Brain, Mind and Consciousness Society



The Brain, Mind and Consciousness Society is a group started at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011 with several thousand members spanning the South Bay Area. Ostensibly a "cognitive science" group, the Society promotes a host of New Age woo including spiritualism,, quantum woo chakras and the work of Deepak Chopra and Masaru Emoto as well as many other varieties of pseudoscience. The Brain, Mind and Consciousness Society is best described as a hippie group, and most prominently advocates for other ways of knowing through the consumption of hallucinogenic drugs as well as skepticism about the nature of empiricism and the scientific method. This group is closely associated with Esalen and other New Age groups. Students be warned!