This site was created and developed by permanent members of the Intellectual Club «Empiros». Within the framework of our professional competence, we are engaged in the study of such areas of knowledge as: philosophy of consciousness, religious studies, psychiatry, hypnosis, altered states of consciousness, philosophy of science, history and culture, quantum physics and various aspects of natural sciences.

Investigating the issue of the «mind & brain problem», we analyze the modern scientific paradigm (data from neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology) and the theories that preceded it, with which its issue was considered until the end of the 19th century: phenomena from the field of spiritualism, magnetism, studies of out-of-body experience. While adhering to the scientific paradigm, we also attach great importance to the phenomenological approach. That is the reason of our interest in the previous paradigms, which are more harmoniously combined with the phenomenological description. In this regard, many materials are devoted to the history of religion (religion studies), the history of psychiatry and psychology.

As the motto of our society, we have chosen the motto of the once existing society «London Dialectical Society», which conducts activities in the same direction as the Intellectual Club «Empiros». This is a society consisting of free-thinking people, which has as its goal the «philosophical discussion of all questions, and especially those that lie at the root of the disagreements that divide humanity».

Our activity is both theoretical (articles, videos, reports, discussions) and experimental (setting up experiments, personal practices, psychological trainings). Geographically, our meetings are held in Moscow.