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Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

1 year

'On the Need for Metaphysics in Psychedelic Therapy and Research' – my new, open-access article is out today in @FrontPsychol :

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'Spinoza does not prove the existence of God; existence is God.' – Goethe, 1785

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Can't say I approve of the typesetting of this edition.

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Psychedelics are gateway drugs to Metaphysics.

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It's about time.

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Sorry

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What is Metaphysics?

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— Philosophy and Psychedelics — Ecstatic to announce the imminent publication of our edited volume, featuring 15 chapters by various authors on the various facets of this field. Published by Bloomsbury; edited by me & Prof. C. Hauskeller. @BloomsburyPhilo

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St Peter's Snow. A 1933 novel thus predating LSD by a decade. Yet therein a hallucinogen is developed from ergot so to induce 'religious ecstasy' and thereby a New Age of faith. But the test on villagers results instead in socialist revolution and is therefore suppressed.

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Finally: Spinoza, Amsterdam

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'Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.' – #Schopenhauer

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Kant's 300th birthday the week after next will be phenomenal. How will you celebrate?

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What is Mysticism?

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What are your favourite Philosophy of Mind textbooks? I'm planning on getting some more.

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Finally signed a permanent contract with the University of Exeter. Somewhat unusually for a philosopher of mind and metaphysics, I'm contracted in the Psychology department. Endless gratitude to those who supported me on the way ⭐

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'[The] relation between the "phenomenon" and the "thing" is not that of appearance to reality, but merely that of the part to the whole.' – Bergson MM230

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Schools shutting down, so will have to homeschool the children. Will start with the basics.

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'Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago'

Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago

Old habits.

www.sciencealert.com

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Rest in Peace Roland Griffiths.

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I'm pleased to announce the imminent arrival of my new book, Modes of Sentience – on psychedelics, panpsychism, and other matters of metaphysics. @PsypressUK will first publish a fine-quality limited edition hardback of the book which can be ordered here:

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'We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.' – Schopenhauer

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Breaking Convention, Europe's largest psychedelic conference, begins in a few days here at the University of Exeter. I'll be talking about metaphysics and therapy, and chairing a session on Policy & Legality – etc. I hope to meet many of you there!

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Today, seventy-five years ago in Basel, #LSD first entered the bloodstream of our species. This was the accidental, low dose Albert Hofmann received that led him to purposefully take a larger dose three days later (on the 19th – which became known as #BicycleDay ).

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Just received my paperback copies of Philosophy and Psychedelics! Out now for under £20.

Bloomsbury Philosophy

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New in Paperback: Philosophy and Psychedelics, edited by Christine Hauskeller & @PeterSjostedtH , reveals why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone. Get your copy: Read a preview:

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I'm very pleased to introduce the first Philosophy of Psychedelics undergraduate module at the University of Exeter.

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A bit of Bergson. I was introduced to Bergson's thought by Keith Ansell-Pearson at Warwick University some twenty years ago. Though I'm not fully in agreement with Bergson, I do believe that he is one of the most original thinkers of the past few centuries.

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‘It should also be laid down by law that everyone in his first year at university must attend lectures devoted entirely to philosophy.’ – #Schopenhauer (PPii, §256)

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Official: our new interdisciplinary PGcert course in 'Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture' at the University of Exeter has been announced.

UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics

Certificate at Exeter to include teaching about existing therapies and research in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience

www.theguardian.com

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80 years ago today, chemist Albert Hofmann took the first dose of LSD intentionally. 🚵‍♂️He later realized that the substance was a therapeutic tool that could be utilized via metaphysics. Here is my article expanding on this proposal:

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Metametametaphysics

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Tomorrow I'll be teaching psychedelics to my philosophy of mind class, and philosophy of mind to my psychedelics class.

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'The highest good ... is the knowledge of the union that the mind has with the whole of Nature.' – Spinoza (born on this day)

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This week begins the first undergraduate Philosophy of Psychedelics module, at the University of Exeter.

