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  "description": "# Unlocking The Psychedelic Mind with Dr. Chris Timmermann\n\n### _This 10-week live online course dives into the cutting edge of psychedelic neuroscience with Dr. Chris Timmermann _\n\n_Also includes 2 optional Socials (Online & In London) to network and connect with your psychedelic community _\n\n- _ **Session Recordings Emailed After Each Session ** _\n- _ **We are offering a 20% discount code to all of those who purchase tickets to Chris Timmermann's upcoming online talk** _ [_ **Psychedelics, Entities & Consciousness ** _](https://dandelion.events/e/s6pht)\n\n## About the Course \n\nThis immersive online course dives into **how psychedelics promote a deeper understanding of consciousness** and how this exploration promotes their use to treat depression, anxiety, and many other mental health conditions.  We will dice deep in the **intersection between psychedelics and meditation** , and the role of psychedelics to unlock **creativity and flow states**. You’ll journey through **ancient wisdom traditions and modern scientific frameworks** , learning how these tools can support healing, neuroplasticity, and expanded states of awareness. \n\nGrounded in neuroscience and rich with philosophical insight, the course offers a deep, critical look at the potential of psychedelics to contribute to **mental health, human flourishing, and the future of consciousness itself**.\n\nWe’ll explore **how psychedelics impact brain organization, perception, and the sense of self** , and how these changes relate to **neuroplasticity, mental health, and personal transformation**. From the mechanisms behind ego dissolution to the therapeutic potential of compounds like psilocybin, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT. Along the way, we’ll connect the dots between ancient practices and contemporary research. From shamanic traditions to fMRI scanners.\n\nEach session blends science, philosophy, and critical discussion. You’ll learn about emerging clinical models, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and the ethical and cultural tensions shaping the psychedelic renaissance.\n\n# Highlights\n\n- 10-week deep dive into the neuroscience of psychedelics\n- Live online lectures with Dr. Chris Timmermann, a pioneering psychedelic neuroscientist\n- Cutting-edge insights on psilocybin, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and brain function\n- Explore key models like REBUS, neural entropy, and psychedelic neuroplasticity\n- Weekly sessions blending science, philosophy, and critical discussion\n- Engage with ancient wisdom and modern research side by side\n- Understand the relationship between psychedelics, consciousness, and healing\n- Explore future frontiers: creativity, flow states, and psychedelic apprenticeship\n- Two optional in-person socials in London for those participating in the course\n- A unique opportunity to learn with an international online learning community\n- Certificate of completion available\n\n# What You'll Gain \n\n- A solid understanding of how psychedelics reshape the brain and consciousness.\n- Insights into their therapeutic potential for mental health and personal growth.\n- A critical perspective on the risks, ethics, and social dimensions of their use.\n- Inspiration from the intersections of neuroscience, meditation, and creativity.\n\n# **Who is This Course For?**\n\nThis course is for anyone curious about the **science, culture, and potential of psychedelics,** whether you’re a seasoned psychonaut, a wellness practitioner, a researcher, or simply neuro-curious.\n\n# Curriculum:\n\n#### Module 1: **The Many Faces of Psychedelic Neuroscience**\n\nExplore how psychedelics are reshaping our understanding of the brain, therapy, and culture. We’ll dive into the foundations of psychedelic neuroscience and how these substances may enhance the brain’s ability to adapt and change, a process known as neuroplasticity.\n\n**Lecture 1:** Psychedelics at the intersection between neuroscience, therapy, and society\n\n**Lecture 2:** The basics of psychedelic phenomenology, neuroscience, and neuroplasticity\n\n#### Module 2: **Psychedelics, Healing, and Consciousness**\n\nWhat do psychedelics reveal about the nature of consciousness and the experience of self?  \nWe’ll explore their therapeutic potential across a wide range of therapeutic conditions, and how they seem to alter the very structure of our conscious experience.