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A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Stoics and Ataraxia
In your essay, the word equanimity comes up a few times. Do you feel like you've arrived at some kind of peace with our existence? I think over the past years and with the help of psychedelics, a large part of it is actually carrying that syllogism through in a way that Ivan Iliach only did belatedly understanding that I'm just like everything else in the world subject to momentary flourishing if you're lucky and then decay. It's very helpful in the project of what the Stoics called ataraxia or equanimity.
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