***Featured image is courtesy (and copyright) of Chor Boogie
What does it mean to be a Black advocate in the Psychedelic Renaissance?
This is the question informing this session of the Psychedelic Café. Our guests for this café are:
The Dank Duchess
Oakland, California-based The Dank Duchess, an internationally recognized cannabis cultivator, hashmaker, and writer who believes intentional and mindful cannabis use will change our society, has made it her mission to impart her knowledge of cannabis and hash to anyone who will receive it. Duchess applies 15 years of growing experience and priceless mentorship under master hashmaker Frenchy Cannoli to fully immerse herself in the global cannabis industry. She has penned more than 25 articles about hashish for magazines including Weed World UK and Cannabis Now and contributed to anthologies by Ed Rosenthal and has appeared on Viceland’s TV Series “Bong Appétit” and in several Greenflower Media productions. Duchess was a judge for Masters of Rosin and Terp Tower Invitational at Spannabis in Barcelona, Spain, and was featured in High Times magazine’s list of “12 Stoners You Need to Follow on Social Media Right Now.”
Moudou Baqui (aka, Justin Petty, M. Ed.) is an activist, Certified Level II Reiki healer, martial artist, urban shaman, behavioural specialist and educator. His journey into the esoteric started with his father, former Grand Master of a local chapter of an international mystical order, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who began his studies in the early 1900s. At his father’s urging, he continued his studies of ancient knowledge without the formality of known institutions. He has further advanced his studies of shamanism, metaphysics and ethnogenics via travel on several continents and tutelage under different intellectual traditions. Among his teachers, he credits Ahati Kilindi Iyi as a key figure in his knowledge of ethnobotany and the martial sciences.
Listen To Moudou’s Interview on ATTMind and his lecture at Breaking Convention 2019 Follow Moudou Online facebook
Chor Boogie
Chor Boogie aka Joaquin Lamar Hailey is an internationally acclaimed spray paint artist. His visionary murals and art exhibitions have graced many countries across the globe. Societe Perrier honored him as number three among their Top Ten U.S. Street Artists of 2014. He uses his voice and work as an artist to raise awareness about sacred plant medicines and drug policy reform. After the profound personal healing with the Iboga medicine that is described in HEART MEDICINE, he also went on to experience the Missoko Bwiti initiation and Rite of Passage in Gabon, Africa and is currently in an iboga facilitator training with the Bwiti tradition.
***Featured image is courtesy (and copyright) of Chor Boogie
Akua Ofosuhene
Akua is Co-founder of Hub and Culture an African and Caribbean cooperative lifestyle shop and event space in Peckham and a psychedelic fashion designer. She’s also an advocate of individual therapeutic uses of psychedelics to combat depression, illness and white supremacy racism. She believes that we can change our current unjust world through the use of psychedelics with the simple intention to let go of all deeply held beliefs that prop up our current white supremacist world order.
Darren Springer is a grass-roots researcher and event organizer based in London, the Director of Ancient Future, the Convenor of the Psychedelia Railway Gatherings and curator at Earth Tone Arts. Collectively his work aims to inform and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to cope with social challenges and contribute to community development as well as self-improvement in an innovative, creative, culturally-aware style. By day Darren teaches organic horticulture and food enterprise to young people in London and grows edible mushrooms. He has spoken in the UK, Africa, Europe and the US sharing his extensive research on African Entheogenic plants and their various applications on the continent and the diaspora.
The Psychedelic Café is a structured conversational space exploring various, deep questions about the nature of mind, life, and reality.
Each cafe features a curated selection of 4-5 people to explore a question according to a specific structure (outlined below), based on the method of Dharma Talking, a conversational technology from Jean Robertson, forged in The Liminal Space Agency Meta-Monstatary, and based on “The World Cafe”.
Why this style?
The cafe structure creates a quality and dynamic of conversation, idea sharing, and mutual learning that is incredibly ripe and valuable for not only the people involved but the listening audience who will be able to listen to it afterward. In the current times of uncertainty, complexity, and change, I believe the psychedelic cafe will offer content not otherwise available in a time where it is deeply needed.
*** Extra BIG thanks to my patrons on Patreon for helping keep this podcast alive! Especially, Andreas D, Clea S, Joe A, Ian C, David WB, Yvette FC, Ann-Madeleine, Dima B, & Chuck W
Oakland, California-based The Dank Duchess, an internationally recognized cannabis cultivator, hashmaker, and writer who believes intentional and mindful cannabis use will change our society, has made it her mission to impart her knowledge of cannabis and hash to anyone who will receive it. Duchess applies 15 years of growing experience and priceless mentorship under master hashmaker Frenchy Cannoli to fully immerse herself in the global cannabis industry. She has penned more than 25 articles about hashish for magazines including Weed World UK and Cannabis Now and contributed to anthologies by Ed Rosenthal and has appeared on Viceland’s TV Series “Bong Appétit” and in several Greenflower Media productions. Duchess was a judge for Masters of Rosin and Terp Tower Invitational at Spannabis in Barcelona, Spain, and was featured in High Times magazine’s list of “12 Stoners You Need to Follow on Social Media Right Now.”
Moudou Baqui (aka, Justin Petty, M. Ed.) is an activist, Certified Level II Reiki healer, martial artist, urban shaman, behavioural specialist and educator. His journey into the esoteric started with his father, former Grand Master of a local chapter of an international mystical order, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who began his studies in the early 1900s. At his father’s urging, he continued his studies of ancient knowledge without the formality of known institutions. He has further advanced his studies of shamanism, metaphysics and ethnogenics via travel on several continents and tutelage under different intellectual traditions. Among his teachers, he credits Ahati Kilindi Iyi as a key figure in his knowledge of ethnobotany and the martial sciences.
Chor Boogie aka Joaquin Lamar Hailey is an internationally acclaimed spray paint artist. His visionary murals and art exhibitions have graced many countries across the globe. Societe Perrier honored him as number three among their Top Ten U.S. Street Artists of 2014. He uses his voice and work as an artist to raise awareness about sacred plant medicines and drug policy reform. After the profound personal healing with the Iboga medicine that is described in HEART MEDICINE, he also went on to experience the Missoko Bwiti initiation and Rite of Passage in Gabon, Africa and is currently in an iboga facilitator training with the Bwiti tradition.
Akua is Co-founder of Hub and Culture an African and Caribbean cooperative lifestyle shop and event space in Peckham and a psychedelic fashion designer. She’s also an advocate of individual therapeutic uses of psychedelics to combat depression, illness and white supremacy racism. She believes that we can change our current unjust world through the use of psychedelics with the simple intention to let go of all deeply held beliefs that prop up our current white supremacist world order.
Darren Springer is a grass-roots researcher and event organizer based in London, the Director of Ancient Future, the Convenor of the Psychedelia Railway Gatherings and curator at Earth Tone Arts. Collectively his work aims to inform and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to cope with social challenges and contribute to community development as well as self-improvement in an innovative, creative, culturally-aware style. By day Darren teaches organic horticulture and food enterprise to young people in London and grows edible mushrooms. He has spoken in the UK, Africa, Europe and the US sharing his extensive research on African Entheogenic plants and their various applications on the continent and the diaspora.
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