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📚 Call for Articles & Art – EGA Journal 7

Do you have an article, research project, historical insight, personal story, artwork, or photography you'd like to share with Australia's ethnobotanical and psychedelic community?

To commemorate EGA's Garden States conference and celebrate over two decades of community knowledge sharing, education, and research, we are now inviting submissions for EGA Journal 7.

Since 2007, the EGA Journal has been Australia's only regular ethnobotanical journal, showcasing diverse voices, research, history, art, and culture from across Australia's ethnobotanical and psychedelic communities.

We're looking for articles and visual art exploring ethnobotanical and psychedelic topics relevant to Australia and the wider Oceania region.

Whether you're a long-time contributor or submitting for the first time, we'd love to hear from you.

📝 Submission deadline: 1 November 2026

🔗 Learn more and submit your work:

Journal 2026 Submission Form — Entheogenesis Australis Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) hosts one of the longest running ethnobotanical conferences. EGA began with a Melbourne conference and provides education around ethnobotany, plant medicine, gardening, psychedelic therapy, harm reduction, ecology and horticulture. EGA produces a biannual conference an

🌿 A Rare 1988 Interview with Ram Dass

Long before today's psychedelic renaissance, Ram Dass sat down with Australian psychologist Professor James Bennett-Levy (then writing under the pseudonym Miles Bennett) for a wide-ranging conversation exploring psychedelics, meditation, service, compassion, death, and the nature of consciousness.

First published in Nature & Health magazine in 1988, this rare interview captures Ram Dass at a pivotal moment in his life—nearly a decade before the stroke that profoundly shaped his later teachings. Reading it today offers a fascinating historical window into ideas that remain deeply relevant nearly forty years later.

We're delighted to republish this interview on KAHPI with Professor James Bennett-Levy's permission. To accompany it, James has also written a new reflection on meeting Ram Dass and revisiting this remarkable conversation almost four decades later.

Whether you're discovering Ram Dass for the first time or returning to his work, we hope you enjoy this unique glimpse into an important moment in psychedelic history.

📖 Read the interview via the below link.

An interview with Ram Dass | Kahpi "The key turning point in my life was when Timothy Leary gave me psilocybin on March 6th 1961, when we were both Harvard professors, and it blew my mind." This interview with Ram Dass was first published in Nature & Health, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer 1988), under the name Miles Bennett, a pseudonym used b...

🌿 Celebrating the Women Who Helped Shape EGA and Australia's Psychedelic and Ethnobotanical Communities

Over the past two decades, many inspiring and talented women have helped shape EGA and made significant contributions to Australia's ethnobotanical and psychedelic communities.

To celebrate these invaluable contributions, we've created a new EntheoTV playlist featuring more than 50 presentations from remarkable women who have shared their knowledge, research, stories, and perspectives through EGA over the years.

The playlist features talks from presenters including Margaret Ross, Frances Bodkin, Kathleen Harrison, Anna-Leigh Hodge, Monica Barratt, Alison Pouliot, Agnieszka Sekula, and many more. Exploring topics ranging from ethnobotany, mycology and medicinal plants to psychedelic science, Indigenous knowledge, conservation, harm reduction, culture, and community.

We're also grateful to the many women who have contributed behind the scenes over the years. Their dedication, generosity, and hard work have helped make EGA and our community possible.

This collection is only the beginning, and we'll continue adding more presentations throughout the year as we prepare and release additional talks from the many remarkable women who have shared their knowledge through EGA.

We hope you enjoy revisiting these inspiring conversations and discovering some new favourites.

🎥 Watch the playlist here:

Celebrating Women Who Have Contributed to EGA and the Australian Psychedelic Dialogue Celebrating Women Who Have Contributed to EGA and the Australian Psychedelic Dialogue This playlist celebrates the many inspiring women who have shared their...

🌿 New on EntheoTV: A New Trip – Towards a Path of Representation, Inclusion and Safety in the Psychedelic Movement

As psychedelics move further into mainstream medicine and culture, it's worth asking:
Who is being included? Who is being left behind? And how do we create communities that are safe, ethical and welcoming for everyone?

In this important presentation from EGA, Meredith Hartley explores unequal access to psychedelic care, the exclusion of marginalised communities, abuses of power, sexual misconduct, and the ways harm can arise within psychedelic spaces.

Looking beyond the excitement of the psychedelic renaissance, Meredith calls for greater accountability, cultural safety, representation, and community responsibility—reminding us that creating healthy psychedelic cultures is something we all have a role in.

Whether you're a clinician, researcher, advocate, facilitator, or simply interested in the future of psychedelics, this presentation offers an important perspective on where we go from here.

View the video below;

Meredith Hartley - Towards a Path of Representation, Inclusionand Safety in the Psychedelic Movement - Title - A NEW TRIP: Towards a Path of Representation, Inclusion...

🌿 New on EntheoTV: Medicinal Cannabis – The Word on the Street

Medicinal cannabis has become one of the biggest shifts in Australian healthcare in recent years, but what does the evidence actually say, and what are patients and clinicians experiencing in practice?

