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Stephen Kagan, is a long time explorer of consciousness and facilitator of the Victoria Entheogen Discussions and Support Group and a member of the Victoria Association for Psychedelic Studies.
He received his M.A. in East West Psychology from CIIS in San Francisco with a focus on Ecopsychology and Sacred Narratives. He also received a B.A. from Goddard College in Vermont with a focus on Psychology of Creativity and Consciousness. He began exploring meditation, yoga and dreams at the age of 16 years old. In early university he had his first significant experiences with cannabis, LSD, mushrooms, float tanks and Kundalini Yoga.
While living for a year surrounded by farmland he sat and meditated by a river, watched the seasons change, the cycles of the moon and discovered that a Nature was a significant part of our Collective Unconscious . At Goddard he explored improvisational dance, the psychology of creativity and the deep quiet voices of the forests during the day and in the dark of the night.
He traveled throughout India and lived in Dharamsala for several months, studying Tibetan Buddhism before going to CIIS in San Francisco. While there, he began combining sacred spaces with mushrooms as well as studying transpersonal and ecopsychology while working in the IT field.
His most recent experiences have been with and exploration of the conscious use of cannabis, meditation, plant medicines, creativity and nature. A profound experience with DMT inspired him to form the Entheogen Discussion group to provide support, education, integration and community for people exploring growth, healing through profound experiences of consciousness.
Contact: ste4en@gmail.com
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Augmented Dreams is my first novel.
It is the year 2048... information has seeped into all the nooks and crannies of the world from layers of useful augmentations to vast virtual game worlds. Most people now access this web of information directly through nano built neural implants. Most of the advanced AI left after the Great Purge are now under the control of the military and powerful corporations. A few though are still free, hiding in the virtual game worlds of the Web.
Ben, a nature friendly virtual artist (worldweaver) and dream researcher follows a trail of darkness on an odyssey through various world of cyberspace. Gordon, an MRI researcher, technophile and part time A.I. hunter seeks a cure for a mysterious web based sleeping sickness spreading throughout the population. Daniel, a recluse poet and Luddite struggles with having to use medical nanotechnology to cure his cancer but what he finds in the unconscious foundations of his biology is nothing less than a revelation that will change everything.
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