In this week’s episode Neşe Devenot speaks with Joanna about chemical poetics; the Timothy Leary archives; Leary’s “High Priest” and Sasha Shulgin’s “PIHKAL”, reflecting on the meaning of te psychedelic experience; psychedelics and pushing the boundaries of language; the the new science of Ecstatics; nitrous oxide and Romantic poetry; Richard Doyle’s Ecodelics, the revelation of interconnectedness; natural, endogenous psychedelics; “The Joyous Cosmology” of Alan Watts, an early description of fractals; “anything that stops the flow of writing is wrong”; expanding mind, expanding culture.
Neşe Devenot is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where her book project is exploring psychedelic philosophy and the literary history of trip reports. She is a 2015-16 Research Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Timothy Leary Papers and a Research Fellow with the New York University Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study. She is a founder of the Psychedemia interdisciplinary psychedelics conference and a founding member of the MAPS Graduate Student Association.
“I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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As a writer/storyteller/recording artist, I explore edges and hedges. I reveal deep likeness between wisdom that different traditions’ share, and carve openings in hedges that cultural dictators erect. Joseph Campbell was my mentor on Children of Desire, my first recording of creation stories with original music, produced for New Dimensions Radio.
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Very interesting
Great conversation! Refreshing to hear a young and very knowledgeable voice on this vital topic. I wanted to pursue a scholarly path on the subject back in the 1990’s but there didn’t seem to be any institutional avenues with which to do so then. Neşe Devenot’s career path thus brings me much inspiration and hope for the future. Look forward to hearing more!