Schedule:

Encounter Session Salon
Jellyfish Gallery 1286 Folsom Street
8:30 - 10:00 (doors open at 8 - come early to get a seat!)
"Conjuring the Noosphere"
Presentations by and dialogue with Ralph Metzner, John Allen and John Perry Barlow (followed by book signing)
Ralph Metzner
Pioneering psychotherapist and teacher of alchemical divination
Founder of Green Earth Foundation
Co-author (with Ram Dass) of the just-released Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
www.synergeticpress.com
and
John Allen
Creator of Biosphere 2
Author of Me and the Biospheres
www.synergeticpress.com/
plus
John Perry Barlow
Reading from his introduction to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
Discussion moderated by
Michael Gosney and Deborah Parrish Snyder
Please note:
The authors will be available to sign books for sale after the talk. Signed copies of books also available at Anon Gallery during the evening.
For those around the globe, a live netcast of this event will be available on the Earthdance Network's Earthdance.TV http://www.earthdance.tv


Vision Quest Evening
Anon Gallery 285 Ninth Street (at Folsom, around the corner)
10 pm - 3 am

Muse-Magi - weaving the vibes...
Mystical Sun (Cyberset)
Dov (Muti Music, Cyberset)
Neptune (Spiritual Technology)
Goz (Cyberset, WOW)
Leslie Shill (WOW)
Chlorophil (Synchronos Recordings)
Feral (WOW)

Performances - acting it out
Swami Beyondananda - Swami's "State of the Universe" address (debut!)
Ralph Metzner - "Web of Life" poetry with video accompaniment readings
John "Dolphin Allen - reading from his Liberated Space novel, with photo presentation

Film Vision Theater - transformative media
Video tour inside Biosphere 2
Millbrook to Hollywood psychedelic culture documentary co-produced by Rod Mann and Ralph Metzner
Entheogenesis - documentary by Rod Mann featured on Ironweed Films

Media Trove - essential information bits for sale
Entheogenesis - Ironweed Films DVD
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture - signed by Ralph Metzner and John Perry Barlow
Me and the Biospheres - signed by John Allen
Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here
 - signed by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD and Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda)

and other key evolutionary triggers...

Garden Roof Deck
Minds a-meme-ing under the celestial vault

Refreshments  sparking the neurons...
Old school libations, and more:
Ambiotica Elixirs
Health-enhancing teas and elixirs

More Surprises?
Emergent!


Info/Links

Ralph Metzner
Co-author of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
http://www.synergeticpress.com/psychedelic_culture.html
Author of many books, practicing psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Involved in consciousness research for over 40 years, including psychedelics, yoga, meditation, and shamanism, he is co-founder and president of the Green Earth Foundation http://www.greenearthfound.org/, a non-profit educational organization devoted to healing and harmonizing the relationship between humans and the Earth. Ralph will read from his newly published book, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, which delves into the pioneering work he did with Ram Dass and Timothy Leary starting in 1960 at Harvard and talk about the where that work has taken him and show some selections of films he has been working on including "Entheogenisis" and "From Millbrook to Hollywood."

John Allen
Author of Me and the Biospheres
http://www.synergeticpress.com/biospherics.html#me_and_the_biospheres
Inventor of the Biosphere 2 project, the visionary polymath will speak and discuss the relationships between the Earth's biosphere, technosphere and ethnosphere (cultures), and the need for the emergence of a noosphere (sphere of intelligence).  In a multi-media presentation, John will describe the various ecological projects he started around the planet 40 years ago that continue to this day culminating with Biosphere 2. He will read from his new memoir, Me and the Biospheres, his poetry and other works, and show selected footage from films on his projects.  

John Perry Barlow
http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/
Former Wyoming rancher, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, cofounder and vice-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org

Swami Beyondananda
http://www.wakeuplaughing.com
Author and humorist Steve Bhaerman has spent the past 22 years performing "cosmic comedy" as Swami Beyondananda. Swami's wise and wacky wit has been called both "comedy disguised as wisdom" and "wisdom disguised as comedy." On the serious side, Steve is the co-author with cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton of Spontaneous Evolution:  Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. Swami and Steve can be found online at http://www.wakeuplaughing.com./


About This Event

The 2010 Ambiotica is produced by Michael Gosney and Joegh Bullock, with co-conspirators Anon Salon, Earthdance Network, Cyberset Music and Media and Synergetic Press.

Launched by Joegh Bullock and Michael Gosney in 2006, AMBIOTICA is an ongoing experiment in social flirtation and cultural stimulation: our post-modern version of the influential salons and private clubs of the past. Word of mouth and limited email invitations are attracting this creatively cultivated eclectic mix. Ambiotica is an integral evening, designed to serve our shared aspirations for a thriving culture, to focus and amplify the positive intentions and actions that our community embodies. Participation in this environment of conversation, performances, interactive art, exhibits and film - fueled by inventive musical grooves and exotic elixirs - calls for elegant, expressive dress and an intention beyond the obvious FUN we conspire together.

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