DETROIT PSYCHEDELIC CONFERENCE
THE
October 28th-30th
2016
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
This is in no way a complete list
Presenters may be added daily
Abdul "Duli" Wilkins aka The Beantown Shaman Abdul "Duli" Wilkins aka "The Beantown Ghetto Shaman" is a visual artist, certified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, Yoga Teacher and Inuitive Healer from Boston Ma. He grew up in the inner city of Roxbury and was influenced by his father and mother from a very young age to value the study of metaphysics, mysticism, occult information and spirituality. In college at Northeastern University Duli was introduced to psilocybin mushrooms which had a very life changing affect on him and ever since has been exploring the benefits of "Teaching Plants and Fungi". Through personal experience he advocates the use of entheogens in a sacred manner. Duli strongly believes that "Urban Shamanism" can help heal trauma based issues, bring people together from various backgrounds/races and bring a new found awareness of self and connection to the earth and Great Spirit!
Steffanie McKee is a clinical herbalist who received her Master of Science in herbal medicine from Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2011. Committed to unearthing and maintaining ancient herbal African wisdom, Ms. McKee has journeyed to discover the secrets of ancient African culture that is unknown to many and held by keepers of this ancient medicine. As an apprentice to Queen Afua, McKee learned a great deal about plants and healing that reached its urgency as she visited South America and learned of Ayahuasca. This discovery placed McKee on her path to understanding the healing powers of visionary plants. As a graduate student, McKee gave voice to the power of African herbal medicine as a vehicle of healing that was unknown to most in her graduate school. Hence, she began her study of Tabernanthe iboga, a visionary plant spirit medicine from out of the rainforests of Gabon, in Central West Africa. In her research, she discovered the use of iboga globally and its healing impact on addiction. Her passionate interest and calling led her to being selected as the student commencement speaker of her class when she was called upon to speak about ancient African spirituality and its healing powers.
Post graduate school, McKee understood that studying solely in school would not be enough to fully understand the power of visionary plants, so she began an experiential study with them.
She recently undertook an 8 month road trip to Belize, Central America that led to the study of Bush medicine with an indigenous, Garifuna healer. On that road trip, she stopped in various places in the southern United States and Mexico, chronicling the information that African folk healers in the Americas have practiced for generations, culminating in her final stop in Belize, where she studied under an indigenous, Garifuna healer. The journey solidified her spiritual mission to advocate for and utilize ancient, African visionary plant medicine to heal communities and the earth.
Onyx Ashanti Since being introduced on the world stage by way of a fortuitous TED talk he gave in 2011 entitled “This is Beatjazz”, Mississippi native, Onyx Ashanti, has been evolving at a pace that surprises even him. Musician, Programmer, 3d print-designer, writer, performer, inventor...a self described child of the internet, and disciple of the open source philosophy, Onyx has spent the last few years creating a multidimensional expression concept called beatjazz.
Beatjazz is “beats” and “jazz”, or more specifically. Beats are electronically derived rhythm and jazz as improvisational sonic investigation create an improvisational sonic construct for investigating rhythm, harmony and melody interactively. This is expressed as sound and performance but also as projected visualization, light color sequencing, robotic parameter feedback and CAD design-multiple dimensions of a singular expression. A hyper expression.
The next “evolution” of beatjazz will be the integration of brainwave information into its matrix of existing signals. It has already begun moving toward its “neuro” phase but Onyx wants to release the open source plans to the existing iteration, online, before jumping into this stage with both feet. The future as a programmable variable within a sonic fractal matrix. This is beatjazz.
Dimitri Mugianis. Born in Detroit, to a politically leftist Greek American family, Dimitri Mugianis began writing poetry, music, and also using drugs at a very early age. His relationship with cocaine, heroin and methadone would last over 20 years. By 2002, Dimitri had a daily habit of $150-200 worth of heroin, plus cocaine and 100 milligrams of methadone. By forty, he was surrounded by death, including his pregnant, common-law wife. Resigned that his life was nearing an end, using the last of his will to survive, Dimitri turned to a radical solution: Ibogaine. Returning home with an evangelical zeal, Dimitri sought out and met the father of the Ibogaine movement, Howard Lotsof, who quickly became his mentor. In an effort to bring the medicine that healed him to those without access, he attended to approximately 500 underground Ibogaine ceremonies and traveled to Gabon, West Africa, to become initiated into the Bwiti. This experience was the impetus for his co-founding of the Universalist Bwiti Society, a state-registered religious institution. After six visits to Gabon, Dimitri opened a center in Costa Rica, IbogaLife. In addition to his work as an Ibogaine Detox Facilitator, performing hundreds of ibogaine treatment-ceremonies with desperate people, he currently works as an outreach counselor at the New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE) in Harlem.
