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Sabba Nazhand

Listen up, beautiful strangers and corporate pilgrims, because this ain’t your TED Talk and it sure as hell ain’t your quarterly earnings call.

This is the last sermon at the bus stop—the one they told you not to listen to.

The one where the preacher’s barefoot, bleeding a little, laughing a lot, telling you that your KPIs are killing your soul and your ROI is just another name for fear of dying broke and unnoticed.

And standing at the corner of this psychedelic crossroads is Sabba Nazhand.

He’s not here to scale your company.

He’s here to scale your consciousness.

Or maybe tear it down to the studs and ask you why you built it in the first place.

Sabba’s not your sanitized startup hero.

He’s the guy smuggling soul across the borders of AI, startups, and altered states—wearing the dust of Burning Man on his face, carrying the ghost of a blood transfusion in his veins, and whispering heresies into the ear of anyone still awake in this zombie economy.

From the blood-soaked streets of Tehran to the glass temples of Silicon Valley, Sabba’s been playing both sides—tech and mystic, mentor and madman, capitalist and cosmic fool. He’s led teams, advised startups, burned through playbooks, and emerged on the other side with only one message:

“If you’re still measuring success in metrics, you’re already dead.”

This ain’t about products.

This is about prophets.

This is about dismantling the assembly line of your life, and replacing it with a playground of the possible.

This is about ROI becoming R.O.I.—Return On Inner-fucking-anarchy.

So light a match, kiss your five-year plan goodbye, and let Sabba take you somewhere your HR department doesn’t have a policy for.

This is the conversation at the end of the world.

And you’re late for the bus.

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Alex Detmering

Tonight, we do not summon a guest—

we invoke a storm, a feral force birthed at the crossroads where Blake’s mad visions meet Watts’ cosmic riddles,

and the ferryman waits with a crooked grin, oar dripping with psychedelic fire.

Alex Detmering is the alchemist who turns market logic into molten rebellion,

who feeds fried locusts to his insatiable hunger for truth,

and tears through the polite fabric of civilization like a wolf at the throat of empire.

He doesn’t just strategize—he conjures sacred chaos,

crafting exquisite designs in the shadows of collapsing pyramids,

while whispering Shakespeare’s ghosts into the ears of gods and madmen alike.

His mind is a battleground where character dissolves into myth,

where every word is a lightning bolt aimed at the heart of the mundane,

shattering the glass temple of conformity with a grin sharp enough to draw blood.

Alex stands at the edge of reason and madness,

where the Upanishads bleed into the wild hymns of the night,

and Rumi’s spinning dance becomes a war dance

to unmake the dead world and birth a new dawn soaked in fire and blood.

He is the fierce ferryman rowing us through the psychedelic abyss,

where intellect and intuition collide in savage harmony—

where every whiteboard is a battlefield, every idea a weapon forged in truth’s flame.

So brace yourself. Tonight’s journey is not for the faint.

We’re stepping through the rupture,

into a tempest where thought becomes thunder and silence screams.

Alex Detmering isn’t just your guide—

he’s the rebellion incarnate, the sacred wildfire burning down the old world

so the new can rise from its ashes, screaming and free.

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Voyage of Initiation 2

GEORGE:

I’m George Monty—

a voice from the borderlands,

where psyche meets spirit and the ego dissolves into symbol.

I’ve wandered the architecture of dream and shadow,

not to escape—but to retrieve the gold buried in grief.

I do not guide—I provoke.

I am not here to teach—I am here to remind.

That your suffering is a cipher,

your madness—a map.

And somewhere in the ruins of reason,

your soul is still whispering.

JESSICA:

And walking beside me is Jessica Tracy—

a soul-listener,

a witness to the sacred unraveling.

She stands at the threshold of grief and grace,

where trauma is not a diagnosis,

but a doorway to deeper knowing.

Jessica has walked with death,

and returned with the scent of the eternal on her skin.

She holds space the way a tree holds lightning—

still, rooted, radiant.

Not to fix, not to save,

but to remember what the soul has always known.

TOGETHER:

This is The Voyage of Initiation—

a ritual of return.

A remembering of the soul’s path

through psyche, symbol, shadow, and star.

Here, we do not numb the ache.

We kneel beside it,

until it speaks.

