In & Through: The Onaya Podcast

Is the universe aware of itself, or is consciousness just a side effect of brain activity? What do Indigenous shamanism and theories like panpsychism have in common? Why is psychology blind to its huge limitations? And can dieting master plants show us what it's really like to be a bat?

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher, specialising in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and in fields relating to panpsychism, pantheism, and altered states of consciousness. 
 
He lectures at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the new Master’s programme in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture, the first of its kind in the world. Peter is also co-director of Europe’s largest psychedelics conference, Breaking Convention; author of two books, and co-editor of Philosophy and Psychedelics (Bloomsbury 2022); and the speaker of a popular TEDx Talk on ‘Consciousness and Psychedelics’.

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This podcast is part of Onaya’s Breaking Convention series, spotlighting speakers at the intersection of science and spirituality in the run up to the conference. For a 10% discount on your ticket purchase to Breaking Convention (17-19 April at the University of Exeter), you can use our code 'ONAYA10' at the checkout: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/breakingconvention.

What is In & Through: The Onaya Podcast?

In times of political, ecological and psychospiritual crisis — the only way out is In & Through.

Join Onaya as we welcome some of the most interesting people we know, to discuss eclectic topics from psychedelic medicine and Indigenous ways of knowing, to spirit entities, the meaning of dreams, and singing to the plants.

Your main host is our founder Dr Simon Ruffell, a psychiatrist and research psychologist with a PhD in Amazonian ayahuasca and a student of Shipibo curanderismo.

Onaya is dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional indigenous knowledge and modern science, including a not-for-profit research arm that studies ayahuasca and other Amazonian plant medicine practices.

We offer one-to-one support, consultancy and accredited courses that combine shamanism and biomedical science to facilitate holistic individual and collective healing.

For more information, please visit https://www.onaya.io/ or join our mailing list.

*** For a special 10% discount to our 6-Month Psychedelic Mentorship Training, head to our website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' ***

Co-producers: Robbie Redway and Caspar Montgomery
Music: United Freedom Collective