One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences, at their best, block every mental path forward and back, immersing us in the flow of a...
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver, able to tune in to frequencies of energy and information that exist...
Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of a bad thing instead of too little of a good thing.
Not only does he choose his own words with great care, but he insists that you do too, so, for example, when I carelessly deployed the term recreational use, he stopped me in mid-sentence. Maybe we ne...
Normal waking consciousness might seem to offer a faithful map to the territory of reality, and it is good for many things, but it is only a map—and not the only map.
Most recipes try to rush the process, promising to wrap things up & get the dish on the table in a couple of hours. These days recipes are steeped in the general sense of panic about time & so have tr...
Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we still depen...
Mendel Kaelen, a Dutch postdoc in the Imperial lab, proposes a more extended snow metaphor: Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled afte...
Maybe to be in a garden and feel awe, or wonder, in the presence of an astonishing mystery, is nothing more than a recovery of a misplaced perspective, perhaps the child’s-eye view; maybe we regain it...
Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmer’s Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan,
Leary reported eye-popping results: ten months after their release, only 25 percent of the psilocybin recipients had ended up back in jail, while the control group returned at a more typical rate of 8...
Lawns are a form of television
I’ve begun to wonder if perhaps these remarkable molecules might be wasted on the young, that they may have more to offer us later in life, after the cement of our mental habits and everyday behaviors...
It’s often said that a political scandal is what happens when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth.
Institutions generally like to mediate the individual’s access to authority
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states, one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They return with a new perspective and profound accept...
In this fact, Dave explained, lies the origin of the phrase nose to the grindstone: a scrupulous miller leans in frequently to smell his grindstone for signs of flour beginning to overheat. (So the sa...
In this and so many other ways, it seems, the Hopkins psilocybin experience is the artifact not only of this powerful molecule but also of the preparation and expectations of the volunteer, the skills...