The connection between computer culture and psychedelics goes long and deep. Even today Silicon Valley titans are using drugs likes LSD to aid their ability to think of disruptive technologies and business models. While Steve Jobs’ use – and reverence – of psychedelics is well known, the use of LSD by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates…
How To Meditate In Virtual Reality
Back in the days of the early 90s cyberculture it seemed like it was immanent that humanity was about to make an evolutionary leap from this limited monkey gravity well and inhabit infinite virtual worlds, becoming beings of pure imagination. Though a few decades have come and gone and we are unfortunately still stuck in…
Opioids Are Death, Psychedelics Are Life
Nothing sums up the sickness of our current civilization than the fact that drugs of death like hydromorphone, oxycodone and fentanyl are being legally pushed by Purdu Pharma who are lauded for their business techniques of transmuting generations into junkies and corpses for a few pieces of silver while so-called “drugs” like psychedelics and cannabis…
The Spirituality Of Cannabis
For many users of cannabis the “drug” is just another way to escape reality in a culture that places a primacy on escaping reality. While some like to just use it to enhance their junk food and media binges many users use it not to escape reality, but to go deeper into it. Though few…
Psychedelics Now Halal In Islam
It is well known that alcohol is forbidden (haram) in Islam along with other intoxicants such as hashish. Though lumping together all psychoactive substances together is ignorant due to the wide variety of effects – both helpful and harmful – of each unique “drug.” This is a gross and dangerous generalization – an excrescence of…
How To Stop Worrying Yourself To Death
As long as humans have lived in what is known as civilization most of them have been tormented by crushing anxiety. One would think that in our modern technocratic consumer society that a plethora of working methods would have been discovered to cure this inner plague, but many of the ways people today use to…
Microdosing Saves
From the outside Ayelet Waldman’s life and achievements appeared to be impressive. A successful and sometimes controversial lawyer, activist and writer she checked off most of the boxes of what is valued and admired in our society. Though behind veils of these social facades she was – as all beings are to various degrees –…
Science’s Quest To Explain The Life Review Experience
“A moment, and a thousand years… both and neither. It all happened at once, or some experiences within my near-death experience were going on at the same time as others, though my human mind separates them into different events”. Researchers at the Hadassah University in Jerusalem are trying to understand the “life review experience” –…
Temple For The Unity Of Humankind To Be Built On The Moon
That being in space can cause mystical experiences and feelings of unity in space explorers has been well documented, so it is not surprising that the European Space Agency plans to build a lunar temple as a “place of contemplation” alongside the first base on the moon. The temple will be built on one of…
Ancient Buddha Statue Emerges From The Mists Of Time
It was just supposed to be a standard hydro renovation project. But they did not expect a mysterious centuries old Buddha statute to emerge as the water in the reservoir dropped. According to Xinhua News it was at the Hongmen Reservoir in Nancheng County where the Buddha was revealed after workers partially drained water levels…