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Pluralistic Ethical Personalism, Qifan Hu Jan 2023

Pluralistic Ethical Personalism, Qifan Hu

Honors Theses

In the thesis, I sketch out a general outline for a pluralistic, personalist theory of ethics. This theory intends to capture the phenomenon that our life experience is saturated with ethical and other kinds of values; and it also emphasizes the idea that each ethical agent, or human being, has a unique ethical project that is understandable in light of various ethical values.

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การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: นกชายเลนปากช้อน, ปกป้อง ขำประเสริฐ Jan 2023

การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: นกชายเลนปากช้อน, ปกป้อง ขำประเสริฐ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษาเรื่องการสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: นกชายเลนปากช้อน มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษา นกชายเลนปากช้อนและมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้อง เพื่อสร้างองค์ความรู้และสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์ ใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพด้วยการศึกษาข้อมูลเอกสารและสัมภาษณ์ผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า นกชายเลนปากช้อนมีถิ่นกำเนิดทางตอนเหนือของสหพันธรัฐรัสเซีย จะอพยพลงทางใต้ในฤดูหนาว ยังแหล่งหากินช่วงฤดูอพยพบริเวณสาธารณรัฐประชาชนจีน สาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมเวียดนาม สาธารณรัฐแห่งสหภาพเมียนมา สาธารณรัฐประชาชนบังกลาเทศและราชอาณาจักรไทย พฤติกรรมหลักในรอบวันของนกชายเลนปากช้อนได้แก่ การเดินหากิน การนอน การส่งเสียงร้องและการบิน ในแต่ละปีมีนักดูนกให้ความสนใจเดินทางมาดูนกชายเลนปากช้อนเป็นจำนวนมาก ปัจจัยคุกคาม เช่นการถูกล่าโดยศัตรูธรรมชาติทำให้นกชายเลนปากช้อนเสี่ยงต่อภาวะใกล้สูญพันธุ์อย่างยิ่ง (Critically Endangered) ด้านมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องพบว่าเพลงไทยที่เกี่ยวข้องกับนก ที่รวบรวมได้มีทั้งหมด 66 เพลง แบ่งเป็น 4 ประเภท ได้แก่ เพลงที่ปรากฏทำนองแสดงพฤติกรรมนก เพลงที่ปรากฏกระสวนจังหวะแสดงพฤติกรรมนก เพลงที่ใช้นกเป็นสัญญะเพื่อแทนสิ่งอื่น และเพลงที่มีชื่อเกี่ยวกับนกแต่ไม่ปรากฏทำนองหรือจังหวะชัดเจนว่ามีความเกี่ยวข้องกับนก นอกจากนั้นยังพบว่าการประสมวงสามขลุ่ยไทยครั้งแรกบรรเลงเพลงที่เกี่ยวข้องกับนก การสร้างองค์ความรู้และสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์ มีการออกแบบทำนองที่แสดงพฤติกรรมรวมถึงมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องกับนกชายเลนปากช้อน เพื่อใช้เป็นแนวทางในการประพันธ์เพลง แบ่งออกเป็น 6 เพลง เพลงที่ 1 “ชูคอตกา” บรรยายถิ่นอาศัยทำรังวางไข่ของนกชายเลนปากช้อนในเมืองชูคอตกา สหพันธรัฐรัสเซีย เพลงที่ 2 อพยพ บรรยายการอพยพลงทางใต้ เพลงที่ 3 “อ่าวไทย” บรรยายแหล่งอาศัยในประเทศไทย เพลงที่ 4 “นกชายเลนปากช้อน” บรรยายพฤติกรรมของนกชายเลนปากช้อน เพลงที่ 5 “ทัศนาปักษา” บรรยายกิจกรรมดูนก และเพลงที่ 6 “วิถีวิหค” บรรยายภัยคุกคามของนกชายเลนปากช้อนและจบเพลงด้วยการวนกลับไปที่เพลงแรกแสดงถึงวัฏจักรชีวิตของนกชายเลนปากช้อน ทั้ง 6 เพลง เป็นการประพันธ์เพลงแบบอัตโนมัติตามแนวคิดแบบบุกไพรเบิกทาง โดยใช้ผลการวิเคราะห์ Spectrogram เสียงร้องและท่าทีพฤติกรรมต่าง ๆ ของนกชายเลนปากช้อนเป็นฐานในการประพันธ์ นำเสนอในรูปแบบดนตรีร่วมสมัยโดยมีการใช้เครื่องกำกับจังหวะไฟฟ้า เครื่องดนตรีแสดงสำเนียงภาษาต่าง ๆ และเครื่องดนตรีแสดงเสียงธรรมชาติ บรรเลงประกอบกับวงปี่พาทย์ไม้นวมและวงสามขลุ่ย จัดแสดง ณ คณะศิลปกรรมศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย

