Consciousness and psychedelics | Peter Sjostedt-H | TEDxTruro
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- Philosopher of mind Peter Sjöstedt-H discusses the hidden impact psychedelics have had on philosophy and asks if such extreme, altered modes of mind could help give us answers to some of the big questions facing the philosophers and scientists of today. Peter is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind and author. He lives in West Cornwall and is engaged in his PhD with the University of Exeter, where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills. Peter is the inspiration behind the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Thank you to the TED organizers, and my thanks to the viewers' comments here. --Peter
Ontologistics your friends are watching you. Having fun watching you
you the man peter
Thanks for the very nice, speech, Peter
This warrant TED, it was TEDx. Different entity!
Get this guy on Joe Rogan asap
Facts
Yes sir I concure
nahh i mean he is interesting but nah
Sheesh I was thinking the same thing
Tyler Prince my first thought 😂
In just a few years, TEd has come a long way from banning Graham Hancock's talk on psychedelics to releasing numerous talks by many speakers on the subject.
Chandran Gopalakrishnan To be fair, we have come a long way in the quality of those talks. Sjöstedt’s books are fantastically well researched and well argued pieces of literature that are sure to produce great speeches as well.
Can you provide specific examples please speaking as someone who is looking for more talks like this. Thank you
This isn't TED this is Tedx, there's a difference. Tedx allows anyone, Ted is more selective.
@@42flyingphish Simeon Keremedchiev, David Erritzøe, Stephen Bright, Adam Oliver Brown, Mark Haden. Just look in your recommended videos lol.
Graham Hancock challenged the 'science & industry' paradigm: As long as the intellectuals and capitalists sent forth from 'central planning' can pursue their agendas, TED doesn't care what Yogis, mystics, or philosophers say.
He certainly nails the look of a what a a psychedelic philosopher should wear IMO
Haha, great comment 👌
Lol. True that!
RAW-The Bob Wilson look?😂
He looks sharp, however the buttoning of both the top and bottom buttons of his sportcoat make him look as if he is foreign to this look as a whole... :)
... a suit?
I want to "smell the colour of time" ...
This is actually a thing. Simply, if you ever take LSD, think of peanut butter. I don't know why peanut butter, but I taste and smell it as soon as the thought hits my brain.
@@SirUncleCid So not the colour of time then??
@@iAceeHD Depends on your perception.
@@SirUncleCid What are you on about?
@@iAceeHD I guess I should ask the same since I was merely replying to what I thought you were referring to. Yes, you can smell the color of time.. Like, being reminded of school cafeteria. I smell the time I used to be in middle school.
Great job! It's awesome to have an intelligent voice out there speaking about the non-medical side of positive psychedelic use.
👍🍄🔑🧠
Positive and responsible use of psychedelics
2:07 "one can lose one's sense of one's self as 'one self' "
Wow, what a line
This is my first contact with Peter Sjöstedts work. As a regular Ayahuasca user I can only say that from my perspective he is spot on in many aspects he mentioned in his discussion. In fact it was so profound or meaningful that I will further dive into what he has to say. I must say that I am a science oriented person myself and don't find much direct meaning in more esoteric models which describe psychedelic states, except maybe in a highly metaphorical way.
One of the re-occuring images I have during my Ayahuasca journeys is a very strong feeling that the answers to most questions regarding the existence of our cosmos are to be found within ourselves, not the outside (although the latter is important to get the whole picture). And by the unique way our brain and our psyche is organized we have the potential to eventually get down to the bottom of it. Or at least maybe near it, like squaring a circle.
Thank you Peter, for your work on that, and for being a driving force to bring these important matters into scientific realms.
Have u tried smoked version... Is all the same just different forms of ingestion.
I’ve taken ayahuasca a few times and it’s the most incredible experience I’ve ever lived. I can’t believe how conscious I’ve became of my conciseness
Where did you do this? Was it one of the retreats?
Nicole Robertson there’s a group of people we meet once a month here where I live in the south of Brazil
You need to try 5 Meo mda (toad) the most powerful Psychedelic in the world
You need to try 5 Meo DMT (toad) the most powerful Psychedelic in the world it changed my life completely 🤯❤️🐸
@@DevineLove333 @ DivineLove 333 - did it change your life for the better or worse? How long did the change last?
ThIs was a fascinating talk - it opened my mind not only to the immediate effects of psychedelics (as i have never tried them) but also to the positive effects that can come from them, and the number of famous people who have used them to broaden their consciousness.
Thank you for allowing your mind to open!
You should try them
Yup becuzthe internet said
It’s as if your whole life was lived through a single lens, and psychedelics give you access to all of the ones you didn’t know you had. No way to describe it, it would be like describing color to a blind person.
