Greg Kasarik

Tasty Tripping Tips: A guide to Safe Tripping
This presentation aims to promote awareness of the variety of compounds being discussed during the conference, their history and use within the Entheogenic Community. The session will also seek to educate regarding the safe use of these compounds, by discussing set, setting and dose, along with what to do if a person has a negative experience during a trip.
Greg Kašarik is a mystic and founder of Community of Infinite Colour. He uses a combination of meditation and entheogens to connect with the Divine Soul and to achieve states of Transcendence. These compounds have allowed him to greatly expand his awareness of the Divine and in doing so have assisted the development of a coherent religious philosophy. This currently numbers at 11 “Principles” that provide a structured scaffolding that anyone can hopefully use to develop their own unique ideas about the Divine. With degrees in Psychology and Philosophy, it is perhaps unsurprising that western philosophy, logic and science are foundational to his worldview, although his ideas share many of the similarities common to mystical traditions everywhere. His basic thesis is probably best summed up by a quote: “Ultimately it is up to each of us to make sense of the world and we can only do so by listening to our hearts, imposing reason on our thoughts and engaging with the experience of the spiritual journey. Your answers cannot be my answers and if they seem to be, then we have not discussed in enough detail to discover the areas in which we must surely differ. I aim to promote a community of thinkers, who recognise that the only truth is that there can never be certainty and who respect the rights of each person to believe what makes sense to them”. Or, in the immortal words of Brian, “You've all got to work it out for yourselves”. Greg coined the term “Transcendent Compound” to describe Entheogens that are non-toxic, non-addictive and psychologically safe. Based on legal protections enshrining the freedom of religious practice found within the Australian Constitution and Victorian State Legislation, he is currently lobbying for their legalization in this context. After being in contact with every member of the Federal and Victorian State parliaments, along with over two dozen well respected members of the media, Alcohol and Other Drugs sector and even police, he has thus far managed to reach the “Ignored” stage of Ghandi’s four step program for change. Undaunted, he cites the Principle of Life and claims that things would be rather boring if everything always worked out the way one wanted it to. If he wasn’t up for the challenge, he wouldn’t have incarnated in the first place.