Tag: mental health
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How William James Foreshadowed Neural Annealing
An excerpt from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), chapter Conversion (p176): “When I say ‘Soul,’ you need not take me in the ontological sense unless you prefer to; for although ontological language is instinctive in such matters, yet Buddhists or Humians can perfectly well describe the facts in the…
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Introduction to Gravitational Annealing
A forthcoming theoretical paper “The Weightless Mind and Liberation: Vasocomputation, Graviception, and the Harmonic Architecture of Consciousness” (working title) frames gravity as not just a strong prior that sculpts vascular architecture and cytoskeletal form, but also as a constraint and metronome deeply encoded in tissue tension, subtly shaping our experience of weight, cellular architecture, and subjective experience.…
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Systems of Control vs. Psychedelics: The War on Remembering
In a world where substances like alcohol—known for their addictive potential, comfort through dissociation, neurotoxicity, liver and kidney damage, and social harm (e.g., increased rates of violence)—are not only legal but culturally celebrated, the continued criminalization of non-addictive, non-toxic psychedelic substances demands scrutiny. More than a policy oversight or bureaucratic inertia, this contradiction reveals something…
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2. One-Time Limerence Or An Apocalypse
“Socrates states that mania is not always evil, but can be a blessing, when it is sent as a gift from the gods. This divine gift of mania is inspiration, of which Socrates distinguishes four different kinds: prophecy, telestic madness, poetic madness and madness of love.” Divine Mania: Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece Following is the sentence I…
Thoughts On Evolutions 