On Wednesday July 22, 2009–at the October Gallery in London–The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness Lecture Series presents:
Imagination And Fire:
New Work and Conversation with Dale Pendell
Dale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy on shamanic ethnobotany (Pharmako/Poeia, Pharmako/Dynamis, and Pharmako/Gnosis), Inspired Madness, a book about Burning Man, and Walking with Nobby, a book of conversations with the philosopher Norman O. Brown. Works in progress include The Great Bay, a futuristic novel of a post-collapse society, and Stealing Fire, a new book of poems.
Plant student Dale Pendell established himself as one of the foremost popular exponents of shamanic ethnobotany with the first release of his unprecedented Pharmako trilogy. A noted poet, he was the founding editor of the avant-garde magazine Kuksu and a co-founder of the Primitive Arts Institute and has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Omega Institute. Pendell’s performance group, Oracular Madness, most recently appeared at Burning Man. Also an experienced computer scientist, he lives in California’s Sierra foothills with his wife Laura.
This lecture is part of a series to be held at the October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London on the last Tuesday of each month (excluding August).
Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start. Please reserve your place by emailing rentals@octobergallery.co.uk or calling 44 (0)20 7831 1618.
