In May 2005, the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth hosted the First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the refereed web journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (CLA) (www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal), the launch of Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe’s Theatre and Consciousness: Explanatory Scope and Future Potential and the launch of Amy Ione’s Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths. 80 delegates from fourteen countries attended the conference. This book collects 40 of the papers presented, characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.