Richmond IONS March 2023 Meeting (March 18) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting. It will feature a talk by Christopher Bache, Ph.D..
Where: In person and online. Through ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841) and in person at River Road United Methodist Church, Contemporary Worship Center, 8800 River Road, Richmond, VA 23229.
When: On Saturday, March 18, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, with a Potluck Lunch at the conclusion of the program.
Richmond IONS March 2023 Meeting
“Exploring the Cosmic Mind with Psychedelics”
Our March 18, 2023, program will feature a talk by Christopher Bache, Ph.D., Ohio philosophy professor, consciousness explorer and author, on his book LSD
and the Mind of the Universe.
In 1979, Chris Bache began a life-changing journey. Drawing on his training as a philosopher of religion, Bache set out to explore his consciousness as systematically as possible with the help of LSD.
Following therapeutic protocols established by Stanislav Grof, M.D., he conducted 73 therapeutically structured, high-dose LSD sessions over 20 years.
Journey alongside Chris as he describes the stages of his journey and the spiral of death and rebirth that took him into an ever-deepening communion with the universe.
He shares his experience of the Creative Intelligence that both embraced and crushed him in a series of initiations that became the philosophical adventure of a lifetime.
He describes the incalculable value of embracing the pain and suffering he encountered on this journey and the challenges he faced integrating his experiences into his everyday life.
At the center of his narrative are the visions he was given of humanity’s evolutionary journey and the turning point it has come to as it strains to give birth to the Future Human.
Pushing the boundaries of theory and practice, Chris shows how psychedelic experiences can take you beyond self-transformation into collective transformation, beyond the present into the future, and beyond space and time into the Divine Luminosity that lies outside cyclic existence.
About Christopher Bache, our Richmond IONS March 2023 Meeting Presenter
Christopher Bache, Ph.D., is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
Youngstown State University, where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training.
Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, particularly psychedelic states. An award-winning teacher
and international speaker, Chris has written four books:
- Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research;
- Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness;
- The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and
- LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20-year journey with LSD.
About Central VA IONS Community Group:
Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Petaluma, California (www.noetic.org).
We do not promote any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and we are open to all. Central VA IONS entirely depends on voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs.
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