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Bawa
I had a discussion with Giorgio Samorini, who’s an Italian ethnobotanist and who has taken ibogaine, or Tabernanthe iboga, with the African tribe that uses that initiation. And in that initiation they give 400 grams of this plant that is effective at 4 grams. And they give 400 grams, and sometimes people die. And it’s pretty heavy duty stuff. And I... See more
Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends
Morphogenetic field; Culture as habit
Cool people and Berlin
“What should I do with my life?!?!” Here is what I wish I’d known every time I felt lost.
TOP TIP:
Don’t try to figure it out all on your own. That’s too hard. Instead, spend time with possibility-generating people & environments. Eg:
- A friend who’s always dreaming up wild ideas (ask them... See more
Tyler Altermanx.com"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted
... See moreMorris questions the premise of legalising psychedelics based on its medicinal/therapeutic properties. His whole thing is COGNITIVE LIBERTY. Hmm. Why does that sound familiar?
What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more
