This schedule is tentative and subject to change:

Friday

Opening ritual directed by Danny Chaoflux
Opening Address by Wes Unruh
Alex Ansary: Outside the Box live
Pranks! with St. Mae
Thirtyseven: The End of Reality
Trevor Blake: The Approximately Omnidirectional Ephemeralization of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Music:

Verbalizer DJ set
Humpasaur Jones

Saturday

Panel:
EsoTech (featuring: Rex Church, Paul Laffoley, Thirtyseven, Wes Unruh, Ikipr)

Workshops:
Joseph Thiebes: Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Thelema
Ikipr: Art Magick Through Creative Technology
Bill Whitcomb: Psychotronics
Lupa

Speakers:
Antero Alli on the 8 Circuit Brain
Rex Church explains the Ragnarok Device
Orryelle talks about his new graphic novel Conjunctio
Freeman (part 1)
Dennis McKenna: human / plant co-evolution and the exploitation, and criminalization of nature

Music and ritual:

Midnight Magickal Mass: The Black Sun, Snakes & Stars (by C-PAN)
Ogo Eion
Orryelle Defenestrate (courtesy of R6XX)

& More TBA

Sunday

Panel:
Which Tomorrow? (featuring: Antero Alli, Dennis McKenna, Jack Malebranche, Nemo, Freeman)

Workshops:

Taylor Ellwood: Identity and Magic
Edward Wilson: Memetics and the Free Zone
Jack Malebranche: Headless God
Wes Unruh
Nemo

Speakers:

Freeman (part 2)
Paul Laffoley
Closing speech by Nick Pell

Music and spectacle:

Wes Unruh and Ikipr
Valhella
Cult of Zir

& More TBA

Plus there will be participatory activities throughout the weekend, such as walkabouts, scavenger hunts, sword fighting, and a comics jam.

Friday

Opening Ritual

Esozone organizer, PDX Occulture founder, and neopostnow artist Danny Chaoflux opens the psychic floodgates of Esozone.

Opening Address by Wes Unruh

Alterati Editor Wes Unruh picks up where he left off with his closing speech last year discussing the possibilities and limited limitations of the meme culture.

Pranks! with St. Mae

Kalisticon guru St. Mae shares the secrets of Discordian pranksterism. Learn about the contemporary situationist street magick of pranks and their power in disrupting consensus reality.

Thirtyseven: The End of Reality

Brainsturbator.com editor, Skilluminati researcher and prolific post-Gonzo blogger Thirtyseven (aka Justin Boland) cracks wise on what the 21st century will really be like. Stick around for his alter ego Humpasaur Jones getting ill with the sex rhymes.

Trevor Blake: The Approximately Omnidirectional Ephemeralization of Richard Buckminster Fuller

The basics of Bucky and beyond. The world’s foremost Buckminster Fuller expert, Trevor Blake of OVO fame shows how to do more with less. Essential for people interested in Bucky who don’t know where to start and seasoned vets looking for new perspectives.

Alex Ansary: Outside the Box live

Portland cable TV conspiracy analyst Alex Ansery schools Esozone on what you need to know about the North American Union, surveillance society and how to live off the global control grid.

Music:

Verbalizer DJ set
Humpasaur Jones

Saturday

Dennis McKenna: human / plant co-evolution and the exploitation, and criminalization of nature

Practically the co-inventor of the 2012 cultural phenomenon, Dennis McKenna is also a pioneer of natural products and medicine. Co-author (with his brother Terence McKenna) of The Invisible Landscape, and Psilocybin- Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide, Dennis literally wrote the book on the DMT experience, neo-shamanism, and DIY mushroom cultivation. This year’s Keynote Speaker, Dennis will give two seminars on human / plant co-evolution and the commercialization, exploitation, and criminalization of nature that are not to be missed!

Panel: EsoTech

Panelists: Rex Church, Paul Laffoley, Thirtyseven, Wes Unruh, Ikipr

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

The line between magick and technology has always been blurred. No less a luminary than Sir Isaac Newton was an accomplished alchemist. Whether it be the far out biopsychology of Wilhelm Reich, the bad physics of the Chaos Magickians, or Nikolai Tesla’s secrets man was not meant to know, renegade science and magick seem to go hand in hand more than ever. As science pushes the boundaries of what man can accomplish, it also expands our notions of what is possible. Esozone’s panel of mad
scientists will discuss the possibilities of FutureTech- for better or for worse.

Antero Alli: 8 Circuit Brain

“Antero Alli is a frontier scout for the species, out there on the rim where the past and future intersect.” — Dr. Timothy Leary

In addition to being a prolific film maker and Paratheatrical director, Alli has somehow managed to write some of the most influential books on esotericism since the 1960s. His works (published by New Falcon and Vertical Pool) deconstruct shamanism, astrology, and ritual theater, giving them increased accessibility and breathing new life into the oldest of esoteric practices. A welcome addition to Esozone, Antero Alli will hold a seminar on one of the most fascinating topics of post-Crowley occultism, the 8 Circuit Model of Human Consciousness.

