🧠🌿⚗️ Psychedelic enabled Neuro-phenomenology & Consciousness Research
This week, we gather to discuss frontier advancements in consciousness research from a neuro-phenomenology approach, enabled by ancient & emerging psychedelic compounds. 🧠 🌿⚗️
We'll hear from the returnees of the recent field trip to the Sensoria Consciousness Conclave event in Portugal - a magical gathering of leading researchers and practitioners in the field - including a special guest appearance from 🧙 Leo (the Institute of Advanced Consciousness Studies & Sensoria) to talk more about the current state & vision of the movement.
It'll be a pretty magical one, so grab your 🪄's and join us!
📝 Pre Readings
Casual:
Psychedelic drug being tested as treatment for heavy drinking
Advanced:
A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics
Exploring 5-MeO-DMT as a pharmacological model for deconstructed consciousness
*Please note, we will have this meeting in our new community space at the Frontier Tower (995 Market Street) - yes, we have couches & chairs 🛋. Even the beginning of a more permanent Healing Room. 🤍 All inviting more co-creation with you!
What is Conscious Tech?
"Conscious Tech" has a two-fold meaning:
1. Technology that expands consciousness, on an individual or collective level, towards mindful loving compassion, and flourishing. (e.g. mental health tech, tech for caring, tech for spiritual awakening & wisdom).
2. Technology that are crafted with conscious intent and process and a truly life-centric orientation, minding the complex systemic dynamics that a product and service reside in. (e.g. calm tech, ambient computing, natural gesture interfaces)
What is CTC? We are a 2 year old multidisciplinary innovators' community - from backgrounds such as neuroscience, engineering, brain-computer interface (BCI), human-comuter interaction design (HCI), psychotherapy, arts, plant medicine, somatic healing, and other ancient wisdom practices. We come from academic, industry, and startup contexts and gather weekly in person in San Francisco, and go on excursions to other parts of the world.
Together, we explore shared concerns and curiosities about the impact of a new wave of emerging technologies on human well-being: from AI to next-gen BCI and biosensors, and more. We contextualize them with ancient wisdom technologies such as plant medicine and meditation to advance our research and innovation projects, holistically. We aim to channel technology's power to heal our connections to Self, Each other, and the Planet.
We advocate for the ethical research, design, and development of well-being-focused products and services - enabled by emerging technology. We also advocate for systems change - positive futures where Technology and Capital support human and planetary flourishing. Not the other way around. We want to contribute to an economy that's regenerative, life-sustaining, and positive-sum, not extractive.
Our 4 pillars of action are:
1. Community Building
2. Translational Research
3. Innovator Support
4. Product Incubation
A deep dive of our values can be found here: https://lu.ma/rcb9yltg
If these resonate, join us!