Enchantment is about translating us back into nature to rediscover an intimate and porous relationship with the world where we no longer feel separate but intensely part of it.

Neuroscience is revealing an enchanting relationship between our minds and the world: we do not passively perceive the world but actively co-generate it. We draw on the background context of our prior beliefs, knowledge and expectations to predict our experiences confirmed or corrected by sense data.

To explore this relationship, I synthesise ideas from neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology and sociology; in particular, hallucinations, aesthetic, psychedelic and mystical experiences.

Please contact me here about opportunities to speak about and present these themes or develop them into papers and other collaborative outputs!