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Leonard Gibson triangulates Whitehead, Bergson, Einstein, James and others with respect to space, time, relativity, experience and key assumptions of the Cartesian/Newtonian paradigm. He argues that Whitehead, while including much of their insights, also transcends them in significant ways. In particular, Whitehead remedies bifurcations between the local and the distant, the objective and the subjective, the physical and the mental with his novel psycho-physical rendering of actual occasions. In looking to Albert Hofmann’s discoveries with respect to LSD and psychedelic experience, Gibson argues that Whitehead’s revolutionary understanding of perception offers a truly innovative framework for understanding the way psychedelic substances work to foster experience that amplifies the subjective process of becoming of the final percipient occasion in the thread of occasions.
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Gibson, L. (2022). Exceptional Human Experience and the Potential for New Cosmology. In: Davis, A.M., Teixeira, MT., Schwartz, W.A. (eds) Process Cosmology. Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81396-3_17
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