The Perennial Philosophy

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“…The essentialist position can be traced in part back to the writing of Aldous Huxley (1945) and his book The Perennialist Philosophy which compiled a variety of materials from across the world religions to claim that they all point to the same esoteric reality. This position, though a minority in the field, later becomes a central theme in the writing of Huston Smith (1987) and his efforts to find a "primordial tradition" and a "perennial philosophy."…”

Section: Conceptual Mediation In Meditative and Psychedelic Experiencementioning

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View, meditation, action: A Tibetan framework to inform psychedelic-assisted therapy

Simonds

2023

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Whether occasioned through careful, consistent meditative practice or through quicker means like the ritual ingestion of psilocybin or ayahuasca, global contemplative practices have established effective systems of implementing, directing, and integrating the very kinds of non-ordinary experiences central to psychedelic use. However, contemplative traditions are largely absent from the present discourse on psychedelic therapy. This paper addresses this gap and offers a novel analysis of psychedelic-assisted therapy through the lens of the Tibetan Buddhist contemplative tradition. It first establishes a baseline for comparing the non-ordinary experience occasioned by Tibetan Buddhist meditation and the psychedelic experience by referencing the phenomenological literature of both. It then articulates the Tibetan contemplative framework of view, meditation, action (Tib. lta sgom spyod gsum) as the way Tibetan Buddhism directs its non-ordinary meditative experience towards its desired ends and suggests how this framework may be applied to psychedelic-assisted therapy. Finally, this paper uses this Tibetan Buddhist lens of analysis to compare and assess two protocols for psychedelic-assisted therapy and to make recommendations for future clinical protocols. Given the phenomenological similarity of Tibetan Buddhist meditative experience and the psychedelic experience, this article suggests that a more intensive preparatory session where maladaptive conceptual narratives are worked through and beneficial ones are introduced, repeated dosing sessions, and a more directed psychedelic experience may increase the efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapy. It thus argues that the insights of the Tibetan framework of view, meditation, action can improve future protocols and allow for psychedelic-assisted therapy to be of even greater benefit.

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View, meditation, action: A Tibetan framework to inform psychedelic-assisted therapy

Simonds

2023

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“…Idealism, found in various forms within the world's esoteric traditions, and discussed in Huxley's Perennial Philosophy and other works (Huxley, 1945), proposes that consciousness is primary over the physical world. In that case, the physical world and all of its manifold forms are a mental inference.…”

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A Metaphysical Theory Connecting Mind, Matter, and Meaning

Radin

2023

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Dual-aspect monism proposes that reality consists of a single, undifferentiated, holistic “substance” (monism) that splits into mind and matter (dual aspects). In this view, mind and matter are linked, or intimately correlated, by meaning. These tight correlations do not imply that mind causally affects matter, or vice versa, but rather they point to an acausal relation. Atmanspacher and Rickles propose that this metaphysical theory, based on deep philosophical roots and refined based on ideas from quantum mechanics, provides a satisfying model of reality that does justice to both the mental and physical domains. They describe a line of qualitative research that appears to support their theory, but they inexplicably dismiss a much larger body of quantitative studies that provide far greater support.

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“…More than that: experimenting with other traditions through role-play, led them to the conclusion that underneath the differences in traditional religious beliefs, doctrine, vocabularies and rituals, one may find a similar or universal kernel. Worldview switching, thus, may invoke a "perennial perspective" (Huxley, 1945) on religion. Importantly, beside narrative cosmologies, mythologies and so on, games' systems also promote this kind of worldview switching and perennialism.…”

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Single-player Religion

Wildt¹

2023

The Pop Theology of Videogames

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This chapter builds on the previous chapter by conducting in-depth interviews with 20 players: Why do they individually play with religion? and How do they adopt worldviews (albeit temporarily) that are not usually theirs? Players, whether atheists, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, self-identified Pagans or of other convictions, all have one thing in common: they are prompted by games to enter worlds with different beliefs than theirs, taking up identities of religious “Others” that do not share their own religious convictions of everyday life.

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The Perennial Philosophy

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View, meditation, action: A Tibetan framework to inform psychedelic-assisted therapy

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