Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics who
specializes in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental
causation, and altered states of consciousness through thinkers such as
Whitehead, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson.

Peter is a lecturer at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the postgraduate courses in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture. He is co-director of Europe’s largest psychedelics conference, Breaking Convention, and the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), co-editor and
contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022), Strange
Attractor’s Breaking Convention (2025), and author of forthcoming Psychedelic Metaphysics Manual, alongside numerous articles.

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    8 November 2025

    How do we accept the incompleteness of the universe itself — not merely our limited knowledge of it — without becoming lost in the arbitrary nature of meaning?

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