Kai Wingo Iyi Kai passed into the realm of the ancesters this year we will honor her this year and every year at the Detroit Entheogenic Conference her Bio will remain. A mushroom expert, her passion is in informing the community of the understated value of mushroom cultivation. She provides mushrooms, lectures and workshops in agricultural support for sustainable food systems and served as committee organizer for Food, Race and Justice Conference at Case Western Reserve University. Kai feels that if we, women especially, embrace fungi as our allies, it has the power to transform, heal and empower. She received a BA from Fisk University, Nashville TN, in Speech and Communication and studied at Maimouna Keita School of African Dance in Senegal, West Africa. Although she used her experience to bridge gaps culturally between students and international artist in the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools program, she realized it alone was inadequate in decreasing addiction among youth. Now an advocate of psychedelic exploration and research she maintains that debunking myths of drug abuse and entheogenic use will be the only way ro create responsible adults who can make informed decisions.
Kai lives in the multiverse, where she owns and operates Cleveland's first and only mushroom farm.
Baba Moudou Baqui M. Ed. is a lifelong citizen of Highland Park. He has been a student in the origins of human consciousness since an early age.Moudou is a third generation metaphysican. His introduction to the esoteric came from 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 1900's). Moudou's early studies came from “borrowed” rare mystical texts from his father's library. At his father's urging, he continued his studies of ancient knowledge without the formality of known institutions. He has further continued his studies of shamanism, metaphysics and ethnogenics via travel on several continents and tutelage under different intellectual traditions.A student and practitioner of both ethnobotany and the martial sciences, he is an activist, Certified Level II Reiki healer, urban shaman, behavioral specialist and educator.
Bro. H-Ankh is a radio host of www.blogtalkradio.com/magnetscrystalsandpyramids. He is a explorer of entheogens, has shared with individuals and small groups herbal meditations, from tobacco, divine sage, mushrooms, ayahuasca. His favorite meditation location in the city is quiet nights at the beach. New and full moon circles.Licensed massage therapist, Reiki master, advanced Pranic healing Practioner, Magnet Therapist, Crystal Therapist, student of chi Kung, Tantra- 2nd tier through Master Yao Morris. Bro. Hankh is a product developer of Crystal Magnetic Orgone devices.www.healingwaterbottle.com
Johnathan Thompson Jonathan is Co-Founder (with his wife of 15 years, Nicole Linton) of PyschedelicParenting.org, a resource for building community and family traditions around traditional plant sacraments in the Global North. He is also the father of 3 Montessouri-educated children, and has been working with plant teachers and contemplative prayer/meditation since 1999. He has a BS in Anthropology from Michigan State University and has spent the last 10 years in management and human resources in the retail and healthcare industry. Psychedelic Parenting began in 2012, and he began doing podcasts in 2013. Since then, he has spoken or tabled at many conferences across the USA and is very excited to see interest growing in his home state of Michigan.
Omolewa Jennifer Thedford is a loving Mother, Holistic Massage Therapist & Doula, Midwives Assistant, Placenta Alchemist and Urban Gardener. As a Massage Therapist of 11 years she has shared her gift of healing touch and Earth medicine with women, men, children and elders in her community. Through this healing work she has cultivated her ancestral and spiritual gifts as womb worker, keeper of ancient plant medicine, sacred ceremonies and women's Blood mysteries.
Kilindi Iyi is the Head Instructor and Technical Advisor of the Tamerrian Martial Art Institute. He is a mycologist, teacher and world traveler who has presented on the subject of high-dose psilocybin from the US to Norway to Australia.
Spirit Traveler considers herself an eternal Student. Her studies and work are in her passion of Spiritual Midwifery, home birth and Doula service. As a Spiritual Intuitive Guide she also shares her gifts and training in Tapology, Dianetics, Personality Typing, Numerology, Aromatherapy and a host of other Alternative Healing Modalities. Spirits mission is not only to be the GateKeeper of the new arrivals to our future, it is to "remind" us of our True Essence as Self Master's.
Kamani’s Journey
Born in the Virgin Islands of Christianstead, St. Croix, Kamani Tait’s (K.T. The Arch Degree) involvement with health and nutrition has been inspirational from the start.
At the precipice of birth, mother; Annette Thomas; faced fatal complications with extremely low iron levels. Refusing a blood transfusion, Annette reached out to Dr. Sebi who gave her Oxyhemo; a tonic increasing hemoglobin; which proved to save both their lives.
Annette soon became a wife of Sebi educating herself in the uses of herbs and all natural healing agents. Soon thereafter, Usha Herbal Research Institute; the brainchild of Thomas and Sebi; established itself as a wellness organization specializing in the research and development of African herbal healing modalities.
While growing up under the tutelage of the Usha Institute, Kamani witnessed AIDS, blindness, cancer and various other diseases healed through natural, non-pharmaceutical remedies.
