Harry Pack

In this talk, artist Harry Pack explores how creative expression can be a powerful tool for integrating altered states, supporting mental health, and deepening self-understanding. Drawing from his own journey, he shares how art has helped him make sense of visionary experiences and emotional healing.

He will introduce The Purple UFO, a collaborative platform that uses art as a bridge between inner transformation and community connection—bringing people together through shared creativity, nature-inspired practice, and open conversation around consciousness and integration.

David Nickles

Over the last two decades of participation in psychedelic spaces, David Nickles has contributed to a wide range of research, harm reduction, and advocacy projects relating to drugs, plants, and the people who use them. He has helped run the DMT-Nexus forum, collaborated on underground research projects (such as phytochemical analysis and connecting drug using populations with researchers interested in their experiences), contributed to harm reduction projects (including drug checking and peer support at live events), and worked to disseminate open source resources for developing sustainable, self-sufficient relationships with psychoactive materials.

Alex K. Gearin

When consuming ayahuasca, the usual sense of being located in a present distinct from the past and future can dissolve or stretch, giving rise to vivid encounters with multiple and alternating temporalities. In Amazonian cosmogenic myths and initiation rituals, ayahuasca has long been used to transport neophytes to the origins of life, inviting the presence of creator beings and planetary ancestors.