Sublime

The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think . . . But if these dried-up little scraps of fungus taught me anything, it is that there are other, stranger forms of consciousness available to us, and, whatever they mean, their very existence, to quote William James again, ‘forbids a premature closin

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

First identified by the renowned psychoanalyst Isabel Menzies Lyth in 1960, depersonalization is manifested, in part, by the referencing of patients not by name but by disease.

It is generally believed by anthropologists that shamanism is the core religion of all mankind and that all subsequent belief systems are simply adaptions of this core credo. By means of hallucinations, facilitated by various techniques or induced by personal neurological conditions, shamans were able to access other realms of reality and bring bac

Intriguingly, psilocybin and ayahuasca tend to slow down brain waves, not speed them up, and they appear to shut down areas of the left hemisphere of the brain. Also, acquired savant syndrome—extraordinary mathematical or other mental abilities that suddenly appear after traumatic brain injury—usually occurs after damage to the left hemisphere.