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Breakwater: Anti-Blackness In Geoscience Lessons From Long Beach, Ca, Christina Marsh Jan 2023

Breakwater: Anti-Blackness In Geoscience Lessons From Long Beach, Ca, Christina Marsh

Pomona Senior Theses

Breakwaters are more than just physical structures that protect against storm surges and in the context of Long Beach, CA, my hometown, they are actualizations of economic, social, environmental, geologic, and policy challenges. Inspired by Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy, and Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks, I use an extended metaphor and autoethnographic approach to connect a chronology of my educational life to the physical structure of a breakwater. Where the breakwater also acts as a signifier of my personal experiences of seeing it, questioning its purpose, and not always finding an answer. …

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Full Issue Jan 2023

Full Issue

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

No abstract provided.

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Kinship Poems, K. Avvirin Gray Jan 2023

Kinship Poems, K. Avvirin Gray

Comparative Woman

In the appended collection of three poems, canopied under the title, ”Kinship Poems” I explore the possibilities for and practice of kinship between Native and African American women. In my first poem, ”Auntie,” a prose poem, I center non-sanguineous kinship affiliation in the decolonial project. In my final poem, I give equal consideration to biological kinship, by staging a speaker’s direct address to her unborn child.

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Front Matter Jan 2023

Front Matter

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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The Place—Or The Tribe—Called Nahom? Nhm As Both A Tribal And Geographic Name In Modern And Ancient Yemen, Neal Rappleye Jan 2023

The Place—Or The Tribe—Called Nahom? Nhm As Both A Tribal And Geographic Name In Modern And Ancient Yemen, Neal Rappleye

BYU Studies

For decades, Latter-day Saint scholars have argued that “the place . . . called Nahom” in the Book of Mormon (1 Ne. 16:34) is the Nihm region in Yemen, located northeast of Sanaʿa, west of Maʾrib, and south of the Wadi Jawf. The location fits well both with the directions provided for getting to and from Nahom in the Book of Mormon (1 Ne. 16:13–14, 33; 17:1) and with inscriptions dated to Lehi’s time referring to a person called a nhmyn, translated as “Nihmite,” confirming that the name goes back to the right time period. Publications by Princeton, Oxford, …

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Covid-19 And Colonial Legacies In West Africa, Kalala J. Ngalamulume Jan 2023

Covid-19 And Colonial Legacies In West Africa, Kalala J. Ngalamulume

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Towards A Performative Migratory Aesthetics In Work By Womxn-Identifying Practitioners In The United States, 1970–2018, Laurel V. Mclaughlin Jan 2023

Towards A Performative Migratory Aesthetics In Work By Womxn-Identifying Practitioners In The United States, 1970–2018, Laurel V. Mclaughlin

