An Introduction to Philosophy and Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today and Dreamshadow Present:
An Introduction to Philosophy and Psychedelics
A 15-Week Live Online Course
Brief Course Outline
Week 1: Introduction - Reviewing Class Syllabus. Start the Presocratics
Week 2: Pre-socratics 1
Week 3: Pre-socratics 2
Week 4: Trial of Socrates
Week 5: Plato
Week 6: Plato
Week 7: Plotinus
Week 8: Augustine
Week 9: Aquinas
Week 10: Descartes
Week 11: Empiricists - Locke, Barkley, Hume
Week 12: Newton
Week 13: Sartre - Existentialism
Week 14: Zen Buddhism
Week 15: Integration (Alfred North Whitehead)
Course Information
Price: $200 - This is a beta course
Day: Wednesday Evenings (EST)
Date: Oct 28th, Nov 4th, 11, 18, Dec 2, 9, 16, Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Where: Zoom
Books: There will be required reading and some required book purchases.
This will be a live-support course. You will have access to the course replays and course material if you miss a live class.
Course Instructor:
Leonard Gibson, Ph.D.,
Lenny Gibson graduated from Williams College and earned doctorates from Claremont Graduate School in philosophy and The University of Texas at Austin in psychology. Lenny has 50 years of experience working with non–ordinary states of consciousness. He has taught at The University of Tulsa and Lesley College and served his clinical psychology internship at the Boston, MA V.A. Hospital. He also taught transpersonal psychology for 20 years at Burlington College. Lenny serves on the board of the Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region in Vermont. A survivor of throat cancer, he facilitates the head and neck cancer support group at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He is a past president of the Association of Holotropic Breathwork International.
Your Instructor
Psychedelics Today is dedicated towards exploring and discussing the important academic/scientific and other research in the field of psychedelics.
About Kyle Buller, MS:
Kyle’s interest in exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness began when he was 16-years-old, when he suffered a traumatic snowboarding accident. Waking up after having a near-death experience changed Kyle’s life. Since then, Kyle has earned his B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology, where he studied the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness by exploring shamanism, plant medicine, Holotropic Breathwork, and the roots/benefits of psychedelic psychotherapy. Kyle has co-taught two college-level courses. Kyle's senior capstone project, “Stanislav Grof’s Psychology of Extraordinary Experiences,” turned into a full three-credit course. Kyle also co-created, “The History of Psychedelics” with Lenny Gibson.
Kyle also earned his M.S. in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in somatic psychology. Kyle’s clinical background in mental health consists of working with at-risk teenagers in crisis and with individuals experiencing an early-episode of psychosis. Kyle also facilitates Transpersonal Breathwork workshops.
About Joe Moore:
Joe studied philosophy in New Hampshire, where he earned his B.A.. After stumbling upon the work of Stanislav Grof during his undergraduate years, Joe began participating in Holotropic Breathwork workshops in Vermont in 2003. Joe helped facilitate Holotropic and Transpersonal Breathwork workshops while he spent his time in New England. He is now working in the software industry as well as building Psychedelics Today.
Joe now coordinates Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork workshops, in Breckenridge, Colorado.