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'Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.' – #Schopenhauer

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'[The plants] communicate by passing electrical signals to each other through the Mycorrhizal network in the soil.'

Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions

The soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signals being sent from one plant to another, according to research in which a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) distinguished professor...

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Slime mould remembers

Researchers find a single-celled slime mold with no nervous system that remembers food locations

Having a memory of past events enables us to take smarter decisions about the future. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) and Technical University of...

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What is considered the proper (non-pseudoscience) theory of consciousness one wonders...

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A letter signed by a significant number of researchers claim information theory about consciousness as pseudoscience

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4E theorising, 1933: 'The brain is continuous with the body, and the body is continuous with the rest of the natural world. Human experience...includ[es] the whole of nature ... not necessarily persisting in any fixed coördination with a definite part of the brain.' — #Whitehead

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'[S]cience cannot deal with time and motion except on condition of first eliminating the essential and qualitative element—of time, duration, and of motion, mobility. ' – Bergson TFW, 1889, ch. 3

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Happy Birthday to two seminal psychonauts, William James and Albert Hofmann.

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Psychedelic selection:

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Some reading material for my upcoming Philosophy of Nature module at Exeter.

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Doors of Perception

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This year is the 70th anniversary of Aldous Huxley's psychedelic masterpiece, The Doors of Perception. I will be spending much of the year developing and relating the Bergsonian metaphysics that lies behind it.

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'Spinoza assumed ... that the relation of apparent causality between phenomena melted away into a relation of identity in the absolute ... that the indefinite duration of things was all contained in a single moment, which is eternity.' – Bergson, TFW, III

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'Just as Goethe regarded colour as one of light's adventures, so we could view ecstatic intoxication as the triumphal march of plants through the human psyche.' –Ernst #J ünger, 1970/2022 (pic: Hilma af Klint)

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Two eyes upon the world – one sees clearly; the other, through a glass darkly.

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80 years 🚵‍♂️⚡

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What is Philosophy of Mind?

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These new psychedelics without experience are as oxymoronic as music without sound.

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'[W]hat you ... perceive is not the nature of things, but their action upon you.' – #Schleiermacher

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Here's my account of undergoing Holotropic Breathwork – A fantastic experience of entering trance simply through breathing and music. I include the theory, method, my personal trip, and some reflections.

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I finally underwent holotropic breathwork. A fascinating, exhilirating experience surprisingly simple to induce via breathing and music. A trip without exogenous drugs. I shall say more soon. Grateful to the facilitators and group: #Dreamshadow

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Relatively simple point that always needs repeating. Can we move on?

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The day after I spoke on psychedelics and consciousness at Aldous Huxley's alma mater Balliol College, Oxford, I passed the mad hat shop and The White Rabbit, to have breakfast at 'The Alice' (with apt paintings). It's been an unexpected trip.

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'The bourgeois person is perhaps best characterized as one who places security among the highest of values... [His] relation to danger lies in his perception of it... as senseless. In this he marks himself off from... the warrior, the artist, and the criminal...' —Ernst #J ünger

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'Matter is a language which God speaks to us.' – Bergson on Berkeley 1911PI

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Nabbed and shared

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ALL merely-empirical theories of consciousness are pseudoscience. Like mathematical theories, consciousness theories cannot be determined by empirical tests alone because consciousness essentially involves a non-empirical, private aspect.

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What is considered the proper (non-pseudoscience) theory of consciousness one wonders...

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The Metaphysical Turn occurred a few decades ago, and this decade's Psychedelic Turn will fuel that further with Experiential Metaphysics. A new direction for our civilization.

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'Einstein is the continuator of Descartes.' – Bergson

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'The question why anything exists ... presupposes that reality fills a void, that underneath Being lies nothingness. ... [T]his presupposition is pure illusion, for the idea of absolute nothing [is like that of] a square circle.' – Henri #Bergson (TSMR, 215)

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I've reached 20,000 followers today on this God-forsaken platform. I shall celebrate with a cup of tea.

