In the Virginia Woolf College Foyer: REGISTRATION from 5:00 – 10:00PM WINE RECEPTION from 8:15 – 9:30pm Cannabis and Higher Education: Ethnomedical Research by School of Anthropology and Conservation Staff, Students and Alumni Friday 4:00 – 6:00pm Marlow Lecture Theatre 1 DMT: The Spirit Molecule Friday 7:00 – 8:15pm Woolf Lecture Theatre Psychedelics for Mysticism Friday 9:30 – 10:00pm Woolf Lecture Theatre MAIN LECTURE HALL Chair: Dave Luke Saturday 09:00-1:30 Main Lecture Hall Psychedelic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Spirituality Chair: Ben Sessa Saturday 3:00-7:00 Main Lecture Hall ROOM E Chair: Dave Luke, PhD. Saturday 3:00-5:00 Room E Skype Session Chair: Dave King Saturday 6:00-7:00 Room E
ROOM F
Chair: William Rowlandson, PhD. Saturday 11:30-1:30 Room F Psychedelics, Power and Authority Chair: Anna Waldstein Saturday 3:00-5:00 Room F
ROOM A
ROOM B
MAIN LECTURE HALL Chair: Anna Waldstein & Cameron Adams Sunday 09:40-1:30 Main Lecture Hall Bold Visions Chair: Dave King Sunday 3:00-7:00 Main Lecture Hall ROOM E Chair: Unknown Sunday 10:00-11:00 Room E Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy Chair: Ben Sessa Sunday 11:30-1:30 Room E Comparisons of States of Consciousness Chair: Marios Kittenis Sunday 3:10-4:10 Room E ROOM F Chair: Bia Labate Sunday 10:20-1:10 Room F Psychedelics for Healing, Inspiration and Self-exploration Chair: Nick Giagnoni Sunday 3:30-4:30 Room F ROOM A ROOM B
The programme has now been added to the website. To view it, please use the tabs at the top of this post marked ‘Friday’, ‘Saturday’ and ‘Sunday’.
Speakers:
Dr. Anna Waldstein, Reka Komaromi, Dave King, Ivan Casselman and various special guests from the Breaking Convention.
The organizers of this workshop have all been involved, in one way or another, in research on the therapeutic use of cannabis, based in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. We will present excerpts of this work, reflect on the rewards and challenges of doing this research and discuss how it fits into our various degree programmes at the School of Anthropology and Conservation. This will include potential opportunities for future (undergraduate and postgraduate) students to get involved in anthropological and ethnobiological work on cannabis, healing, identity, citizenship, human rights, consciousness, knowledge systems, etc., that contributes to academic research and public policy making. We will also hear from invited guests who are associated with our projects and/or have similar interests/expertise related to cannabis, consciousness and healing. The programme will include a variety of media (film, music, etc.), panel discussion and questions/comments from the audience will be encouraged.
THE SPIRIT MOLECULE weaves an account of Dr. Rick Strassman’s groundbreaking DMT research through a multifaceted approach to this intriguing hallucinogen found in the human brain and hundreds of plants. Utilizing interviews with a variety of experts to explain their thoughts and experiences with DMT within their respective fields, and discussions with Strassman’s research volunteers brings to life the awesome effects of this compound, and far-reaching theories regarding its role in human consciousness.
Speaker:
Baba Ram Dass (Skype).
In the days before Baba Ram Dass developed an interest in psychedelic drugs, he was known as Dr. Richard Alpert – a social psychologist teaching at Harvard University. It was here that he worked with Timothy Leary, conducting studies on the effects of psychedelics on human volunteers. Later, Ram Dass traveled to India and, finding an affinity with Hindu Spirituality, adopted his new name. It was in India that Ram Dass met the Hindu guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Ram Dass will talk about his transition from social psychology to Hindu spirituality, and will discuss the importance that psychedelics had in regards to his changes in ideology.
What Do Psychedelics Mean?
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Committee
Introduction to Breaking Convention
9:00
9:20
Dave Luke
Introduction to ‘What Do Psychedelics Mean?’
9:20
9:30
Paul Devereux
Psychedelia and Sacred Places
9:30
10:00
Mike Jay
Early Western Encounters with Psychedelics
10:00
10:30
Andy Letcher
Notes Towards a Minimal Theory of Psychedelic Action
10:30
11:00
Luis Eduardo Luna
Ayahuasca / Yajé in the contemporary world. Comparative ethnographical perspectives.
11:30
12:00
Charlotte Walsh
Psychedelic Drugs and Human Rights: sacramental freedoms and cognitive liberty.