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Works by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018 traces ritual—repeated performative actions across time—in performance, theater, and social practice works by womxn-identifying contemporary artists and collectives working in performance. Using an interdisciplinary methodological approach, including art historical formal analysis, performance studies concepts of embodiment, and decolonial theoretical analyses of socio-cultural landscapes, I theorize, in part through the work of Mieke Bal, what I term a “performative migratory aesthetics.” In such a theorization, I argue that the migratory conditions of movement, memory, heterochrony, and contact double as ritualized strategies of performance, serving to construct …

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Preliminary Report Of The Hasp 2022 Field Season: Geophysics, Coring, And Excavations At Neðri-Ás, Kálfsstaðir, Hlíð, Hrafnhóll, Hvammur, Reykir, And Víðines, In Hjaltadalur With An Appendix By Magnús Á. Sigurgeirsson, Guðný Zoëga, John M. Steinberg Jan 2023

Preliminary Report Of The Hasp 2022 Field Season: Geophysics, Coring, And Excavations At Neðri-Ás, Kálfsstaðir, Hlíð, Hrafnhóll, Hvammur, Reykir, And Víðines, In Hjaltadalur With An Appendix By Magnús Á. Sigurgeirsson, Guðný Zoëga, John M. Steinberg

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

This report outlines the 2022 work at Neðri Ás, Kálfsstaðir, Hlíð (formally called both Hrappsstaðir and Hrafnsstaðir), Hrafnhóll, Hvammur, Reykir, and Víðines (including Grófarstekkur) in Hjaltadal as part of the Hjaltadalur Archaeological Survey Project (HASP). This is the second year of a scheduled three-year project. The purpose of the project is to outline the settlement sequence and regional development in Hólar and around Hjaltadal and compare them with similar studies that have been carried out in Skagafjörður. The eight farms investigated in 2022 all seem to have been established well before the Hekla 1104 (H1104) tephra fell. Neðri Ás, Kálfsstaðir, …

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Doris Stevens: A "Fascist" Feminist? Stevens, The Inter-American Commission Of Women, And The Unión Argentina De Mujeres, 1936-1939, Jeannette Hunker Jan 2023

Doris Stevens: A "Fascist" Feminist? Stevens, The Inter-American Commission Of Women, And The Unión Argentina De Mujeres, 1936-1939, Jeannette Hunker

Scripps Senior Theses

Doris Stevens (1888-1963) was a U.S. feminist, suffragist, and member of the National Women’s Party. After the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, Stevens, among other U.S. feminists, involved herself in Latin American politics, working to pass women’s suffrage legislation in multiple countries. Stevens was chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) from 1928 to 1939. Eventually, a number of Latin American feminists, as well as members of the Roosevelt administration, sought to remove her from the IACW when her political tendencies posed a threat to both. Accused of being a “fascist,” Stevens was voted …

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From Prison Zooms To Hospital Rooms: Unmasking The Positives Of Remote Education, Molly Chao Yeselson Jan 2023

From Prison Zooms To Hospital Rooms: Unmasking The Positives Of Remote Education, Molly Chao Yeselson

Scripps Senior Theses

From Prison Zooms to Hospital Rooms: Unmasking the Positives of Remote Education is the culmination of a seven-year battle for my life and my education. Remote and hybrid education are perpetually identified as the cause of pandemic-era learning deficits. My project seeks to challenge such rhetoric by detailing the positive educational experience I, a student with a disability, along with my incarcerated peers, have had thanks to distance learning. I argue that as the world shifts from a pandemic to an endemic approach to COVID-19, higher education must keep its virtual doors open to nontraditional students.

