In his lecture "Inducing the Sublime: A Neurobilogoical Approach to Mystical and Ecstatic Experience" Stuart Swezey lectured about the relationship between medical/scientific literature, transcendence, and the 20th century avant-garde from Andre Breton to Bob Flanagan (via Bataille, Burroughs, and Ballard). Stuart Swezey is the acclaimed editor of the Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook of Extremes of Information and the Amok Journal: Senssurround Edition, and co-founder of cult Los Angeles publishing house Amok Books.
