Christine Hauskeller - Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience

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Dr Taline Artinian

Taline Artinian is an honorary research fellow in philosophy at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD in philosophy and has over a decade of professional experience as a clinical psychologist. Her interdisciplinary work has focused on questions of identity and the challenges of a meaningful engagement with the world after traumatic life experiences such as genocide and civil war. She has supported UNHCR projects in the Middle East, leading studies on the lives of migrant women and vulnerable persons. Her current philosophical research explores gratitude and its role in our understanding of the good life and its place in environmental ethics. She is also interested in the philosophy of psychedelics, virtue ethics, and character formation.

Dr John H. Buchanan

John H. Buchanan received his masters degree in humanistic psychology from West Georgia College, and his doctorate from Emory University. He has been trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. He is completing a book based upon his continuing interests in process philosophy and transpersonal psychology and was a contributing co-editor for Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science.

Kyle Buller

Kyle Buller is the Co-Founder and Director of Training and Clinical Education of Psychedelics Today, an online media and education platform exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. Kyle earned his MS degree in clinical mental health counselling with an emphasis in somatic psychology from Prescott College and received his BA degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Burlington College. Kyle has been studying Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork with Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson since 2010. His clinical background in mental health consists of working with at-risk teenagers in crisis and with individuals experiencing an early episode of psychosis, and providing counselling to undergraduate/graduate students in a university setting. www.psychedelicstoday.com www.settingsunwellness.com

Dr Robert Dickins

Robert Dickins is a literary historian and publisher (Psychedelic Press). His interests include the history and literature of psychoactive substances, with a particular focus on the twentieth century, and the role of writing in nineteenth-century magical and spiritual communities.

Elizabeth Gibson

Elizabeth Gibson is the co-founder of Dreamshadow Group, Inc., a Vermont-based non-profit which fosters the creative application of exceptional experience. She is certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator by Stan and Christina Grof. Elizabeth is the editor of Stanislav Grofs The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death and a contributor to the teaching manual MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, both published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Dr Lenny Gibson

Leonard Gibson is an independent scholar and the founder of Dreamshadow Group, Inc., a Vermont-based non-profit which fosters the creative application of exceptional experience. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Claremont University and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Lenny trained and certified in Holotropic Breathwork with Stanislav and Christina Grof. He has over fifty-five years of experience working with exceptional experience, including teaching and psychotherapy. He is also a farmer and amateur musician.

Prof. Michael Halewood

Michael Halewood is a Professor in Social Theory at the University of Essex. His work lies at the intersection of philosophy and social theory and he is especially interested in the work of Alfred North Whitehead. His latest book, Language and Process. Words, Whitehead and the World (Edinburgh University Press) uses the work of Whitehead to retrace the role and status of language and the world in both analytic and continental philosophy as well as social theory. His previous books introduced the work of Whitehead to social theory (A.N. Whitehead and Social Theory Tracing a Culture of Thought) and developed a novel philosophy of the social (Re-thinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead).

Prof. Christine Hauskeller

Christine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Exeter. She specializes in the philosophy of biomedicine and moral and political philosophy with approaches from feminist theory and the Frankfurt School, as well as critical theory more generally. Christine has published ten books and journal special issues, and over 100 articles and chapters and is a member of medical research ethics commissions. Her main interests are studies in humanitarian ethics and in the complex relationships between power, economics, technology, individual and societal needs and ethics in medical innovation.

Concerned with the disciplinary limitation in which academia has engaged with psychedelics, Christine has been exploring the different ways in which contemporary philosophy can address aspects of psychedelic experience and practice, and in turn how psychedelics can inform philosophy.

Prof. Fernando Huesca Ramon

Fernando Huesca Ramon is Professor-Researcher for Philosophy at the Faculty for Philosophy and Letters at the Meritorius Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is also Professor-Researcher at the graduate programs for Aesthetics and Philosophy in BUAP. His lines of research include: German Idealism, Aeshetics, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and Bioethics. Huesca Ramon is a member of the International Leibniz Network, of the Hegelian Studies society Reason in History, of the society for consciousness studies via Synapsis, and a member of the National Researchers System in Mexico. He is co-organizer of the International Congress for Hegelian Studies in Mexico. Soon in print: Economa poltica clsica en Hegel: valor, capital y eticidad. Huesca Ramon recently published a translation of the introduction of Hegels Lectures on Aesthetics (1828/29) in the journal La lmpara de Digenes.

Dr Jussi Jylkk

Jussi Jylkk is a philosopher and psychologist working at the department of psychology at bo Akademi University, Finland. He received his PhD in philosophy of language from the University of Turku in 2008 and completed his PhD in cognitive psychology at bo Akademi University in 2017. He has published research on philosophy of mind and language, experimental philosophy, metaphysics/epistemology, as well as moral psychology and cognitive psychology. His current research combines elements from neuroscience, transcendental philosophy, and Zen to explicate the relationship between science and consciousness. As to psychedelics, Dr. Jylkk is particularly interested in how mystical insights can be compatible with physicalism and science. He is currently writing a book on consciousness and the scientific worldview and organizing the first Finnish interdisciplinary conference on psychedelic research.

Prof. Ole Martin Moen