INTERVIEW SUBJECTS
CONTEMPLATIONS distils the wisdom and experience of dozens of thought leaders from within the Australian psychedelic community, focussing on personal ruminations and contemplative thought.
The documents includes first-hand experiences from people’s very first initiatory journeys, powerful revelations, encounters with beyond human entities and visionary experiences that sometimes leave more unanswered questions.
The interview subjects are from all walks of life. They are scientists, academics, psychotherapists, business owners, mothers and people from the corporate world.
RAK RAZAM is a documentary filmmaker, gonzo journalist and alchemical storyteller who has danced on the edge of the psychedelic dance floor for many years. His 2012 documentary AYA AWAKENINGS explored the traditional use of DMT in Peruvian Amazon through the sacred medicine Ayahuasca.
JAMES OROC is an author, photographer and adventurer who delved deep into the mystery of psychedelic. He is most well known for his book TRYPTAMINE PALACE.
YOUR MATE TOM is well known psychedelic oriented Youtuber based in Melbourne.
DANE TOMAS is a sorcerer, musician, esoteric entrepreneur and creator of the Spiral School.
KATE GREY is an entrepreneur and business coach.
JIRO TAYLOR is a rites of passage guide who coaches executives and entrepreneurs in flow states and sacred leadership.
MARTIN WILLIAMS is a research fellow at Monash University and the Director of Psychedelic Therapy in Science & Medicine.
JAMES SKALLKOS founded the School of Dynamic Movement Therapy (DMT) to assist accessing the flow states through sensory and motor body maps in the brain.
GREG KASARIK has been involved in psychedelic decriminalisation for many years in Australia.
MIKE RIGBY is a massage therapist who underwent deep healing through his experiences with psychedelic medicine.
SKYE CIELITA FLOR spent five years completing a traditional apprenticeship as a Shipibo Curandero in the Amazon.
DANIEL WITHAM was charged with possession of 28.3 grams of psilocybin mushrooms for which he faces 25 year prison sentence.
JAMES HART is an I.T. professional who experienced profound visions after taking a high dose of amanita muscaria mushroom.
KANE JEN is a herbalist and psychotherapist who possesses a reverence for the healing abilities of plants.
PETE COLES is a transpersonal therapist who specialises in assisting people integrating deep psychedelic experiences.
DARREN SMITH is an electronic musician who has performed at festivals around the world as psytrance producer “Reality PIxie”.
EUGENE NRG is an artist, musician and filmmaker who has explored the Australian psychedelic culture for over three decades.
CHRIS BARNABY was a computer programmer developing AI technologies in the late 1990s when he began to explore the realms of DMT.
MELISSA WARNER is Secretary of the Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM).
ADAM YARRINGTON is CEO of health food enterprise “PEACE, LOVE & VEGETABLES”.
NICK PALMER is the chapter lead of the Australian Psychedelic Society in Tasmania.
JIMMI JAMES WRIGHT
LISA ELLMAN
JAMES MURRAY
COLIN HAWKSHAW
NICK SUN
DEAN JEFFRIES