Breaking Convention

Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness

Cameron Adams, Anna Waldstein, Ben Sessa , Dr. Ben Sessa

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Strange Attractor Press
05 July 2013

States of consciousness

Collected essays from the 2011 Breaking Convention conference, which in 2011 brought together over 80 speakers and 600 delegates from 30 countries to Canterbury, UK to discuss psychedelic substances and their effects.

These essays are a glimpse of Breaking Convention- A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, which in 2011 brought together over 80 speakers and 600 delegates from 30 countries to Canterbury, UK to discuss these substances and their effects.

Psychedelic consciousness is a personally meaningful experience that can bring us into contact with the unknowable, help repair fragmented minds and increase our wellbeing. However, psychedelic plants and other substances have been globally prohibited for over half a century with little regard for their spiritual, therapeutic and recreational use throughout human history.

The prohibition of psychedelic 'drugs' has limited the exploration of consciousness and the healing potential of psychedelics. Yet, in the last two decades, a door has opened allowing legal medical and therapeutic research on psychedelics to resume. This opening has allowed other scholars to become increasingly bold in stating their interest in psychedelic substances.

The authors of this book represent the vanguard of the second golden age of psychedelic research. It is our hope that this volume will motivate a new generation of thinkers to stand up to the taboo that has been placed on psychedelics and bring these plants and chemicals into the light of reasoned discussion.

Contributors Cameron Adams, Joseph Bicknell, Jon Cole, Ras Binghi Congo-Nyah, Val Curran, Nese Devenot, Rob Dickins, Rick Doblin, Kevin Feeney, Amanda Feilding, Tom Froese, Jonathan Hobbs, Mike Jay, Axel Klein, Reka Komaromi, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Andy Letcher, David Luke, Luis Eduardo Luna, Kirkland Murray, Peter Oehen, Andy Parrott, Vit Pokorn , Ffion Reynolds, Andy Robert, William Rowlandson, Ben Sessa, Angela Voss, Anna Waldstein

Edited by: Cameron Adams, Anna Waldstein, Ben Sessa, Dr. Ben Sessa, Anna Waldstein
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 421g
ISBN: 9781907222221
ISBN 10: 1907222227
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 05 July 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich. He is coeditor of Neurotransmissions- Psychedelic Essays from Breaking Convention (Strange Attractor), Talking with the Spirits- Ethnographies from Between the Worlds, and Breaking Convention- Essays in Psychedelic Consciousness (Strange Attractor); editor of Ecopsychology and the Psychedelic Experience; and coauthor of the textbook Anomalistic Psychology. He is director of the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics, London, and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention- Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness.

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