The Mind Stage: Highlights

WE ARE NATURE

The MIND Stage at Noisily is where you go to get your synapses firing on all cylinders, and in 2021 after a fallow year, we have curated a line up of ingenious experts and global thought leaders to inspire, inform, motivate and engage your mind and stimulate curiosity. This year in the Coney Woods you will be treated to a veritable smorgasbord of neurologically tantalising discourse. 

Here’s some highlights of what you can expect…

1. Transpersonal Experiences Through the Power of Dance 

Helene Su will be talking about transpersonal experiences brought on through the power of dance, drawing on the wisdom of ancient cultures, and the findings of modern day quantum physics. So before you head down to the forest floor to cut some shapes, make sure to swot up to ensure you have a transpersonal experience of your own! 

Find out more HERE.

2. The Story of Lumenate App, and How to Reach an Altered State of Consciousness Using Just your Phone Flashlight

Join Jay and Tom Founders of Lumenate, two friends who used to work as Far Future Concept Designers at Jaguar Landrover before quitting their jobs, driving from Canada to Chile, walking the entire length of New Zealand, then buying an EEG brain scanner to trial different techniques to naturally induce altered states of consciousness. 

They have since developed the Lumenate App which uses research-backed stroboscopic light sequences from your phone’s flashlight to neurologically guide you into an altered state of consciousness between that of deep meditation and classic psychedelics.

It promises to be a very inspiring talk about their experiences and the apps development during lockdown.

Find out more HERE.

3. Nurturing Eco-consciousness Through Plant Medicines

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, and a founder of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics. 

At Noisily he’ll be delivering a talk about nurturing eco-consciousness through plant medicines. 

Find out more HERE.

4. Earth in Mind: Rethinking Education for Our Future

Exclusively for Noisily in partnership with Pete Barden Founder of The Better Future Forum and Forward Democracy, ‘Earth in Mind: Rethinking Education for Our Future’ will draw together practitioners and pioneers who are reimagining education to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st Century to engage on a panel on the MIND Stage.

The format invites dialogue with inspiring innovators and leading thinkers, providing a ‘hot seat’ for members of the audience who have experience in the field of education to become a part of the conversation.

We hope that guests will leave inspired, informed, equipped, and motivated.

Find out more HERE.

5. Beyond the Matrix : Is this reality we live in an illusion? with Ann Mathie

In this talk, Ann Mathie will be looking at what the Buddha discovered under the Bodhi tree which led to his radical freedom from suffering. We will explore the different types of deep ecstatic absorption or Jhanic states, and how these states are experienced in the mind-body based on the direct experience of long-term meditators and Buddhist monks. We will look at how the Buddhas’ different states of absorption lead to insight into the workings of this mind matrix.

Find out more HERE.

6. Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Psychedelics All of a Sudden? A Panel discussion with Matt Shea, Amanda Feilding, Zoe Cormier, Dr Ros Watts and Ben Sessa

The UK is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance.

Young people in England and Wales are taking three times more LSD than they did five years ago, scientists at top universities are claiming hallucinogens can revolutionise how we treat mental illness and the use of magic mushrooms has been increasing by around 40 percent year on year.

What is making this new generation of drug takers so interested in self-transformation? And as the self-help trend grows, what happens when thousands of people start trying to solve their mental health problems themselves by taking powerful hallucinogens in unregulated settings?

Find out more HERE.

7. Transforming Society After COVID with Ronan Harrington and Phoebe Tickell

Ronan Harrington and Phoebe Tickell will speak with experts in social change on how we can transform our societies in the wake of COVID. They’ll discuss the impact COVID has had on our collective mindsets, the appetite for radical change, and how technology disruptions are opening up the possibility for an entirely new civilization.

This is one to watch as both Ronan and Phoebe are truly inspirational speakers. 

Find out more HERE.

8. The Creative Musical Process Can Help Heal Mental Illness, Here’s How, with Graham Campbell, Modulate Music Group | Electronic Music and Mental Health

Graham will be delivering a talk about how music creation and the musical process can act as a healing agent for mental illness. 

He has been working with groups to bring people together into a very positive and empathic space around music as a shared activity. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, and the midi-synchronised elements have inherently encouraged patients to work together, providing invaluable human connection. 

Find out more HERE.

9. Gathering the Seeds “Ageless Wisdom’ Panel

Gathering the Seeds will be hosting a panel & workshop at Mind Body Soul 2021, ‘Ageless Wisdom’, gathering an array of voices – Elders to young – to honour & celebrate the rich tapestry of knowledge we all share within our incredible living network. Through open discussion, ritual & practice explore these ancient practices.

10. We Are Nature with The Future is Beautiful

And if that isn’t enough, we are excited to be collaborating with Amisha, Founder of The Future is Beautiful podcast. Together with fellow soulseekers, Bruce Parry, Jessica Ferrow and Adah Paris, in an, in conversation with style exploration, the We Are Nature panel will reveal heartwarming nature experiences and insights.