Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’

Amanda Feilding’s Talk at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference in San Jose

Amanda Feilding’s Talk at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference in San Jose
It’s great to be here today, with so many companeros, on this eve of the 16th of April, the day 67 years ago, when Albert Hoffman accidentally experienced his first LSD-trip, which launched the thousand ships on which we now sail. I set up the Beckley Foundation in 1998 for the purpose of scientifically...
April 25th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Putting the Pope on Trial

Putting the Pope on Trial
International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 13th April 2010 Confession and repentence are not among the Christian virtues practised by the Pope. He has apologised for the rape...
April 14th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The Science of Morality

The Science of Morality
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.
April 8th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Entangled

Entangled
Time is not what it seems… When a drug overdose causes Leoni, a troubled teen from twenty-first-century Los Angeles, to have a near-death experience, her soul is lifted from the modern world and flung into a parallel time 24,000 years in the past. There her fate becomes entangled with that of Ria,...
April 8th, 2010 | Arts | Read More

Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle?

Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle?
James Kent attempts to tie a knot in the meme of autonomous elves and other DMT entities. “Snippets of the Psyche” revealed in DMT space, by James Kent The comments in this article are adapted from Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason, by James Kent. The following...
April 7th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Mecca Diaries

Mecca Diaries
Hajj is the world’s largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is…shaky camerawork and all. The next...
March 23rd, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More

The most isolated tribe in the world?

The most isolated tribe in the world?
In the days after the cataclysmic tsunami of 2004, as the full scale of the destruction and horror wreaked upon the islands of the Indian Ocean became apparent, the fate of the tribal peoples of the Andaman Islands remained a mystery. It seemed inconceivable, above all, that the Sentinelese islanders...
March 22nd, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

How do we make Decisions?

How do we make Decisions?
Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness and the way humans make decisions — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself.
March 18th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

EYE SPIRITS

EYE SPIRITS
It had been many years since I had last seen Don, one of my favourite college lecturers, so I was delighted to bump into him at a conference.  Back in the old college days he had been something of a Sean Connery look-a-like and was much admired by the girl students, so it was a shock to see him now...
March 18th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican
The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican’s chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday. Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron. By Nick Squires in Rome from The Telegraph He added that the assault on...
March 12th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
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