INTERSPECIFICS: Consciousness Study Group

19.05.2025 / 16:00 – 18:00
With Interspecifics

further dates: May 26, June 2+6

Why has the study of consciousness so often been left to the margins, dismissed as pseudoscience or parapsychology? What if art could serve as a bridge—connecting disciplines, ideas, and experiences—to illuminate our underlying interconnectedness? And what if sound holds the key to unlocking this shared understanding?

Interspecifics (fellows 2025) invite to join a study group delving into the work of contemporary research centers dedicated to the formal investigation of consciousness—institutions that have profoundly shaped the collective’s practice in recent years. To create a multicultural, practice-led experimental research group with locations worldwide, where we can share and integrate experiential insights on this topic.

Interspecifics will present their recent works related to their exploration of (the study of) consciousness. Above, they will present the research of one institute or research organisation at each date (see list below). As a basis for further discussion they will – together with the audience – conduct and experience one of the experiments that has been developed by the respective insitute.

No prior knowledge required, everyone is welcome to participate. Admission free. Please register informally for one or several dates via: borsche.berlin@daad.de

daadgalerie, Oranienstr. 161, 10969 Berlin

Monday 19 May 4-6pm
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research & The Global Consciousness Project 
Wishing for good weather: a natural experiment in group consciousness
Random number generators (RNGs): meaningful correlations in random data

Monday 26 May 10am-12noon
HeartMath Institute
Heart Coherence: mutual gaze heart synchronization experiment 
Binaural beats and isochronic tones entrain the heart

Monday 2 June 4-6pm
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Heart rate variability biofeedback
Intentional sound meditation: solving strategy heart synchronization experiment 

Friday 6 June 10am-12noon
ALIUS research network
Consciousness and psychedelics an interview with George Fejer
Can sound induce altered states of consciousness?

photo credit: Samuel Shumate