In the discussion on horror I'd mentioned how of all the genres I think fantasy (whether magical realism or Tolkien-esque quests& kingdoms) is the one that speaks to the idea that the scientific image is lacking.
For myself the fantastical brings a sense of recollection, not of any distinct past
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[color=#131313]Join me as I sit down with visionary musician, record producer, author and rock star, Rodney Orpheus, and author, historian and Occult legend, the great Phil Hine.
Opinions on what, if anything, this says about retrocausation studies? I've heard of such reinterpretations/debunkings of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment and that you can replicate it's effect via non quantum means.
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[color=#131313]The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the possession of human beings alone, but a fundamental feature of reality?
This part of my journey has been stranger than I thought possible ~ as if I thought that it couldn't become more so, hahaha.
I had felt guided towards taking Psilocybin mushrooms after my last journey. I managed to acquire some after a bit of effort ~ but I didn't feel ready to take them, so I sp
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[color=#131313]You may agree that the so-called hard problem of consciousness exposes the deep inadequacies of a materialist worldview. But the alternatives - various forms of panpsychism, panentheism and idealism - rais
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What if you are a pixel in a higher-level consciousness navigating through extra dimensions of time? Meet the ‘Nested Observer Window Model’ of Jonathan Schooler, PhD, who is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and B
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