I have great respect for Alan Watts (1915-73), who is widely known for his books and speeches on Oriental philosophy. He speaks simply and clearly always with the goal of getting the listener to understand the essence of his message. And I think he…
Early scientific experiments with psychedelics were well documented. They showed how the human mind changes, although the real causes of the effects could not be determined. These results are easy to understand just by accepting that the psyche of modern man is…
This great scientist, Albert Hofmann, had to be taken seriously — much more seriously than is being done today. Albert Hofmann clearly understood that LSD or psychedelics in general contain a great mystery. Psychedelics are not just a medicine for the mentally…
Quite a few years ago, I accidentally was drawn from philosophy into the sphere of human evolution, mysticism and psychedelics. It all started with a single remark. I was stuck with the psychic world of the Neanderthal man in a science documentary,…
Modern neuroscience has come to realise a curious thing. It has noticed that the complex human nervous system creates an artificial reality in the human mind, the correctness of which the speaker, Anil Seth, a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience…
The power of psychedelics is gaining increasing interest in several fields of science. Some professional philosophers are attracted to the impact of psychedelics on philosophical thinking, particularly on metaphysics, which is the science of the most fundamental questions of knowledge. In the…
How similar were Alan Watts and Ludwig Wittgenstein?