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Chris Kilham\nChris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who promotes natural,\nplant-based medicines, sustainable trade and indigenous cultures. He has conducted\nethnobotanical plant research in more than 45 countries and lectures worldwide about holistic\nwellness and botanical medicines. Chris helps to develop and popularize traditional medicinal\nplants\u2014including ayahuasca, cannabis, San Pedro, kava, maca, rhodiola, ashwagandha,\nschizandra, tamanu oil, cat\u2019s claw, dragon\u2019s blood, and hundreds of others. The New York Times\ncalled Chris \u201cPart David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones.\u201d\nChris\u2019 work with psychoactive and psychedelic plants combines his decades of\nexperience as a yoga teacher with his deep involvement in South American shamanism. He is the\nfounder of The Ayahuasca Test Pilots, a collaboration of individuals who engage in ceremonial\nayahuasca journeying in the Amazon. Chris lives and works in Western Massachusetts with his\nwife and business partner, cultural activist and psychedelic feminist Zoe Helene, who often\n\nSolana Booth\nSolana is enrolled into the Nooksack Nation of the Chief Dan George Family and Mohawk from\nBay Quinte where the peacekeeper was born, White Owl House of the Wolf Clan. Her Paternal\nassociation is Tsymsyan of the Violet Booth Family, Raven Clan. She is a mother of nine and\nGrandmother of two baby girls. Solana graduated with honors in the field of Early Childhood\nSpecial Education. Then was immersed as a bona fide perinatal, prenatal, post-natal psychology\npractitioner and lactation and birth-work educator.\nSolana is a first-foods advocate, somatic archeology and generational brain-spotting\npractitioner. She is also an Advocate of Sacred Principal Consultant for Tribal Whole-health\ncare, Historical/generational Trauma Recovery Training(s) for Health and Human Services work\nwith Native American and First Nation Tribes, Health-Care Providers and Private organizations,\nFamily and Survivor Violence Recovery Facilitation, Drug and Alcohol Recovery\nDevelopment(s), Perinatal/Prenatal/Postnatal programming, and many other initiatives and\nresponsibilities.\n\nG. William (Bill) Barnard\nG. William (Bill) Barnard is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University\nDistinguished Teaching Professor, at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas. His\nprimary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, religion and the\nsocial sciences, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies.\nFor over 15 years (including his ongoing study of Portuguese), Professor Barnard has researched\nthe Santo Daime tradition, a syncretistic, entheogenically-based new religious movement that\nemerged in Brazil in the mid-twentieth century.\nProfessor Barnard is the author of Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of\nHenri Bergson as well as Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of\nMysticism, both published by State University of New York Press. In addition, Professor\nBarnard is the co-editor of Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism.\nProfessor Barnard has also written many journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics,\nsuch as pedagogy in religious studies, the nature of religious experience, issues in the psychology\nof religion, and most recently, entheogenic religions and spirituality\n\nStephan Gray\nStephen Gray is a teacher and writer on spiritual subjects and sacramental medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, and with entheogenic medicines. The author of Returning to Sacred World: A Spiritual Toolkit for the Emerging Reality, he is also a conference and workshop organizer, leader, and speaker as well as a part-time photographer and music composer under the artist name Keary. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.