How 5-MeO-DMT Shatters Our View of God & Consciousness - Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

5-MeO-DMT is a powerful psychedelic produced by the Sonoran desert toad. It fascinates philosopher and metaphysician at Exeter University, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, because of what the dissolution of all experience that the drug induces says about the nature of reality.Learn about why 5-MeO-DMT is interesting (and frightening), how different psychedelics change our views of reality, how 5-MeO-DMT makes Spinoza's pantheism (that God is nature) likely, Bergson's views on matter and memory, atheism vs. pantheism, exotic forms of experience, the true nature of ultimate reality, and more...Timestamps: 00:00 The Intrigue of 5-MeO-DMT02:38 Exploring Consciousness and Existence06:17 Psychedelics and Metaphysics12:11 The Ethical Implications of Metaphysical Experiences18:02 The Nature of God and Reality22:30 Bergson and Spinoza: Philosophical Connections28:43 Spinoza's Philosophy: Physical and Psychological Causation30:08 The Nature of Good and Ethics in Spinoza's Thought31:32 Understanding God and Nature: A Unitive Experience33:09 Spinoza's Controversial Relationship with Religion35:15 Pantheism vs Atheism: Clarifying Misconceptions37:16 Exploring Other Aspects of Reality39:31 Qualia and Perception: Different Ways of Experiencing Reality42:33 The Nature of Existence: Perspectives on Agency43:35 Immanence vs Transcendence: Understanding Spinoza's God46:50 Sin, Determinism, and the Nature of God49:29 Evaluating Metaphysics: Truth and Knowledge54:36 Current Projects and Future DirectionsFind Peter:-Mind-at-Large project: https://ctr4process.org/mind-at-large/-Recent books: Modes of Sentience (2021); Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (2023)-Upcoming book: The Psychedelic Experience Manual