Press kit

Short bio

Oleksandr Bandurchenko — researcher of the history of sacred sexuality, author of Sacred Fire. Three years of research, thirty-one chapters, forty thousand years of history — from Paleolithic Venuses to the neuroscience of ecstasy. The first book to unite archaeology, neurobiology, and the theory of memeplexes into a single narrative on the role of sexual energy in the evolution of consciousness.

Interview topics

• •Sacred sexuality: from Paleolithic Venuses to the temple hierodules of Sumer
• •The neuroscience of ecstasy: what fMRI reveals about religious experience and orgasm
• •Memeplexes and the evolution of religions: why some traditions live for millennia and others vanish
• •The psychedelic renaissance: psilocybin, Hopkins, and the return to ancient practices
• •Modern spirituality: deconstruction, the Nones, and the search for the sacred outside institutions
• •Mammon: the first macro-memeplex in history for which the sovereign health of its biological hosts is a system error

Contact

bandurchencko@gmail.com