Promotion of the lecture “A Tradição do Fogo Sagrado de Itzachilatlan e a Aliança das Medicinas” (The Tradition of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan and the Aliance of the Medicines), by Ehekateotl. Escola da Rainha - São Paulo, November 7th, 2008. Support: Gê Marques and Escola da Rainha.
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Co-organization one of the most important academic international conferences in the world about ayahuasca, “The Globalization of Ayahuasca: An Amazonian psychoactive and its users” held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany between May 16th and 18th 2008.
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Hosted event at Alto das Estrelas ranch: “Medicines from the Andes Meeting” (”Encontro das Medicinas dos Andes”), January 24th-28th, 2007.

Lecture: “O que nos ensina o San Pedro? O que nos ensina a folha de coca?” (What does San Pedro teach us? What does the coca leaf teach us?) by Anthony Henman.

Hosted event at Alto das Estrelas ranch: “The White Serpent Myth” (“O mito da Jibóia Branca”), November 21st-26th, 2007, with Leopardo Sales Yawa Bane Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) and others.
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Co-organization of the Debate “Harm Reduction: Dilemmas and Perspectives” (”Redução de Danos: Dilemas e Perspectivas“), Anthropology Department, Unifesp, November 28th, 2007.

Co-organization of the Debate “Alternatives for Drug Policies” (“Alternativas para a Política de Drogas”), Anthropology Department – University of São Paulo (USP), November 21th, 2006.

Co-organization of the Symposium” Drugs: Controversies and Perspectives” (“Drogas: Controvérias e Perspectivas”), promoted at FFLCH-USP, São Paulo, September 29th-30th, 2005. This meeting generated the book Drogas e Cultura: Novas Perspectivas (Drugs and Culture: New Persepectives).

“A investigação psicológico-cognitiva da experiência com a ayahuasca e suas implicações mais amplas para o estudo da consciência humana” (A cognitive-psychology investigation of the experience of ayahuasca and its wider implications for the study of human consciousness) by Benny Shanon, Espaço Sollua, São Paulo, April 18th 2006.

Consultancy to the “First Brazilian Meeting on Shamanism” (“Primeiro Encontro Brasileiro de Xamanismo”), promoted by Léo Artése/ Associação Lua Cheia – Pax, São Paulo, March 13-20, 2005.
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Partial Program in Portuguese
Partial Biographies of the presenters in Portuguese
Listen a hymn by Léo Artese

Hosted event at Alto das Estrelas ranch: “I Carnival Retreat” (”I Retiro de Carnaval”), February 5-8, 2005. Participants: Flor do Céu (MG), members of Céu da Lua Cheia (SP) and Jimmy Weiskpof (Colombia), among others.
Lecture: “La filosofia perene de ayahuasca” (The perennial philosophy of ayahuasca), by Jimmy Weiskopf

Lecture: “Ayahuasca e Tabaco: Plantas Professoras da Amazônia Peruana” (Ayahuasca and Tabaco: Teacher Plants from the Peruvian Amazon), by Bia Labate, Víctor Nieto and Adriana Calabi - 4ª Feira de Cultura e Paz - Jacutinga Centro Cultural, São Paulo, December 18th. 2003.
Listen to a icaro by Victor Nieto

Hosted event at the Alto das Estrelas ranch: “The traditions of Iboga in África”, by Antonio Bianchi, August 19th 2001.

Organization of the “First Congress on the Ritual Use of Ayahuasca” (“I Congresso sobre o Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca – I CURA”), held on the Unicamp University at Campinas, between November 4th and 5th 1997. The congress was a pioneer meeting on ayahuasca in Brazil, and generated the book O Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca (The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca).
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