About this Event
Fresh from his latest journeys across Africa, Darren Le Baron returns to share new discoveries and reflections. Following three months traveling through Southern Africa living among San Bushmen, Zulu, and Himba communities, before continuing on to Egypt, he revisits his acclaimed series, Psychedelics in Africa: The Untold Story, with fresh insight from the field. This session explores the deep history, mythology, and scientific research surrounding Africa’s psychoactive plants and fungi. For millennia, these potent natural allies have been central to spiritual practice, healing, and community cohesion among the continent’s earliest cultures, traditions that remain largely underrepresented in mainstream scholarship.
Across Africa, many communities continue to engage these sacred substances in rites of passage, initiation ceremonies, spiritual communication, healing practices, and everyday ritual life. Bridging African and Diasporic perspectives, the presentation draws on academic sources alongside oral traditions, highlighting resonances in symbolism, cosmology, and language that reveal profound cultural continuities and thought-provoking insights.
Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm - come down early to grab a good seat!
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Speaker Bio:
Darren Le Baron is an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research, and is based between the UK and the Caribbean.
Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher. He has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over thirteen years and has translated his home growing experiences into a social enterprise.
His achievements include launching the UK's first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and young people in 2021, providing hands-on experience to empower school children and at-risk youth.
Darren is a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.
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Agenda
🕑: 07:00 PM
Doors Open
🕑: 07:30 PM
Talk Starts
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Blues Kitchen Brixton, 40 Acre Lane, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.50 to GBP 34.50
