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Conference: โ€œPsychic Landscape. Psychedelia, Magic and Consciousness Development "

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Sunday afternoon 27 February we will speak as speakers at the international conference on Psychedelia organized by the friends of the Society of the Sulfur, with a report on Terence McKenna and entheogenic shamanism of Mexico and the Andes. In addition to us, Julian Vayne, Giorgia Gaia and Tancredi Marrone will participate. Live streaming video on the LSDZ YouTube channel starting at 17pm.

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โ€œThe physics of angelsโ€: dialogue between a visionary biologist and a rebellious theologian

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Can modern physics dialogue with the theological and mystical tradition to shed light on the ancient question of angels? This is the question on which "The physics of angels" is based, a text-dialogue between the rebel theologian Matthew Fox, and the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, known for the theory of morphic resonance, focused on the analysis of some of the most illuminating texts of three Christian mystics: Dionigi Aeropagita, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Hildegard of Bingen.

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Terence McKenna and the "food of the gods"

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Exactly 20 years ago, on April 3, 2000, Terence McKenna took off towards Hyperspace: for the occasion we review his book "Food of the Gods", recently republished in the Italian translation by Piano B editions, focused on the relationship of humanity through the millennia with the so-called "master plants", but which also critically dwells on the relationship of dependence of modern man with various drugs, legal and illegal, among which McKenna also includes television.

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Towards โ€œTimeWave Zeroโ€: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna

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In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".

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Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis

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The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallรฉe based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtลn ยปBy Filolaoย 

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