12:00
12:30
Amanda Feilding
A New Convention
12:30
13:00
Panel
Discussion and Q&A
13:00
13:30
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Ben Sessa
Introduction to ‘’Psychedelic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Spirituality’
15:00
15:10
Neal Goldsmith
Introduction to the History of Psychedelic Therapy
15:10
15:40
Peter Oehen
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
15:40
16:10
Evgeny Krupitsky
Ketamine Psychotherapy For Heroin Addiction: Immediate Effects and Two-Year Follow-up.
16:10
16:40
Roland Griffiths
Experimental Studies of Psilocybin-Occasioned Mystical-Type Experience: Findings and Implications..
16:40
17:10
Andy Parrott
MDMA Debate: Introduction
17:30
17:35
Ben Sessa
MDMA Debate: Introduction
17:35
17:40
Jon Cole
MDMA Debate: Introduction
17:40
17:45
Val Curran
MDMA Debate: Introduction
17:45
17:50
Rick Doblin
MDMA Debate: Introduction
17:50
17:55
Debate
MDMA Debate: Its Place in Medicine, Society and Politics
18:00
19:00
Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experiences
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Dave Luke
Introduction
15:00
15:10
Tom Froese
Altered states of cognitive science: What can non-ordinary consciousness tell us about the origin of symbolic thought?
15:10
15:30
Ffion Reynolds
How perspectivist encounters can help reconstruct Neolithic worlds
15:30
15:50
Mike Crowley
Stoned peacocks and blue-throated gods
15:50
16:10
Kilindi Iyi
High Dose Towards an Organic Singularity
16:10
16:30
Kalliopi Tavoulari
Can the use of psychedelics open the doors to new scientific breakthroughs?
16:30
16:50
David Lee
Solve et coagula: psychedelic self-dissolution and supernormal abilities
16:50
17:10
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Stan Grof
Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
18:00
18:30
Ralph Metzner
Psychedelic, Psychoactive and Addictive Drugs and States of Consciousness
18:30
19:00
Psychedelic Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Thomas Teun Meijer
The Semantic Pharmacy and the Magic of Symbols
11:30
11:50
Vit Pokorny
Altered states of consciousness (ASC)- phenomenological and biosemiotical interpretation
11:50
12:10
Joseph Bicknell
Cognitive phenomenology of the psychedelic experience
12:10
12:30
Prof Kenneth Williford
Mescaline and Jean-Paul Sartre’s Theory of Imagination
12:30
12:50
Merijn de Boer
Practical Consciousness Evolution
12:50
13:10
Guy Barrington
Altered States of Consciousness for Healing, Empowerement, Vision & Enlivenment
13:10
13:30
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Anna Waldstein
Introduction to Psychedelics, Power and Authority
15:00
15:10
Diana Trimble
Faith versus Reason in the battle to decriminalize psychedelics
15:10
15:30
Jonathan Hobbs
Drop Acid Not Bombs: Psychedelic Weapons at Porton Down
15:30
15:50
Robert Forte
The Psychedelic Movement and American Fascism
15:50
16:10
Nese Senol
Psychedemia: The Discursive Boundaries of the “Psychedelic Renaissance”
16:10
16:30
Alexander Beiner
The Panoptic-Demiurgic Model: Incorporating the Mystical Experience into Modern Politics
16:30
16:50
Gastone Zanette
Entheogens in Italy today
16:50
17:10
Workshops
Convenor
Title
Start
End
Charlotte Walsh
Yoga
8:00
9:00
FILMS
Title
Start
End
2012: A Time For Change, by João Amorim
09:30
11:00
Howard Marks on Drugs, by Jonathan Brooks (with Q&A session)
11:30
12:50
Memory Theatre & Neirika, by Bérangère Maïa Parizeau
13:10
13:30
PANELS
Title
Start
End
Podcaster Panel with Nexus & Co-Host (Shroom with a View), Max Freakout (Psychonautica), Ali Beiner (Visionary Artists) and Opaque Lens (Shamanic Freedom Radio).
17:30
19:00
Current research on consciousness and psychedelics at the University of Kent
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Anna Waldstein
Introduction to ‘Current Research…’
09:40
10:00
Axel Klein
Everybody is a Poly (substance user).
10:00
10:20
Cameron Adams
Preliminary Findings of an Anthropological Investigation of Psychedelic Healing.
10:20
10:40
Reka Komaromi & Ras Binghi Congo-Nyah
Meditation and Healing with The Herb: A step-by-step cultivation of Consciousness
10:40
11:00
Robin Carhart-Harris
Using fMRI to investigate the effects of psilocybin on brain function.
11:30
11:50
Ivan Casselman
Is Legislative Change Based on Science? Ethnobotanical, Genomic and Phytotherapeutic approach to “illicit” substances.
