Painting by Pablo AmaringoGuest List
Dr. John Alexander
Dr. John Alexander has been an active Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) member for over two decades.
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander has been researching the mysticism of Catholic Saints for over 20 years.
Pablo Amaringo
A severe heart illness--and the magical treatment of this via ayahuasca--led Pablo toward the life of a shaman, and he eventually became a powerful curandero.
Ananda
Ananda is an international lecturer, teacher and researcher, who is growing in the reputation of being a Visionary Scientist.
Lennon Boardman
Lennon Boardman is a healing facilitator who lives on the Central Coast of California.
Michael Caden
I have come to realise that everything is part of a shamanistic continuum, more available in special areas like Peru, but still recognisable in...
Howard Charing
Howard G. Charing is an international workshop leader on shamanism. He has organised specialist retreats to the Amazon Rainforest since the late 90’s.
Frank Echenhofer
Frank Echenhofer received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 1985.
Peter Gorman
Mr. Gorman is a former recipient of a Blue Mountain Fellowship in investigative journalism and a grant from Conservation International to do a study of indigenous peoples on the Napo River.
Michael Caden
I have come to realise that everything is part of a shamanistic continuum, more available in special areas like Peru, but still recognisable in...
Dr. Richard Grossman
Since the age of 16, Dr. Grossman has been deeply involved in healing, growth and spiritual growth.
David Hewson
The artwork of David Hewson combines the classical painting techniques of the Old Masters with traditional methods of water gilding in gold and other precious metals.
Martina Hoffman
German-born artist, Martina Hoffmann, spent her childhood in Germany as well as Cameroon, West Africa.
Jan Kounen
Jan was a student at the Arts Décoratifs in Nice, France, (E.P.I.A.R.). He learned cinema, animation and pixillation and passed his diploma in 1988...
Leslie Kubin
Leslie currently has a practice with quantum biofeedback therapy, massage therapy and myofascial release in Central California.
Dr. Dennis Mckenna
Dennis McKenna has for the last twenty-five years pursued the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and psychointegrator plants.
Tom McKinnon
Tom McKinnon is an established visual artist who has exhibited multi-media performance works at major venues nationally and internationally.
Dr. Jorge Gonzales Ramirez
Nació en la ciudad de Cajamarca, (1944). Su Jardín de Infancia es recuerdo gigante por el amor que tuvo en su Profesora.
Ronald Rivera
Ronald is dedicated to the essential shamanism, and he is active broadcaster and promoter of Sessions and Shops with the Master Plant of Ayahuasca.
Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker left the United States fifteen years ago in order to learn Shamanic healing techniques.
Robert Venosa
New York City born, Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60's after having experimented with psychedelics and having seen the work of the Fantastic Realists.
Jimmy Weiskopf
Jimmy Weiskopf is a New York-born writer and translator who has lived in Colombia full-time since 1977 and is a leading investigator of its indigenous use of yajé (ayahuasca).
Dennis Wier
Dennis R. Wier is the Executive Director of the Trance Research Foundation.Jimmy Weiskopf
Jimmy Weiskopf is a New York-born writer and translator who has lived in Colombia full-time since 1977 and is a leading investigator of its indigenous use of yajé (ayahuasca). For the past fifteen years he has been a follower of some of the country´s most eminent “taitas” or healers, among them Taita Pacho Piaguaje, Taita Antonio Jacanamijoy, Taita Diomedes Días, Taita Isaías Mavisoy and Taita Oscar Román.
He is the author of the most complete study of Colombian yajé practices published to date: Yajé: The New Purgatory Encounters with Ayahuasca (Villegas Editores, 2005), winner of the 2005 Latino Book Award in the category of health. An on-line review by “The AVI” says: “Hofmann wrote the definitive book on acid, and Rick Strassman pulled off the same trick with ´DMT: The Spirit Molecule.´ I think Jimmy Weiskopf has given us the same kind of cornerstone work with ´Yaje: The New Purgatory´.”
That book is an independent, English-language version of his Yajé: El Nuevo Purgatory (Villegas Editores, 2004), which received wide media attention in Colombia, including a recent interview on City TV. More information about these activities, together with photos of some of the taitas he has studied with, may be found here.
Weiskopf has also written numerous articles about yajé for Colombian, U.S. and European publications, including Americas, Earthwatch and Shaman´s Drum, the most recent being an interview in Number 67, 2004 of the latter. He was the Colombian coordinator for and appeared in a documentary on the use of traditional healing plants in the Amazon made in 2003 by the Italian “COE” Foundation and sponsored by European Union: “Forest Medicine: Amazonía”. He has also studied the uses of ayahuasca in Peru and Brazil. For an account, written in Spanish, of his recent experiences in Brazil, see this link.
For the rest, Weiskopf is a graduate of Columbia University, New York and Cambridge University, England. A member of the Colombian Foreign Press Association, he has published articles as a free-lancer in Time, The Wall Street Journal and numerous specialist publications in the fields of economy and the environment. Recognized as one of the top Spanish-to-English translators in Colombia, he has translated more than fifty books for the Colombian art-book publisher Villegas Editores and also worked with the Colombian Ministry of Environment, The Colombian Central Bank, The Bogotá Mayoralty and the indigenous-rights foundation, Gaia.
The author of several published short stories on yajé, he is currently working on a novel about his apprenticeship in the jungle.
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