Logic and language are not the same thing It’s difficult for us to imagine what our mental lives would be like without language. Some theorists have even gone so far as to argue that language and logical thought are one and the same thing. A new brain imaging study challenges this notion by showing that [...]

Free-will vs. determinism is a very scary subject to broach and one that most people will avoid like the plague. It impedes on our very self-worth. Our uniqueness stems from our individuality, which stems from the fact that each and every single one of us is the master of our own destiny. And because without [...]

Born Believers: How your brain creates god: WHILE many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of times, the strictest, most authoritarian churches saw a surge in attendance. This anomaly was documented in the early 1970s, but only now is science beginning to tell [...]

From Psychedelic Medicine News: Scientists have been searching for years for naturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1 receptor. In addition, a unique receptor for the hallucinogen, called dimethyltryptamine (DMT), has never been identified. The UW-Madison researchers made the unusual pairing by doing their initial work the “old-fashioned,” yet still effective, [...]

Brains ‘are hardwired to believe in God and imaginary friends’ Religion is part of human nature and our brains are hard wired to believe in God, scientists believe. The evidence includes studies of babies and children which have shown the brain is programmed to think of the mind as being separate from the body. This [...]

Featuring: me. Go forth and read issue #30. Specifically this: Esteban Canal’s Immortal Game as Applied to God. By me. Of course. Go read my story-it’s not really a story-read, motherfucker!

Notes from the book. Associated research, citations, etc. are not important. The incomprehensible gibberish that strings my philosophy together is. The idea of ‘god’ has been on my mind quite a bit for the last few weeks as well, mostly prompted by the sudden realization that most of my family has (during the past six [...]

From within the wellspring of the heart a very particular, very subdued joy found me. I did not feel the need to grin, nor to laugh, nor to speak of it. Indeed it was overwhelming but neither unwelcome nor debilitating, such as the rapid onset found with psychedelics. This was perhaps my mind’s insistence, and [...]