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Human Creationism And Experimentation In Science-Fiction: A Case Study Of Frankenstein And Flowers For Algernon, Taylor Casey Jan 2023

Human Creationism And Experimentation In Science-Fiction: A Case Study Of Frankenstein And Flowers For Algernon, Taylor Casey

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

As a genre, science-fiction has the ability to operate within historical and scientific contexts in order to present stories that include speculative elements of reality, while still maintaining an aspect of empiricism. Science-fiction allows for the exploration of themes and concepts that are unknown to the current epoch of knowledge and provides an inquisitive look on the human condition. The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of human creationism and experimentation within two science-fiction texts. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon, two texts that were written in different scientific eras, both provide similar tales …

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Black Migrants In Harlem, 1900-1942: West Indian Migrants And The Ideologies That Helped Shape Garveyism And Black Politics In New York City's Interwar Period And Harlem Renaissance, Aminah Zanette Wallace Jan 2023

Black Migrants In Harlem, 1900-1942: West Indian Migrants And The Ideologies That Helped Shape Garveyism And Black Politics In New York City's Interwar Period And Harlem Renaissance, Aminah Zanette Wallace

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

ABSTRACT This dissertation tells a new story of Harlem black radicalism by inserting four West Indian migrants' experiences in advancing and enriching conversations on Harlem’s black radicalism, on Garveyism and on black politics during the interwar period and Harlem Renaissance era in Harlem. These four men include Hubert Harrison of St. Croix, Wilfred A. Domingo and Marcus Garvey of Jamaica and Cyril Briggs of Nevis of St. Kitts-Nevis. It writes a new history of Harlem black radicalism that inserts these four West Indian thinkers into the conversation and brings all these thinkers together under one history. This dissertation makes a …

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Crossing The Borders And Challenging The Boundaries Of White Feminism In Italy: Situated Rearticulations Of Difference And The Impact Of Antiracist Feminisms, Loredana Di Martino Jan 2023

Crossing The Borders And Challenging The Boundaries Of White Feminism In Italy: Situated Rearticulations Of Difference And The Impact Of Antiracist Feminisms, Loredana Di Martino

Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship

This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness and ethnocentrism of their theories and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and redefined both Marxist theories of social reproduction and cultural practices of female intersubjectivity. In addition to addressing the existence of differently situated gender positionalities and their diverging struggles, this critical white Italian feminism is also attempting to meaningfully incorporate and center feminist …

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(2023) Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, And Environmental Pioneer (2019) By Danica Novgorodoff, Peter Shea Jan 2023

(2023) Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, And Environmental Pioneer (2019) By Danica Novgorodoff, Peter Shea

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

As a young boy, Alexander Von Humboldt came up with divergent questions about the birds and mountains and animals he saw, and brought all those questions together under two big questions that stayed important for him over a long life: “How are these things different?” and “How are they nevertheless connected?” As the reader watches Humboldt looking at a hawk and a mouse, volcanoes and farmland, palm trees and pine trees, Europe and Ecuador, Europeans and Indigenous people, one comes to expect what he will say: “They are different, and yet they are connected.” This idea is much bigger than …

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Vulcan Historical Review 27 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2023

Vulcan Historical Review 27 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2023, Teresa Le, Sandra Channeary Khoun, Bianca Chavez, Daniela A. Ventura, Lazar L. Ismail, Jose Zarate, Emir Al-Rekabi, Luiscarlo Babineaux, Jordan Booth, Katherine Hamilton, Maria E. Hernandez, Juno Chance Murray, Jacqueline Vidales, Hadeel Zourkout Jan 2023

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2023, Teresa Le, Sandra Channeary Khoun, Bianca Chavez, Daniela A. Ventura, Lazar L. Ismail, Jose Zarate, Emir Al-Rekabi, Luiscarlo Babineaux, Jordan Booth, Katherine Hamilton, Maria E. Hernandez, Juno Chance Murray, Jacqueline Vidales, Hadeel Zourkout

McNair Scholars Research Journal-Archive

The McNair Scholars Program (officially known as the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program) came to the campus of The University of Texas at Arlington in 1990. Created by the U.S. Congress in 1988, it is named after Dr. Ronald E. McNair, who perished with his fellow astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger two years earlier. The McNair program endeavors to assist talented undergraduates – either first generation and low-income or underrepresented students – to prepare for graduate study leading to the Ph.D. and the professoriate. Since its beginning at UT Arlington, the McNair program has encouraged and assisted over …

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Evil No More: The Image Of The Witch And Women In The United States From Seventeenth And Twentieth Centuries, Morgan Taylor Peacha Jan 2023

Evil No More: The Image Of The Witch And Women In The United States From Seventeenth And Twentieth Centuries, Morgan Taylor Peacha

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Women in both colonial America and the twentieth century United States were impacted by the notions of witches and witchcraft. There was an integral change in witchcraft during the era of growing feminism and equality in political status. In the colonial period, what was once a disguise for women's oppression, has become a tool for women's liberation.

