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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes’ TEDx Talk: Consciousness and Psychedelics

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental causation, and altered states of consciousness through thinkers such as Whitehead, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Peter is a lecturer at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the postgraduate courses in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture. He is co-director of Europe’s largest psychedelics conference, Breaking Convention, and the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022),  Strange Attractor’s Breaking Convention: Musings and Meditations on Psychedelia (2025), and author of Bloomsbury’s forthcoming book, The Psychedelics Manual: Metaphysics and Meaning, alongside numerous articles. As well as the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness‘, and speaker on the BBC’s show ‘The Trip’, Peter is an inspiration to the recreation of inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

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