Journal of Consciousness Studies
December 1, 2024
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Tra-Ill Dowie
Due to a lack of engagement with the embodied dimensions of mindfulness, third-wave CBT has misleadingly construed mindfulness interventions as cognitive restructuring and behavioural modification agents. When the relationship between the mind and body is understood according to the model of embodied cognition, however, mindfulness’s process of change can be better articulated. We propose a...
Anthropology of Consciousness
July 5, 2024
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren Matthews
7 citations
Abstract In Jylkkä's ( Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience , Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2022) Mary on Acid: Experiences of unity and the epistemic gap, the author contends that psychedelic experience, by inducing unitary—nondual—experiences of subject–object dissolution, brings to light the epistemic gap between unitary knowledge, constituted by experience,...
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
March 27, 2024
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
9 citations
Embodiment and mindfulness interventions provide a range of benefits for individuals living with trauma yet a lack of clarity surrounds their integration in group work practice. This article provides a framework for the integration of embodiment and mindfulness interventions in group settings for trauma. While such interventions can be utilised in primary trauma processing and open process...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
February 1, 2024
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
12 citations
Contemplative scholarship has recently reoriented attention towards the neuroscientific study of the soteriological ambition of Buddhist practice, 'awakening'. This article evaluates the project of seeking neural correlates for awakening. Key definitional and operational issues are identified demonstrating that: the nature of awakening is highly contested both within and across Buddhist...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 25, 2023
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren Matthews
11 citations
Abstract Questions are currently being posed concerning the implications of the clinical uptake of psychedelics. While enthusiasm surrounds the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics and critique surrounds their appropriation to commercial ends, limited attention has been given to the role of psychedelics in generating social transformation. Herbert Marcuse contended radical change...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 21, 2023
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Tra-Ill Dowie
10 citations
Abstract In the monograph Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience, Hauskeller raises the important subject of individualization and alienation in psychedelic psychotherapy. Under the prevailing conditions of neoliberalism, Hauskeller contends that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy appropriates Indigenous knowledges in an oppressive fashion, may be instrumentalised to...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
June 19, 2023
Tra-Ill Dowie, Julien Tempone-Wiltshire
24 citations
Abstract The intersection between philosophy and psychedelics is explored in the book “Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience”. The authors aim to develop a dialogue between the two disciplines and explore the various frameworks for understanding exceptional experiences that psychedelics have afforded human beings. The book delves into foundational, ontological, and...