Zina Brown is the writer and director of The Faerie Rings, an upcoming narrative feature film
about the promise of visionary plant medicines, and the cruelty of those who would outlaw
them.
Zina’s unique visual and narrative style has been awarded in film festivals across the world,
including the Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, Kyiv Film Festival in
Ukraine, Mexico City International Film Festival, Amsterdam International Film Festival, San
Antonio Film Festival, and the Woods Hole Film Festival.
He has over 25 years of writing and directing experience, including numerous music videos
and festival favorite short films. His short film, Dreams of the Last Butterflies, was screened
at 50 Film Festivals in 13 countries, as well as winning many awards.

Kevin Reed, founder and president of the Entheogen Stewardship Project, a vital new nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting culturally significant plant and animal species sacred to indigenous communities worldwide.
Kevin brings a remarkable 45-year journey as a student of psychedelic science and culture to this crucial conservation work. His path began in 1984 under the mentorship of legendary researchers Sasha and Anne Shulgin, followed by profound connections with iconic figures including Wavy Gravy, Jack Herer, Timothy Leary, Rick Strassman, and many others who have shaped the modern psychedelic renaissance.
Kevin's hands-on expertise spans an impressive range of fields: from teaching cannabis extraction in the mountains of Jamaica in 1985, to large-scale indoor cultivation in the Netherlands, to designing and successfully opening a state-of-the-art Type 7 cannabis manufacturing facility in California. His diverse interests encompass mycology, conservation biology, indigenous traditions, accelerated learning, transpersonal psychology, and ethical wildcrafting—principles that now support his conservation philosophy.
The Entheogen Stewardship Project represents the culmination of Kevin's decades-long commitment to both psychedelic wisdom, indigenous rights and environmental protection. The organization combats illegal trafficking and exploitation of endangered entheogenic species while fostering respectful collaboration with all indigenous communities whose ancestral knowledge have safeguarded these sacred plant and animal spirits for millennia.
Kevin's work addresses one of the most pressing issues facing our community today: how do we honor and protect the plant and animal teachers that have guided human consciousness for thousands of years, while ensuring their survival for future generations?

• (00:00:13) - Kevin Reed
• (00:02:44) - Kevin Reed on Cannabis Ethics
• (00:12:32) - Psilocybin and the Bardo
• (00:20:46) - The Ethnobotanical Stewardship
• (00:26:01) - The Psychedelic Science Foundation's work in Brazil
• (00:32:37) - The journey of ayahuasca in the Amazon
• (00:44:56) - The role of plant medicines in intelligence stewardship

Graham St John, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and historian of transformational events, movements, and figures. His forthcoming book Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, Oct 7, 2025) is the latest among his ten books, which also include Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books 2015). Graham is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield, UK.