Nerd Alert! 10 Super-Groovy Academia.edu Accounts (Psychedelics and Altered States)
Academia.edu sucks. It’s a for-profit company, backed by venture capital, posing as an educationally-affiliated organization. It sucks up the labor of educators and researchers at no cost to itself, then fishes for profit with misleading notifications and relentless pitches for premium features. However, in the absence of a utopian knowledge commons, it’s still a useful resource for independent researchers, as long as you can ride that wave of pop-ups and spam. So c’mon, let’s grease the wheels of cognitive capitalism together, and explore some mind-expanding accounts on Academia.edu!
Frederick Barrett
Research focus: Psychopharmacology
Exemplary works:
“Classic Hallucinogens and Mystical Experiences: Phenomenology and Neural Correlates”
“LSD Enhances the Emotional Response to Music”
Jack Hunter
Research focus: Parapsychology, Paranthropology
Exemplary works:
“On the Nature of the Psilocybe-Folk: Psychedelic Psychoid Persons”
“The Anthropology of the Weird: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Anomalous Experience”
Bia Labate
Research focus: Ayahuasca (Anthropology, Drug Policy)
Exemplary works:
“Plants, Psychoactive Substances and the International Narcotics Control Board: The Control of Nature and the Nature of Control”
“Ayahuasca, Psychedelic Studies and Health Sciences: The Politics of Knowledge and Inquiry into an Amazonian Plant Brew”
Andy Letcher
Research focus: Eco-Paganism
Exemplary works:
“Psychedelics, Animism and Spirituality”
“The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture”
Illustration from David Luke, “Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters”.
David Luke
Research focus: Psychopharmacology, Paranthropology
Exemplary works:
“Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters”
“Connecting, Diverging and Reconnecting. Putting the Psi Back into Psychedelic Research”
Thomas Roberts
Research focus: Educational Psychology, Psychedelic Studies
Exemplary works:
“You Have a Constitutional Right to Psychedelics”
“Four Stages of the Psychedelic Renaissance—Toward Mind Design”
Graham St. John
Research focus: Electronic Dance Music Culture
Exemplary works:
“The Breakthrough Experience: DMT Hyperspace and Its Liminal Aesthetics”
“Electronic Dance Music: Trance and Techno-Shamanism”
Charles Tart
Research focus: Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychology, Parapsychology
Exemplary works:
“Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions?”
“Cosmic Consciousness Experience and Psychedelic Experiences: A First Person Comparison”
Michael Winkelman
Research focus: Shamanism, Applied Medical Anthropology
Exemplary works:
“The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences: Hypotheses from Evolutionary Psychology”
“Spirits as Human Nature and the Fundamental Structures of Consciousness”
Illustration from David Luke, “Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters”.
Richard Yensen
Research focus: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Exemplary works:
“From Shamans and Mystics to Scientists and Psychotherapists: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Interaction of Psychedelic Drugs and Human Consciousness”
“Thirty Years of Psychedelic Research”
Also worth checking out: Chiara Baldini, Neşe Devenot, Rick Doblin, Roland Griffiths, Stanley Krippner, Chris Letheby, Alan Piper, Adam Rock, and Kevin Whitesides.
Any other suggestions? Please leave them in the comments below!
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