You’re not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?’ Of course I am!
[David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty...
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...
Consciousness survives the disappearance of the self, that it is not so indispensable as we—and it—like to think. Carhart-Harris
Effect.
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...
Great writers stamp the world with their minds, and the psychedelic experience will forevermore bear Huxley’s indelible imprint.
Ineffability:
It tells me that consciousness is primary to the physical universe.
Nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.
Ordained Zen monk,
Pile, I started to see the golden kernels everywhere, ground into the mud by tires and boots, floating in the puddles of rainwater, pancaked on the steel rails. Most of this grain is destined for fact...
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...
Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
The adult human brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 18 percent of our energy, all of which must come from a carbohydrate.
Wes Jackson calls our species homo the homogenizer.)
Perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the frozen food case.
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.
The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
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