Event in the MIND Academy’s Forum Bewusstseinskultur 

“Scientific research programs on consciousness and its neurofunctional correlates could be greatly optimized if researchers were well travelled in phenomenal state space, if they were cultivated in terms of the richness of their own inner experience as well.“
Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger

The Forum Bewusstseinskultur includes events that address a general public. Usually there is no or low requirement for technical terminology. The Forum Bewusstseinskultur strives for connecting science and culture. We seek to establish an evidence-based culture of consciousness. The Forum Bewusstseinskultur integrates first and third person perspectives on consciousness and particularly the psychedelic experience. Click HERE for more information about the MIND Academy and its four different tracks.

Psychedelic Therapy versus Self-Therapy? Tackling the challenges of therapist-led versus self-directed approaches in the psychedelic field

Traditionally, the use of psychedelics is categorized as either therapeutic, recreational or spiritual/religious. The first requires the assistance of a guide whereas the second one is usually directed by the person using psychelics herself and the third one involves all kinds of directed or self-empowered practices. But do these strict divisions make sense? One case in question is that of self-therapy during which a user serves as her own psychedelic therapist. Should we consider this a problematic breach of protocol or a courageous self-empowerment? For which people does such a self-empowerment therapy work well and are there others who suffer from potential harms coming from self-therapy? Is it politically advisable to support self-therapy when it might lead to a backlash against all therapeutic uses of psychedelics? Or do we have to dig deeper and question the very possibility of separating spiritual, therapeutic, religious and recreational uses? Is it possible to envision and create a psychedelic culture in which a therapeutic session is simultaneously a spiritual ritual and a joyous experience? What’s the role and what are the features of a rational dialogue when it comes to the enculturation of the psychedelic experience into mainstream culture – particularly concerning different concepts of therapies, treatment and healing?

Dr. Henrik Jungaberle and Prof. Dr. Kai Hammermeister will engage in a dialogue about therapy, self-therapy and their relation to medicine, psychotherapy, the spiritual/religious and the entertaining.

Location: The MIND Foundation moved with betahaus to a new address: Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 23, 10969 Berlin!

You can buy reduced Early Bird tickets till 31st of December.
From 21st of January on Late Bird tickets (+20 %) will be sold, as well as box office tickets at event time (+2 € handling fee for everybody who pays in cash).

For low income validation, please send via e-mail a photo/scan of your student card / Hartz IV notice to booking@mind-foundation.org (just answer to the confirmation mail after you ordered).

Please arrive 15-30 min. before the event so we can have a smooth check-in.