Bridging the Neural and the Numinous
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings September 2, 2025 Emma Gephart
Once central to countercultural spirituality and mystical exploration, psychedelics have been rebranded in Silicon Valley as tools for optimization, productivity, and cognitive control. This study examines how tech elites and aspirants are reconfiguring psychedelic practice under the influence of TESCREAL—an ideological bundle of Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism,...