Breaking Convention 2011 – Sunday 3rd April Lecture topic; “Current research on consciousness and psychedelics at the University of Kent”
Speakers: Reka Komaromi & Ras Binghi Congo-Nyah – “Meditation and Healing with The Herb: A Step-by-step Cultivation of Consciousness”
RAS BINGHI CONGO-NYAH
Ras Binghi Congo-Nyah, is an international Ombudsman for The Rastafari Way of Life, and director of two small companies: Lions Den Fam and Zion Networks. He is also a musical performer. Raised and educated in Jamaica (Munro College, St.Elizabeth), he was accepted to Cambridge University (in 1995), but chose to begin study, train and work in the field of Data Communication. He has recently been the main feature and mediator for a forthcoming documentary ‘Rastafari In Seven Days’ in which he ex- plains the daily and weekly principles of Rastafari Way of Life (due out in Sept 2011). He has spoken on the topic of Rastafari and Herbs for Wandsworth Council, Connexions, Tooting Hub Community Centre and various youth multifaith events. Ras Binghi Nyah-Congo has a uniting perspective on topics and experiences in Life, being the living proof of what he represents.
REKA KOMAROMI
Reka Komaromi is a freelance ethnobotanist and honorary research fellow/assistant at the University of Kent. Before graduating with an MSc in Ethnobotany from UKC, she travelled extensively by land and sea to remote locations and cultures in her involvement with the Institute of Ecotechnics (www. ecotechnics.edu). Her research interests encompass medicinal and ritualistic use of plants in indig- enous as well as modern societies, as well as mythologies and ethics of drug use. Recently, Reka has been involved in therapeutic Cannabis research at the University, and she is planning to do her PhD thesis on contemporary therapeutic Cannabis use in Jamaica.
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