EDITOR: Rak Razam

ART DIRECTION, DESIGN & ASSISTANT EDITOR: Tim Parish

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:



Tim Boucher is an itinerant scholar pursuing mastery in the personal and party sciences, with a focus on cultivating shared value communities and connecting creative people to the resources, inspiration and collaborators they need to make things happen...    timboucher.com



Brummbaer is a German-born digital artist living in LA, noted for his signature hallucinogenic style. In 2003 he wrote the autobiographical novel On The Street - DXM in 1964 – or My Best Friend Jesus, which recounted his experiments in the 1960s with the drug dextromethorphanhydrobromide (DXM).  brummbaer.net




Dave Cauldwell is a freelance writer and photographer with a plant bent based in Melbourne, Australia, who decries the cultural wall as one thick concrete and steel sucker. Let’s see if we can make a few cracks... He is currently writing his first novel.




Darpan is a healer, musician, performance artist, and vision quest facilitator and probably Australia’s best known shamanic practitioner. He has devoted himself to learning the ways of ayahuasca and using its wisdom to heal and enlighten a wave of Western spiritual seekers.
darpan.com



Erik Davis is an award-winning journalist, independent scholar, and lecturer based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, Led Zeppelin (33 1/3) and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information.   techgnosis.com



DSM-V is a Layman Psychedelic Hobbyist and dilettante amateur entheonaut, specialising in the textual and procedural potentiation of the psychedelic and entheogenic experiences. Interests include the collision of research arrogance and precision humility, and the intersection of psychedelia and entheogenesis with the potentiation of active conscience.


Kevin Furnas was a spiritual seeker from San Francisco who spent many years exploring and learning from various cultures around the world. After training with ayahuasca and other native plants at the Sachamama Ethnobotanical centre In Peru, Kevin began practicing as a shaman before his untimely death in April, 2007.    kevinfurnas.com



Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist with over forty years experience of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and holotropic breathwork.     holotropic.com



DJ Krusty was one of the first wave of doof/ trance music techno-shamans in Australia in the 1990s, spreading the psychedelic vibe at events such as ConFest, Earthcore, Earthdance, Every Picture Tells a Story, and more. Co-founder of the Green Ant label, he was also one of the driving forces behind the Australian trance festival Rainbow Serpent.




IS The mysterious entity known only as IS is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. A spiritual seeker on the fringes of consciousness, he could be all – or any of us. And maybe that’s the point.




Dennis McKenna is one of the leading figures in the global psychedelic and scientific communities investigating plant entheogens and indigenous plant medicines. He was involved with the ‘Hoasca Project’ studying ayahuasca usage by members of the Church de Vegetal and recently issued the manifesto ‘Ayahuasca and Human Destiny’.


Terence McKenna was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist who helped give voice to psychedelic culture throughout the 80s and 90s. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness and novelty theory.
levity.com/eschaton/hyperborea.html


Terence McPhillip started eating tree bark in 2003. The rest is history: present, and future, and occasionally time. If you find him in your blind spot, keep turning your head – but you’ll never quite catch up... And if The Domino Has Dropped TM, the party’s started... so get off your ass and P.




Daniel Pinchbeck has written features for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, Salon, and many other publications. His books Breaking Open The Head and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl have defined him as one of the pre-eminent voices in the new psychedelic landscape today.
breakingopenthehead.com


Rak Razam is a new wave entheogenic researcher and the co-founder of Undergrowth.org. He writes and edits on counter-culture, spirituality and technology issues and is currently the gonzo reporter-at-large for Australian Penthouse. His forthcoming book on ayahuasca culture: Aya, a shamanic odyssey will be out in 2009.   rakrazam.com



Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist with an interdisciplinary research interest in contemporary youth, techno and dance cultures, the anthropology of ritual and performance, and the sociology of the newest social movements. He recently edited Rave Culture and Religion and also Free NRG: notes from the edge of the dancefloor, amongst others.
edgecentral.blogspot.com



Des Tramacchi is a doofologist and occasional lecturer in religious studies at the University of Queensland. He has published articles and chapters on psychedelic dance cultures and entheogenic experiences. He has recently completed a PhD about DMT visions.




