spirit
reflection, meditation, altered states and liminal experiences
How Does Will Work?
A deep dive through Angel's Trumpet into the machinery of consciousness — how a chemical can leave perception and movement partly online while dismantling the capacity to form and hold an intention.
Hypnagogia
Experience the fascinating threshold state of hypnagogia—the vivid mental landscape between wakefulness and sleep—where creators find inspiration and where, with techniques like binaural beats and deep relaxation, we might access a more evolved consciousness that harmonizes both rational and subconscious minds.
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Navigate the Borderlands of Consciousness
How to Stare into the Darkness
To see our inner worlds we may need to recalibrate our vision. Optical illusions might hold the key. Let's try an experiment.
Trataka: The Meditation for People Who Can't Sit Still
The ancient practice of trataka trains unwavering focus and extrasensory powers by staring unblinking at a point until the gaze becomes a concentrated laser beam connecting you tangibly with the object of focus.Books
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On Becoming an Alchemist
If you wish to change something, the first thing you must do is discover the true nature of your relationship to it. Then you will be able to see how to change it by changing yourself. This is the basic logic of alchemy.
Bookmarks
The Counterculture of Aging: Abbie Rosner on Psychedelics and Elderhood - Divergent States
What can psychedelics offer when the question is no longer “Who am I becoming?” but “What do I do with the life I’ve already lived?”Abbie Rosner, author of Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging, joins 3L1T3 and Bryan for a grounded conversation about psychedelic use among older adults and the…
Scientists found a way to plant ideas in dreams to boost creativity
Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream tweaks may boost creativity. By playing subtle sound cues during REM sleep, researchers prompted people to dream about unsolved…
Leveraging the power of lucid dreams | Weinberg College News - Northwestern University
If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for…
Frontiers | More dreams of the rarebit fiend: food sensitivity and dietary correlates of sleep and dreaming
BackgroundDespite centuries-old beliefs and anecdotal evidence that food can influence one's sleep and dreams—an example being the classic Dream of the…
Are There Psychics or Seers in Your Family Tree? – IONS
Dr. Dean Radin, IONS Chief Scientist, addresses the question of whether psychic abilities run in families in a Mystery Wire interview.
Dream Hacking: 3 Groundbreaking Experiments
Watch the first-ever video documenting live two-way dream communication. Have you ever felt drawn toward choices without knowing why? Or, as seen in the…
Scientists turn dreams into eerie short films with an MRI scan
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Basho Tohoku Tour: Narrow Road to the North - Walk Japan Guided Tours
A journey following in the footsteps of Basho, Japan's greatest poet, to Tohoku's 'deep north'.
Project Overview ‹ Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams – MIT Media Lab
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our lives are…