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Deeper Learning with Psychedelics: Philosophical Pathways through Altered States

Deeper Learning with Psychedelics: Philosophical Pathways through Altered States

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Horizons in the Philosophy of Education

PhilosophyCognitionGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1438498128
ISBN13: 9781438498126
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

Finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education category

In both clinical and informal settings, psychedelics users often report they have undergone something profound and even life-altering. Yet there persists a confounding inability to articulate just what has been imparted. Informed by multidisciplinary emerging research, this book provides an account of the specifically educational aspects of psychedelics and how they can render us ready to learn. Drawing from indigenous peoples worldwide who typically revere these substances as plant teachers and from canonical thinkers in the western tradition such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, and Heidegger, the author proposes an original set of categories through which to understand the educational capabilities of entheogens (psychedelics with visionary qualities). It emerges that entheogens' real power lies not in destabilizing and decentering-turning on and dropping out-but as powerful aids in restoring and reenchanting our shared worlds.

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