uniMIND Prague

Hello hello! ☺️
The Community Picnic dream is still alive and we are making it come true! Join us this Saturday:

🗓️ Saturday, 23.05
🕑 From 14:00 (🔥 BBQ available 14:00–17:00🔥)
📍 Baden Baden Štvanice

🎒Bring your usual picnic / BBQ essentials and your vibes ✨

See you there!🫶

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Changes of plans!

Due to non-ideal weather conditions our picnic is postponed for next week. We are still meeting and luckily has the prefect event for us happening today, the Altenburg Garden Opening - which has food vendors, pop-up shops, bar, and music, all with free entry!

So we meet at there from 15:30, come have a chat! No need to bring anything but you can bring a blanket to sit on :)

Hey friends! ☀️ Community Brunch Picnic is finally happening next Saturday, 16.5 🎉

Join us at Štvanice Island for an afternoon of sunshine, good food and good company 🌿
Bring blankets, games, instruments, drinks or snacks ✨

🔥 The BBQ Grill will be available from 1 PM to 4 PM, so feel free to bring food for grilling 🔥

📅 Saturday 16/05
🕐 13:00
📍 Baden Baden

Looking forward to seeing you all 💛

uniMIND Academic Journal Club May

📆 Wednesday, *May 27th, 7:30 PM*
📍 Kampus Hybernská, *Co-work B-1* (2nd floor)

Topic: ‘Neocolonialism in the Psychedelic Renaissance: A Modern View into an Ancient Practice.’

Suggested reads:
📜 Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634615211062962
📜 Epistemic injustice: Power and the ethics of knowing
(M Fricker - 2007 - Oxford university Book)

🗣️ *Presented by Tibi Estupiñan*
Tibi is a Microbiologist and Laboratory Clinic, Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs - Quality
Psychedelics and Health certified – Universidad de Antioquia – Medellin Colombia.. she also grew up in a community where ayahuasca is not a mental health retreat, it is rather part of the culture she was surrounded by, rooted deeply in rituals going back many generations...

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April’s uniMIND Journal Club M**A and Sexuality

📆 Wednesday, April 22nd, 7:30 PM
📍 Kampus Hybernská, Sál B-1 (2nd floor)
*note that this is not our usual room!*

With a short introduction on the pharmacology and phenomenology of M**A.

Based on the articles (highly recommended to read those beforehand):
📜 Can research on Entactogens contribute to a deeper understanding of human sexuality?
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43440-023-00552-7
📜 Does M**A have treatment potential in sexual dysfunction? A systematic review of outcomes across
the female and male sexual response cycles
https://doi.org/10.1093/sxmrev/qead046

🗣️ Presented by Adam Schreier

Artwork credit: Alena Spálenská

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Philosophy of Psychedelics 🧠💭🤔🍄

📆 Wednesday, March 25th, 8 PM
📍 Kampus Hybernská, Co-work space B-1 (2nd floor)

An introduction to the philosophy of psychedelics, with a particular focus on metaphysics, epistemology, and defining the term ‘psychedelic’.
How would YOU define psychedelics? 🧐

Recommended reads:
💭 Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes - On the Need for Metaphysics in Psychedelic Therapy and Research
📃 Short version: https://www.feedyourhead.blog/.../metaphysics-for...
📜 Full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/.../fpsyg.2023.1128589/full
💭 Aidan Lyon - Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFLmVfKPZU

🗣️ Presented by Patrick Everitt
Patrick is an independent researcher of psychedelic philosophy and western esotericism from Ireland. He completed the Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Maynooth University and the Masters in Western Esotericism at the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents in the University of Amsterdam, where his thesis investigated Aleister Crowley’s pioneering use of pe**te for ceremonial magic in the first two decades of the twentieth century. His primary research interests are entheogenic esotericism, psychedelic philosophy, and entity encounters in the works of Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence McKenna. He has presented his research on psychedelics, philosophy, and esotericism at a range of international conferences and events, including the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR), Breaking Convention, the Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics (Psykedeelit), the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism conference (ESSWE), the Occulture Conference, the Altered Conference, and the O.Z.O.R.A. Festival.
https://uva.academia.edu/PatrickEveritt

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uniMIND Prague Academic Journal Club (EN) – Psychedelics and Microbiome 🦠

🫃🏻We just have a gut feeling you should come to this one!

⏰ Wednesday, February 25th, 8 PM
📍Kampus Hybernská, Co-work space B-1

Presented by Lea Jakob

More details TBA!