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Navigating Manic Psychosis
Some advice on a wild mindstate, from experience and observation
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How to Start a Meditation Practice
It's not as hard as you think
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Exegesis: Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain"
George Clinton's masterpiece of semi-Satanic psychedelic Afro-futurism
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Ayn Rand Will Kill Us All
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Religion is an Ego-modulator
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Causal Explanations Considered Harmful
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Jungian Psychology, Minus the Nonsense
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Church of Reality: Barbara McClintock on Scientific Mysticism and Plant Consciousness
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The Link Between Meditation and Inner Work
Psychological maturity is a hard requirement for bliss
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Behavioral Theology
Quantifying the effects of belief
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Exegesis: Stalker and Roadside Picnic
Dissecting Tarkovsky's masterpiece and the novel it was based on
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One Year of Superb Owl
Lots of gratitude and a few announcements
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How to Enjoy Things
Cultivating "wide attention" with Marion Milner, Colin Wilson, and Alan Watts
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The Nitrous Revelation
Eight hours with a tank of laughing gas
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Max Goodbird
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Why Does Depression Suck So Much?
I’ve had a handful of depressive episodes throughout my life, and while I’ve built up a robust set of skills and coping mechanisms, each time it hits…
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Church of Reality: Ernst Mach on Mind, Matter, and the Illusion of Self
"The ego must be given up."
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Contra Ozy Brennan on Ameliatarianism
Constructing an ethical diet is hard. Utilitarian morality isn't the answer.
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