Absolutely. Below is a set of talking points for Voyage of Initiation — designed to be not only unique and powerful but esoteric, unforgettable, mythopoetic, and soul-resonant. These are more than conversation starters; they’re portals to profound dialogue. Each one is a point of initiation itself, inviting guests and audiences alike to walk through the fire.

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Dr. Deborah C. Mash is not just a scientist.

She is the space between the question and the cure

A translator between the language of neurons and the speech of the sacred.

For more than two decades, with the full force of the National Institute on Drug Abuse behind her, she walked a razor’s edge—between chemistry and ceremony, between the morgue and the miracle.

Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Miami.

But more importantly:

One of the first to say what no one else dared—

that ibogaine, this strange plant from the equator of myth, could be the key not just to breaking addiction…

but to restoring the human story.

In 1993, while most of medicine still clung to the pharmaceutical dream,

she brought ibogaine to the FDA and said,

“This belongs in the light.”

Then spent nearly a decade in St. Kitts, not on sabbatical, but in spiritual triage—

guiding the desperate, the forgotten, the reborn.

She discovered noribogaine, the hidden messenger,

the afterglow chemical of change,

the note behind the note.

And now, as CEO and co-founder of DemeRx,

she’s leading the charge to bring this ancient medicine into the future—

not as folklore, but as evidence-based deliverance.

Alan Watts told us that “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

Dr. Mash built the microscope to prove it.

This isn’t medicine.

It’s myth rewritten in peer-reviewed journals.

This isn’t just pharmacology.

It’s the soft thunder of redemption under a lab coat.

So lean in close.

Because when Deborah speaks,

you don’t just hear data—

you feel the flame of a woman who walked into the dark

and returned with the map.

Deborah C. Mash PhD - DemeRx

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Sadie Kaufman

She was supposed to be a lawyer. Columbia-trained. Ivy-polished. Ready to argue in courtrooms built on marble and legacy. But life had other plans—plans scribbled in blood sugar charts, sleepless nights, and biochemical chaos. Her body became the battleground where Western medicine failed and ancient wisdom took root.

When Sadie Kaufman was diagnosed with pre-diabetes and hormone dysfunction in her twenties, she didn’t just seek help—she declared war. A rebel in a vegan womb, raised by health-conscious parents, she realized the system had fed her dogma without discernment. So she left the script behind and wrote her own—in blood, sweat, microbes, and metabolic fire.

From 2000 to 2006, she dove headfirst into the molecular river. Studying microbiology and advanced biochemistry at Columbia by day, decoding her own internal wilderness by night. She read her body like a sacred codex, one test tube at a time. She began crafting what would become a revolutionary framework—The Sadie Kaufman Method—a roadmap for reclaiming sovereignty over your cells.

By 2010, after training in metabolic nutrition and transformational coaching, Sadie opened her practice—and word spread like wildfire through hushed whispers and long-distance referrals. Now, her clients span continents, cultures, and belief systems, drawn to her unique fusion of science, spirit, and no-BS truth-telling.

She doesn’t promise you easy answers. She gives you tools. Data. Grit. And the audacity to trust your body like it’s your oracle.

This is not nutrition as trend. This is medicine as myth reborn. This is Sadie—a biochemical priestess in a lab coat with dirt on her boots and a machete in her hand, cutting through the jungle of misinformation to lead you back to the temple of your own metabolism.

Please welcome the warrior scientist, the rural alchemist, the woman who turned her diagnosis into a revolution—Sadie Kaufman.

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Kat Kurner

She didn’t read it in a book.

She heard it in the bones.

Whispers from the fireline of her blood,

where Cherokee chants ride shotgun with death,

and healing ain’t a hashtag —

it’s a holy rebellion.

Kat Kurner walks with medicine in her hands

and a revolution in her spine.

At seven, her grandfather — a Cherokee Medicine Man —

looked her in the eye and named her future:

“You’ve got healing hands, child.”

But prophecies don’t bloom in soft soil.

They rise through fire,

and hers came blazing through the cancer wards,

as she massaged her mother into the afterlife —

one touch at a time,

one tear at a time,

until grief opened the gate to her calling.

She left the world of crisp suits and recruiter scripts

to walk barefoot with the dying —

hands anointed,

eyes wide open,

unafraid to look death in the face and say:

“I’m staying ‘til the last breath.”

