There are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.
The potential of psychedelics to improve brain function.
One of those rare books that demands you either defend the way you live or change it. Because
Early computer engineers relied on LSD in designing circuit chips,
Always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltrat...
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
They can print more money, he liked to say, and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can’t print more land.
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our ha...
Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple thi...
If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food i...
For me, spiritual is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic con...
Eventually the potato's undeniable advantages over grain would convert all of northern Europe, but outside of Ireland the process was never anything less than a struggle. ... Louis (XVI) hatched an in...
Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There
Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.
DON’T GET YOUR FUEL FROM THE SAME PLACE YOUR CAR DOES.
CONSULT YOUR GUT.
Its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.
Existential distress