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How Expectations Color Our Beautiful World
The last few months I have been traveling with my girlfriend throughout Middle and South-East Asia. I climbed the Himalayas in Nepal, fell in love with the vibrant cuisine of Thailand, got my divers certificate on a remote island in Cambodia, spent a month meditating in a forest retreat in […]
Epic Challenge: 30 DAYS OF FEAR
My last 30 days have been absolutely insane. I have never grown or learned more in a one month period. Not even close. This is a NEW HIGH. I want you to be up here with me. Read on to find out how.
The Shamanic Flight of the Soul: Visiting Other Worlds
It is somewhat presumptuous to disdain or condemn as fake that which does not appear likely. –Michel de Montaigne Shamanic journeying, or the flight of the soul, is one of the central shamanic techniques, traditionally used by shamans to communicate with the spiritual world; a world believed by shamans to […]
The Mushroom/LSD Experience Explained & Explored
Anyone that has tried a psychedelic drug know that it’s impossible to fully explain the experience to someone who hasn’t tried one. The entertainment industry completely misrepresents these experiences with dragons flying out of people's faces and walls melting into nothing, which never occur even with strong doses. So, here […]
Ten Day Vipassana Course: An Intensive Confrontation With Myself
My whole life has been a more or less successful quest for wisdom and happiness. By what would later turn out to be a stroke of luck, this quest brought me to a 10-day Vipassana retreat in Northampton. Before the retreat, however, I doubted the decision: what if I had […]
25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Pt. 2
Human Traffic Very unique comedy about the drug/club culture in the UK. Five friends ponder society, drug use and their own lives as they go about their usual weekend of snorting, smoking, popping, dancing and sex. The Matador Pierce Brosnan plays an assassin going through a mid-life crisis as he […]
How To (Temporarily) Experience A Phantom Limb
I placed a coffee cup in front of John and asked him to grab it [with his phantom limb]. Just as he said he was reaching out, I yanked the cup away. “Ow!” he yelled. “Don’t do that!” “What’s the matter?” “Don’t do that”, he repeated. “I had just got […]
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