Contemplations is a deep, visually stunning journey into the world of psychedelics, featuring intimate insights from the Australian entheogenic community. Through five thematic chapters this film explores first journeys, challenging trips, spiritual entities, and the future of psychedelic healing. More than a documentary, it is a guide for the curious and the uninitiated—a map of altered states and visionary experiences.

Director Julian Palmer, known for creating the DMT blend Changa, brings over 20 years of experience to this vital discussion. As mainstream science catches up, this film offers what the medical model often doesn’t: honest, grounded, spiritual context and integration.

"Psychedelics are a portal for deep and meaningful CONTEMPLATIONS."

- Julian Palmer, director of the movie

Stanislav Grof and the Journey of Consciousness

The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.

The great Amazon hides many secrets. And Amazonian shamans surprise us with their abilities and knowledge. They can heal even so-called incurable diseases because they communicate directly with the plants, which themselves tell them how they act medicinally. Local shamans can leave their bodies, travel across the Earth and the universe, they can access any information and learn anything that interests them.

The key to this is ayahuasca, a mysterious vine whose brew not only heals and purifies a person on all levels but also provides knowledge of anything in this world and in previously unknown worlds, opening doors to other dimensions... In the film, we encounter ayahuasca not only through shamans and their work but also through various experts and people for whom it represents an incomparable experience.

The film also highlights the serious threat to the Amazon and its inhabitants.

Curanderos is a cinematic journey across Peru in search of the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca. Director Egor Indiani pieces together a mosaic of different perspectives on this once-sacred plant medicine and the world that surrounds it.