Strengthening Open-Mindednss in the Liberal Arts with Psychedelics

 

 

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"On June 19, 2013, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued a report that bemoaned the sorry state of the humanities and social sciences in higher education. They presented several reasons for this drop-off. Here we look at a different reason: a fundamental topic of the humanities is the human mind and its fullest development, but the liberal arts have systematically neglected a major advance on how to study our minds—some would claim the major advance. Shamefully, when they see the word psychedelic, many scholars' minds snap shut.  Put simply, the "psychedelic renaissance" (e.g., Cooper 2012, Sessa 2012) ...

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