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Brock Bastian
Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His studies have been reviewed in leading news outlets such as Time, Huffington Post, Economist, New Scientist, Scientific American, and The New Yorker.
Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His studies have been reviewed in leading news outlets such as Time, Huffington Post, Economist, New Scientist, Scientific American, and The New Yorker.
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Ritual, transcendence & psychedelics
The dangers of celebrity
Celebrity is power
Marx, Nietzsche and philosophy at Christmas
Addiction is not just a medical problem
The love lives of philosophers changed how we think
How we can predict fashion
Digital won't replace analog
Drowning in Drugs
The Deception of Genealogy
Narcissism is the new religion
The metaphysics of laughing gas
The dangers of a sober society
The dangers of freedom & the threats of community
Transcending the self and finding reality
How to be happy, despite modernity
Why it's easier to do evil than to do good
Why everyone's having less sex
The unexpected reason holidays matter
The virtues of virtue signalling
6 philosophers on the perils of gifts
Sex, art and technology
Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry
ChatGPT: the route to loneliness?
When to believe lies
The spiritual dimensions of rave culture
The farce of the fifteen-minute city
Solving the mental health epidemic starts with trust
Reclaiming the commons
Opening the black box