World Psychedelic Forum

In Basel, Switzerland, about fifteen hundred visionary scientists, 
psychologists, consciousness researchers, drug policies advocates, 
artists and like-minded renegades gathered to celebrate and share 
research on the controversial substances that have inspired and 
confounded a generation.  Alex illuminated the audience with his 
perspective on visionary culture, the way our era has been influenced 
by sacramentally induced altered states of consciousness.  Allyson 
started the conversation "What Do We Tell the Children?" and was 
joined by Alex who together led a lively discussion that was carried 
on well after the workshop.

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Jan Kounan, director of the psychedelic western "Renegade", presented his film "Other Worlds."

Following the conference, the Grey's visited the Goetheanum, a sacred  site designed and built by the great educator and visionary, Rudolf  Steiner.  The structure, built in the 1920's, honors creativity in  every form and is the center for the Waldorf School movement  internationally.  The Goetheanum is also a site of non-denominational  spirituality.

Traveling on, the Grey's with artist and staff member, Zachariah  Gregory, who also attended the Basel conference, met Damanhurian  friends in Milan. 

Alex, Allyson and Zach took time to draw  Michelangelo's last sculpture, a Pieta in the Castello Sforzesco.   

With Esperide Ananas of Damanhur, they also visited an extraordinary  retrospective of one of Alex's favorite contemporary artists, the  late Francis Bacon. Friends from CoSM and Damanhur toured the Milan Cathedral and the  celebrated walkway of high end shops.

Following our day in Milan, the gang returned to the beauty of the  pre-Alps region of Damanhur where we all toured the Temples and spent  time with good friends.

Comments

[joana salgado]

i look up trying to see the bottom of u...i look down wondering if my feet still on groud.... so many lost... so few have found...a bit of truth...a bit of ruth

joana

[Tobias]

So, just what does "like-minded renegades" mean. Are they like-minded or not? If so, how can they be renegades? The world waits with baited breath for the resolution to this mystery of life.