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Support Voiceclub on Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/voiceclub Watch this episode @ https://youtu.be/H9pZOquAAyw --- This is a conversation about the relationship between psychedelic experience, mental health, society, the prominent role of the mystical experience in positive outcomes, and more - charted through the lens of one of the field's leading research scientists, Dr. Matthew Johnson. --- This is the first in a series of conversations which took place at Beyond Psychedelics in Prague, June 2018. The aim of the conference can be stated as follows: ‘To provide a platform for global cooperation among people with a professional interest in psychedelics. We aspire to facilitate the exchange of both scientific knowledge and real practical experience – at a global level and across a variety of disciplines, thus creating new synergies.’ Voiceclub is not affiliated with Beyond Psychedelics. Conversation Waypoints @ https://www.voiceclub.com/e14-psychedelics-consciousness-and-change-with-dr-matthew-johnson About the guests: Dr. Matthew W. Johnson Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is a leading expert on the effects of psychedelics. He is an experimental psychologist with expertise on psychoactive drugs and the psychology of addiction and risk behavior. Matt has received >8 million US dollars in research funding as principal investigator from the US National Institutes of Health and non-profit foundations. For 20 years he has conducted academic research in psychopharmacology and addictions, and for 14 years he has conducted human research with psychedelics. Matthew Johnson at Johns Hopkins: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0800020/matthew-johnson Matthew Johnson on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Johnson14 Melissa Warner Melissa is co-founder of The Australian Psychedelic Society and board member of PRISM (Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine). She is a commentator on the science and philosophy of psychedelic substances on radio, print and online. Melissa holds a BSc in Neuroscience with a minor in computer programming. She is an avid meditator, yogi, performance artist, bio-hacker, and futurist. Her intellectual focus is currently the development of tools and frameworks to facilitate creative output, personal healing, and self-actualization. A survivor of complex PTSD, she lives as a case study for the efficacy of psychedelics as therapeutic tools. Melissa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neuronymph_ PRISM: https://www.prism.org.au/ The Australian Psychedelic Society: https://www.facebook.com/AustralianPsychedelicSociety/ --- Support ---- Support Voiceclub on Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/voiceclub Leave a review on Apple Podcasts @ https://www.itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/voice…d1271039497?mt=2 Or, share this content somewhere worthwhile. Follow Voiceclub on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/voiceclub_ Follow Voiceclub on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/voiceclub.podcast/ Tim Adalin @ www.instagram.com/tim_adalin/ Subscribe on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/voiceclub on Apple Podcasts @ itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/voice…d1271039497?mt=2 RSS @ feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…083/sounds.rss To the Voiceclub mailing list for exclusive content Subscribe to the podcast: on Stitcher @ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/voiceclub on Apple Podcasts @ https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/voiceclub/id1271039497?mt=2 RSS @ http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:242880083/sounds.rss Social: facebook.com/voiceclub.podcast/ twitter.com/voiceclub_ --- Music: Ours Samplus - Spell On You www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ypU_3e_3E

Can mental causation influence evolution? “If you’re an evolutionist, you should believe in mental causation,” Peter tells us. But why? This is the third and final part to our mini-series with the psychedelic philosopher of mind Peter Sjöstedt-H. The central theme of this episode centres on the relationship between mental causation and evolution. Peter begins by telling us that the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead had a far greater influence on science than people realise, having much to say on what is now the modern enquiry into epigenetics. We also touch on Carl Jung, the relationship between intellect and intuition, and the danger of confusing the atomised and fixed for what is most real. Much of what we mention here is greatly expanded in the two preceding parts. I thoroughly recommend you check them out. Read the conversation waypoints @ voiceclub.com/e10-the-psychedeli…ostedt-h-part-two/ --- Sign up for the mailing list @ voiceclub.com to stay in touch. facebook.com/voiceclub.podcast/ twitter.com/voiceclub_ --- For Peter: You can follow the Ontologistics facebook page @ www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2…464724&ref=br_rs And Peter on twitter @ twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH And the website: www.philosopher.eu/ Peter's book, Noumenautics can be purchased from Psychedelic Press @ psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/noumenautics If you're interested in reading a tight formulation of some key reasons to take panpsychism seriously, I suggest reading the following article: www.academia.edu/35860038/Panpsyc…uitous_Sentience --- MUSIC: Big thanks to Ours Samplus for the intro/outro music. You can listen to 'Spell On You' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ypU_3e_3E

