Reality Is Weird Enough: Psychedelic Realism with Danny Forde

When a psychedelic experience feels profoundly true, does that mean it actually tells us something true? Danny Forde, author of Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experiences, joins Divergent States to explore what happens when we take psychedelic experience seriously as an experience rather than reducing it entirely to brain activity or hallucination. We start with phenomenology itself: what it means to examine consciousness from the standpoint of experience, and why psychedelics may offer an unus...