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Getting into AI this summer. Absolute Idealism.

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'The question whether LSD is a phenomenal medicine or a devil's drug makes as little sense as a similar question asked about the positive or negative potential of a knife.' – Stan #Grof 1980

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'Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.' – #Nietzsche

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Some #Psychedelic Books

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'Without Hegel there could have been no Darwin.' – Nietzsche (GS§357)

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I think there is a need to import the German word "Wissenschaft" ("knowledge-crafting") into English. The word "science" is now too narrow, and the words "knowledge" or "wisdom" do not entail systematic method.

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The paperback edition of our Philosophy and Psychedelics edited volume came out a year ago today. @BloomsburyPhilo

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Spiralling back to Bergson.

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Readings in Pantheism

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Seven years ago today, I bumped into Bertrand Russell's daughter, the late Katherine Tait, at the local Oxfam bookshop in Penzance where she worked. I recommend her book, My Father, Bertrand Russell, which depicts a flawed man.

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The Canonical Seven philosophers. Why?

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This is a wonderful book, despite my qualm that Carlisle's epithet for Spinozism as a panentheism rather than pantheism is fundamentally mistaken.

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'A university is not a machine for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a manner of human activity.' – Michael Oakeshott, 1950

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These charges of the heresy of IIT are really not about empirical science and pseudoscience but about metaphysical shifts underlying science, and the ethical and political changes that supervene. We hear here a last, awkward gasp of the dated ideology of the twentieth century.

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Happy 300th Birthday Kant! My judgement in a tweet: His metaphysics* was inspired, creative, highly-detailed—but flawed (wrong to assume part of Hume, corrected by Whitehead). His moral theory was terrible (see Schopenhauer). Fun to read him on aliens, Swedenborg, and peace.

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Mushroom material

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It has arrived! There will be a little book launch of this volume at the start of the Philosophy and Psychedelic Studies conference at Exeter next week: @BloomsburyPhilo

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Two new psychedelics books in which I'm happy to find myself mentioned.

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My new book Noumenautics is out now: #Nietzsche #Whitehead #Bergson #Schopenhauer #mind

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I just passed my PhD! Drinking underway.

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'[T]hese drugs do not impart wisdom at all, any more than the microscope alone gives knowledge. They provide the raw materials of wisdom, and are useful to the extent that the individual can integrate what they reveal into...the whole system of his knowledge.' – Alan #Watts 1962

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Reading Spinoza this morning.

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'I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself. The consciousness of oneself is therefore far from being a cognition of oneself...' – #Kant (CPureR, B158 – image: Micallef)

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'[For] #Spinoza , consciousness is an attribute pervading the universe, something like a field suffusing spacetime. ... [M]inds might be local concentrations ... the most plausible form of #panpsychism .' – John #Heil , 2021

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Insects now, plants next.

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience...

www.quantamagazine.org

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This 668-page tome from 2012 on Metaphysics has two whole chapters on Wittgenstein but only mentions Whitehead in passing within a footnote about Deleuze.

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The university Open Day badge I received – so people will know whom to get their psychedelics from.

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Hegel and Whitehead New Acquisition

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Behold: Alfred North Whitehead tome signed by the man.

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'Pantheism is necessarily optimism and is therefore false.' – Schopenhauer, 1851

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My main mind resets: Nietzsche, Whitehead, Psilocybin

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Happy 90th Stan #Grof . I met him once (yesterday).

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The ostensible paradox of Spinoza's Ethics: one gains freedom by understanding that everything is absolutely necessary.

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Shaman lit

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'Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious.' – Jerry #Fodor (1992)

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Published today! Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience @BloomsburyPhilo @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyPub #Psilocybin #DMT #LSD

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