I don't know if acute psychedelic states can put one in direct contact with ultimate reality, but in my new paper, I argue that they still can play a non-trivial epistemic/rational role in metaphysical inquiry. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Do we experience the flow of time? Answering this is trickier than it may seem. In my new paper, I explore altered states of consciousness—meditation, psychedelics—as contrast cases to argue for a positive answer. Open-access link: philpapers.org/rec/GADETA #PhilosophyOfMind