Philopsychedelia beyond the West: The decolonial reflorescence of psychedelic philosophy.

This work identifies intersections between decolonial thought and psychedelic philosophy, arguing that visionary aesthetics, liminal phenomenologies, ancestral epistemologies, ethics of resistance, politics of freedom, and kaleidoscopic metaphysics offer conceptual horizons for decolonizing manifestations of the mind. Using an analytical-descriptive methodology, it aims to philosophically justify integrating decoloniality into the reflorescence of psychedelia. The authors propose that psychedelic experiences can be ways of understanding insurgent knowledges, while decolonial conceptions can serve as keys for interpreting psychedelic experiences.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this work is to identify the intersections between decolonial thought and psychedelic philosophy. By "psychedelic" we mean a pharmacological category, the effects of substances that modulates perception, a myriad of consciousness states, a set of ecstatic practices, a variety of countercultural movements, a constellation of artistic avant-gardes, and a plurality of ways of being. We thus intend to demonstrate how visionary aesthetics, liminal phenomenologies, ancestral epistemologies, ethics of resistance, politics of freedom and kaleidoscopic metaphysics are conceptual horizons from which a decolonization of the "manifestations of the mind" can come to light. Through an analytical-descriptive methodology, we idealize obtaining, as a result of this research, a philosophical justification of the indispensability of integrating decoloniality into the reflorescence of psychedelia. In a nutshell: we envision to clarify the extent to which psychedelic experiences can be ways of understanding insurgent knowledges, as well as explaining the proportion to which decolonial conceptions can be keys to interpreting psychedelic experiences.