Qualia Research Institute community meetup & unconference: psychedelic phenomenology

​​​​Qualia Research Institute is non-profit building a science of consciousness to improve lives of sentient beings. This is an unofficial informal meetup for the community around QRI in London.

​Talk

​Asher Soryl (AsherSoryl.com; @aaarataki on twitter) is a QRI collaborator and an academic researcher. Asher will present on QRI's approach to phenomenology research which emphasises rigorously analysing exotic states of consciousness, such as those induced by psychedelics or certain meditative practices. In particular, he will discuss the phenomenology of 5-MeO-DMT and its relevance to valence research.

​Unconference

​The talk by Asher will be followed by unconference, a participant-driven conference with write-in schedule on the wall. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space. We had several unconferences in the last few months, so might've been to one already — this one will have a similar format. The unconference topics don't have to be related to only psychedelic phenomenology — they can be any of the general QRI topics: consciousness research, psychedelics, meditation, neuroscience, philosophy.

​That said, you can also simply come and hang out with people — unconference is there to give some structure and help like-minded people find each other.

​Schedule

​19:00 Meetup starts, socialising
19:30 Asher gives an one hour talk on QRI research directions as of late, Q&A
20:30: the talk ends, hanging out, socialising, preparing unconference sessions
21:00 till late: unconference & socialising