Jules Evans
Honorary Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
Jules Evans is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (2013), The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience (2017) and Holiday From the Self: An Accidental Ayahuasca Adventure (2019). He is co-editor of Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency (2020).
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Stories and literature
Was Colin Wilson a fascist?
For thousands of fans, he made philosophy thrillingly relevant. Yet there is a deep unsavoury undercurrent to his worldview
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Philosophy of religion
Perennial philosophy
Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right?
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Consciousness and altered states
Caves all the way down
Do psychedelics give access to a universal, mystical experience of reality, or is that just a culture-bound illusion?
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Values and beliefs
Dissolving the ego
You don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger
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Wellbeing
Is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth?
Nigel Warburton & Jules Evans
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Mental health
Their good life
Governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Is there a limit to state-sponsored happiness?
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