Mieltä paljastavien kokemusten filosofiaa: Kirja-arvio Aidan Lyonin (2024) teoksesta Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind.
Acta Psychedelica February 26, 2026 Janne Säynäjäkangas
Aidan Lyon's work combines analytic philosophy with cognitive science to propose a new, conceptually precise and empirically plausible theory of the nature of psychedelic experiences. Lyon argues that such experiences are not merely effects of compounds called psychedelics; psychedelicity applies to a much broader range of experiences. Common to these experiences is the emergence of hidden mental contents into consciousness, as the term's parts "psyche" (mind) and "delos" (revealing) originally indicated. The work discusses evidence that meditation produces psychedelic experiences and shows psychedelia can occur when eating a madeleine cake or viewing an artwork. Philosophy itself can be psychedelic.