Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence. Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call

“I deeply regret that my bombs didn’t kill more people.” That’s what the so-called Terror Priest, Fr. Patrick Ryan, said when I asked what he wanted people to know about him. My convo with a man who designed the IRA's deadliest bombs. 💣#history #Ireland sofmag.com/patrick-ryan-i…

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Have u watched a friend get into Buddhism & then become passive, withdrawn, and boring? I think Western Buddhism is turning many of us into NPCs 😬 I suspect this is because of (a) a critical mistranslation and (b) failure to import a very important concept: chanda Firstly, we

I've seen this in psychedelic spaces, simulation theory enthusiasts as well

The most underrated antidepressant: purpose in life

Energy vampires joining forces across the astral plane. I don't think the negativity in this realm is accidental. Keep love and kindness in your heart. Do good deeds. We may be in a simulation but the players are real.

I knew my boy was a freak.

One of the biggest things mushrooms changed in me is I now chase stillness when I used to chase control.

A young movie producer made a film that deals with UFO events and the 1967 Brockport UFO flap (discussed in my book Encounters and J. Vallee's Wonders in the Sky). It features Len Filppu, who witnessed the UFO: youtube.com/watch?v=5vDTtv…

"The Celtic race had a realistic naturalism, a love of nature for herself, a vivid feeling for her magic, commingled with the melancholy a man knows when he is face to face with her, and thinks he hears her communing with him about his origin and his destiny."

Jewel theives hit the Louvre? What is this, a 1950s Technicolor movie starring Cary Grant?

Doc and an EOD tech try to figure out how to remove a live RPG from the Marines leg it was impaled in at FOB Edi.

"I'll let you take a piece of me, I hope you get the peace you need And if that's not enough I'll let you go peacefully" youtu.be/l5KaHnyNC8g?si…

🇺🇸US Army Nurse Kate O’Hare-Palmer 1968-1969 serving in Lai Khe and Chu Lai. “We were overrun once as a hospital unit,” she said. “We were hiding patients, and putting them into containers; hoping to keep them safe. We lived in lockdown there. We stayed inside the fence.”

The voice in my head.