ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Major life changes following psychedelic use: A retrospective survey among people using psychedelics naturalistically.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Epistemic Risk Reduction in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026Review
- The Relationship Between Psychedelic Use and Positive Adult Development in Emerging Adulthood: An Integrative Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Transformative experience and informed consent to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Psychedelic unselfing: self-transcendence and change of values in psychedelic experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
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- Cognitive liberty and the psychedelic humanities.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Henri Michaux's program for the psychedelic humanities.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- What good are psychedelic humanities?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Classic Psychedelics and Human-Animal Relations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Great Expectations: recommendations for improving the methodological rigor of psychedelic clinical trials.Psychopharmacology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Recent media advocacy for the nascent psychedelic medicine industry has emphasized the potential for psychedelics to improve society, pointing to research studies that have linked psychedelics to increased environmental concern and liberal politics. However, research supporting the hypothesis that psychedelics induce a shift in political beliefs must address the many historical and contemporary cases of psychedelic users who remained authoritarian in their views after taking psychedelics or became radicalized after extensive experience with them. We propose that the common anecdotal accounts of psychedelics precipitating radical shifts in political or religious beliefs result from the contextual factors of set and setting, and have no particular directional basis on the axes of conservatism-liberalism or authoritarianism-egalitarianism. Instead, we argue that any experience which challenges a person's fundamental worldview-including a psychedelic experience-can precipitate shifts in any direction of political belief. We suggest that the historical record supports the concept of psychedelics as "politically pluripotent," non-specific amplifiers of the political set and setting. Contrary to recent assertions, we show that conservative, hierarchy-based ideologies are able to assimilate psychedelic experiences of interconnection, as expressed by thought leaders like Jordan Peterson, corporadelic actors, and members of several neo-Nazi organizations.
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