Dr David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009.

His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including nine books, most recently DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule (2018), and Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2017). When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, doing DMT field experiments or observing weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics, London, and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has given over 250 invited public lectures and conference presentations, won teaching, research and writing awards, organised numerous festivals, conferences, symposia, seminars, retreats, expeditions, pagan cabarets and pilgrimages, and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans and Shivaites. He lives life on the edge, of Sussex.

Sarah Janes dream incubation and sleep temples.

Sarah Janes is a dream researcher, her primary areas of interest are dream incubation in Ancient Greece, the role of dreaming in the evolution of consciousness, the development of memory, Mystery School and oracle traditions of the ancient world.

Sarah has had a fascination with lucid dreaming since childhood and has written on the subject for The Idler, The Bohemian, The Journal of Paranthropology and Ancient Origins.

With business partner Daniel Lee she runs Awake + Away - a retreat company specialising in sleep health and dream incubation. Sarah also hosts The Explorers Club, an esoteric lecture salon in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England.

Sarah is currently working on a book about the ancient culture and history of dream incubation, healing and sleep temples.

Lake of Mnemosyne - is due for publication with Muswell Hill Press this year.

AWAKE ✧ AWAY

www.awakeandaway.co.uk

THE MYSTERIES

www.themysteries.org

SPOKEN WORD - AVIN STOKEL

GPS The Traveling Poet "Poet Second, Person First"

Featuring Meditation Moon by GIANLUCA DEMI

Short biography:

Gala Bell (b. 1989) is a London based multidisciplinary artist exploring diverse processes in painting and sculpture through traditional and unorthodox techniques. Her work is inspired by the prismatic nature of modern living and the tragi-comedy that shapes reality. The work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation, engaging with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy, synthetic matter and absurd labour. Materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between building methods or kitchen techniques, in performances that are more life than art. In the form of deep-fried canvases or cast tower blocks of sugar, a silicone suit and public pool, the works echo the euphoria of our synthetic environment that yields in excess.