Into the Faerie Rings: Psychedelic Plant Medicines and Faerie Realms
Are you… curious?
Many a traveller in folklore and fable have come across the Faerie Rings – magical circles of mushrooms that can transport the curious (willing or not) to the faerie realms. They may find themselves lost in bizarre lands of pure imagination, colorful as they are confusing, populated by unusual beings both benevolent and malevolent, time stretching impossibly around them.
Catch a bit of faerie sight? To those that have journeyed with psychedelics – it may sound familiar!
In this lively lecture, we’ll explore the wild and wondrous connections between the unseen realms of faerie, nymphs, and hidden folk with the strange and powerful experiences from visionary plant and fungi medicines – such as Ayahuasca and Psychedelic Mushrooms.
Told from a shamanic storyteller’s perspective, we’ll dive into the unseen worlds waiting all around us. We’ll remember the old ways of connecting with nature spirits are as needed today as they ever were. And we’ll learn that curiosity goes both ways – they are as curious about us as we are about them.
Will you step inside… and see what awaits?
Speaker Bio:
Zina Brown is the writer and director of “The Faerie Rings”, an upcoming narrative feature film about the promise of visionary plant medicines, and the cruelty of those who would outlaw them. Zina’s unique visual and narrative style has been awarded in film festivals across the world, including the Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, Kyiv Film Festival in Ukraine, Mexico City International Film Festival, Amsterdam International Film Festival, San Antonio Film Festival, and the Woods Hole Film Festival. He has over 25 years of writing and directing experience, including numerous music videos and festival favorite short films. His short film, Dreams of the Last Butterflies, was screened at 50 Film Festivals in 13 countries, as well as winning many awards. www.thefaerierings.com
Curated & Hosted By:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day
