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...
Ordained Zen monk,
Numinous
If the therapy works as it’s supposed to, there won’t be a lot of repeat business.
Great writers stamp the world with their minds, and the psychedelic experience will forevermore bear Huxley’s indelible imprint.
Effect.
Cultural change occurs whenever a new meme is introduced and catches on. It might be romanticism or double-entry book-keeping, chaos theory or Pokemon. So where in the world do new memes come from? so...
Consciousness survives the disappearance of the self, that it is not so indispensable as we—and it—like to think. Carhart-Harris
Changing the course of history or, in a great many more cases, the course of their own lives. No doubt is the key. I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely sa...
[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...
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the...
You have just dined, Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. The
You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat...
You are what you eat eats.
Witches the Church simply burned at the stake, but something more interesting happened to the witches’ magic plants. The plants were too precious to banish from human society, so in the decades after...
Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to cast spells -- in our vocabulary, psychoactive plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashis...
When the ego dissolves, so does a bounded conception not only of our self but of our self-interest. What emerges in its place is invariably a broader, more openhearted and altruistic—that is, more spi...
When I read Dawkins, it occurred to me that his theory suggested a useful way to think about the effects of psychoactive plants on culture—the critical role they’ve played at various junctures in the...
What would shopping this way mean in the supermarket? Well, imagine your great grandmother at your side as you roll down the aisles. You’re standing together in front of the dairy case. She picks up a...
Timothy Leary, always happy to supply a reporter with a delectably outrageous quote, was famous. He delivered a particularly choice one after the university forced him to put his supply of Sandoz psil...