Liana of the Resurrected
with Hannes Schumacher
🗓 SATURDAY, December 20, 1-4 PM Eastern US Time. See time zone converter if you’re in a different location to make sure you get the time right.
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DESCRIPTION
Ayahuasca is a sacred drug/medicine from the Amazonian rainforest. Following the Colombian shaman Juliet Gómez, “medicine is not for the curious, but for all those who want to enter the university of higher spiritual studies, where nothing is written—everything has to be felt on the skin … Yagé medicine [ayahuasca] is liquid God. Once it enters our body, it never leaves. It stays in the form of consciousness, in your blood, your thought, your energy, your heart, your word.”
Following a brief review of psychedelic research in the case of LSD, in this open talk we will delve deeply into a personal account of ayahuasca, blurring mystical experience with a critical perspective. In this, we will encounter countless feedback loops and flashbacks with global mysticism and philosophy, keeping an eye on schizoanalysis, negative psychoanalysis and anti-psychiatry. While ayahuasca gives us deep insights into so-called “mental illness” from an insider perspective, it also makes us question the distinction between so-called “normalcy” and madness.
Three years after his initiation in Ecuador, philosopher Hannes Schumacher will share his own experiences and his ongoing research on ayahuasca, using his own field recordings and excerpts from his dialogues with writers all around the world. This seminar will also be a safe zone to exchange your own experiences with psychedelics, schizophrenia and other forms of madness. The session will not be
recorded.
(0) Introduction to Psychedelic Research: the case of LSD
Part 1: Initiation
Part 2: Hell
Part 3: Return
Facilitator: Having lived and studied all around the world, Hannes Schumacher works at the threshold between philosophy and art. He has worked intensively on Hegel and Deleuze, and he has also published widely on Nishida, Nāgārjuna, chaos theory, global mysticism, and contemporary art. Hannes is the founder of the Berlin-based publisher Freigeist Verlag and co-founder of the grassroots art space Chaosmos ∞ in Athens, Greece. He has facilitated the following courses and groups at Incite Seminars: “Nishida Kitarō: The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview”; “Who’s Afraid of Hegel: Introduction to G. W. F. Hegel’s Science of Logic”; “Chaos Research Group”; “Reading After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux”; “Deleuze & Guattari: What is Philosophy?”; “Plato’s chôra through the lens of Derrida”; “Anarchia and Archai: Reimagining the Pre-Socratics” (with Carlos A. Segovia); and “Reading Nietzsche’s Zarathustra” (current).
Following the golden age of psychedelic research from the 1950s to the 1960s, psychedelics have been stigmatized and made illegal among many other drugs. Today, we’re witnessing a psychedelic renaissance that is just about to take off.
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