\n\n**Lecture 3:** Therapeutic effects of psychedelics\n\n**Lecture 4:** Psychedelics, the self, and consciousness\n\n#### Module 3: **Models and Minds: The Neuroscience and Phenomenology of Psychedelics**\n\nThis week explores how psychedelics reshape consciousness from the brain to the body. We’ll unpack leading models like REBUS, and the Entropic Brain.  We'll dive into how lived experience, embodiment, and context play a role through the lens of psychedelic neurophenomenology.\n\n**Lecture 5** : Models of psychedelic neuroscience: REBUS, the Entropic Brian, and the CTSC model .\n\n**Lecture 6:** Embodied, extended, and enactive: Psychedelic neurophenomenology.\n\n#### Module 4:  **Into the Depths: DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and the Edges of Consciousness**\n\nWhat happens to the brain (and the self) in the most intense psychedelic states? Do psychedelics truly reveal the essence of consciousness? We’ll look at cutting-edge research into powerful compounds like DMT and 5-MeO-DMT, and how they intersect with deep meditative states and traditions.\n\n**Lecture 7:** The neuroscience DMT and 5-MeO-DMT and the deconstruction of consciousness\n\n**Lecture 8:** The intersection between psychedelics and meditation\n\n#### **Module 5 - New Frontiers: Creativity, Flow, and the Future**\n\nHow might psychedelics unlock creative insight or enhance performance? We’ll close by exploring emerging applications - from enhancing creativity and flow states to reimagining the future of psychedelic neuroscience and its role in human flourishing.\n\n**Lecture 9** : Psychedelics, creativity, and flow states\n\n**Lecture 10** : Psychedelic apprenticeship and the future of psychedelic neuroscience\n\n# Learning Outcomes:\n\nBy the end of the course, participants will be able to: \n\n- Explain the core principles of psychedelic neuroscience (neuroplasticity, brain network modulation, REBUS and the Entropic Brain)\n- Describe how psychedelics affect perception, cognition, and the experience of self, and connect these changes to broader theories of consciousness.\n- Identify the therapeutic potential and risks associated with compounds like psilocybin, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT.\n- Critically assess the ethical, cultural, and social dimensions of psychedelics.\n- Compare and contrast ancient and modern frameworks for working with non-ordinary states, including shamanic practices and meditation-based insights.\n- Articulate how psychedelics may enhance creativity, mental health, and support wellbeing.\n- Engage in informed discussion about the future of psychedelic research and its potential contributions to mental health, neuroscience, and human flourishing.\n- Integrate philosophical and phenomenological perspectives to better understand the subjective dimensions of psychedelics.\n\n# Your Teacher\n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/07/20/15/51/39/2845a887-e1e0-4cd1-a109-707d96457b2d/b0ef705b-50e7-4f8e-ab45-f369f75d3959.jpeg)\n\n[Dr. Chris Timmermann](https://www.instagram.com/christophertimmermann/?hl=en) is a neuroscientist and psychologist with over 12 years of experience in psychedelics and consciousness science. He obtained his PhD in Neuropsychopharmacology at [Imperial College London](https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.timmermann-slater15), where he led the world’s [first brain imaging studies of DMT](https://youtu.be/VozUvhyXK2A?si=lTrOaWm5s9L58y0P), one of the most powerful psychedelics known. Until 2025, he headed the DMT Research Group at Imperial College London, conducting pioneering work on both DMT and 5-MeO-DMT, and contributing to their clinical development for depression.\n\nHe is now based at University College London (UCL), where he [co-directs the UCL Centre for Consciousness Research](https://www.uccr.uk/). His research spans from psychedelics and breathwork to meditation and other non-ordinary states, with a focus on their therapeutic potential and their power to illuminate the nature of the consciousness.\n\n[Chris has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ezYk7h0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao), with his work featured in [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/health/psychedelic-drugs-near-death-study.html), [BBC](https://youtu.be/GcOckvgSK8o?si=xgnwkWvhxFVmUNcb), [CBC](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-23-psychedelics-and-waking-dreams-adding-feeling-to-virtual-reality-the-greatest-ape-and-more-1.5369357/the-psychedelic-dmt-modifies-brain-waves-to-produce-waking-dreams-1.5369360), [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/mapping-brain-dmt-psychedelic-drugs/), and [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/20/psychedelic-brew-ayahuasca-profound-impact-brain-scans-dmt). He also designs and teaches university-level courses on psychedelic science.