New Perspectives on a K-Hole
Cambridge researchers study the effects of ketamine on sheep. Their findings explore what happens to the brain during a K-hole.
Cambridge researchers study the effects of ketamine on sheep. Their findings explore what happens to the brain during a K-hole.
Psychologist Baba Ram Dass was a well loved author and spiritual teacher who helped bring Eastern philosophies and psychedelic healing to the Western world.
Learn about ethnobotanist and psychonaut, Terence Mckenna and his journey across the globe and through psychedelics lead him to be a psychedelic advocate.
A look at traditional Mazatec psilocybin mushroom usage, and a comparison to the cliniical therapeutic approach, with an examination of the Mazatec setting and species used in veladas.
“The Scientist: An Evening with John C. Lilly” by Jon Leon Torn is a multimedia solo performance piece that depicts the spiritual and experimental journey of one of the most creative and controversial thinkers of the 20th century. He took some time out of rehearsals to chat with his brother, actor-director Tony Torn, about the piece.
I caught up with Tom Robbins to hear more about the musical adaptation of one of his novels, and found him as nimble as ever as we wound up in a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, God, creativity, language, laughter, and politics. What follows is Part 1 of a 2-part interview
I had been so excited in that bedroom. Yet I had been called from lovemaking by something strong. How many lives was I living right now? Which of the dreams was most real?
An excerpt from Tony Vigorito’s third novel, “Love and Other Pranks”: “Do you ever wonder if you are shadow puppets of some much larger theater of experience?” An unknown, unexpected, and terribly deep voice very suddenly resonated from the far corner of the screened patio.
Between the real and its representation is an unseen world that photographer Shannon Taggart has learned to capture with her camera. Shannon and I corresponded over email about her work, the new book, and how sometimes the most authentic experiences are those that inhabit the liminal.
The ketamine experiences were like visits to a Cosmic Disneyland; I never knew what might come, what the “ride” would be about. And the experiences covered a wide range from the most sublime and astonishing to the completely banal and trivial.