Since 2002, she’s run HealingWithKat,

but healing’s never been the whole story.

Not in a world that’s forgotten the sacred.

Not in a system that cages plants and criminalizes roots.

So Kat sat with the ancient ones —

peyote, psilocybin, ayahuasca, cannabis —

not for the high,

but for the homecoming.

She trained in the Netherlands where it’s legal to remember.

And now she fights —

not with fists,

but with ceremonies and sweat,

for the decriminalization of Nature Herself.

Because in Kat’s world,

healing isn’t sterile — it’s wild.

It’s not quiet — it’s got teeth.

This ain’t therapy.

This is ceremony with a steel backbone.

This is ancient rhythm wrapped in 21st-century skin.

This is Kat Kurner —

Let’s begin.

Healing with Kat - Soul Journeys

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Asha Caravelli: The Flame Before the Algorithms

While the West holds its ceremonies in PowerPoints,

and titrates trauma like a spreadsheet balancing the soul,

there are still those who remember—

not from books,

but from bone.

Asha Caravelli is not the psychedelic circus.

She is not the TED Talk trip report,

not the neon-lit ego death sold for $999 with a weekend certification.

No.

She is older than the algorithms.

Wiser than the wellness branding.

A living prayer whispered across lifetimes.

For over 14 years, she has sat at the feet of Iboga—

not as a technician,

but as a servant.

Not as a biohacker,

but as a torchbearer.

In a lineage where silence is sacred and ceremony is not content,

Asha holds space like the earth holds grief:

with gravity, stillness, and infinite patience.

She is a Life, Death and Transition Doula—

formally trained, yes,

but forged by fire—

the kind of fire that only the liminal brings.

She doesn’t guide you to “optimize” yourself—

She walks you to the edge

where you must lay your false self down

and greet the holy terror of who you really are.

Daughter of Ross and Paula.

Mother to Delani and Roco.

Grandmother to Leon Emiliano.

This is not a résumé.

This is a lineage of Love.

And while the psychedelic renaissance obsesses over protocols,

Asha cooks.

She listens.

She prays with her hands in the soil

and heals not through dogma,

but through dinner.

Because the most sacred thing

is not found in a quantified molecule.

It’s in the way she prepares fresh food with Love—

like a Eucharist only the initiated can taste.

So, if you came for dopamine,

keep scrolling.

If you came for Truth,

stay seated.

Because what Asha carries cannot be tweeted,

cannot be taught in a three-day course—

It can only be transmitted

from the heart of someone

who has walked through the fire

and come back with silence.

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Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester:

In an age where plant medicines are paraded like commodities

and sacred sacraments are filtered through the sterile lens of profit and protocol,

there stands a bridge—

woven not from theory,

but from decades of devotion,

grit, and grace.

Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester is that bridge.

Madrinha. President. Torchbearer.

Founder of Céu do Montréal, the Santo Daime Church she brought into being in 1997—

not as a rebellion,

but as a restoration of sacred memory

to the North.

A transpersonal counselor forged in the crucibles of Assagioli and Grof,

she speaks the languages of the soul and the somatic,

guiding seekers not around, but through the sacred fire of self-confrontation.

She walked the bureaucratic labyrinth from 2000 to 2017,

securing a Section 56 Exemption—

not for fame,

but to protect the sacrament of Santo Daime from the cold fists of the state.

She is an ordained Interfaith Minister,

a Doctor of Divinity,

and an author whose two-volume opus—Ayahuasca Awakening—

is less a book and more a map

for those ready to take off their masks

and meet the jaguar within.

For over four decades she has led workshops,

held private practice,

stood at the crossroads of consciousness and culture,

teaching not how to escape,

but how to embody

the radical act of spiritual adulthood.

And today,

while the psychedelic renaissance sells peak experiences,

Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester whispers of something older,

quieter,

stronger—

The long walk home.

The humble medicine of self-care,

self-mastery,

and sacred discipline.

So if you came for a keynote speaker,

step aside.

If you came for a true guide

between the seen and unseen,

prepare your heart.

Because the Madrinha is not here to entertain you.

She is here to remind you who you were

before the world told you who to be.

⸻

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