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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes "Core Value – Panpsychism"

Tähenduse teejuhid (Maps of Meaning) is an Estonian language monthly newspaper that is distributed with the country's largest daily Postimees. The first issue came out in September 2020. The centre of gravity of each number is a ca 4000-word interview. We have been fortunate enough to converse with (in the order of appearance) David Fuller, Charles Eisenstein, Merlin Sheldrake, Jeremy Narby, Jules Evans, Richard Tarnas, Rupert Sheldrake, Mark Vernon, David Abram, Matthew Fox, Paul Kingsnorth, Regina Hess, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Kyriacos Markides and David Lorimer. While a couple of these interviews have already been made public on this channel, the most of them have appeared only in the newspaper. In this English language playlist we shall make them public for the first time. We start with the spring season of 2023. The interview with Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, a philosopher of mind form Exeter University, appeared in the 29th issue of TT. Here's a little introduction I wrote to it. ... "We are in trouble and if we follow that trajectory, we may not make it... whether it is going to take twenty, fifty or hundred years, if we carry on like that, this is going to be inhabitable planet," said an USA psychiatrist, one of the founders of the transpersonal psychology Stanislav Grof in his interview to David Fuller, a co-founder of the Rebel Wisdom media platform. This conversation took place in January of 2019, roughly a year before the onset of the acute phase of the global crisis. Grof received his M.D. from Charles University in Prague in 1956 and volunteered in the same year to participate in the LSD experiment of his university. "This experience profoundly influenced my personal and professional life an provided the inspiration for my lifelong commitment to consciousness research," reminisces he years later. Grof, who celebrated his 92nd birthday this year, has for more than half a century studied holotropic states of consciousness. These states of mind can in his words be induced by a variety of ancient and aboriginal practices, which he calls "technologies of the sacred". Transpersonal psychology has by and large grown out these very techniques. In his book "The Cosmic Game" from 1997 Grof describes and analyses the philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual implications of the holotropic experiences of his numerous patients and of himself. "I have yet to meet a single Western academician who has done extensive inner work involving nonordinary states of consciousness and continues to subscribe to the current scientific understanding of consciousness, psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality taught in Western universities," says he conclusively. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, a philosopher of mind from the Exeter University, has studied the intersection of metaphysics and psychedelics for more than a decade. In his words there are two big changes reinforcing each other in Western culture now: psychedelic and metaphysical renaissance. After the long reign of logical positivism, which busied itself with the investigation of language, metaphysics is back in vogue in Western philosophy. The renewed interest in metaphysics is at least partly been facilitated by the psychedelic therapy. Empirical studies have consistently shown that the greatest therapeutic benefit is brought about by these experiences, which have profoundly changed patients' understanding of themselves and the world – in other words, the experiences with considerable metaphysical influence. Sjöstedt-Hughes argues psychedelic therapy should alongside psychiatrists and psychologists have place for philosophers as well. „It’s ultimately a simple point: if you had a metaphysical experience, integration should have recourse to metaphysics,“ says he in our interview. Like Grof he sees the root causes of our intensifying environmental crisis in the materialist philosophy that treats nature as self-evident backdrop of human activity. “There is a great need for the metaphysical shift in Western culture now,” argues he convincingly. With best wishes, Hardo