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Adam Knowles — Psychotherapist
Research

The edges of human experience

What can altered states tell us about ordinary ones? My research follows that question through psychedelics and space travel via detailed, first-person accounts.

Forest canopy at dusk
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Psychedelics

My PhD work and continuing interest. How psychedelic experiences are prepared for, sat with, and made sense of afterwards, and what existential and psychotherapeutic theory has to offer that conversation.

PhD Birkbeck, University of London
Method IPA, quantitative metrics & ethnography
Active since 2019
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Earth from space at night
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Space travel

Our bodies are calibrated to Earth's gravity. Change that, even briefly, and all points of reference change. What might this mean for those preparing for space travel?

Focus Lived experience of weightlessness
Method Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Active since 2026
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