Ustaath is a mystical-atheist-panprotopsychist-gaianist and a member of the Chilluminati. He is involved with the Consciousness Cafe in establishing dialogues about human consciousness and understanding the transhuman future of the 21st century.



Peter Webster is an independent psychedelic researcher, chemist, creator of The Psychedelic Library, review editor and writer for the International Journal of Drug Policy (1997-2003). Published articles in: Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, Ann. Med. Interne, Eleusis, International Journal of Drug Policy, Cannabis Health Journal.         psychedelic-library.org



CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:



Ahimsa: Love AKA Daish Malani was a dreamer.. although mainly while he was awake. After studying visual art and design and taking part in many exhibitions using many different mediums, he got sucked in to the world of 3D graphics, overlaying patterns and images to create something you saw somewhere once, if you’ll admit it!     ahimsa-creative.com



Dirk Bonsma is one of Switzerland’s most productive poster artists. He started back in the late 1970s, doing posterart and has enjoyed a prolific career as visual artist ever since. His picture of Albert Hofmann’s first bicycle ride was a highlight of the 2006 LSD conference in Basel.




John Bowman has travelled to Peru three times now to connect with ayahuasca. He has a growing collection of audio recordings and photographs of curanderos and ayahuasca ceremonies which have been published in Australian Penthouse.




Oli Dunlop is a photographer/ filmmaker/ painter/obsessive dabbler on an Ahab-style mission to plunge into the pulsating infinite and document the acceleration towards the tipping point of global entropy. His artwork beholds the quintessence of mind and the elegance of reality.




Vance Gellert is a photographer and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. His recent exhibition Smoke and Mirrors: On Ritual, Ceremony and Medicinal Plants documents the use of medicinal plants with indigenous shamans in South America. vancegellert.com



Gerhard Hillmann (Naturesface) is best known for his organic photo montage style of creating vibrant images. He has been absorbed in his artwork now for over 15 years. With a background in photography he has travelled to many countries in search of experiences which trigger the imagination and inspiration in people. Music and nature will always be his biggest influence.   naturesface.com.au



Izwoz creations have been inspired by the fusion of nature with technology, ancient myth and future prophecy and the comical transformation of earth species into new life. Every Izwoz formation is created with intent to reflect the holographic quality of universal creativity and the twisted mystery within.    izwoz.com.au



Gwyllm Llwydd has swum through the seas of art & enthogensia since 1966. His early artistic influences were Wilifred Sätty, Rick Griffin and various schools of Buddhist Mandala Art, the secrets of which have been the basis of his art ever since. He currently publishes The Invisible College magazine on  earthrites.org



Maria Calem Louro is a Portuguese gypsy-media-maker. At the Basel LSD conference in 2006 she photographed the creme-de la creme of the global psychedelic elite, including Albert Hofmann, with a small cuddly green alien plush toy!




Robin Mutoid is best known for his sculpture and activism. Co-founder of Mutoid Waste company, a UK crew that turned scrap into art during the free festival 80s, Robin has become a mainstay of the doof scene in Australia with his Earthdream convoys to the red centre as a build up for tribal convergence there in 2012.    earthdream.net



Tim Parish is the art director and co-editor of Undergrowth.org and it’s sister site Nomadology. His hybrid art practice moves across painting, screen arts, creative writing, and graphic design. Art from this book are selections from two exhibitions of paintings, ‘Visions of Mu’ in Tokyo 2007, and ‘The World Tree’ Melbourne 2008. undergrowth.org/user/verb





Andy Ross – Self existing White Dog, Fire Dragon, Aquamarine, clear quartz, Poska’s, spitfire wheels, Ironlak, Independant Trucks, Mum, Dad, Brother, Girlfriend, flourite crystal skull, healing, yoga, sometimes, always, todayoist, self taught, here and nowist, merkabah, shapes, colour, sound, manifestation, activation, learning, evolving, gratitude, the internet is collective conciousness for the unevolved, LSD...


Shiptu Shaboo AKA Hayden Peters is a visual artist working in 2D, 3D, animation, web design, fashion and print. He also works in film and video making music videos, and VJing for The Big Day Out, Exodus and Earthcore.  myspace.com/shiptu_shaboo