Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness Film Screening

Explore three psychedelic trips by three world-famous authors that together changed them, and Western culture, forever. Let go and be taken on an animated journey into the depths of the human mind with three brave pioneers - Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, and Alan Watts. 

Combining stylish, minimalist animation with a rich, immersive soundscape, Journeys creates a unique cinematic spectacle, inviting you to relive the highs - and the lows - of the psychedelic experience from the edge of your seat. 

Sixty years later we put these historic trips into a modern context, framing them via an ongoing conversation with twelve major current thinkers, including Graham Hancock, Gabor Maté, Amanda Feilding, and Dennis McKenna. 

Together we explore the question: "What can expanded states of mind teach us about ourselves, the world, and our place in it?"

The lead players:

Timothy Leary — a psychology professor at Harvard University. After taking psilocybin mushrooms in Oaxaca Mexico he announced “I learned more about the human mind in 6 hours than I had in all my years as a Harvard psychologist”. After leaving Harvard, Leary became the self-pronounced high priest of the counterculture movement in s America, encouraging young people to take LSD and “Turn on, tune in, and drop out.” President Richard Nixon allegedly called him “The most dangerous man in America.”

Aldous Huxley — a novelist and screenwriter, born in England and later living in Hollywood, California. Best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, in 1953 he took Mescaline with psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, and this experience radically changed the way he viewed himself and the world. The result was his essay "The Doors of Perception", which influenced an entire generation of thinkers, artists, musicians, and writers.

Alan Watts — began his spiritual career as a Christian priest, before moving to the West Coast of America to teach Zen Buddhism. Watts wrote over 20 books in his lifetime, and his work is credited for helping to popularize Eastern Philosophy in the West. His book The Joyous Cosmology, built on Huxley’s earlier work, describing and reflecting on his various adventures with psychedelics.

Details:

Doors open : 6:30pm

Movie: 7:00pm

Reviews:

“WOW! Over the past 30 years I’ve seen every movie that I could find which mentioned psychedelics, and without a doubt yours is among the finest of them all.”

— LORENZO HAGERTY, FOUNDER OF 'THE PSYCHEDELIC SALON'

“This film is a tour de force. Recreating beautifully the intensity of those first psychedelic experiences coupled with commentaries by major current psychedelic researchers. The film was a series of revelations about where we started and how far we’ve come.See it, you won’t forget it.”

— JAMES FADIMAN, AUTHOR OF 'THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPLORER'S GUIDE'