11:50
12:10
Caroline Chatwin
Subcultures and mainstreaming in the psychedelic trance scene
12:10
12:30
William Rowlandson
Borges and McKenna – iconoclasm, boundary dissolution, and living symbolically.
12:30
12:50
Angela Voss
A Matter of Spirit: an imaginal perspective on the paranormal.
12:50
13:10
Panel
Discussion and Q&A
13:10
13:30
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Dave King
Introduction to Bold Visions
15:00
15:05
Amanda Feilding
Evolving Consciousness
15:05
15:30
Torsten Passie
Dreams, trances and ecstasies – their disappearance in western cultural history.
15:30
16:00
Graham Hancock
Transpersonal experiences, psychedelics and an enquiry into the nature of reality.
16:00
16:30
Andy Roberts
Trouble ahead? Trouble behind!
17:00
17:30
Franz Vollenweider
Psychedelic States and The Brain: From Phenomenology to Neurophysiology.
17:30
18:00
Rick Doblin
Psychedelics and the future United Religions: Building a global spirituality
18:00
18:30
Panel
The Future of Psychedelic Culture and Research
18:30
19:00
Innovative Projects
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Jonas DiGregorio
Universal Care project: psychedelic emergency services at festivals
10:00
10:20
Caspar Addyman
YourBrainonDrugs.net – A smartphone research platform for studying the cognitive and emotional impact of everyday drug use.
10:20
10:40
Cara Lavan
Harnessing new media to spread the truth about drug use and freedom of consciousness.
10:40
11:00
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Halvard Hårklau
A survey of different paradigmatic points of view regarding psychotropic substances and the understanding of therapy and the mind: An integral approach.
11:30
11:50
Marianne Kaspersen
The healing potential of holotropic mind-states induced by psychotropic substances
11:50
12:10
James Rodger
Ibogaine: The Visionary Cure in the Addiction War
12:10
12:30
CANCELLED
12:30
12:50
Friederike Meckel Fischer
LSD and MDMA assisted psychotherapy
12:50
13:10
Dirk Proeckl and Engelbert Winkler
Hypnagogic Lightexperience
13:10
13:30
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Nikolas Karalis
Short term effects Of Himalayan Tradition Yoga meditation in a multi-subject SSVEP study.
15:10
15:30
Liam Cummings
Are ayahuasca induced altered states transferable using brain wave and sound recordings?
15:30
15:50
Henry Dosedla
Mushrooms & masalai – madness in melanesia
15:50
16:10
Ayahuasca
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Kevin Feeney and Bia Labate
Ayahuasca and the Process of Regulation in Brazil: National and International Implications and Challenges
10:20
10:40
Petra Bokor
One Year Follow Up of the Integration Process of a Series of Ayahuasca Experiences
10:40
11:00
Edward MacRae
Experiences of an anthropologist helping to establish public policy on the religious use of ayahuasca in Brazil
11:30
11:50
Victor Petrone
Confronting the claim of universal patterns induced by ayahuasca
11:50
12:10
Leonardo Rodriguez Perez
Critical Relationship Between New Age Religiousness and Indigenous Shamanisms in Colombian Amazonia
12:10
12:30
Brian Anderson
Ayahuasca as Antidepressant?
12:30
12:50
Danny Diskin
Ayahuasca and the Vines of British Politics
12:50
13:10
Manuel Villaescusa
Effects of long term use of ayahuasca on creativity
13:10
13:30
Speaker
Title
Start
End
Robert Dickins
The Rise and Fall of Psychedelic Literature
15:30
15:50
Jacqualine Kurio
Death and the Maiden – My Journey Into the Life of the Late Robert Lenkiewicz
15:50
16:10
Nick Giagnoni
A Brief History of Shamanic Mushroom Use
16:10
16:30
Isabella Oliviera
Analysis of the social process of construction of meanings of a psychoactive substance: the Santo Daime case
17:00
17:20
Arfan Iqbal
Spiritual use of Drugs in Contemporary Western Society
17:20
17:40
Donal Ruane
On the big white telephone: A ten-year personal journey with Ayahuasca following the proscriptions of the mestizo shamans of the upper Amazon
17:40
18:00
Workshops
Convenor
Title
Start
End
Charlotte Walsh
Yoga
8:00
9:00
Sally Stonier & Chris D’Cruz
Rebirthing Breathwork
9:00
13:30
FILMS
Title
Start
End
Stories on a Stick, by Donal Ruane (with Q&A session)
10:00
10:30
Aya: Awakenings, by Rak Razam
10:40
11:00
Vine of the Soul, by Richard Meech (with Q&A session)
15:00
16:30
Song of Mukhomor, and Pegtymel, by Alan Piper (with Q&A session)
17:00
18:30
Poster
Friday
Saturday
Sunday