This is a two-day program which is being presented in person and on Zoom.

MANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE III:
The Decentered Self in Psychedelic States
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.

This conference promises to be both world-class and intimate. It will provide a thoughtful immersion into group process further examining the decentered self in phenomena that arise in the group-as-a-whole to which each individual contributes. Before closing afternoon on Saturday, Isabella Sledge and Cat Jenson offer a meditative soundbath for integration. Saturday evening we are offering an in-person concert illustrating the “decentered self” theme. The concert will feature PARTCH Ensemble and composer Anne LeBaron, with excerpts of her opera Huxley’s Last Trip (previously titled LSD: The Opera).