@@shanegarcia7057 the internet didn't say that, science and facts say that. Maybe you need some stimulants beaver 🙄
Dr Peter Sjostedt Hugues is probably one of the most interesting and promising philosophers alive today. One to watch.
I’m with Ginger!
Why specifically?
his tone is too academic and he's not talking
about a hyperdimensional fluid in his mind's eye.
@@Wittgepedia word
Eternal Novelty That's almost the only way to attract attention and more interest. It's unfortunate, but in this world you gotta sound academic and intelligent to be listened. If you sound too trippy or start to talk about subjects that the normal person can't grasp on, you will be labeled as a junkie or insane.
I'm sorry, but that's how the world is for now. But a change is happening slowly because psychedelic and spiritual influencers and messengers have realized that almost the only way to be listened, is to show to the blind masses that not only addicts and insane people use psychedelics, and that with responsible and proper use of psychedelic medicine, comes knowledge and evolution.
"The blue of the sea and pain in your knee.." love it 💕💕 great way to open this talk.
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS GOT UPLOADED.
The psychedelic experience shatters the materialist view of existence. It certainly did for me, but took many years to accept. Excited for more scientists to experience this and finally open the scientific community to a deeper understanding of reality. From being on both sides I can tell you we are in desperate need.
I like the: "Let me take you on a trip" and the audience laughs :)
Great presentation btw
I don't have 100% buy-in, but it was a great presentation.
(I submit that what Sartre experienced post-trip may have been non-physical, yet not unreal.)
I was reading comments and just as I read yours, the next thing he said was this..
6:22 Humphry Davy was right.
This is a very well argued, entertaining and much needed presentation. The metaphysical implications of psychedelics and consciousness cannot continued to be ignored if we are to be unrelenting seekers of truth.
Dope, nice to see u here monistic idealism
@@liamnewsom8583 thanks, it's nice to see you here too.
Trip responsibly 🤙
Yes is important to take ur midn and body w respect
'Beeresponsible?'
Amazing one of the best ted talks I’ve seen !
Fascinating talk;as I did try some;My life changed for the better and opened amazing doors and touched other dimensions while being conscious;
The work of "philosophers of extreme & direct experience", like Sjöstedt is more valuable than most are aware of. I salute you!
Do you microdose or do you go full blast with the your shroom trips?
Outstanding! I love this guy's way of speaking, this classic kinda, somewhat comical mien. Very compelling talk altogether, the topic intrigues me and he managed to rouse this particular thought-direction even more in me.
Thanks!
Emit RelevArt he has some audiobooks on audible worth checking out!
I 100% mean to brag but I did a podcast with Peter shortly before he did this talk and in this talk he used a piece of art from the co-host of my podcast. Thank you Peter! 😊
Peter is truly a great speaker!
Fantastic presentation, Peter.
what a delightfully enlightening talk. thank you!
Out of the ten million ted talks on the same topic I enjoyed this one the best so far
Great talk! There's too much experimental spaces to work with in this subject. Thanks Peter!
Great! Great! More of this, please. I've met numerous people that write their master-degrees about psychedelics and consciousness, and people who study this subject. If we don't study this phenomenon, we might miss out on a lot of knowledge.
Beautifully put, and so true!
Love this man already.
Engaging and insightful. Proper job ;)
Excellent talk, in my youth (I'm seventy now) I knew that there was a future for psychedelics but everyone thought I was insane.I dropped a shitload of acid and it did me no harm and it's true when John Lennon said that you'll never be the same thank God for that. The first thought that came to me was "We are One".
Alan Watts would've been proud
@timwins31 true that, but I still believe he would have been proud to witness this :) cheers mate
@timwins31 Did you read his "Joyous Cosmology"? He was a full proponent of psychedelics, but he was aware that you can begin to confound the psychedelic state as the real deal and begin to see the use of psychedelics as the only way out. It's the same with awakening, don't turn your way out into a revolving door.
@timwins31 I'd recommend you listen to his talk on 'LSD and society' and also his account of his DMT trip! Might change your mind about how he saw psychedelics.
Well I'm going to buy his book now lol
Would love to hear him discuss this a lot more. It's a great topic that should be talked about a lot more.
The potential is beyond amazing and could help so many people.
Great information 💐
Truly spiffing . I want to know more .
Great talk! Thanks
Brilliant! ✨
I can totally relate about mind is matter as my 1st ever DMT trip was all about it. Not seeking any feeling whatsoever but more from truth seeking approach standpoint. The difference is quite representative.
Ive always wondered and thought of this.
Excellent talk 🙌🏻
As one who has recently started microdosing small doses of mushrooms after doing some research microdosing small doses of mushrooms has done more for me than any antidepressant medications have . I've also noticed some some changes in my cognition after sustaining a traumatic brain injury years ago from a automobile accident
I'm putting "smell the colour of time" on a tshirt right goddamn now.
Send me one!
