Manifest Mind Conference III

What actually is the altered reality of psychedelic experience? Is there more... or less... of ones self?

The experience of subjective dimensionality is a key scientific conundrum of our age. Sensed but ungraspable, how do you measure that which is beyond measurement? Can such a mystery be explained in naturalistic terms? 

The conundrum is personal. In the physical world there is no “self” center in your brain. Who are you if there is no place of YOU (“self”) in your brain? Is "myself" a distributed function in your brain, or is “myself” an emergent property from another dimension? Is your existence fantasy? How real is the “you” that remains to experience an intense psychedelic experience after the ego-attachments of self are dissolved?

And what do we make of the next step, the mystical revelation of everything being connected? Of contact with a transcendent power, creativity, ever-ness and beyond-ness?  

What are mind and consciousness that emerge from brain function? What distinguishes a human mind from a fish mind? What is meaning, that emotional core of relationship...and the stuff of psychotherapy?  

These and other questions will be considered in NCP’s MANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE, May 17-18, 2025.