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).

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.