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Floren Matthews

2 papers in the library · 18 citations · publishing 2023-2024

Papers

Evaluating the role of psychedelic psychotherapy in addressing societal alienation: Imaginaries of liberation

Journal of Psychedelic Studies September 25, 2023 Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren Matthews 11 citations

Psychedelics may help generate the perceptual shifts needed to imagine and pursue social transformation under alienating conditions, but their revolutionary potential risks being co-opted by economic structures. They could be instrumentalized to regulate individuals into unjust systems, redirect usage toward productivity, distract from systemic control, turn non-ordinary states into self-care, or commodify psychedelic experience. However, psychedelics also resist co-option by challenging industrial society's assumptions, provoking alternative epistemologies, expanding selfhood to ecological constructions, and offering enriched phenomenological insight into self, other, and world—potentially sparking the desire for collective emancipation.

DOI: 10.1556/2054.2023.00275 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Appropriation Politics Perception Aesthetics +8

The nature of nonduality: The epistemic implications of meditative and psychedelic experiences

Anthropology of Consciousness July 5, 2024 Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren Matthews 7 citations

A critical response to Jylkkä's argument that psychedelic-induced unitary experiences reveal an epistemic gap between experiential and relational knowledge. The authors argue that Jylkkä's comparison between psychedelic nondual experiences and Buddhist contemplative states requires more rigorous characterization, as such parallelism risks conflating distinct traditions. They highlight internal tensions in Indo-Tibetan conceptions of nonduality, the dangers of decontextualizing culturally embedded practices like ceremonial ethnomedicine, and the potential of psychedelics to reduce introspective bias in phenomenological inquiry.

DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12233 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Psychology Epistemology Psychoanalysis Philosophy