Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research aka Mind-Altering Science Conference is dedicated to psychology, pharmacology, biology, cognitive AI, philosophy and neuroscience to penetrate the neural mechanisms that underly ek-stasy, mystical experiences, religious trances, and orgasm, with a focus on drugs like MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca, Psylocibine, used in a medical research framework. Researchers from this community are often called psychonauts, or consciousness/awareness researchers. See: MAPS, Heffter Research Institute.