Hello Cyberdelic Society community!

We are pleased and excited to announce the return of Cyberdelic Society. After a pandemic induced hiatus, we are back and ready to continue our exploration of the intersection of technology, psychedelics, art and consciousness.

We have some awesome news, updates and events to share with you. From incredible new experiences to groundbreaking research papers. So sit back, relax, and let us take you on a journey into the latest of the world of Cyberdelics / Technodelics.

To kick off, we are very honoured to announce the latest addition to the team of directors Melissa Warner.

Melissa is an advocate for innovative solutions for mental health and is on a mission to cultivate a holistic understanding of wellbeing. She is the Secretary of Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), a meditation teacher at Signs of Life Psychology, and a co-founder of The Australian Psychedelic Society. Melissa seeks to elucidate the potential of psychedelic, meditative, and flow states to enhance health and flourishing. As a scientist, therapist, futurist and artist she seeks to nurture the capacities of creativity, wellbeing and agency in individuals and culture.

Find more about her work here

Since Melissa entered The Cyberdelic Society, we have an upcoming initiative called Cyberdelics Lab, an Extended Reality (XR) research and development platform that aims to create XR experiences at the intersection of visual art, contemplative wisdom, gaming and scientific research. A main goal of the Cyberdelic Lab will be to open source our knowledge and resources to our community that wants to learn how to build their own cyberdelics by creating a channel dedicated for educational purposes.

Stay tuned for more updates on the Cyberdelic Lab on our upcoming newsletter.

Furthermore, we are thrilled to announce that the Cyberdelic Society is back at Breaking Convention for its 3rd showcase. Join us on an adventure into the latest Cyberdelic experiences which are on the frontiers of immersive storytelling. This showcase aims to inspire developers, artists, scientists, therapists, techno-enthusiasts, and psychonauts to collectively unite and explore this paradigm.

This year we will be showcasing a list of fascinating work including VR/MR and cutting edge Immersive AI Tools:

Recombination VR by Julius Horsthrus

https://www.recombinationvr.com/

Blockade Labs

https://www.blockadelabs.com/

Squingle by Benjamin Outrage

https://squingle.com/

Visionarium 2 by Sander Bos

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1917860/Visionarium_2__The_Descent/

Desert Rose by Cyberdelic Labs

Don't miss this chance to connect with like-minded individuals and experience the cutting edge work of the cyberdelic society. We can't wait to see you there

Click here to find out more about Breaking Convention or to buy your tickets

In other updates Carl Hayden Smith co-director of the Cyberdelic Society, continues to promote the transformative power of these technologies at various events including The Tyringham Initiative (TI) which is a world-class think-tank for the evolution, expansion and deeper understanding of ‘new-paradigm consciousness’. The invite only event, hosted by Anton Bilton, was called “Exploring the Presence of the Sentient Other”. Carl spoke on the phenomenology of the DMT Extended State alongside his fellow explorers JackCharles Allocca and Alexander Beiner. Invited speakers also included Erik Davis, Andres Gomez Emilsson, Graham Hancock, Brian Muraresku, Alexandre Tannous, Rupert Sheldrake, Dennis Mckenna, PD Newman, Andrew Gallimore, Chris Timmerman, Merlin Sheldrake and Pascal Immanuel Michael.

Cyberdelics are now being combined with psychedelics with fascinating and beneficial effects (creating a form of Moistmedia). Carl’s Keynote address at Salz21 ‘Regenerative Technology for Hyperhuman Adaptation’ and his invited Panel: ‘How to use technology to increase human potential’ focused on this and many other aspects of Cyberdelic research: https://www.salz21.at/en/news-infos-more-about-salz21/salz21blog/hyperhumanism-showcase-curated-by-carl-hayden-smith-featuring-artists-220-and-arcangelo-constantini-762

Check out his latest interview here: APCH-INCON 024 - Carl Hayden Smith. Virtual Reality. Future Memory. The latest DMT research.

Carl will elaborate more on these events and developments in the next newsletter.

To end this saga of great news we want to share some exciting projects happening in the world of cyberdelics in relation to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. These are some particularly fascinating projects are:

https://entheo.digital/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-20/virtual-reality-psychedelic-therapy-psychology-mental-health/101983510

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12637-z

We hope you enjoyed reading the latest Cyberdelic Society newsletter. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future topics. Stay tuned for more updates on our exciting projects and events. See you soon!

Best regards,

Jose, Carl and Melissa.