Psychedelic Book Club: On Drugs

After a long hiatus, the BPS Book Club is back! 📚

Join us to explore the wild stories that have emerged from non-ordinary consciousness, and to discover new paradigms to process our own experiences.

This time, we’re gathering in Bushwick to discuss Justin Smith-Ruiu’s On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality. Smith-Ruiu is a philosopher and historian of science who takes his own altered states seriously as philosophical evidence.

Moving between personal memoir, the history of ideas, and a sharp look at today’s psychedelic boom, he asks a question most philosophers avoid: what if drugs can actually teach us something about the nature of reality?

We recommend reading some or all of the book in advance so we can have a rich conversation on its themes. However, those who haven’t read the book are very welcome to attend.

Free to attend · donations appreciated