True Detective and the Challenge of Nihilism
An exploration of the dialectic between Christianity and Nihilism, as presented through the critically-acclaimed first season of True Detective, which turned ten in February 2024.
Ed Prideaux
Hello!
Psychology, history, psychedelia, music, religion, philosophy, anything weird.
I do feature writing (BBC, FT, Guardian, Independent, VICE, Spectator, UnHerd, etc.)
I have also conducted research on Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD)
and used to work for the Perception Restoration Foundation.
www.perception.foundat...
Get in touch: eddie.prideaux@gmail.com
Psychedelic therapy & the Metaphysical Menu
I examine a proposal in psychedelic-assisted therapy to present a 'menu' of different metaphysical beliefs for clients to ponder in assisting the aftermath of their dosing sessions. Is metaphysical truth an appropriate domain for therapy? Are psychedelics useful as tools of metaphysical illumination? And does presenting a 'menu' encourage the idea that we can 'pick and choose' what's true like philosophical consumers?
Was Marcia Moore murdered?
Part two of my exploratory series into the mysterious death of the heiress, yoga pioneer and ketamine advocate Marcia Moore.
The mysterious death of the ketamine priestess
Marcia Moore disappeared in the winter of 1979 in circumstances that remain mysterious. Her disappearance came after publishing one of the West's first paeans to the now popular psychedelic dissociative-cum-antidepressant ketamine, which she hailed as a Goddess to access the Jungian unconscious and states of enlightenment.
Psilocybin and LSD: What I learnt after experiencing 'psychedelic flashbacks'
I discuss the culture, psychology and neurology of Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD). The piece includes an overview of my MSc research, which evidenced the considerable cognitive and behavioural components of the disorder alongside its direct symptoms.
Real Harm Reduction Requires Redistribution of Wealth
How do we help people who have developed debilitating problems from psychedelic drugs? Since accessing help is so often a matter of the money to pay for it, I ask whether psychedelia's billionaire philanthropists should provide direct cash transfers to its poorest.
Silicon Valley wants to mess with your head
'Consciousness' is in vogue online and in academic metaphysics - and in Silicon Valley's experiments with AI. Some suggest that metaphysical materialism and the Cartesian split have formed the original scars behind runaway capitalism.
Yet no matter what metaphysics we hold, are humans - and our conscious lives - not still rendered deadened objects by the market?
Inside the Big Cannabis lobby
In a way fitting of British hypocrisy, the legal treatment of cannabis is a mess of under-provided private medicine, ad hoc police decisions, and polarised information on the drug's safety. Why has Britain's medical cannabis market failed to take off? And will investors continue to be disappointed?
When psychedelics trigger visions of childhood abuse
“Acid Flashbacks” Are a Disorder of Prohibition
'Don't eat the brown acid': the past and present of drug adulteration
'Been smoking too long': musicians' complicated relationship with cannabis
‘I can’t stop looking for my symptoms’: The psychology of persistent visuals
The truth about acid casualties
Adventures in 'post-psychedelia'
Succession is a Christian psychodrama
Should conspiracy-thinking be classified as a risk of psychedelics?
Oxford University Psychedelic Society: To Fathom Hell, or Soar Angelic?
Are psychedelics more addictive than we think?
HPPD, ‘Flashbacks’, and the Problem of Psychedelic Anxiety
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