It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) .
In the last several years, he and his wife, Ekaterina Malievskaia, a Russian-born physician, have devoted their considerable energy and resources to winning approval for psilocybin-assisted therapy in...
In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats.
If you hadn’t done what you did, he told Weil, I would never have become Ram Dass.
IN THE MID-1950S, Bill Wilson, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, learned about Osmond and Hoffer’s work with alcoholics. The idea that a drug could occasion a life-changing spiritual experience w...
I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was...
I prized, too, the almost perfect transparency of this meal, the brevity and simplicity of the food chain that linked it to the wider world.
I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.
HERE’S WHAT I DON’T GET about an experience like Bob Jesse’s: Why in the world would you ever credit it at all? I didn’t understand why you wouldn’t simply file it under interesting dream or drug-indu...
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Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, What a...
Could it be that the doctors were mistaking transcendence for insanity?
Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever’s already going on both inside and outside one’s head.
Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.
Charnay’s journey at Hopkins solidified her commitment to herbal medicine (she now works for a supplement maker in Northern California); it also confirmed her in a decision to divorce her husband.
Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an experience of the numinous to help them negotiate the second half of their lives.
Carhart-Harris believes that people suffering from a whole range of disorders characterized by excessively rigid patterns of thought—including addiction, obsessions, and eating disorders as well as de...
Can a recognition of one's shallowness qualify as a profound insight?
By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time,
By now you will not be surprised to learn that Gaston Bachelard had a few things to say about the element of air. In a book called Air and Dreams. he points out that we categorize many of our emotions...