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Music For Ceremony and Meditation Ayahuasca is sonic alchemy from Brazilian born artist Poranguí McGrew. Blending field recordings from the Amazon rainforest wi

Robin Carhart-Harris (interviewed by Martin Fortier & Raphaël Millière) Consciousness and psychedelics.
 
Jakob Hohwy (interviewed by Matthieu Koroma)
On different ways of being conscious:  modes of consciousness and the predictive mind.
 
Tanya Luhrmann (interviewed by Martin Fortier)
The anthropology of mind: exploring unusual sensations and spiritual experiences across cultures
 
Simon McCarthy-Jones (interviewed by Mathieu Frerejouan)
The phenomenon of voice-hearing: an interdisciplinary approach 
 
Rebecca Seligman (interviewed by Arnaud Halloy)
Towards a biocultural approach to dissociative consciousness
 
Jennifer Windt (interviewed by Alessio Bucci & Raphaël Millière)
Relocating dreams on the conceptual map: how the analysis of sleep and dreaming challenges our taxonomy of mental states

There is a fire burning in the center of the tipi, surrounded by an altar made from fresh leaves and flowers. About 30 people are sittin

My first visit to Burning Man was at the request of Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association fo

Just a year ago when Katherine MacLean, Andrew Tatarsky, and I met to discuss the outline for our next workshop for the Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program, microdosing was a topic we would have rathe

Territory, culture, self-government, and spirituality: that’s what’s most important for us.The curacas, our men of wisdom or traditional doctors—harmonize relations within the community and heal illnesses. The curacas know the territory, know and communicate with the spirits of Mothe

Over an eight-week period, Intensive participants delve into a wealth of carefully-curated resources—videos, readings, and activities—delivered on a platform that allows you to explore the course content on your own schedule and interact with others in lively online discussions. You can also participate in weekly conversations with a small group of learning partners and join in web gatherings with all participants at the beginning and end of the course.

Lyla June is a Diné singer, writer, and activist. Her music and message centers around intergenerational and inter-ethnic healing, as well as Indigenous philosophy. She is a scholar of global cycles of violence that eventually gave rise to the Witch Burnings in Europe as well as The Native American Holocaust. She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology, and recently completed a Masters in American Indian Education from the University of New Mexico. She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in northern New Mexico. Lyla and Eric talk about the traumatic roots of the settler colonial paradigm, how our guiding stories and sense of self are necessarily rooted in homeland, and how delicate and brittle American society has become without a place-based identity, among other things.

Eleanor Hancock is the director of White Awake, a project that brings mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practice to white affinity work focused on racism, white supremacy, and collective liberation. She has trained directly with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects, and integrates this embodied, deep ecology practice into her facilitation of integrative, race-focused group work. She and Eric talk about how white privilege is a cheap buy off used to coax white American society to support the existing economic hierarchy, how a lack of empathy is implicated in colonialism and the spread of empire, and Eleanor’s upcoming online workshop Before We Were White, which explores these topics in greater detail

Yubaka Hayrá - 1ª Conferência Indígena da Ayahuasca A Yubaka Hayrá - 1ª Conferência Indígena da Ayahuasca, que aconteceu entre os dias 14 e 17 de dezembro de 2017, na Terra Indígena Puyanawa, em Mâncio Lima – Acre, foi um marco histórico na organização dos povos originários do Acre, e todos, intuitivamente, tiveram consciência da magnitude do evento desde o primeiro momento. O gérmen para a realização deste evento foi a AYA2016 - II Conferência Mundial da Ayahuasca, ocorrida em outubro de 2016 (Rio Branco - Acre), quando algumas etnias indígenas da Amazônia brasileira ocidental sentiram necessidade de travar um debate entre si sobre as questões que envolvem o uso da bebida e seus interesses específicos: legislação brasileira e mundial, internacionalização, patrimonialização etc. Foi um encontro "de índios para índios", com a presença de apenas alguns nawás (não-índios) como representantes institucionais. O evento foi marcado pelo sentimento de que como povos originários e detentores

Tim DeChristopher is best known for disrupting a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008 where he outbid oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah with no intention of paying for the parcels. This act of civil disobedience formed the cornerstone of the documentary Bidder 70. Tim founded the climate justice organization Peaceful Uprising in Salt Lake City, and most recently founded the Climate Disobedience Center. He and Eric talk about his experience using civil disobedience as a tool in climate change activism, the need for activists to prioritize healing their personal trauma within their activist work, and the source of civil disobedience’s power, among other things.

White Awake is an online platform, and growing network of trainers and practitioners, focused on popular education for people who are socialized as “white”. We believe this is important because white people are socialized, and awarded limited types of privilege, to align ourselves with the ruling class at everybody’s expense. White Awake addresses the particularities of this socialization with tools and resources that prioritizes spiritual practice, emotional process, compassion, and curiosity alongside historical analysis and intellectual rigor.

Kieran Fox (interviewed by Matthieu Koroma)
Wandering along the spectrum of spontaneous thinking: ​Dreaming, meditation, mind-wandering, and well-being

Karl Friston (interviewed by Martin Fortier & Daniel A. Friedman)
Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness

Karl Friston. Am I autistic? An intellectual autobiography

Thomas Metzinger (interviewed by Jakub Limanowski & Raphaël Millière) Splendor and misery of self-models: Conceptual and empirical issues regarding consciousness and self-consciousness, 

David Nichols (interviewed by Leor Roseman & Christopher Timmermann) Psychedelics: From pharmacology to phenomenology

Kevin O’Regan (interviewed by Cordelia Erickson-Davis)
On the “feel” of things: The sensorimotor theory of consciousness, 

Matthew Ratcliffe (interviewed by Mathieu Frerejouan)
Verbal hallucinations, intentionality, and interpersonal experience, 

Ann Taves (interviewed by Martin Fortier & Maddalena Canna)
Conceptual, anthropological and cognitive issues surrounding religious experience

Aubrey Marcus the founder and CEO of ONNIT. A nutritional supplement and holistic health provider based on his philosophy of Total Human Optimization.

After my research fellowship, over a period of six years, I lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. There, I worked closely with master.

Discussions of legalizing psychedelics to date consist of more questions than answers. The medical model is insufficient but there have been fe

  On January 31, 2018, a very important and delicate court case took place in Amsterdam. It was the appeal court case about the confiscation of, altogether, around 100 kg of daime from three members of the Santo Daime church in Amsterdam during 2016. The Prosecutor’s Office (OM) in the Netherlands collected several Santo Daime …

A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.

Awakening the Dreamer is a transformative educational program that explores the challenges facing humanity at this critical moment in time and the opportunities we as a human family have to create a new future.

Darcy Ottey helped to found Youth Passageways, a diverse network of folks helping to regenerate healthy rites of passages into adulthood. She spends her time teaching, organizing, mentoring, and consulting, and is nearing completion of her first book, Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up. She and Eric talk about rites of passage, the consequences to individuals and communities when folks don’t receive them, how a lack of transition skills contributes to suicide, and about an online workshop she’ll be co-facilitating at the end of January, in 2018, among other things

This author, philanthropist, and thought leader is one of the most inspiring we’ve ever met. Here’s how she’s changing the world, one day at a time.

Especially considering there are masters who haven’t been on TV or had their teachings printed in books: their words aren’t measured by the grammar of right and wrong, they simply know how to live, they just are. People whose life is explained through exertion, who are experts in survival: they say they’re on the outskirts of the world, but they just might be closer to everything that is truly central.

A Worldview Apart explores a range of topics arround Systems and Sovereignty through a mixture of monologue and interviews with insightful people.