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, Vít Pokorný, Ffion
Reynolds, Andy Robert, William Rowlandson, Ben Sessa, Angela Voss, Anna
Waldstein