\n\nIn 2022, he founded the ECOH Foundation - a non-profit in Latin America dedicated to public education and research on psychedelics, science, and mind.\n\n# Schedule \n\n### Course Schedule\n\n- Week 1 / Lecture 1: Tuesday 29th September: 7pm-9pm (BST)\n- Week 2 / Lecture 2: Tuesday 6th October: 7pm-9pm (BST)\n- Week 3 / Lecture 3:  Tuesday 13th October: 7pm-9pm (BST)\n- Week 4 / Lecture 4: Tuesday 20th October: 7pm-9pm (BST)\n- Week 5 / Lecture 5: Tuesday 27th October: 7pm-9pm (GMT)\\*  \nREADING WEEK / NO LECTURE: Tuesday 3rd November\n- Week 6 / Lecture 6: Tuesday 10th November: 7pm-9pm (GMT)\\*\n- Week 7 / Lecture 7: Tuesday 17th November: 7pm-9pm (GMT)\\*\n- Week 8 / Lecture 8: Tuesday 24th November: 7pm-9pm (GMT)\\*\n- Week 9 / Lecture 9: Tuesday 1st December: 7pm-9pm (GMT )\\*\n- Week 10 / Lecture 10: Tuesday 8th December: 7pm-9pm (GMT )\\*  \n_\\*Please not clocks go back 1 hour from BST to GMT during the course on the 25th October. The asterisks denotes the change_\n\nEach online lesson takes place on Zoom over 2 hours: the approximate breakdown is below (subject to change)\n\n- 5 mins of grounding\n- 1 hour 15 mins of Lecture\n- 45 minutes of Q&A and Discussion\n\nWe strongly encourage attendance for each session. However, recordings will be provided of each session if you cannot attend live. \n\n### Social Schedule\\*\n\n- **Unlocking The Psychedelic Mind Mixer (In-person, London Location TBC):** Monday 28th September 7pm-9pm\n- **Introductory Social (Online)**: Monday 26th October 6:30pm-9pm\n\n_The socials are designed for both participants based in London and Internationally to network and connect. This course attracts a diverse range of people from researchers and clinicians in both the psychedelic and allied fields to therapists, practitioners and psychonauts. _\n\n# Your Organiser \n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2025/01/16/13/10/16/73cceace-698b-4eb2-839f-0fefcc4394b4/Callum & Thalia (5).png)\n_Callum Browne_\n\nCallum is the Marketing & Community Manager for The Psychedelic Society and a life-long learner in the exploration of consciousness and the mystical arts. He has completed a MSc in Medical Anthropology at University College London where he specialised in research on the phenomenology of consciousness, psychedelics and the therapeutic and healing arts across the world. \n\nCallum is a Trauma-Informed Body-Worker and Somatic Therapist whose training includes Somatic Muscle Release, Somatic Alignment,  Myofascial Release, Advanced Deep tissue Massage, Breathwork and the Shamanic arts. Callum is passionate about the innate wisdom and intelligence of the body to both find equanimity and balance but also explore ecstatic and altered states of consciousness. He is a passionate advocate of somatic and psychedelic experiences that are grounded in transpersonal philosophy and psychology. These are the experiences that cultivate the experience and wisdom to remember and embody deeper connection with ourselves, others, nature and the beyond. Follow Callum on Instagram at [@calibraid](https://www.instagram.com/calibraid/) \n\n#  \n\n# **Reviews for Unlocking the Psychedelic Mind**\n\n**5/5 stars for all reviews**\n\n_This was a phenomenal programme. Looking forward to Dr Timmermann's upcoming newsletters and book! **- Anonymous, 5/5 stars** _\n\n_These 10 sessions cover and provide a solid integration of neuroscience and phenomenological perspectives. I value the relaxed format, which allows for deep professional engagement at one’s own pace and depth without pressure. It is a well-structured and highly relevant resource. Highly recommended. **Claudia W. - 5/5 stars** _\n\n_This was an excellent course. The content was well-structured and delivered in such a way that someone with limited knowledge and experience could understand and process. There was so much here that I can apply to my own academic research, which is non-scientific but explores the possible personal and social benefits of psychedelic use_ _ **- Martine M. 5/5 stars** _\n\n_The course was excellent! It covered many different aspects of psychedelics and related neuroscience, and was very well taught by Chris. **David W. - 5/5 stars** _\n\n_Brilliant course. Great teaching and scope of topic. **Catja - 5/5 stars** _",
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