At the age of five, Kamani moved to the states and met biological father, George Edward Tait Jr.; Pan-Africanist and poet laureate of Harlem. He continued to live with his father through junior high and attended Ausar Auset; a privately funded vegetarian school.
Since fifth grade, The Arch Degree, ranked immaculately in the field of science; even surpassing his peers with high school level scores on the regency exam, a test for upper class students to determine strength and weakness of study. Upon which, Kamani associated with an after school program where he studied microbiology, biochemistry and physiology with the elder group.
After highschool, Kamani gained the opportunity to work beside one of Dr. Sebi’s most respected clients, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. He joined her creative team and contributed three tracks to her solo artist album, Super Nova. As a part of Lisa’s inner circle he again noticed the positive effects of proper nutrition and decided to delve deeper into the matter.
Following her passing and that of his brother Kamani was left questioning his life’s purpose. He decided to pick himself up and began work at a doctor’s office with life mentor, Donald G. Hooker. There he trained on high end medical equipment focused on nerve conduction, bone density, segmented pressure, ultrasound and x-rays. In his tenure of employment, The Arch Degree observed patients who sought help for pain only to become addicted to prescribed medication. Through private practice, he along with Hooker not only weaned them off prescriptions but cured them of their medical woes.
With 30 years of intense study, Kamani Tait excels in the knowledge of alchemy, physiology, biochemistry, metaphysics and nutrition including its effects on the human body. Through constant practice and counsel, Kamani lectures at various venues throughout the Atlanta area and across the United States; spreading information on health, medicine and nutrition with the mission to take people back to nature.
Currently, Kamani is focused on providing life-changing experiences to clients and fans through proper education and application. He is also highly focused on his series Hollywood Decoded where he breaks down the metaphysics of your favorite movies. Through his decoding he has found a fresh way to connect with the youth in regards to their beliefs and their health.
Lastly, Kamani has reached the point of his career in which it is necessary to record his research for the public to see. As of September 2016 he became a published author for the book Melanocyte Manifesto along with Minister Enqi. He will also be published in another book The Secret Life of Nu-Tree-Ents: Beer & Weed, which is a breakdown of our bodies’ endocannabinoid system as well as a scientific explanation as to why hops and cannabis appeal to people of color.
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Email: luvgreenlife@gmail.com
Bro Omari Miles-El is a Native Detroiter and the founder of Third Eye Open, A Historical and Metaphysical research Organization. He is also the founder of R.Y.D.E. (Rolemodels for Youth Development and Enlightment), a youth oriented motivational consulting firm. Bro Omari Miles-El has studied and traveled under the tutor ledge of the renowned Egyptologist Dr. Benjamin Jochannan, A well-known Professor of Egyptian Antiquity and founder of Craft Amen-Ra a Masonic order founded on the spiritual principles of ancient Kemet .
Bro Omari Miles-El has spent the last 25 years studying and traveling throughout America and the Diaspora to uncover hidden truths about the contribution of people of Color have given to Humanity as a whole.
Bro Omari Miles-El has several Lectures, Sacredness of the Black Woman, Secret Science of the Bible, Black America B.C. to A.D.-Land of the Moors, Ancient Pyramids in America, Psychological Destruction of the Black Civilization, Moors and Free Masonry, and Know Thyself.
Sacredness Of The Black Woman
Bro Omari Miles-El has created the lecture Sacredness of the Black Woman, for the Love he has for the Black Woman. As well as a result of the truths discovered about the black woman in his research and traveling. What was discovered was phenomenon of phenomenal information about who and, what The Black Woman is. The Divine portal from heaven to earth, keeper of life, the foundation of all humanity, the discoverer of agriculture, math, science and civilization the world over. And so for all that she is and all that she has done, we singing the praises of the Great Black Mama of Humanity.
This lecture has been provided for the education, enlightenment and the uplifting of Black Women about all around the Country. This lecture is brought to many Black Women because Bro Omari wants Black Women to know that they are the creators of Humanity and how sacred they are.
This lecture is about the many different aspects of the black goddesses and the veneration and worship of her by every culture and nation on the planet, and how they try to cover up the Great Black Mama with their Historical White Washing, and how Hollywood has given many different movies dealing with the Black Woman as God as well as being the Savior of the World.
Ayana Iyi Detroit born and raised has realized that her journey a warrior High Priestess is a journey of service innerstanding that to lead is to serve. A visionary for women, in particular for the growth of women to understand that now is the time to once again re-claim the throne that is so rightfully ours.
Wife, mother and counselor to many, Ayana works hard everyday to be the example for all her sisters. Hoping to show that total acceptance of self means total love of self her code of life is Profundity, Intelligence, Silence and Truth