Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

A frosty winter’s morning on campus at Exeter:

‘Visions of Pantheism’ by Prof. em. Brian Morris is now released free online, almost three decades after it was written:
philosopher.eu/visions-of-pantheism

The paper was originally presented as a talk to the Anthropology Society at SOAS in 1998, but never published.

With Brian’s permission now given, I will publish it online soon.

Popped over to Switzerland to give a class at ETH Zurich – enjoyed too the rain, snow, sights, history, and hospitality.🇨🇭

‘Being a philosopher, that is, hating “the lie in the soul” more than anything else…’
– Leo Strauss, 1941

Penzance this evening:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/materialis...

In this episode of the Mind-Body Solution Podcast, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Matthew Segall join Dr. Tevin Naidu to discuss the Mind-at-Large Project, a three-year, multidisciplinary initiative exploring consciousness and its role in reality

Watch now: youtu.be/QjX6lauhsAo

Pantheism: One and all Pantheism – All is God – is the hidden doctrine behind many reported psychedelic-occasioned experiences, both in the literature and in clinical trials, yet its meaning is little understood in the c...

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes offers a fresh outline of Pantheism via the exploration of its etymology and history, where Pantheism is the hidden doctrine behind many reported psychedelic-occasioned experiences doi.org/10.1080/0951... Open access #vol38issue7
12/14

Last weekend at Verdurin with J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick, plus Amir Naaman.

University of Exeter has implement a four-tier AI policy. Most convenors seem to adopt the low-tier ‘AI-minimal’ for their classes meaning that AI is strictly only permitted for spelling and grammar. The pedagogical reasoning is given to students. Transgression can end in suspension.

‘[The] transition from “descriptive phenomenology” to “transcendental idealism” in no way constitutes a break in Husserl’s thought; it is but the logical explication of what was implicit in the earlier period.’
– Quentin Lauer, 1965

Grateful to have just received this unpublished 1998 paper, ‘Visions of Pantheism’ personally from Goldsmith’s Prof. Brian Morris (a close friend of my primary school headmaster!).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_M...

Autumnal tints, tones, shades, and shadings:

‘[The] very notion of “nature” is itself the product of subjectivity and hence the whole project of the naturalisation of subjectivity is completely mistaken.’
– Dermot Moran, 2012
Paraphrasing Husserl, Ideas II§64

Pantheism: One and all Pantheism – All is God – is the hidden doctrine behind many reported psychedelic-occasioned experiences, both in the literature and in clinical trials, yet its meaning is little understood in the c...

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to hear that this article was the second most read article in the journal Philosophical Psychology for the last quarter, and the highest sole-authored article there. ‘Pantheism: One and All’

'Wittgenstein annoys me intensely. He is the complete example of the sayings:
I am Master of the College
What I know not, is not knowledge.'
– A. N. Whitehead
(Letter to Henry S. Leonard; Jan 10, 1936)

'I am accusing British analytic philosophy of having destroyed everything in what was rich within thought, and I accuse Wittgenstein of having assassinated Whitehead...'
– Deleuze
(10:3:1987)

How to fathom timelessness | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

How to fathom timelessness:

On the varieties of time and atemporality:

spotify.link/nagaCDR0RXb

Gorges du Verdon

That one is not out yet, Borkel et al. It will be published along with my (and presumably others’) commentary soon.

Born on this day: Henri Bergson
'[The] relation between the "phenomenon" and the "thing" is not that of appearance to reality, but merely that of the part to the whole.'
– MM230

Exeter by night

At Humphry Davy’s Bristol workplace, the Pneumatic Institution

Exeter campus today

Drug Science statement on RCPsych document: www.drugscience.org.uk/royal-colleg...

Latest reading list

www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...

I'm delighted that the Royal College of Psychiatrists have endorsed my work in metaphysics in their official statement on 'Psychotherapy assisted by psychedelic and related substances (PARS): Guidance for psychiatrists taking part in approved research trials':

Catch me speaking in:
—Bristol 10th October (Psychedelic Society)
—London 8th November (Verdurin)
—Penzance 15th November (Red Wing)
—Zurich 25th November (ETH Zurich uni)