Applied Mysticism: A Drug-Enabled Visionary Experience Against Moral Blindness

Intellectuals such as William James and Aldous Huxley have thought it possible to develop a technique to apply to this world the mystical-type insights gained during drug-enabled experiences. Particularly, Huxley claimed that the visionary experience triggered by psychedelics could help us rethink o...

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Subtitles:DRUG‐ENABLED MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES
Main Author: Ballesteros, Virginia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2019]
In: Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 731-755
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B James, William 1842-1910 / Huxley, Aldous 1894-1963 / Psychedelic experience / Moral conditions / Improvement / Mysticism
Further subjects:B Morality
B Mysticism
B Imagination
B Technology
B Günther Anders
B Psychedelics
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