Rex Church: the Ragnarok Engine

A seminar in Black Magickal Technology from the Church of Satan’s Magister Rex Diabolus Church. Come hear about the dark side of Tesla tech with the world’s foremost practitioner.

Freeman (part 1)

Go down the rabbit hole and off planet earth with Austin, TX’s Freeman. Secret blood lines, massive scale trauma-based mind control, and the ultimate aims of the Secret Brotherhood will be discussed with a close-knit, extended Q&A to follow.

Joseph Thiebes: Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Thelema

Sekh-Maat Lodge Magister Templi Joseph Thiebes explores his Hermetic insights bridging the boundaries between ritual magick and computer programming. A reality hacker’s must see!

Ikipr: Art Magick Through Creative Technology

Austin, TX’s circuit bending magus Ikipr brings the secrets of Liber Tek to the masses at Esozone from basic electronic alchemy to the Great Work for the 22nd century and beyond.

Bill Whitcomb: Psychotronics

Bill Whitcomb was born a typical child of the 20th century until contracting Semiotic fever, an imaginary disease characterized by oneirodynia, mythopoetic swelling, and hermeneutic convulsions, resulting in chronic obsession with symbols and language. Whitcomb is best known for his books on magical symbolism and practices, The Magician’s Companion and The Magician’s Reflection. A new edition of the The Magician’s Reflection and a new work, Selections From the Dream Manual, will be published by Immanion Press.

Lupa

“It ain’t just about us and our big brains.”

Bridging the gap between human civilization and pretty much everyone else (the latter of whom usually get ignored in board meetings, construction sites, and grocery stores), Lupa is a shaman in training with a varied background ranging from animal totemism to Chaos magic to talking to dead things. Lovecraftian critters may be en vogue, but they’re not the ones suffering because of a post-ritual Big Mac or Wal-Mart ceremonial candles.

Orryelle talks about his new graphic novel Conjunctio

Music and ritual:

Orryelle Defenestrate

Australian magickian, Tarot artist, and musician Oryelle Defenestrate brings his ritual magick to Esozone. An inheritor of the memes of Austin Osman Spare with the explosive presence of Genesis P-Orridge.

Midnight Magickal Mass: The Black Sun, Snakes & Stars (by C-PAN)

Celebrate the Witching Hour in style at this year’s Esozone Mass, with an invocation of the Aeon. A C-PAN/PDXO+ production.

Ogo Eion

& More TBA

Sunday

Paul Laffoley: Director’s Cut

Paul Laffoley kept the Esozone audience rapt for several hours last year- giving a truncated version of his Keynote Speech. Come to Esozone: The Other Tomorrow to hear Paul Laffoley uncut on visionary art and counterculture from Elvis to the Raelians.

Freeman (part 2)

Panel: Which Tomorrow?

Panelists: Antero Alli, Dennis McKenna, Jack Malebranche, Nemo, Freeman
Moderator: Nick Pell

“When did the future go from being a promise to being a threat?”

Speculative fiction generally falls into one of two camps. First, there is the utopian, Star Trek-style vision of the future. People from disparate backgrounds working together towards common goals in a world largely devoid of the problems of the present. However, the dark twin of this literary trope- the dystopian fantasy- has largely eclipsed the former over the last thirty years. Visions of zombie apocalypse, last man on Earth death fantasies, and technology as oppressive monster have
largely replaced the Camelot-era visions of a future where humanity finds peace. What will tomorrow be like and how can we tell? More importantly, how does one influence the future on a macro scale? Don’t look for any easy or comforting answers from this panel!

Taylor Ellwood: Identity and Magic

Experimental magickian Taylor Ellwood explores the possibilities of identity and consciousness in magickal practice.

Wes Unruh

Nemo

Edward Wilson: Memetics and the Free Zone

An unnamed corporate “church” claims to have the secrets to stopping time and human flight- for a dear price. Come hear Edward Wilson give the essential knowledge of “the Golden Age of Tech” in the Free Zone. L. Ron Hubbard fanboys and critics will have a field day.

Jack Malebranche: Headless God

Church of Satan Reverend Jack Malebranche speaks about writer Yukio Mishima’s 1970 ritual suicide, not as an act of madness, but as an inspired conspiracy of idealism, art and action that transformed a man into a myth–a “headless god.”

Closing speech

Nick Pell wraps up Esozone’s discussions and workshops with a summary comment on Esozone and what to do tomorrow.

Philip K. Nixon and Ikipr

Valhella

Come see ladies and gentlemen duel with swords, battle with spears, and slash each other with knives in this middle-of-the-floor battle royalé tournament fightfest. Think Thunderdome, Soul Caliber and Fight Club performed to the live breakcore audio assault of the Psychetect.

Cult of Zir

& More TBA

Plus there will be participatory activities throughout the weekend, such as walkabouts, scavenger hunts, sword fighting, and a comics jam.