Lectures by Rak Razam

They say that information builds knowledge and that can gestate into wisdom, but joining the dots in the data stream is the challenge. Below are a series of seminal lectures I’ve given over the years on different aspects of psychedelic, shamanic and yogic practice and culture. Taken collectively the knowledge here is my wisdom that I offer to you to make sense of what we're really in, and what its all about. Think of this page as your digital “Mystery School”, with audio and video lectures, some with the raw PowerPoints for you to follow along, hyperlinked to connect to the larger data out there. May these talks offer pieces to the puzzle of a healthy, sustainable, meaningful new paradigm that unites ancient wisdom with future technology. A thread through the labyrinth of disinformation and division that points towards home.

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Kingdom Come

This talk is called Kingdom Come, which for me evokes this quality of what is the kingdom. And for me, working with the medicines, and particularly 5-MeO-DMT, has revealed the kingdom within, whether you judge that to be Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, zero point source consciousness. The kingdom does lie within, underneath the egoic mind.

We Go Together

The group mind has been a theme in psychedelia all the way back to the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s. Indigenous cultures often take medicine to journey together not just to heal–but to vision, explore and create.

The Next Step

At the height of the first wave of psychedelia in the 1960s, Ken Kesey promoted the idea of the “Next Step”, which at the time he envisaged as “Beyond Acid”.

Ayahuasca Shamanism

What is shamanism and how is it relevant in the 21st Century? How does ayahuasca fit in with all this, and why is it booming as a business – and as a spiritual movement?

The Divine Invasion

Is the sudden popularity of 5-MeO-DMT from the Sonoran Desert Toad medicine part of a process of ego dissolution culminating generations of plant work? Like the plants, have we been groomed to receive the light?

The Universe Makes Diamonds

What if the cultural chaos of these times was part of a natural process, just as when nature turns coals into diamonds from the intense pressure? As philosopher Henri Bergson has famously said, is the “universe a machine for making gods?”

The Ocean in the Drop

The 5-MeO-DMT experience is often likened to the individual egoic consciousness, or drop, remembering it’s oceanic full potential. But what if the opposite were also true? What if the intelligent, loving, oceanic consciousness of Source itself was incarnating in the drop?

The Flowering Soul

If EntheoGenesis is awakening to the Divine within, what do we do with it then? Is the peak experience of divinity a seed to be integrated and/or a relationship to be nurtured?

From Ego to Wego

What role does the Ego play in the human experience – and how, and why did it evolve? Tribal cultures point towards other states of unity consciousness with nature as part of our collective hero’s journey.

Cosmic Consciousness to Convergence

As we neared the Gregorian year 2012, the mainstream media was barraging us with information about this potent cosmic target window, much of it slanted towards the usual doom-and-gloom and disaster scenarios.

Full Spectrum Consciousness

As psychedelics are cautiously re-embraced back into the medical fold, what of their other social, spiritual and consciousness potentials? Are the man-made psychedelics psychic lubricants that have made possible the distributed consciousness of 21st century life?

The Bufo Nation

The medicine of the Bufo alvarius toad is a powerful tool to unlock human consciousness and reveal our full potential. As it spreads across the world via a network of practitioners nurturing a global community, we are witnessing and participating in a cultural shamanic movement.

You are an Explorer

The Psychedelic Renaissance has finally achieved a legitimacy within mainstream culture and at the same time issues are arising around the commercialization of these medicines and the commodification of the sacred.