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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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‘Deaths of despair’ soaring among Gen Z & millennials: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
By Helen Buyniski Source: RT.com Young Americans are killing themselves in record numbers, the victims of a confluence of economic and sociological factors that have singled them out – even above a nationwide surge in so-called “deaths of despair.” Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged addiction, Alcohol, America, Baby Boomers, culture, deaths of despair., depression, drugs, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Generation Z, Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Labor, military spending, millennials, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, recession, Social Media, society, Sociology, Student Debt, Student Loans, suicide, The American Dream, unemployment, war, Work
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WHY WE’RE A CULTURE OF ADDICTS
By Leslie Garrett Source: Waking Times If there’s one constant among addicts of all types, it’s shame. It’s what makes us lie and hide. It’s what keeps us from asking for help – though we don’t think we need it … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Drug War, Health, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, Buddhism, Compassion, Consciousness, Criminalization, culture, Dr. Gabor Maté, drugs, Harm Reduction, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Neurology, Philosophy, psychology, Recovery, Shame, society, Sociology, spirituality, Trauma
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First Do No Harm
By Emmy Bee Source: Dissident Voice Let me preface what I am about to say by stating that I have the utmost esteem for mainstream medicine’s skill in emergency situations — the do or die surgeries, the dispensing of powerful … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, GMOs, Health, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Alternative Medicine, Big Pharma, DDT, Disease, drugs, FDR, GMOs, Health, healthcare, Medicalization, MMR Vaccine, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Vaccines, Western Medicine
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3 Questions You’re Not Supposed to Ask About Life in a Sick Society
By Sigmund Fraud Source: Waking Times “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~J. Krishnamurti Society is directed by a never-ending mainstream narrative which is always evolving, and always reaching new dramatic … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, culture, Drug War, Economics, Health, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged cognitive freedom, Conformity, Consciousness, Critical Thought, culture, Debt, drugs, Money, Natural Medicine, obedience, Pharmaceuticals, society
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The War On Consciousness
By Graham Hancock Source: Body Mind Soul Spirit We are told that the “War on Drugs” is being waged, on our behalf, by our governments and their armed bureaucracies and police forces, to save us from ourselves. “Potential for abuse … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Drug War, History, police state, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Alcohol, Cannabis, Consciousness, decriminalization, drug war, drugs, Entheogens, Harm Reduction, legalization, neurodiveristy, Prohibition, Psychedelics, Public Health, Tobacco, Victimless Crimes, War on Drugs
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Government, Terrorism, Money, Education and Other Important Discussions
By Phillip J. Watt Source: The Mind Unleashed The elite power structure – which uses the monetary system, war, false flags and the monopolized media as their primary mechanisms of control – has infiltrated every major government of the Western … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Drug War, Economics, education, Energy, Environment, False Flag, Geopolitics, Health, media, Militarization, military spending, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged corporate media, defense, drugs, Economics, Education, Energy, environment, Food, Government, Health, Hillary Clinton, Housing, military spending, Sovereignty, State Terror, Taxation, terrorism, war on terror, Water
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Closing the Doors of Perception
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, education, Empire, Environment, Health, Law, media, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Consciousness, corporate media, drugs, Education, Government, Pharmaceuticals, pollution, Spiritual Awakening, Survival
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