Bath Spa University Forum
June 24-25, 2004.
The Bath Spa University College’s Sophia Centre for the Study of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, together with Psychonauts UK, will convene a forum to address and discuss the teleology of our conscious minds. How and why do we explore consciousness? In what states of mind can we look at our minds: the detached position of the scientific observer, the ecstatic state of the pagan enthusiast, the psychotropic condition of the inner traveller or through the enchanted eyes of the observer of the starry heavens? The venue will be The Forum in the City of Bath, England and will be a dialogue between cosmological, pharmac opoeial, academic and Gaian spiritual perspectives among others. What is the value of exploring beyond the ranges of ordinary experience, how can it apply to everyday life and how do we investigate its various potentials and possibilities?
Speakers include:
Rick Doblin -President of MAPS
Francoise Barbira-Freedman -Cambridge anthropologist, ayahuasca, yoga
Kelly Morris -writer, ex-senior editor for the Lancet, sexual health doctor
Alexander Shulgin -Berkley chemist, creator of compounds, author
Ann Shulgin -ex-psychedelic psychotherapist, author
Julian Vayne -author of Pharmakon, practitioner of magical rituals, pagan
Anja Saunders -author, experienced in rituals involving psychedelics
Hattie Wells -ibogaine therapist, writer, activist
Piers Gibbon -anthropologist, made documentary on ayahuasca
Serena Roney-Dougal -psychosis & spiritual transformation, yoga,
psychedelics
Erik Daves
Philippa Berry
William Bloom
Bernadette Brady
Jude Currivan
Stephen Fitzpatrick
Liz Greene
Susan Greenwood
Robin Mathews
Hilary Rose
Stephen Rose
Max Velmans
Rob Hand
For more information, contact Jon Atkinson at atkinsonjon@yahoo.co.uk