Aliens, Elves & Archetypes

A Home for Homeless Spirits: 

Practicing Deep Hospitality with aliens, elves, and archetypes

Contemporary psychedelic experience supports the ancient wisdom that this world is densely alive with sentient spirits of many different kinds.  The more open we are to experiencing this reality, the more aware we become of the diversity of sentient beings within ourselves.  In this talk, we will place this insight in the context of the philosophical view that the world is spirit in essence, and that materiality is a kind of shared illusion.

Beginning with a brief overview of the idealist philosophy (the kind of view defended by Bernardo Kastrup, Rupert Spira, and many others), we will discuss the structure of consciousness itself, and look at how consciousness manifests in various orders of being.  We will look at some of the categories of spirit (including but not limited to human) and how they interact and overlap.  Then we will apply this perspective to the experience of encountering these others in psychedelic space.

Finally, we will reflect on the practical and ethical implications of this perspective for integration.  Using the metaphor of hospitality, we will talk about what it means to be a good host for the many spirits who reside within our own minds. 

About Asher Walden, PhD

Asher taught undergraduate philosophy and religions courses for over ten years, and is currently working in the applied sciences. He received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Theology from Drew University. His dissertation was a comparative analysis of the moral metaphysics of Schopenhauer and the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi. 

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