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Influenced: Performing Gender And Femininity In Mormon And Evangelical Online Spaces, Kathryn Ann Davis Jan 2023

Influenced: Performing Gender And Femininity In Mormon And Evangelical Online Spaces, Kathryn Ann Davis

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The construction of a digital self is fully performative; online identities are simultaneously highly curated, edited, and uniquely personal. These spaces allow users to become producers of identity and religious narrative. In this dissertation I examine the online communities which are a dynamic and developing aspect of religious life in America. I will argue that religious women have created increasingly diverse virtual spaces for themselves, and that these online communities give women a safe space to talk about their faith and create common bonds with other female adherents. I have engaged with these creators directly through oral history interviews and …

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Images Of Thai Women In Thai Travel Magazines, Permtip Buaphet Jan 2023

Images Of Thai Women In Thai Travel Magazines, Permtip Buaphet

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This research on the portrayal of women in Thai travel narratives aims to analyze the structure and components of these narratives and examines the language strategies used to present the images of Thai women within the context of travel magazines by combining textual analysis with visual methodology. Altogether 313 narratives from 48 issues of Vacationist, Travel around the World, Neekrung and Osotho magazines published between June 2018 and May 2019 were collected. The study reveals that the meanings of travel and the images of Thai women in the travel magazines through the use of language strategies are formed …

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 22, No 2, Winter 2023, Grand Valley State University Jan 2023

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 22, No 2, Winter 2023, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

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Childhood Experiences Of Black Americans Growing Up With A Suicidal Sibling, Barbara Maulding Jan 2023

Childhood Experiences Of Black Americans Growing Up With A Suicidal Sibling, Barbara Maulding

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Through this retrospective interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) qualitative research project, the childhood experience of growing up with a sibling who experienced a non-fatal suicide attempt was explored. The researcher used IPA as the conceptual foundation. This qualitative phenomenological study included interviewing eight siblings to retrospectively explore the childhood experience of growing up with a suicidal sibling (who had at least one incident of nonfatal suicidal behavior). The interview with each participant consisted of one interview and one follow-up review per Seidman’s semi-structured interviewing guide for phenomenological research. The results were analyzed using hand coding to explore the thematic elements. The …

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Mechanisms ‘All The Way Down’?, Ioan Muntean Jan 2023

Mechanisms ‘All The Way Down’?, Ioan Muntean

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Book review: Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond, Brigitte Falkenburg and Gregor Schiemann, editors, European Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 11, Springer International Publishing, Cham 2019, pp.220

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Philoponus And Forms, Owen Goldin Jan 2023

Philoponus And Forms, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This chapter examines Philoponus’ stance in regard to positing Platonic forms. He rejects separately existing universals. But Philoponus never decisively rejects Platonic forms, as understood in as logoi in the mind of God, identified with the Platonic Demiurge. So understood, these forms are particulars that are such as can cause a multiplicity of particulars to exist. He attributes such causal principles to Aristotle, and to Plato as interpreted by Aristotle, without correction. He does however take issue with Forms subsisting prior to the demiurgic intellect, and accordingly follows his teacher Ammonius in rejecting the Proclean interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics. In …

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Simulacra And Simulation Hypothesis: How Real Is Our Reality?, Annika Larson Jan 2023

