Sublime

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

The collective minds of all observing creatures collapse the various wave functions into a seemingly physical and material world. But this world is malleable. I would like to call this reality the Sensereal Realm. It is a domain that has its own borderlands, places where the inhabitants of the Pleroma can break through into the Kenoma. This liminal

A great many therapeutic and spiritual modalities were developed and taught here over the years, including the therapeutic and spiritual potential of psychedelics. Beginning in 1973, Stanislav Grof, the Czech émigré psychiatrist who is one of the pioneers of LSD-assisted psychotherapy, served as scholar in residence at Esalen,

God (as Nietzsche famously declared) is dead. But in the unconscious, God is eternal.

Lashley’s principles seemed like a coverup” and that Lashley must have simply “concocted his doctrines.”42 Pietsch sought to disprove Lashley’s and Pribram’s theories by damaging salamander brains and examining whether they still exhibited feeding behavior.43 To his surprise, no matter what he did to the salamanders’ brains, they not only lived but

In our reality, Ted Nelson served as a muse rather than the Internet’s architect. Legend has it that he conceived of Xanadu as an antidote (or amplifier) for his attention deficit disorder. He dreamed of a word processor that allowed users to surf through and freely explore associations, related material, and alternate contexts of any given piece o

Despite his behaviorist orientation as a scientist, Griffiths had always been interested in what philosophers call phenomenology—the subjective experience of consciousness. He had tried meditation as a graduate student but found that “he couldn’t sit still without going stark-raving mad. Three minutes felt like three hours.” But when he tried it ag