What is (a) psychedelic: historical perspectives – Erika Dyck

Описание: Erika Dyck's lecture "What is (a) psychedelic: historical perspectives" from the Psykedeelit 2023 conference held in Turku, Finland on November 23–24, 2023.

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"Psychedelics are drugs that induce non-ordinary psychic effects, such as hallucinations, but the concept of psychedelic stretches beyond a pharmacological reaction. Though the word 'psychedelic' was not officially coined until 1957, the search for mind-manifesting encounters has a long and colourful history that stretches deep into our human past and continues to animate discussions about mental health and wellness today. Throughout time, people all over the world have been curious about non-ordinary states of consciousness. Sometimes, such curiosity has been driven by a personal desire to experience different realities, other times it has arisen from a desperation to seek relief from mental anguish. As a historian, in this presentation I explore historical experiments with non-altered states that nourished the field of psychedelic study in the 1950s, including influences from parapsychology, Indigenous spirituality, and an empathetic approach to studying madness through psychosis."

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