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7Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental phil…Read more
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714The White Sun of Substance: Spinozism and the Psychedelic Amor Dei IntellectualisIn Christine Hauskeller & Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes (eds.), Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 211-235. 2022.Experiences of enlightened unity with Nature or with Deity are reported not only in the mystical literature of the past but also in contemporary accounts of the psychedelic adventurer. In Chapter 13, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes seeks to fathom such reported states within the framework of the metaphysics of Benedict de Spinoza – a metaphysics encompassing monism, pantheism, panpsychism, and the eternal substance: the timelessness of pure Nature, God itself. God is Nature for Spinoza. To achieve this fr…Read more
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49On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and researchFrontiers in Psychology 14. 2023.The essential proposal of this text is that psychedelic-induced metaphysical experiences should be integrated and evaluated with recourse to metaphysics. It will be argued that there is a potential extra benefit to patients in psychedelic-assisted therapy if they are provided with an optional, additional, and intelligible schema and discussion of metaphysical options at the integrative phase of the therapy. This schema (the “Metaphysics Matrix”) and a new Metaphysics Matrix Questionnaire (“MMQ”)…Read more
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463Pansentient Monism: Formulating Panpsychism as a Genuine Psycho-Physical Identity Theory [PhD thesis: Abstract & Contents Pages]Dissertation, University of Essex. 2019.The thesis that follows proffers a solution to the mind-matter problem, the problem as to how mind and matter relate. The proposed solution herein is a variant of panpsychism – the theory that all (pan) has minds (psyche) – that we name pansentient monism. By defining the suffix 'psyche' of panpsychism, i.e. by analysing what 'mind' is (Chapter 1), we thereby initiate the effacement of the distinction between mind and matter, and thus advance a monism. We thereafter critically examine the preval…Read more
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3566Book Review – Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic GamePsychedelic Press UK: Psychedelic Book Reviews. 2019.Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H reviews Dr Andrew R. Gallimore's book, Alien Information Theory. This was published on PsyPressUK on 13 June 2019.
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348Conspectus of part of John R. Smythies' Analysis of Perception (1956). It presents a summary of his ideas on phenomenal space – the space of one’s imagination, dreams, psychedelic experiences, somatic sensations, visions, hynagogia, etc. – and its relation to physical space.
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56I summarize Jaegwon Kim's (2001/5) paper on the detrimental affect 'mental causation' has on physicalism.
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274A Conspectus of A. N. Whitehead's Metaphysics
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1253Master's Dissertation (Awarded Distinction from Warwick University – assessed by Professors Stephen Houlgate and Christine Battersby, 2002)
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166Noumenautics: Metaphysics – Meta-ethics – PsychedelicsPsychedelic Press. 2015.Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H’s Noumenautics traverses the mindscape of metaphysics, nihilism and psychedelic phenomenology. It navigates through subjects such as the sentience of cells, the constrictions of consciousness, the metaphysics of might, the magic of mushrooms, the narcotics of Nietzsche, and the neologism of neo-nihilism – the last of which may itself cause flashbacks. Tracing the fall of western morality through Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the book descends deeper still into a …Read more
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4499The Psychedelic Influence on PhilosophyHigh Existence 8. 2016.A mildly chronological overview of the philosophers who may have been inspired by the use of psychoactive chemicals, inc. Plato, de Quincey, Davy, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Bergson, Benjamin, Jünger, Paz, Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault; and a mention of the Outsight project. This article was based on a talk given for the University of Exeter Philosophy Society and at the ICPR2016 conference.
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8110Antichrist Psychonaut: Nietzsche's Psychoactive DrugsPsychedelic Press Journal 12 19-41. 2015.An exploration into the reciprocity between Nietzsche's drug use and his philosophy.
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852The Great God Pan is Not Dead – A. N. Whitehead and the Psychedelic Mode of PerceptionPsychedelic Press Journal 20 47-65. 2017.Through Alfred North Whitehead’s metaphysics, the Philosophy of Organism, it will be argued that psychedelic experience is a vertical, lateral and temporal integration of sentience.
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48Nietzsche and NihilismEthical Record 10 (114): 6-10. 2009.An analysis of Nietzsche's varying use of the term 'nihilism'.
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2969Panpsychism: Ubiquitous SentienceHigh Existence 1. 2018.This public article presents three arguments for the plausibility of panpsychism: the view that sentience is a fundamental and ubiquitous element of actuality. Thereafter is presented a brief exploration of why panpsychism has been spurned. The article was commissioned by High Existence. – Introduction – 1. The Genetic Argument – 2. The Abstraction Argument – 3. The Inferential Argument – Why Panpsychism is Spurned – End Remarks
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