Updated 2 years ago
Appreciation for the psychedelic experience meshes well with a hardcore rational materialist perspective. You don’t have to assume real-life alien entities are visiting you to appreciate the fantastic experience. You can still probe the edges without losing your reason. This distinction will only become more apparent and crucial and science progresses.
This brilliant woman, Susan Blackmore, was interviewed with me back in 2000 on BBC/Discovery Channel in a program about Ketamine and near death experiences. She’s definitely going into our Memorial, assuming she doesn’t outlive me.
In this article in Scientific American, Blackmore discusses how one can be rational yet open to, as she stated in 2000, “interesting experiences the brain can produce for us.”
Some of you may remember the interviewer, John Horgan, who spoke with Daniel Pinchbeck a few decades ago in New York.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-be-a-mystical-materialist/
