Greetings from Cyberdelian Space.

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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And I, well, I hope that you've found your way to our new and improved website.

In case you haven't been there yet, you may want to take a look at psychedelic salon.com.

And unless you have bookmarked the old Matrixmasters.net site, well, you've

probably found it already. And after today's talk, I'll tell you a little bit more about it. But first,

let me introduce today's program. As you may recall, in July, I podcast a talk between

Shona Home and Kai Wingo. And it was podcast number

458. And if you haven't listened to it yet, I strongly recommend that you do so. It was in that

podcast that Kai told us about the Women and In Theogens Conference that she was organizing.

Well, that conference took place a week ago, and today we are going to get to listen to one of the talks that Shona Home gave there.

From the photos that I've seen, some men were also in the audience, but as I understand it, the focus of the conference was to take a look at our sacred medicines from a woman's point of view.

Now, I know that some of our younger and somewhat macho male psychonauts

may think that psychedelics from a woman's point of view may only be about hearts, flowers, and cute little bunnies.

But trust me on this, some of the most courageous explorers of the

psychedelic realm that I've ever met are women. You know, several thousand years ago,

medicine women were the most important members of the tribe. And fortunately today, for us,

fun-loving men, some serious-minded women are now reviving the role of the medicine woman in our culture,

and we are about to learn more about this movement in just a few moments.

But first let me give you a little background information so that you'll be better prepared

to digest the importance of the historical setting that Shona begins with.

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