Psychedelics, Philosophy, Transhumanism and Peter Sjöstedt-H

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🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Download Peter is a psychedelic philosopher focusing on panpsychism, psychedelics, Whitehead, Nietzsche and some other heavy weights. We discuss Peter's psychedelic philosophy and influences from psychedelic liberty cap mushrooms found in a field in England, his influence on the famous comic author Warren Ellis, his essay Neo-Nihilism, transhumanism and much more. We really look forward to having Peter on the show again in the future!

Show Notes/links

Peter's website
Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power (essay) Kindle Audiobook - Audible
Ragnar Redbeard - Might is Right or Survival of the Fittest (1889)
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries - Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann
The Psychedelic Influence on Philosophy - Higher Existence
Patrick Lundborg
Open University
Warren Ellis
- Karnak
- Transmetropolitan
Transhumanism
- Modafinil \ Provigil

Whitehead Quotes

'The terms morality, logic, religion, art, have each of them been claimed as exhausting the whole meaning of importance. Each of them denotes a subordinate species. But the genus stretches beyond any finite group of species.' (MT) 'Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.' (Autobiog.) 'The doctrines which best repay critical examination are those which for the longest period have remained unquestioned.' (MT) '[I]n the development of intelligence there is a great principle which is often forgotten. In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. We must grasp the topic in the rough, before we smooth it out and shape it.' (MT) More on Peter's site here

Peter's Social Media

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Warren Ellis

The Brink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyMbQAgiVc

About Peter

Peter Sjöstedt-H is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher who specialises in the thought of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Whitehead within the fields of Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics – especially with regard to panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter received a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick, where he was awarded a first-class distinction for his dissertation on Kant and Schelling in relation to 'intellectual intuition'. He subsequently became a Philosophy Lecturer in London for six years but is now engaged in his PhD at Exeter University where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills. Peter is the author of Noumenautics and an inspiration behind the new inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak. In the words of futurist, philosopher and pop star Alexander Bard: 'One of our favourite contemporary philosophers, Peter Sjöstedt-H…think a psychedelic Nietzsche'.

Transcript

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0:00.0	everybody, Joe here. Thanks for tuning back into psychedelics today. Today on the show,
0:13.4	we have Peter Schwartstedt H, psychedelic philosopher out of England. He is an Anglo-Saxon
0:20.2	philosopher focusing on right now panpspsychism, Nietzsche
0:25.0	Schopenhauer, Kant, and wrote a really interesting track, Neo-Nialism that influenced
0:32.4	some of the work of a famous comic artist Warren Ellis, works closely with Marvel Comics still. We had a really
0:40.5	great talk, you know, Peter being a philosophy guy and me having an undergrad in it made me a little
0:45.9	jealous, but we got through it. We had a lot of fun. Peter also specializes in Whitehead right now and is of, you know, which we spoke about before with Lenny Gibson.
0:59.7	Lenny Gibson's kind of a strong whiteheadian.
1:03.1	Peter mentions in the episode that Lenny may have been one of the first people to write about LSD and Whitehead and how Whitehead
1:11.4	can give a lot of context to the psychedelic experience.
1:15.8	Eric Davis, kind of a famous writer, sci-fi futurist guy, talks about Whitehead a bit too.
1:24.4	And Terrence McKenna, I think, said he was the most psychedelic of the philosopher.
1:29.9	So pretty cool that we got to get into that with Peter. I really appreciated the talk and had a
1:35.1	great time talking to him. I think we'll have Peter on the show again in the near future,
1:38.8	because as you can probably tell by listening to the show in the next hour of your life,
1:46.9	you'll see that we barely scratch the surface.
1:49.3	We could go a lot deeper with him.
1:52.5	So that's it for the intro.
1:54.1	I hope you really enjoy it.
1:55.3	We have a lot of show notes on the website.
1:58.5	So check that out.
2:00.2	And, you know, you can get his book and check out a lot of the references we have in there as well.
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