Pantheism: One and all

2025/05/08 by Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes · 2 voices
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices #Psychedelics and Drug Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/09515089.2025.2499627

Abstract

Pantheism – All is God – is the hidden doctrine behind many reported psychedelic-occasioned experiences, both in the literature and in clinical trials, yet its meaning is little understood in the clinical and therapeutic spheres. This essay therefore seeks to remedy this deficit by offering a fresh outline of Pantheism via the exploration of its etymology and history, the meanings of pan/all and theos/God, before traveling into a Pantheism typology that covers the two veritable varieties, Monist and Idealist Pantheism, as well as related doctrines that include Physicalist Pantheism, Partial Pantheism, Panentheism, and Panpsychism.

Citations

• On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research

Discussions

• Pantheism: One and All – My new open access article is just out in Philosophical Psychology. Within frames of psychədəlia, I set out types and histories of Pantheism – that God is Nature: doi.org/10.1 [bsky, 19 points, 1 comments]
• Latest papers: Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes seeks to remedy the deficit in understanding of the meaning of Pantheism in clinical and therapeutic spheres in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... [bsky, 10 points, 0 comments]

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