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How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
wiley   +1 more source

Individual identification of bony fishes using unique body markings: Implications and applications

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The natural variation in animal body markings, such as spots, stripes and blotches, offers a powerful tool for researchers, conservationists, citizen scientists and resource managers to distinguish specific individuals within species. By building libraries of photo‐identified individuals, we can track and differentiate individuals over time ...
Katie Dunkley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychedelic Affordances in the Music of Highasakite

open access: yesStudia Musicologica Norvegica, 2019
The late Sheila Whiteley examined how different styles of psychedelic rock in the 1960s and early 1970s shared a common musical rhetoric (or “codes”) that, together with the socio-cultural context in which the music was presented and heard, conveyed ...
Jim LeBlanc
doaj   +1 more source

Psychedelic/entactogen-assisted therapy for treatment of anxiety, depression and existential distress in adult palliative care

open access: green, 2022
Sivan Schipper   +6 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Review of Listening Into the Heart of Things-on MDMA and LSD by Samuel Widmer (1989) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is an early volume from a much respected psychedelic psychotherapist. He has written several other books since this one but until recently none of his books were on Amazon and still you can only find a German edition and a Spanish one (from 1993 ...
Starks, Michael
core  

The Gradability of ‘Conscious’

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
wiley   +1 more source

Personality traits explain the relationship between psychedelic use and less depression in a comparative study

open access: yesScientific Reports
Interest in psychedelics is increasing due to the potential for improved mental health and quality of life. However, adverse effects on mental health are still a concern. Personality traits have been suggested to both influence the psychedelic experience
David K. Sjöström   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying Lessons From Cannabis to the Psychedelic Highway [PDF]

open access: gold, 2022
Kevin F. Boehnke   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

A very brief review of the life and work of neuroscientist, physician, psychoanalyst, inventor, animal rights activist and pioneer in dolphins, isolation tanks and psychedelics John C Lilly 1915-2001. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Lilly was one of the greatest scientists and pioneers on the limits of human possibility but after his death a collective amnesia has descended and he is now almost forgotten.
Michael, Starks
core  

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

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