 22- August 4

Mayan Cosmology, Shamanism, Trance Dance, Percussion and Holotropic Breathwork

Invited speakers:
John Major Jenkins Independent Researcher and Author of author of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
Rodolfo Schlachet Trance Dance Facilitator and Percussionist
Karen Helle Grue Jungian Psychologist, and Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator

Lectures by John Major Jenkins:
  • Soma-Sampo: Artifacts of Shamanism in Finnish Epic Poetry, the Kalevala
  • Indigenous Psychedelic Cosmologies and the Origin of the Maya's 2012 Calendar
  • Transformational Spiritual Teachings for Cycle Endings in the Maya Creation Myth
Sessions by Rodolfo Schlachet:
  • Rodolfo Schlachet, will lead two free trance dance sessions, in the beginning and the end of the seminar. he will also lead four percussion sessions.
Lectures by Karen Helle Grue:
  • Kissing the Frog/In Contact With the Divine Dimension: Who Benefits From It, the True or the False Self?
  • Death and Rebirth Seen Through Carl Jung and Stanislav Grof.
  • Two Holotropic Breathwork Sessions facilitated by Karen Helle Grue.
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August 9-22

Entheogens, Consciousness and Spirituality

Invited speakers:
Dr. Dennis McKenna, Ethnopharmacologist
Prof. William A. Richards Psychologist.

Lectures by Dennis McKenna:
  • A gram is better than a damn: Cosmetic psychopharmacology and the chemical engineering of personality.
  • The History of Drug laws.
  • Psychoactive drugs in neuroscience and consciousness research
Lectures by William A. Richards
  • The Rebirth of Research with Entheogens:
    The Hopkins Studies;
  • Spirituality, Entheogens and Coping with Cancer
  • Religious Experiences and Religious Lives: Integrative Strategies.
  • “Music in the Exploration of Consciousness.”
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August 28- September 10

Consciousness, Evolutionary Theory and Creativity. An Interdisciplinary Seminar.

Invited speakers:
Dr. Ede Frecska Psychiatrist
Tony Wright Independent Scholar.

Lectures by Ede Frecska:
  • Close encounters of the ancient kind.
  • Origins of creativity.
  • Postural trance.
Lectures by Tony Wright:
  • Consciousness and the Direction of Structure Evolutionary theory turned on its head
  • Left in the Dark - The lights went out
  • Beyond Belief - Reverse engineering the structural integrity of our perceptual lens
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The fee per person for the seminars will remain as in 2009, 2,200 Euros everything included: airport transfers, double room accommodation, all meals, laundry, lectures and activities, with the possibility of massage sessions (not included in the fee). The seminar also includes several excursions around the beautiful Island of Santa Catarina, as well as other activities.

Seminars are open for a maximum of twelve participants.

If you are interested or require further information, please contact Luis Eduardo Luna at luna@wasiwaska.org or
leluna47@hotmail.com.

 Check out last year's seminars (2009)
Check out the 2008 seminar
Check out the 2007 seminar