Joseph I BreidensteinAfter growing up between West Chester and Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and studying at Villanova University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr earned his PhD in philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontrio. His formal training in the history of western philosophy began at the same time as both his yoga practice and his informal research in eastern philosophy, and 'Psychedelic Immortality: Nietzschean Perspectives on Reincarnation, Femtheogens, and Philosophy' draws from Dr. Breidenstein Jr's years of experience in both the academic and yoga/new-age worlds. His expertise in Nietzsche studies is evident in his previous publications such as 'Nietzschean, Feminist, and Embodied Perspectives on the Presocratics: Philosophy as Partnership' and "Nietzsche, the Stoics, and Philosophical Therapy" and, as his article "Cartesian Philosophy as Spiritual Practice" suggests, he also specializes in philosophical approaches to religion and vice versa. The theory of reincarnation presented in 'Psychedelic Immortality' is the result of Dr. Breidenstein Jr's years of both thinking about reincarnation through the lens of his philosophical education and trying to talk about reincarnation within western philosophy departments but, if the former endeavor led him to use the work of philosophers like Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze, Peirce, and Whitehead to develop a theory of how reincarnation works, the latter endeavor has made it clear to him how resistant mainstream academic philosophy is to reincarnation. Conversely, while the yoga/new-age scene and eastern philosophy have provided him with a community and intellectual tradition that is more receptive to reincarnation, Dr. Breidenstein Jr has found them to be lacking in the philosophical and scientific resources needed to make the case for why we, as a species, should resituate education and democracy within the context of reincarnation. 'Psychedelic Immortality' utilizes the best of the academic and yoga/new-age worlds to encourage the mutual enrichment of both. Read More Read Less