Psychedelic Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

Speakers talk about psychedelic phenomenology (the study of experience) in the context of the philosophy of consciousness. With some amusing results!!

Recorded with kind permission at the excellent and humorously titled "Breaking Convention": A Multidisciplinary Meeting on Psychedelic Consciousness; at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 01-03 April 2011.

This particular session was one of four streams running simultaneously on the morning of Saturday 02 April. I had stayed the night at a Christian retreat deep in the woods beside the University. Bedtime was preceded by 20 minutes of tranquil meditation to choral music, while Bingo the dog licked its arse and roamed around the room. My breakfast was taken in the company of the most unusual and otherwordly group of people I have ever had the privelege to eat Muesli with. I could not even begin to describe the aroma that they carried with them. Otherwordly is the closest word that comes to mind. Anyway, I managed to have a shower ("please shower for no more than 5 minutes" said the sign on the wall) and pack my bags before strolling into the sunny glow of an English spring. At the conference, freshly cut flowers had been delivered for delegates to wear with their name badges (which were, inidentally, made from blotter sheets).

Later that day, after filming this session, I walked into Canterbury and bought myself some fudge and an African drum known as a Djembe. I returned in the evening to socialise with people including a TV Director making a documentary in a mortuary.

The evening included a moment of random insight: where the onion theory explains layers of human memory and experience surrounding the conscious individual's psyche, so the garlic theory - a new concept - posits that man's core of awareness infuses into the universe as an outward energy field.

But we were drunk by that stage. If I leave this commentary in it will be a miracle. Or an accident. Or a mistake!

Oh sod it, as I take the mick out of the speakers, so you all can take the mick out of me! I am no cynical film maker, I am a human being, like you!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Breaking
• Convention
• Kent
• Canterbury
• Psychedelic
• Consciousness
• Philosophy
• of
• Mind

[kindreadinphiknight]

Thanks for putting this up, I had not seen any footage yet.

For those who like to read a transcript of the first speaker in this video, go to my profile and click the link for my website, and look there for the article called the semantic pharmacy and the magic of symbols, there is also a link to the non mimed ant mill of death video.

[futurematt5]

@kindreadinphiknight Thomas- thanks for commenting! Hope you didn't mind the cheapass mickey taking with my thought bubbles!! I was editing this down straight and then kept laughing at various people's reactions, especially when they couldn't find a pen and when the cameraman did an enormous yawn. I just had to send the whole thing up after that! It was a really interesting session and a great weekend. LOL about the non-mimed video!! I'll check it out!

[shakeyourdimsims]

the fuck did the captions for this.

not funny

[Ontologistics]

So much to be said about this issue - but it's difficult to watch these chaotic presentations.

[andy7666]

I love students.. What a bunch of wallys! XD

[SCRATCHMASTERDAL]

Hmmm, I dont really know what to make of all this, A bit to deep for my liking.

[bitchfacerecs]

these guys have probably never even played a sega saturn

[alexgameroom]

I swear that dude with the dreads owns a little hippy shop in kew

[ianwilson1978]

WTF!? Thank god for the commentary ;-)