From Christmas to Santamas
A hypnotic exploration of Christmas as a modern shamanic tradition.
Independent Thinkers
Independent thinking is not an alternative because dependent thinking is not thinking.
Psychedelics’ Anti-therapeutic Promise
Psychedelics are quickly becoming a new drug of promise, not for what psychedelics can do, but for what mental health practitioners want.
COVID-19: Frontline Doctors
Clinical medicine is being shut down in favor of institutional medicine in the treatment of COVID-19.
The Assembly of Mind
Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.
A Call for Ideas
The critical idea behind deep nature connection is not nature, it’s connection. Nature is the mirror because nature holds the chaos of the interaction of relevant things.
Evolution’s Choice
When it comes to your health, winning seems the imperative, and it seems one must win at all costs. This is rarely true; it is rarely the case that your fate is sealed and you must play the game set before you.
The Virtues of Advertising
Advertising is a like fishing. It’s a process of watching people’s habits, and inferring something about how they think. Here are interesting results.
Origin of Chronic Illness and the Nonsense of Medical Hypnosis
"The origin of chronic illness lies in the struggle with our emotions. More specifically, the conflict between the controlled person we have created ourselves to be and the emotions inside us..."
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Marketing and sales are the mucosal lining of civilization’s intestines.
Loving, Learning, and the Learning Project
All our lives we’re told to develop discernment, exercise judgement, and find the importance in things, but I found scarce few who were doing it. Around 2000 I decided to retrace my steps, and ask those people who were living a committed life what they were doing, and why.
Our Lack of Sleep
Many of the consequences of insufficient sleep are highlighted in Matthew Walker's 2017 book is titled, Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. The extracts I'm quoting come from his penultimate chapter, "Sleep and Society."