April 2010
6 posts
Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study →
The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She’d already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.
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She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came.
“The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome,” she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant, kaleidoscopic colors,...
Helms, M.W.: Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic... →
What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be they Hindu pilgrims in...
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms -... →
CNN is lazy and repetitive →
Black Mafia Family - Wikipedia, the free... →