Excellent. Really nice to get more insight into your journey. We share that meeting point of McKenna & Co. esoteric philosophies during university years.
I feel a confluence of people (and myself) recognising the necessity of philosophy to mystical experience and of mystical experience to philosophy. I have been thinking of network's of peer-to-peer dialogos as being essential to psychedelic integration and also the proper ground for philosophical learning to be exchanged. I'm curious where the role of psychotherapy fits relative to this. In what way it would remain necessity amidst the dialogos-philosophical community, the shamanic ritual and the religious (ratio-religio).
A magnificent piece, and I appreciated the biographical elements you incorporated, which were weaved in beautifully. I really appreciate Dr. Sjöstedt-Hughes and how he points to ‘the importance of finding some bridge of meditation between psychedelics and psychotherapy on the one hand, and the revival of philosophical metaphysics proper on the other’—I couldn’t agree more. The distinction between “metaphysics” and “mystical” is also paramount, and I agree this distinction calls for us to wrestle with Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Spinoza, and the like.
‘It is in the mediation of these conceptual systems where one can find a safety net for self-reflection that allows one to sense-make the overwhelming power of the mystical immediacy and convert it into a drive for in one’s own life.’ – Completely agree, and this in my view will only become more apparent as the consequences for the loss of sociological “givens” becomes clearer and clearer. ‘Thus, what is ultimately at stake, in my view, is a type of logic of the “negation of negation.” What we find in the mystical is a negation of the world (as fallen, as temporal, as finite, as X, Y, Z negative thing), and what is at stake in conceptual mediation is the negation of this negation in the affirmation qua return to this world (like I am writing, i.e. conceptually mediating, to you right now).’ – Beautifully and perfectly put. Excellent, excellent work!
Excellent. Really nice to get more insight into your journey. We share that meeting point of McKenna & Co. esoteric philosophies during university years.
I feel a confluence of people (and myself) recognising the necessity of philosophy to mystical experience and of mystical experience to philosophy. I have been thinking of network's of peer-to-peer dialogos as being essential to psychedelic integration and also the proper ground for philosophical learning to be exchanged. I'm curious where the role of psychotherapy fits relative to this. In what way it would remain necessity amidst the dialogos-philosophical community, the shamanic ritual and the religious (ratio-religio).
Hope to attend the conference if I can!
A magnificent piece, and I appreciated the biographical elements you incorporated, which were weaved in beautifully. I really appreciate Dr. Sjöstedt-Hughes and how he points to ‘the importance of finding some bridge of meditation between psychedelics and psychotherapy on the one hand, and the revival of philosophical metaphysics proper on the other’—I couldn’t agree more. The distinction between “metaphysics” and “mystical” is also paramount, and I agree this distinction calls for us to wrestle with Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Spinoza, and the like.
‘It is in the mediation of these conceptual systems where one can find a safety net for self-reflection that allows one to sense-make the overwhelming power of the mystical immediacy and convert it into a drive for in one’s own life.’ – Completely agree, and this in my view will only become more apparent as the consequences for the loss of sociological “givens” becomes clearer and clearer. ‘Thus, what is ultimately at stake, in my view, is a type of logic of the “negation of negation.” What we find in the mystical is a negation of the world (as fallen, as temporal, as finite, as X, Y, Z negative thing), and what is at stake in conceptual mediation is the negation of this negation in the affirmation qua return to this world (like I am writing, i.e. conceptually mediating, to you right now).’ – Beautifully and perfectly put. Excellent, excellent work!