Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one’s rational faculties.)
Grof did extensive research trying to correlate his patients’ recollections of their birth experience on LSD with contemporaneous reports from medical personnel and parents. He concluded that with the...
The marvel of consciousness, as Vladimir Nabokov once called it, that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being—maybe
The feeling of co-creatureliness with all things alive should enter our consciousness more fully and counterbalance the materialistic and nonsensical technological developments in order to enable us t...
The biological, the psychological, the philosophical, or the spiritual—has yet earned the right to claim it has the final word. It may be that by layering these different perspectives one upon the oth...
Researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the same dollar buys only 250 calories. On the beverage aisle, you can buy 875...
Psychedelics enhance neuroplasticity.
Psychedelic therapy creates an interval of maximum plasticity in which, with proper guidance, new patterns of thought and behavior can be learned.
Nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut), and that 99 percent of the DNA we’re carrying around belongs to those microb...
Nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.
It tells me that consciousness is primary to the physical universe.
Either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands. So i...
All these disorders involve learned habits of negative thinking and behavior that hijack our attention and trap us in loops of self-reflection. What started as a pleasure becomes a need; what was once...
You’re not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?’ Of course I am!
You have just dined, Emerson once wrote, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
You can't regulate integrity
Wrangham estimates that cooking our food gives our species an extra four hours a day. (This happens to be roughly the same amount of time we now devote to watching television.)
Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don’t do well on raw food: they can’t maintain their body weight, and half of the women on a raw-food regimen stop menstruating. Devotees...
With the solitary exception of the Eskimos, there isn’t a people on Earth who doesn’t use psychoactive plants to effect a change in consciousness, and there probably never has been. As for the Eskimos...
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chem...