Link please
Nicely done and said
I have heard the colours and tasted the sounds while journeying with Ayahauasca. The most beautiful experience! Synesthesia
Well spoken & couched in the voice of one documenting the unexplainable truth that is One voice, not many separated egos, but one transcendent whole. The plants have mind, voice, spirit & speak clearly creating actual spiritual metamorphosis. Love is the only answer to this worldview of fear. I have seen & heard, love is the answer. Namaste. Thou art God.
God does NOT exist
There are many names for conciousness. Do you need to be right here, brother or loved? God is real for me, but Nameless & has the universe, not a church. Namaste & peace to you.
Thank~You 🌟 ✨
Incredible talk, this is the hottest thing happening on the planet
Super hot
Thank you !
Fantastic!
I tried lsd two months ago, i had the “unconditional love and platonic love” trip
The first was the unconditional love saw my family and we all had a great time dancing, loving each other, cry together. It brought me to tears. It warmed me up and i felt home
Where the platonic love was my friends where everybody was there for each other but it was cold. I fet strong around them but it felt cold.
The hallucinations were always africa related. My home.
Thank you!
*Nothing exists but thoughts! - the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains!*
What contradicts that statement is that he was aware of "every sound in the room" which implies that there was also a conscious element to this experience, thus defeating the statement. I'm also wary of the statement that "mind is not matter" where it is definitive that mind is clearly ALSO matter wherein its form follows its function. I'm not sceptical about the use of these substances to attain a higher state of mind but maybe simply a higher state of consciousness and not only an existential thought- such as parallel universes etc.
Woah.just went back to that segment in the video after a full watch and seeing the comment above u mentioned that timestamp...then I see ur commenting quoting it... Freaking great mate! It appears to be true I say!
Sheesh that’s heavy
"There is little modern literature on the subject."
I've been doing mushrooms for 25 years everything this man says is correct.
🍄
"Sit with elders of the gentle race this world has seldom seen, They talk of days for which they sit and wait , All will be revealed"
🍄
May I ask where this quote is from?
@@braydontomak Led Zeppelin's Kashmir.
Very interesting, seeing this video a day before doing LSD. Hoping everything goes well
How did it go?
Still tripping...
He no longer enters the realm of CZcams comments, he has seen the light!
Plot twist: He actually died because it was NBOMe
R.I.P. pulga b. The dude was was hit by a drunken motorist on his way to buying "a hit of acid" there for proving how dangerous LSD is. You should just drink like our caring government want us to. 😭
Fantastic speech. From now on I can stop wasting my time explaining how psychedelics work and show people this video instead .
He should've shown lots more psychedelic art! I saw wondrous colours and patterns with LSD when I was young and heard a leaf fall.
The psychiatry of 'how they work' and our understanding of what happens to the mind, not just the brain, is important: This video gets some ideas across, but I find it an optimistic oversimplification.
HuntingTarg indeed sir, as I said ‘how they work’ I surely meant what we feel and how we change
I did a drug at one point that changed my perspective of reality and slowed and froze moments in time and gave me different perceptional awareness' . I would like to try a study for what has become something almost spiritual for me and I feel drawn to finish out a journey begun but not finished hopefully.
Big name drops on my boys Whitehead and James!
superb!
AWESOME I WONDER HOW MUCH
This is great and everything but where are you supposed to buy these ?
what a great speaker
Superb 🥰
Thanks!
From training Anakin, to studying psychedelics. Obi One Kenobi has one interesting life.
Love you using Alex grey in your clips. He’s a shaman of sorts in the realm of psychedelia. I agree with you
woow the art in the background is moving 😗
2019, we trippy
Respect
I admire your zeal
Great stuff - wish I could be with you on Wed. But at my age I'm sticking with Holy Spirit :-)
Yes. I love you
this m8 right here is cold droppin' science!!!!!!!!
Excellent video ! It must be discuss. How to reconcile mind and matter ? How can I, monad, exist ?
They're the same thing. Mind is your brain, not IN your brain.
@@arthurdossantos6826 Thank you Mr Santos. In just one sentence, you cleared up centuries of philosophical debates on mind and matter. Can you write a book on this insight and help poor philosophers like Peter Sjostedt-H who studied this dilemma for years but never could arrive at such a concise and precise definition as yours.
How silly were we to use these two terms separately, when in fact, they were one and the same !
I would recommend books by Mike Hockney if you want inspiration for your upcoming book on the subject.
@@lifeofamonad4375 Geez, sorry if I just gave my opinion intead of writting a whole book on a CZcams comment.
There is only blissful existence that is itself
@Broly The God Series will one day be known as the greatest book series ever written.
I have been taking psycedelics for 40 years now , many different ones . Initially recreationally which was fun but they are so much more than that . More research needs to be done , especially on the newer ones. Al-Lad blew me away it ripped me apart very gently and rebuilt me . Dmt is just incredible . Not recreational at all tho use them wisely the are a sacrement . I would love to be involved in a trial all of them are fascinating in different ways.