Simulacra And Simulation Hypothesis: How Real Is Our Reality?, Annika Larson

CMC Senior Theses

Metaphysical quandaries have plagued humans for centuries, beginning with Plato, who in his Allegory of the Cave, illustrated a world where people misinterpreted shadows on the wall as reality. This paper examines the notion that our reality is a simulation, either created by us or by external forces. The ontological theories presented in this paper are mainly derived from the work of media theorist Jean Baudrillard and his concept of hyperreality as well as Nick Bostrom’s argument for the simulation hypothesis. I also analyze Slavoj Zizek’s comments on media depictions of simulations in mainstream movies like The Matrix and The …

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Portrait Of An Insecure Young Man; An Exploration Of The Online Propagation Of Mewing, Jamie Cockburn Jan 2023

Portrait Of An Insecure Young Man; An Exploration Of The Online Propagation Of Mewing, Jamie Cockburn

CMC Senior Theses

As social media becomes more ubiquitous in our cultural existence as humans it plays an increasingly large role in the formation and expression of identity. On many social media platforms, the way people look is emphasized, with more attractive people garnering the most attention. This results in the phenomenon of upward social comparison, which leads to the lowering of self-esteem. Social media and the internet also enable the spread of information and ideologies, which has resulted in the propagation of pessimistic and misogynistic world views in in communities that make up the manosphere. One popular topic on the manosphere is …

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Can You See Me Now?: A Critical Examination Of The Progression, Reception, And Impact Of Performances Of The Body As A Mechanism For Critiquing & Transcending Social Constructs In The West, Lauren Spencer Jan 2023

Can You See Me Now?: A Critical Examination Of The Progression, Reception, And Impact Of Performances Of The Body As A Mechanism For Critiquing & Transcending Social Constructs In The West, Lauren Spencer

CMC Senior Theses

Beginning with Adolf Loos’s famous “Ornament and Crime” essay, I examine the progression, reception and impact of performances of the body using Amelia Jones’ framework for distinguishing body art from performance art. As Primitivist Modernism became popular in the West, racialized bodies garnered new attention as subjects of both inspiration and criticism. Through a critical exploration of Black artists, I determine that the use of bodily performances aided in the subversion of the gender, sexual, and racial discrimination perpetuated by Primitivist Modernism and continued into the 21st century. Starting with French icon Josephine Baker and concluding with American legend Janet …

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Movement As Medicine: Dance/Movement Therapy For Individuals With Autism, Parkinson’S Disease, And Cancer, Alessia Zanobini Jan 2023

Movement As Medicine: Dance/Movement Therapy For Individuals With Autism, Parkinson’S Disease, And Cancer, Alessia Zanobini

CMC Senior Theses

Dance/movement therapy (D/MT) is the psychotherapeutic use of expressive, creative movement to support holistic well-being. D/MT views the human being as a single body-mind unit and movement as a manifestation of life experiences. While typically practiced as a mental health intervention, D/MT can be adapted for a variety of populations. This thesis evaluates scientific data for the non-traditional use of D/MT for three conditions: autism, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer. For individuals on the autism spectrum, D/MT can strengthen attunement skills, provide creative communication outlets, and relieve harmful physical manifestations of autism. For individuals with Parkinson’s disease, D/MT can simultaneously ease …

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Acquiring Knowledge Of Ultimate Reality Through Psychedelic Experience, Lia Harel Jan 2023

Acquiring Knowledge Of Ultimate Reality Through Psychedelic Experience, Lia Harel

CMC Senior Theses

Psychedelics have the power to induce in us an altered state of consciousness—a psychological experience radically different from our normal waking state of consciousness. Notable differences include changes in one’s perception of time, their sense of self, and the meaning and significance they attribute to things in their life. Across a broad range of testimonies, many people have reported characteristics of their psychedelic experience that bear a close resemblance to metaphysical accounts of ultimate reality from various cultures and time periods. In this paper, I explore the question of whether one can acquire knowledge of ultimate reality through psychedelic experience. …

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