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Chris Letheby 'The best available evidence suggests that when psychedelic experiences reduce existential angst and restore a sense of meaning in life, they do so primarily by persuading people of the falsity of a broadly naturalistic worldview' - perhaps because it is false?

Provocatively expressed but I do wonder if something like -- as more things become automatable personal flair shall count for more in terms of 'value added'. Some sorta miserable dystopian sci fi where we all become eccentrics as a response to automation beckons

New, open access paper in Neuroethics: 'How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?' In which I argue that Letheby (2021) was wrong about (almost) everything. Thanks to Mette Leonard Høeg for inviting me to contribute to this great SI on consciousness etc.

doi.org/10.1007/s12152…

When the mist came in:

For the psychedelic and drug book collectors we've started a secondhand and collectable section on our website - will be updating weekly... ❤️📖

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'[The] Christian tone in Whitehead's thought is combined and with a notion of God as a Nietzschean hero who does not care too much about sin or suffering, for his one great aim is intensity of feeling.'
– TLS Sprigge, 2006

The Harvard Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture:
psychedelics-study.harvard.edu

'[It] is only the moral god that has been overcome. Does it make sense to conceive a god 'beyond good and evil'? Would a pantheism in this sense be possible?'
– Nietzsche, 1887

Happy Birthday to Bertrand Russell.
My view in a Tweet:
At his best he is amongst the best: in logic, theories of mind, comprehension—his command of the English language in both precision and style. But his worst is amongst the worst: e.g. his critiques of Bergson and Nietzsche.

'The plant ... is without belief or reason or understanding but has appetite and a sense of pleasure and pain.'
– Plato
(Timaeus)

This book is superb. I thoroughly recommend it. So many insights into Russell’s character and motivations…and his effects on people close to him

Süper cool Psychonaut pin by TORVENIUS

Morning stroll here in Westernmost Cornwall

I'm honoured to be giving the Foreword to Dr Rob Dickins' forthcoming book, a collection of essays on the fascinating literary history of psychedelia.
Out soon, pre-order here:
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Psychedelic Press Robert Dickins

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'[A person] is as much the universe outside the skin as the system of organs within it. ... [The] existence of the two is as interdependent, mutual, reciprocal, or correlative as that of front and back.'
– Alan Watts, 1963

'It would be much more correct to identify the world with the devil...' (ibid.)

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