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Can Psychedelic Trips Inspire Better Career Choices and Attitudes Towards Work?

An underexplored effect of psychedelics is how their use can affect both the career choices someone makes and the attitudes they have towards work in general. The LSD guru Timothy Leary famously told a countercultural audience — 30,000 hippies who gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1967…

Psychedelics

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Can Psychedelic Trips Inspire Better Career Choices and Attitudes Towards Work?
Can Psychedelic Trips Inspire Better Career Choices and Attitudes Towards Work?
Psychedelics

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Nov 27

Experiencing the Sublime Through Travel

The sublime is a concept in aesthetics that stands for the quality of greatness that leads to experiencing positive and negative emotions (e.g. fear and wonder) at the same time. This paradoxical emotion is often experienced in natural surroundings, during confrontations with natural phenomena that overwhelm oneself due to their…

Travel

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Experiencing the Sublime Through Travel
Experiencing the Sublime Through Travel
Travel

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Nov 20

What Makes a Movie ‘So Bad It’s Good’?

In my review of philosopher Matthew Strohl’s book Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies for Senses of Cinema, I outlined some of the features of ‘so bad they’re good’ movies, and what distinguishes them from movies that are just bad. However, I think a point that wasn’t stressed enough…

Movies

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What Makes a Movie ‘So Bad It’s Good’?
What Makes a Movie ‘So Bad It’s Good’?
Movies

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Nov 13

Some Reflections on the Backlash Against Psychedelic Hype

The hype surrounding psychedelics can be characterised as an overly positive picture of the benefits of psychedelics and an overlooking, or at least underrepresentation, of the harms and risks of these compounds. The growing psychedelic industry can be seen as following the trend of the Gartner hype cycle, a graph…

Psychedelics

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Some Reflections on the Backlash Against Psychedelic Hype
Some Reflections on the Backlash Against Psychedelic Hype
Psychedelics

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Nov 6

When Solo Travel Loses Its Magic

Over the years, travelling solo has gradually lost its ‘spark’. In my 20s, backpacking, staying in hostels, and meeting new people all the time felt exciting. This was a novel experience, after all, and in many ways, it sated my curiosity like nothing else. …

Travel

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When Solo Travel Loses Its Magic
When Solo Travel Loses Its Magic
Travel

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Oct 30

Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990): A Meditation on Making Peace With Death

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) — directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Bruce Joel Rubin — is, in my opinion, one of the greatest psychological horror films ever made. It is a multilayered film that draws on many spiritual and religious influences and themes. Rubin, the screenwriter, is also a meditation…

Film

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Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990): A Meditation on Making Peace With Death
Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990): A Meditation on Making Peace With Death
Film

8 min read


Oct 23

Tripping Imperfectly: The Most Common Regrets of Psychonauts

In a 2021 paper published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, researchers describe how psychedelic users turn their challenging trips into valuable experiences through the particular narratives users construct around their bad trips. One crucial finding was that many users identified a lack of competence as the cause of…

Psychedelics

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Tripping Imperfectly: The Most Common Regrets of Psychonauts
Tripping Imperfectly: The Most Common Regrets of Psychonauts
Psychedelics

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Oct 16

Psychedelic Use Sometimes Leads People to Nihilism

It’s often assumed, because of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, that tripping can help people shed nihilistic and depressive worldviews. In fact, this does happen for many, with feelings of existential joy and a yes-saying to the world suffusing the psychedelic state — and these feelings of optimism and…

Psychedelics

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Psychedelic Use Sometimes Leads People to Nihilism
Psychedelic Use Sometimes Leads People to Nihilism
Psychedelics

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Oct 9

25I-NBOMe: A Dangerous Psychedelic Commonly Sold as LSD

In the world of unregulated drugs, there is nothing to stop dealers from adulterating the drugs they sell or misselling them (giving you one thing, promising it’s something else). …

Drugs

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25I-NBOMe: A Dangerous Psychedelic Commonly Sold as LSD
25I-NBOMe: A Dangerous Psychedelic Commonly Sold as LSD
Drugs

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Sep 18

Ketamine and Nitrous Oxide: A Synergistic But Potentially Harmful Combination

Among psychonauts, drug combinations are sought out, experimented with, and appreciated due to their potential to modulate or intensify psychedelic states, and perhaps introduce novel states of mind not yet experienced. But with these potential rewards — new mental realms explored — can come greater risks. …

Drugs

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Ketamine and Nitrous Oxide: A Synergistic But Potentially Harmful Combination
Ketamine and Nitrous Oxide: A Synergistic But Potentially Harmful Combination
Drugs

14 min read

Sam Woolfe

Sam Woolfe

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I'm a freelance writer interested in philosophy, ethics, psychology, and mental health. Website: www.samwoolfe.com

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