Marta Santuccio is an expanded consciousness and embodiment facilitator, PhD in philosophy on the metaphysics of consciousness (Central European University, Vienna) and Holotropic Breathwork facilitator. She leads journeys that blend metaphysics enquiry with experience in natural non-ordinary and embodied states to offer a unique process of self-transformation, preparation and integration of psychedelics states and mystical experiences.
Accepted in the first MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins (London) cohort, she developed her research and practice creating immersive experiences for subjective exploration, including collaborations with British Library and Oxford University Neuropharmacology Dpt. She has also trained as a Holotropic Breathwork (GTT) facilitator and apprenticed with a Quechua Shaman, adding an extra layer to her understanding of contemplative and embodiment practices A desire to deepen the theoretical aspect of her research has then led her to a fully funded PhD fellowship at CEU (Vienna), supervised by Philip Goff and Kati Farkas. Her doctoral research develops a non-physicalist ontology that places embodiment at the core of its explanation of the nature of consciousness.
Colloquium Presentation: 03 March 2023 – 3.30-5pm
Presenting Contemplative Embodiment
Abstract
Contemplative embodiment is a practice that blends experience in natural non-ordinary and embodied states with metaphysics enquiry, designed to guide practitioners to explore reality ‘beyond the visible’, from the shadow-self to the mystery of the cosmos. This is particularly useful for the preparation and integration of psychedelics states and mystical experiences, but can also constitute a a useful tool to be incorporated into a metaphysician’s research kit.
In this talk I introduce contemplative embodiment and retrace how I came to develop it during my PhD and while undergoing a deep healing process. I focus specifically on how metaphysics and journeys in non-ordinary states can impact and transform our conceptions of what we are and what reality is like, how contemplating metaphysical questions can support our journeys in non-ordinary states, preparing us and helping in the integration process, and how profound embodiment experiences can guide the philosopher when thinking about ontology, thereby constituting a powerful research tool that helps us explore new possibilities for thinking about ontology.