This means that the self is more about movement through different forms of consciousness than about defending and identifying with any one form.”

“in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus (“this is the body”), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.” Without the ability to understand Latin, the peasants had garbled the translation, providing would-be magicians with a catchphrase for centuries to come.

Eckhart Tolle for Oprah and Eckhart: A New Earth, a ten-part online video series devoted

“Aside from some foul cutting material,”23 explains journalist Alexander Zaitchik in Vice, “Winnebago methamphetamine and pharmaceutical amphetamine are kissing cousins. The difference between them boils down to one methyl-group that lets crank race a little faster across the blood-brain barrier and kick just a little harder. After that, meth break

VUCA—Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous.

psychedelics have begun moving from recreational diversion to performance-enhancing supplement.

“Tell me what you value and I might believe you,” management guru Peter Drucker once said, “but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I’ll show you what you really value.”

consider three substances that sit squarely inside the state’s pale: caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol. The coffee break, smoke break, and happy hour are the most culturally enshrined drug rituals of the modern era, even though two of the three are top-ten offenders in Nutt’s rankings. There’s hardly a single workplace in the Western world that doesn

it doesn’t take much to bend this desire for personal change in more commercial directions. Consider a recent Jeep campaign,41 where they built mud bogs at county fairs. With thumping music and flashing lights amplifying the joyride, Jeep let fairgoers hop into one of their stationary rigs, floor the motors, spin the tires, and send dirt flying. Th