In this thoughtful EGA conversation, physician and author Dr Karen Hitchcock leads a wide-ranging discussion with psychiatrist Dr Nigel Strauss on the realities of medicinal cannabis in Australia.

Drawing on years of clinical experience, Karen and Nigel offer an informed, balanced, and refreshingly open discussion about cannabis as medicine and the changing landscape of Australian healthcare and drug policy.

Dr Karen Hitchcock & Dr Nigel Strauss Medicinal Cannabis: The word on the street.... Please subscribe, like and comment on our videos to show support fo...

We're pleased to share news of a new Australian documentary that may be of interest to our community.

Lost & Found is a 70 minute feature documentary by filmmaker Roger Qureitem. Drawing on insights from First Nations wisdom traditions and Western scientific research, the film explores how altered states of consciousness and plant medicines may help us step away from destructive patterns, reconnect with ourselves, and deepen our relationship with the natural world.

The documentary features interviews with a number of Australian voices from the ethnobotanical and psychedelic communities, including several members of Entheogenesis Australis (EGA). Accompanied by the immersive music of Amani Friend (Liquid Bloom), Lost & Found invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and consider how these ancient relationships may help us navigate the challenges of our time.

The film is the first documentary release from Infinite Qreations and marks the beginning of an ongoing journey into conscious storytelling 🌿

Lost & Found | Official Trailer | Independent Documentary My film explores psychedelic plant medicines through reflection - an honest account of a personal experience and an exploration of the space between ancient ...

Friend of EGA, Dr Liam Engel, is bringing his new talk and book launch Psychoactive Plants & Fungi to Melbourne on June 14.

Liam is an ethnobotanist, natural products chemist, science communicator, and one of Australia’s leading voices in the field of psychoactive plants, fungi, harm reduction, ecology, and drug policy. This special event will explore a diverse range of psychoactive species, their cultural histories, chemistry, contemporary research, and the broader conversations surrounding sustainability, safety, and drug reform. Attendees will also receive a signed copy of Liam’s new book.

If you have an interest in ethnobotany, psychoactive plants and fungi, or the evolving science and culture surrounding these subjects, this should be a fascinating afternoon.

Congratulations Liam on the book launch. We look forward to seeing this important work out in the world. 🌿📚

Psychoactive Plants & Fungi, Melbourne Join ethnobotanist, natural products chemist and science communicator Dr Liam Engel to learn about Psychoactive Plant & Fungi.

This is a talk to journey with, not rush. One to sit with and allow to bloom in its own rhythm.

Recorded for Garden States 2025, the outdoor ethnobotanical conference presented by, this deeply reflective presentation explores the long relationship between humans and psychedelic plants and fungi across evolution, ritual, colonisation, secrecy, and resurgence.

Drawing on decades of ethnobotanical learning, Kathleen Harrison honours the indigenous knowledge holders and underground carriers who helped keep these traditions alive, while inviting us to reflect on our own role in carrying this living stream of knowledge into the future.

Recorded remotely from Kathleen’s living room in Occidental, California, this talk unfolds slowly and thoughtfully before “catching the current” and opening into a wide-ranging reflection on psychedelic species and the human quest.

Kathleen Harrison - The Long, Winding Road of Psychedelic Species and the Human Quest About the talkKathleen Harrison reflects on the deep story linking humans with psychedelic plants and fungi across evolution, ritual, colonisation, secrecy, ...

Few figures have shaped ecological thinking like David Holmgren.

In 2022, Holmgren (co-originator of permaculture alongside Bill Mollison) spoke at our indoor EGA conference. Before his talk, we sat down for a wide-ranging conversation about how he got here and how his thinking has shifted over time.

It’s a loose, searching discussion. Permaculture comes through less as land use and more as a way of reading energy, economy and culture once the idea of endless growth starts to wobble. What replaces it isn’t some grand solution. More a set of limits you work within.

There’s also a brief turn into perception and psychedelics:

“Psychedelics can interrupt the default settings of perception, opening a window onto more ecological ways of understanding our place in the world.”

Read the full interview on the EGA website.

David Holmgren: Designing the Future from the Ground Up — Entheogenesis Australis Few figures have had a greater influence on contemporary ecological thinking than David Holmgren . Best known as the co-originator of permaculture alongside Bill Mollison, David Holmgren helped develop a design system that has shaped generations of growers, builders, educators and commun

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) are again proud to be collaborating with Nimbin MardiGrass this year (1–3 May 2026), presenting three days of educational content in the Psychedelic Tent.

If you’re in the area, be sure to come by and say hello. We’re also hosting a panel discussion in the main hall on Sunday at 1 pm. Come along, join the conversation, and be part of it 😇

Psychedelics Q&A — Ask Us Anything - Nimbin MardiGrass 2026 Come along with your burning question! About: Join us for an open, insightful, and interactive panel session where your questions shape the conversation. Featuring a diverse group of leading psychedelic and ethnobotanical experts, researchers, therapists, and advocates, this session is your opportun...