The Sangha — an evening of expanding consciousness with AI

Most of us now think alongside AI every day — and almost no one was taught how to do it well. The Sangha is a small room where we practice exactly that.

A handful of people meet for an evening in central Amsterdam, each bringing something real: a project, a question, a problem they're chewing on. We sit for a few minutes to arrive, go around and share what's alive for each of us, then get hands-on — working with Delphi, the AI built here at the Center, testing ideas, and following a hard question further than you could alone.

"Expanding consciousness with AI" isn't a slogan here. Most people use AI to get answers faster; we're interested in the opposite — how a machine that thinks with you can sharpen your attention, surface what you'd have missed, and slowly change how you think. Some of that is craft: prompting, knowing when to trust an output and when not to. Some of it is older than the technology: how your own state of mind shapes what you bring to the machine.

What you'll leave with

• A sharper way of working with AI — by the end of an evening you'll prompt differently than you walked in.
• Real movement on something of your own — the room thinks about your actual question, not a toy example.
• A handful of unusually interesting people — philosophers, builders, scientists, meditators, artists — the kind of company that's hard to assemble on purpose.

The shape of the evening

• 19:00 — Doors open. Tea, settling in.
• 19:15 — Doors close (sharp — a contained room makes real depth possible).
• A few minutes of quiet, then a sharing circle: where each of us is, what we're working on.
• A short break.
• Hands-on work: live prompting with Delphi, a clinic on someone's project, or a focused exercise — it shifts week to week.
• 21:30 — Close.

Booking — please read RSVPing here on Meetup only reserves your spot to buy a ticket — it does not get you in. To attend, you must buy a ticket on our website: https://psychedelic.space/school/sangha/. Seats are limited (about 10), so book early.

What to bring Your hardest question, and a laptop if you have one. No background in AI, philosophy, or meditation required — just curiosity and a willingness to leave your certainty at the door.

Finding us 📍 Kokopelli, Warmoesstraat 12, 1012 JD Amsterdam — two minutes from Centraal Station.

Hosted by Dr. Aidan Lyon, founder of the Center for Psychedelic Space — an independent research center in Amsterdam working where yoga, psychedelics, philosophy, and AI meet.