Teatime – Impulse I’m not particularly interested in drugs. I mean, drugs are cool and all, and I’m told their actions are really fascinating from a biochemical standpoint. Their history certainly is colorful and illuminating; and sure, the social issues surrounding drugs and drug policy are important and thought-provoking. When it comes right down to [...]

It would be suicide not to follow my dreams.

Just to put things into perspective: the world doesn’t stop being shitty just because it’s the holidays.  A couple of local things and one from afar. Jerry Oliver, founder of Mercy Ministries in Augusta dies. He was tough as nails.  Watching him recover from the stroke he had last year was inspiring.  He will certainly [...]

Via Starts With a Bang I can’t remember the last time I felt so small. Dammit science! Stop being so damned enlightened! You make me feel insignificant in a cold, uncaring universe! (Actually, keep up the good work. I can’t wait for my jet-pack.)

H/T to Progressive Buddhism. I’m definitely checking this out ASAP.

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, [...]

It wasn’t the purpose or the function, but the style and that didn’t make sense to me. I counted style as a secondary objective. It was a matter of importance, but less importantly a matter of interest. Some days, he did nothing but write, and man, his work fucking howled. Other days he got carried [...]

… because I read an amazing essay up at Clockwise Cat that’s not up yet:Dharmic Dimensions in The English Patient by Allison Ross: “The English Patient,” the award-garnering 1996 movie based on the novel by the same name, is one of those hypnotizing, multi-layered gems that humble the viewer into lauding the very creation of [...]