Get well in to a conversation about psychedelics, the Will, meaning, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Jung, Peterson, and more. This is the second and largest part of our mini-series with the psychedelic philosopher, Peter Sjöstedt-H. This episode stands alone quite well; bear with it at the beginning, it certainly jumps straight in. Do check out our previous episode if you'd like to get more familiar. Here's a brief intro. In the first part we covered some core aspects of Peter’s approach to philosophy, and discussed how psychedelic experience might be brought to bear on such an approach. We also discussed Bergson’s notion of duration, one of those less common concepts which I think is centrally important to grapple with. We now pick up the conversation at the close of a discussion about the relationship between psychedelic experience and death. Loosely, the idea was something like that psychedelics, perhaps, offer an insight into what it is to experience a state in which your ordinary sense of self is at least significantly diminished, where such a state might speculatively be considered analogous to a metaphorical, and perhaps other than just metaphorical, sense of death. Now, this conversation begins with my transitioning to the link between this psychedelic state and the mystical, or religious experience, but moreover to the process which seems to characterise the journey to and from such a domain. The idea I lay out in this opening is largely central to what follows. We touch on Nietzsche, Bergson, Jung, Schopenhauer, Whitehead, Jordan Peterson, myth, telos, the relation between left and right, and Peter’s own meta-ethical view named Neo-Nihilism, a position which denies the existence of objective values while preserving the notion of subjective values. To this I try to promote to Peter a view grounded on an affirmation of life, construed as a transformative, adaptive, harmonising process. Read the conversation waypoints @ https://voiceclub.com/e10-the-psychedelic-philosopher-with-peter-sjostedt-h-part-two/ --- You can keep touch with voiceclub @ https://facebook.com/voiceclub.podcast/ https://twitter.com/voiceclub_ https://voiceclub.com --- For Peter: You can follow the Ontologistics facebook page @ www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2…464724&ref=br_rs And Peter on twitter @ twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH And the website: http://www.philosopher.eu/ Peter's book, Noumenautics can be purchased from Psychedelic Press @ psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/noumenautics If you're interested in reading a tight formulation of some key reasons to take panpsychism seriously, I suggest reading the following article: www.academia.edu/35860038/Panpsyc…uitous_Sentience --- MUSIC: Big thanks to Ours Samplus for the intro/outro music. You can listen to 'Spell On You' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ypU_3e_3E

This episode is the first of 3 parts. The central theme centers on the relationship between psychedelic experience and philosophy. In each part I’m joined by Peter Sjöstedt-H, a panpsychist, process, psychedelic philosopher who takes much influence from Alfred North Whitehead, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Panpsychism refers roughly to the idea that mind, mentality, or sentience, is in all things. Process philosophy might roughly be stated to mean that fundamental reality consists in processes and not things. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, of course, favour a sort of monistic metaphysical principle, the will, whether to life, or power, respectively, as the ground of reality. In this particular episode, though, we speak to a range of points including ego-dissolution, Henri Bergson’s notion of duration, the relation between dreams and psychedelic experience, and the cycle of destruction and creation more broadly. We also touch on Peter’s own philosophical beginnings and his present intellectual goals, and how psychedelic experience might inform such a pursuit. You can follow the Ontologistics facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=278974435464724&ref=br_rs And Peter on twitter @ https://twitter.com/PeterSjostedtH Peter's book, Noumenautics can be purchased from Psychedelic Press @ https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/noumenautics If you're interested in reading a tight formulation of some key reasons to take panpsychism seriously, I suggest reading the following article: http://www.academia.edu/35860038/Panpsychism_Ubiquitous_Sentience Big thanks to Ours Samplus for the intro/outro music. You can listen to 'Spell On You' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ypU_3e_3E