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"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your

vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred

manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have

been waiting for." Hopi eldersSPONSORED BY

Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Meeting on Psychedelic

Consciousness

Reality Sandwich is proud to be a media sponsor of, "BreakingConvention: A Multidisciplinary Meeting on Psychedelic

Consciousness," featuring video presentations from Ralph Metzner and

Ram Dass, a screening of "2012: Time For Change," Paul Devereux,

Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD., Neal Marshall Goldsmith MD., Amanda

Feilding, Graham Hancock and many more. Details below.

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Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Meeting on Psychedelic

Consciousness at the University of Kent, Canterbury, 2-3rd April, 2011.

Two whole days of extraordinary talks, debates, films and music on the

emerging alternative neurochemical renaissance (details below, tickets

available on the website).

The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lectures series, inassociation with the UKC Psychedelics Society and the Beckley

Foundation, present:

BREAKING CONVENTION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEETING ON

PSYCHEDELIC CONSCIOUSNESS

2nd 3rd April, 2011. University of Kent at Canterbury.

TICKETS on sale NOW

http://breakingconvention.co.uk/

Featuring:

Screenings of DMT: The Spirit Molecule & Dirty Pictures

Video presentations from Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass.

An Ayahuasca track, convened by Bia Labate.Several tracks of seminars, debates, workshops and presentations from

submitted abstracts.

Screenings of short psychedelic films, including 2012: Time For Change,

by Daniel Pinchbeck.

Four invited symposia (see below).

Socials and sonic succor with Ragnagrok Allstars, Bardo Thodal plus

more, and visuals by the Bardo Light Show

THE FOUR INVITED SYMPOSIA:

1. What does psychedelic mean?

Organised by Dr. David Luke, PhD. Senior Lecturer in Psychology,

University of Greenwich; Director of the Ecology, Cosmos and

Consciousness lecture series at the October Gallery, London

Psychedelics are substances with multiple dimensions, and can be

considered artistically, clinically, spiritually, psychologically, neuro-

scientifically, legally, historically, culturally, magically, ontologically, etc.

This symposium will fuse together a number of diverse perspectives and

help us assemble some of the intellectual jigsaw pieces we have created

out of these plants and molecules.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Mike Jay

Paul Devereux

Charlotte Walsh

Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD

Dr. Andy Letcher, PhD.

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2. Psychiatry Symposium & Ecstasy: Its place in medicine, society &

politics.

Organised by Dr. Ben Sessa, MD. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist,

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Somerset, UK.

Psychiatry Symposium

Psychedelic Drugs have been recognised by non-Western cultures for

generations as tools to access repressed memories and enhance

psychotherapy. After the discovery of LSDs effects in 1943 psychedelic

psychotherapy blossomed worldwide until it was banned in the late 1960s.

Later the entactogen MDMA was used successfully by therapists before it

too was banned in the 1980s. Now, after a hiatus of nearly forty years,

there are numerous contemporary studies under way throughout the world

exploring the possible role of hallucinogens for modern medicine. This

conferences Psychiatry Symposium brings together some of the

proponents of these studies to describe their landmark work.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:Dr. Evgeny Krupitsky, MD. (Ketamine)

Dr. Charles Grob, MD. (Psilocybin)

Dr. Peter Oehen, MD. (MDMA)

Dr. Neal Marshall Goldsmith, MD.

MDMA Debate

We will then hold an MDMA Debate, which aims to encourage the

audience to pitch their views to one another and our panel of experts to

discuss the varying viewpoints about the drug MDMA. Ecstasy is used by

at least half a million people each weekend in the UK and has been

praised both as an important new tool for psychotherapy on the one hand

and a dangerous neurotoxin on the other. This is the UKs first public

debate of the drugs risks and benefits. Come and make your voice heard!

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Dr. Ben Sessa, MD (Chair).

Dr. Rick Doblin, PhD.

Dr. Peter Oehen, MD.

Dr. Jon Cole, PhD.

Professor Val Curran, MD.

Dr Andy Parrott, PhD.

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3. Current research on consciousness and psychedelics at the University

of Kent

Organised by Dr. Cameron Adams, PhD., research fellow and lecturer in

Social Anthropology at the University of Kent; and Dr. Anna Waldstein,

PhD, lecturer in Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany and convenor of

the BSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Kent.

In recent years the University of Kent has emerged as a centre for the

study of psychedelic consciousness in the UK. This symposium presents a

selection of relevant work by academics (and alumni) from across the

University, including contributions from anthropology, conservation,

sociology, criminology, mysticism and Hispanic studies. The breadth of

research on psychedelic consciousness at the University of Kent spans

from self-medication with psychedelics as a form of empowerment, the

cultural identities of people who use psychedelics and other illicit

substances, and the ability of consumers to influence drug policy, to the

use of active imagination to access paranormal worlds, and the

representation of altered states of consciousness in literature.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Dr. Cameron Adams, PhD.Dr. Caroline Chatwin, PhD.

Dr. Axel Klein, PhD.

Dr. Anna Waldstein, PhD.

Dr. William Rowlandson.

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4. Bold Visions: The Future of Psychedelic Culture & Research.

Organised by Dave King & the UKC Psychedelics Society.

The psychedelic community is witnessing a research renaissance with rich

results, legitimate protocols and government approvals. The success of

MAPS is booming, the science is ever more supporting, groups such as

the UKC Psychedelics Society are sprouting, and university courses on

psychedelics are manifesting. Alongside these scientific pursuits the

psychedelic culture is stirring ayahuasca is spreading around the world

through Santa Daime branches. This symposium will see data from current

research and questions about where the future of psychedelics lies. What

are the far reaches of research? What political problems present

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