Soma brave new world consequences9/25/2023 ![]() This thesis argues that the red pill that allows Neo to see reality and The Matrix for what it is literally mimic what psychedelic drugs enable in our world. This process is enabled by demystifying the ideology of The Matrix simulation and henceforth realizing that one is free to choose his own ideology and thus his own reality. In this, Karl Marx' framework of demystifying ideologies is applied to protagonist Neo's evolution from being a simple "no one," living in the oppressive simulation called The Matrix, to being "the one" with extraordinary physical powers. This thesis analyzes the nature of reality through the blockbuster film The Matrix. It is claimed that the debate should not get stuck in an opposition of dystopian and utopian views, but should address important issues that demand attention in our real world: those of evaluation and governance of enhancing psychopharmacological substances in democratic, pluralistic societies. ![]() The second part of the paper draws some further conclusions for the ethical debate on psychopharmacology and human enhancement, by comparing the novels not only with each other, but also with our present reality. ![]() This is illustrated by a discussion of the issue of psychopharmacology and authenticity. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, then what can we learn from Huxley’s novels about psychopharmacology and how does that relate to the discussion in the ethical and philosophical literature on this subject? The paper argues that in the current ethical discussion the dystopian vision on psychopharmacology is dominant, but that a comparison between Brave New World and Island shows that a more utopian view is possible as well. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. forthcoming information is on the text pages.Īldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. This article challenges humanists to: (a) use Grof's theory to enrich their fields, (b) view the Consciousness Explorer as a Twentieth Century face of Campbell's hero with a thousand faces, (c) develop current leads to reignite interest in the humanities and enliven university courses, and by extension, (d) incorporate the findings of other psychedelic explorers into humanists' intellectual tasks. ![]() The theory's four-level map of the human mind has received moderate attention primarily by confirming other scholars' global findings - particularly in religion and mythology - while the theory's third, perinatal, level offers rich psychocritical concepts to understand the history and the rhetoric of war, Sartre's philosophy, cinema criticism, and interdisciplinary studies. Grof's psychedelic-derived theory promotes cultural interpretation, psychocriticism, curricular enrichment, and new methods of humanistic research. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychologies enriched 20 th Century intellectual life, Grofian is enriching the 21 st. ![]() Stanislav Grof's map of the mind offers transpersonalists - and further, humanists and all professions working with the human phenomenon - a new kind of intellectual effort. ![]()
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