Dean Hunt add me on wickr @paulbryan to get shrooms, dmt , lsd
My advice from my personal experiences: Meditations about compassion “towards yourself and others“ really open up new doors. 2 Observing fears and anxieties while being coscious enough to think of letting it go makes fear a friend to you.
Anybody know what the intro song title is? Tried Shazaming it and haven't been able to come up with it yet...
I have rainbows shooting out of my eyes and I approve of this message.
this is a CLASSY MAN right here
I like how he has tool art
Consciousness IS tangible 😎
Why can't I put this in my Watch Later playlist?
Two years ago when I was 20, I tripped on DMT and I was very clear about mental dualism philosophy.
I agree that psychadelics can open up the mind to questions of the nature of reality. There is more to reality than meets the normal eye, which is revealed as only a representation. Kant et al were surely right about the experience/reality (phen/noum) distinction. And the elasticity of experience of reality warrants profound and systematic investigation... It's another question whether this sort of experience, although opening up the questions, necessarily leads to better answers (cf Plato, panpsychism, etc), since analytic rigour is still required to coherently and convincingly construct the formulation in words, no matter how persuasive the experience itself. Nevertheless, experience will possibly be the true final frontier, once people have got beyond their idolisation of technology and figured out that we're not going to colonise Mars anytime soon. Good job Peter. (Don't think I could sell the transcript to my boss though ;-))
When are we going to stop talking & come together to declare the new truth? We are all connected in the energy & power of Love. The Mother Earth needs us to grow past the walls of separation & come together to save this beautiful planet. The plants tell us there is time, but the time is Now. Namaste, my people. We don't need a Savior, we need to believe in the mustard seed & grow! Plant medicine is sacred & ancient. Age brings experience & with experience & community one finds great wisdom. Warriors we must be & warriors protect the tribe. 🙏👣🍀
True
But there's a lot of hate engraved in peoples mind
Swedish mushrooms are no joke, that's why us Norwegians always have Swedish friends... .
That’s Swede of you to say!
Check out the Allegory of the Cave.
i want to have a conversation with this man so bad. he’s awesome
The oldest psychedelic used by the Indian gods was called "soma" about 7-8000 years ago made by a psychedelic plant which still can't be found out
I had a strong weed edible and ever since then, my interest in consciousness (which I already had) has peaked.. I don't do a lot of drugs and this was my second time getting high. I smoked first, then had an edible. Those two events vastly increase my interest in the topics of mind, matter, reality, and existence entirely.
Ive started comparing consciousness to the universe. Both are fabrics that can manipulated.
what did you had? marijuana or magic mushrooms?
@@globalwarming08 just marijuana at the time of that comment but now LSD a few months back
@@savagekid94 what about now 10 months later, have u tried mushrooms or dmt yet?
@@emochaobankrollposse funny timing. I'm actually about to get mushrooms. Getting half an ounce in a few days.
No DMT yet though. Not sure where to loom
How was the LSD and mushroom trip? When is DMT?
What I would like to know, Does having loads of LSD over time an then stop can it affect your life negatively in a way , that real life can see mundane, boring dull to what you experienced on LSD ?
Any advice for returning to one’s self after such an experience?
Zed Plug you gotta wait dude, but you’re most likely to never be the same (not in a bad way necessarily)
It will change you because you realise that everything that was taught to you was wrong and that most of the world is utterly asleep to this cosmic truth.
"Nothing exists but thoughts."
While I assert that that is untrue, I coubter with Napoleon Hill:
"Thoughts are _things_ ."
5:37
When he says taking seriously you better take that as a freaking warning my guy, most people shouldn't be doing this to get messed up. Its nothing like bud and not always in a good way be careful
Smell the color of time... That is basically my experience with psychedlics in a nutshell.
What you experienced was synesthesia. When you are on psychedelics, areas of your brain that don't normally communicate suddenly start to exchange information.
Ooh I love mescaline too 😍
every time I watch these kind of talks I immediately think of all those who oppose psychedelics, so sad
Who’s here has deep thoughts on how they managed to get to this point in their lives. Changing habits and being alone for the great and good. I’m literally fixing myself at 29….it’s fuqing scary but empowering
Lsd has changed me very significantly. But I can never tell if it's for the better or worse
Not your Business ignorance is bliss
You decide that. Will you use it for the better or for your downfall?
I’m watching this on shrooms and wow, this is really giving me hopes...this is awesome
What a waste of a trip... i hope you watched it afterwards to see what the fuss was about ;)
@@onreality5583 I watch things like this on shrooms all the time. Between a microdose and half a gram. Bearly can be considered tripping, but enough to boost your minds creativity and thought processes to make sense of things.