AbstractIn this final chapter, I explore the psychedelic experience through the lens of transformative experiences, asserting that it is one of the most profound avenues for personal and philosophical growth. Drawing connections to ancient Greek philosophy, Perennialism, and Scheler’s philosophical anthropology, I argue that the psychedelic experience seeks self-identification with the Ground...
AbstractThis chapter lays the philosophical groundwork for a realist phenomenological analysis of the psychedelic experience. As the academic study of psychedelic consciousness emerges, this work contributes a novel approach by employing realist phenomenology—a tradition yet to be systematically applied to psychedelic states. Rather than pursuing metaphysical speculation directly, the focus...