As we drove up, Mr. Flowers himself was sitting beneath a tree out front, having a smoke. He was a wiry old white guy with the most unusual facial hair I had ever laid eyes on. If in fact it was facia...
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and t...
Also, by demonizing one nutrient -fat- we inevitably give a free pass to anther , supposedly good, nutrient -carbohydrates in this case - and then proceed to eat much of that instead.
All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering—who we are, where we came from, how nature works.
All the accomplished gardeners I know are surprisingly comfortable with failure. They may not be happy about it, but instead of reacting with anger or frustration, they seem freshly intrigued by the p...
All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us can be traced directly to the industrialization of our food: the rise of h...
After more than half a century of its more or less constant companionship, one’s self—this ever-present voice in the head, this ceaselessly commenting, interpreting, labeling, defending I—becomes perh...
A meme is simply a unit of memorable cultural information. It can be as small as a tune or a metaphor, as big as a philosophy or religious concept. Hell is a meme; so are the Pythagorean theorem, A Ha...
A happy brain is a supple and flexible brain, he believes; depression, anxiety, obsession, and the cravings of addiction are how it feels to have a brain that has become excessively rigid or fixed in...
The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.
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.
There are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves.
The second possible explanation for the noetic sense: when our sense of a subjective I disintegrates, as it often does in a high-dose psychedelic experience (as well as in meditation by experienced me...
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...
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...
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...
Great writers stamp the world with their minds, and the psychedelic experience will forevermore bear Huxley’s indelible imprint.
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...
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...