3 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2023-2024
The Journal of Continental Philosophy 2024 Patricia Pisters
In this time of the so-called psychedelic renaissance, it is “mind-revealing” to rediscover the body of work on LSD therapy by Stanislav Grof. As researcher of the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness, his observations from over fifty years of LSD research offer a holistic and deeply philosophical approach towards the realms of the human unconscious. Reading his...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies October 27, 2023 Patricia Pisters 1 citation
This article focuses on the aesthetics of the psychedelic experience. Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception remains one of the few studies that investigates the aesthetic dimension of the psychedelic experience as profoundly meaningful as such, because it gives direct attention to the nonhuman otherness of the universe that is hard to describe in words, but that can be felt and sensed. Similarly,...
Deleuze Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis 2023 Patricia Pisters 2 citations
The global corona pandemic has reinforced a need for alternative sensibilities to the world. A renewed interest in psychedelics that has emerged in the last decade, may be one of the symptoms of this need for new perceptions. The so-called psychedelic renaissance is by and large defined by a scientific discourse and has not yet been considered extensively from a philosophical perspective. This...