For many users of cannabis the “drug” is just another way to escape reality in a culture that places a primacy on escaping reality. While some like to just use it to enhance their junk food and media binges many users use it not to escape reality, but to go deeper into it. Though few…
Month: February 2017
Psychedelics Now Halal In Islam
It is well known that alcohol is forbidden (haram) in Islam along with other intoxicants such as hashish. Though lumping together all psychoactive substances together is ignorant due to the wide variety of effects – both helpful and harmful – of each unique “drug.” This is a gross and dangerous generalization – an excrescence of…
How To Stop Worrying Yourself To Death
As long as humans have lived in what is known as civilization most of them have been tormented by crushing anxiety. One would think that in our modern technocratic consumer society that a plethora of working methods would have been discovered to cure this inner plague, but many of the ways people today use to…
Microdosing Saves
From the outside Ayelet Waldman’s life and achievements appeared to be impressive. A successful and sometimes controversial lawyer, activist and writer she checked off most of the boxes of what is valued and admired in our society. Though behind veils of these social facades she was – as all beings are to various degrees –…