Abstract This chapter provides a philosophical account of the potential of the psychedelic experience to treat depression. The main thesis is that such a potential lies in the possibility of psychedelics allowing us to experience a world diametrically opposed to that of depression: the psychedelic experience can be world-shifting. Building on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s insights and notions of...
This paper aims to explore and compare the metaphysical entailments of the conventional psychopharmacological approach in the treatment of depression to those of a psychedelic approach. We will examine the thesis by which knowledge of how drugs act upon us shapes our self-image and our understanding of psychopathology––and defend that this process can only take place in a supportive...
En el presente trabajo exploraremos la hipótesis de que el uso de sustancias psicodélicas pueda ampliar nuestras facultades de representación y, por ende, nuestras facultades morales. De este modo, recogeremos el testigo que Günther Anders nos tiende en La obsolescencia del hombre, cuando señala que “en la medida en que queramos que no todo se eche a perder, la decisiva tarea actual consiste en...