“In the province of the mind…there are no limits.” -John C. Lilly This was the conclusion of the late neuroscientist and psychoanalyst John C Lilly
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Losing Louisiana’s Dynamic Coastline: A National Emergency
Imagine a foreign body is planning to invade the United States: This invasion threatens to wrest control of a crucial port city, seize a third the country’s natural gas and oil reserves, and make refugees of hundreds
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Turning…
The rigor mortis was already starting. His joints crackled, he lost feeling in the fingers holding fast to his gaping wound. They left me. They didn’t look back… His
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Saturn’s Mysterious “Hexagon”
Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, nine-and-a-half times further from the sun than the Earth and ninety-five times more massive than Earth. With its spectacular rings of ice
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Love Is Skin Deep
“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should.” -Clive Barker, “The Hellbound Heart”
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Altered States: Sensory Deprivation and the Mind
Imagine floating in a void abandoned by sound, absent of all light, and devoid of gravity. In this void there is no sense of up and down, left or right;
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A 3-Step Guide to Living With Chaos
Our world is chaotic. From weather patterns to geological formations, animal migration to immigration, a zebra’s stripes to a man’s imagination, peace to war, chaos is all around us. Yet, apparently random events also form incredibly complex and ordered patterns. This chaos and order dynamic can be teased out of nearly every facet of life on earth and may hold the key to resolving the capital-P-Problem of capital-L-Life.
Against the Weltschmerz
We’ve probably all confronted this state of mind. Lately it’s been a rather stubborn pest in the back of my brain: anticipation followed by inevitable