Evolving from my 2015 Honours thesis examining the overlaps, intersections, and parallels between the philosophy of Deep Ecology and the Ayahuasca experience, this presentation explores the concept of ‘The ecological Self’ as a key aspect of entheogenic awakening. The ecological Self is a concept developed by Deep Ecologists such as Freya Mathews, Arne Naess, John ...

With the increasing acceptance within the mainstream, many people are seeking psychedelics for many reasons. Healing, meaning, spiritual awakening, pleasure… The list goes on. There are also many routes for meeting these medicines as well. Medical, shamanic, spiritual, self-experimentation etc... But this is still new territory, and we are in a period of mass experimentation, ...

Wallworth will discuss the creative journey she experienced while co-creating her ground-breaking Virtual Reality work Awavena with a Brazilian Amazonian tribe and how it has shaped her understanding of the potential for new immersive technologies to be used in support of current clinical trials. Wallworth was invited by the Amazonian Yawanawa to create this stunning ...

This talk explores VR scenarios designed to promote movement through phases of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and discusses a novel protocol that utilizes unique features of VR as the moderator of the psychedelic journey. The protocol was developed by Enosis Therapeutics- focussed on combining new world technology with old-world wisdom. The unique therapeutic approach of treatment that ...

N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), dubbed the ‘spirit molecule,’ is an extremely potent short acting psychedelic substance found endogenously in the human organism and occurring widely (possibly ubiquitously in many kingdoms) in nature, and has been theorised to account for numerous spontaneous exceptional experiences such as those occurring near or at death. The traditional indigenous use of DMT ...

Belladonna, Henbane, and Datura are some of the European power plants holding the key to an altered mind perspective, as well as being important physically-active medicine. Since ancient times, these incredible plants have been famed for applications in witchcraft and medicine. The plants carry an unbroken lineage that we can tap into to learn their ...

The principles for psychedelic support (otherwise known as ‘trip sitting’) that are promoted by international groups like MAPS Zendo Project and Kosmicare Association, as well as PRISM. Psychedelic support in music event settings is different from psychedelic assisted psychotherapy (PAP) in many ways. For example, with PAP a sitter is with a person when they ...

The “living room” has long been considered the optimal spatial configuration to contain therapeutic psychedelic experiences. Recognised for its ability to elicit feelings of comfort and safety and positioned in diametric opposition to notions of the clinical, it is now possible to find these uncanny relics of domesticity nested within the envelope of psychedelic research ...

In the past decade, there has been an explosion of research focused on the medicinal chemistry of psychedelics. Dozens of companies around the world are developing entirely new psychedelic medicines for the treatment of serious mental health disorders. Modern psychedelic drug development utilises the most cutting-edge scientific technologies and is illuminated by insights from psychedelic-receptor ...