Excited to share that Psychedelics Community is live – the new home for the Chemical Collective blog, which I've been managing for the past year.
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My latest blog post is about how yoga nidra (or non-sleep deep rest) can induce hypnagogia: the trippy, transitional state between waking and sleeping. https://t.co/rXDf9lnN8c
I recently rewatched Arrival. Here, I explore the film's connection to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics, the ontological turn in anthropology, Terence McKenna's DMT-inspired view of reality, and the tension between premonition and free will. https://t.co/tse8onVYJk
My latest blog post is on how cultural factors and cognitive biases may cause people to embellish memories of their psychedelic experiences.
I also explore the difficulty in knowing whether memory distortion has occurred. https://t.co/MgkmYPQxKa
In this blog post, I look at what anemoia (nostalgia for an era one didn't live through) can reveal about identity and culture – how it influences trends like the Y2K aesthetic, the resurgence of 90s and 2000s-style music, the manosphere, and tradwives. https://t.co/tJmWHuDhes
An article I wrote about the recurrence of car crash imagery in emo music – in track titles, lyrics, and music videos. I look at how this trend harks back to the 'teen tragedy songs' of the 50s and 60s. I also include a list of tracks featuring this theme. https://t.co/5HQ2mqyD3e
An article on my relationship to writing, and why thinking of writing in an atelic (non-goal-oriented) way can make it a more fulfilling practice. https://t.co/MOr9c4gOGW
Em dashes and semicolons (more so em dashes) have become associated with AI content nowadays, to the extent that writers avoid them or worry about using them. In this article, I argue why this is a loss to human writing and should be resisted. https://t.co/3dbfFtzklV
Some research has found that, for many people, psychedelics increase rather than decrease death anxiety.
In my latest blog post, I look at whether a triggering of apeirophobia (a fear of eternity or eternal life) may be one reason for this. https://t.co/IkDpHguUiG
An essay on the films of Mike Leigh, one of my favourite directors.
I look at how Leigh portrays anxiety in Britain through his eccentric characters, in films such as Bleak Moments, Life is Sweet, Naked, and Career Girls. https://t.co/gzLJd1G4Iv
An excerpt from my book, published by @IAI_TV. It's taken from Chapter 9, where I apply Henri Bergson's theory of dèja vu to the intense feeling of familiarity that many people experience on DMT.
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I wrote about how we can apply Mark Fisher's theory of 'the weird' to the many weird experiences that people have on psychedelics. https://t.co/i9QXo7oY0Y
Déjà vu is one of the most peculiar human experiences there is. | https://t.co/KDjblhVAC2
In this article, philosopher @samwoolfe draws on Henri Bergson’s work to argue déjà vu is the merging of the virtual and actual worlds.
New blog post.
I recently finished reading a new biography of #Schopenhauer from @dbatherwoods (highly recommend). One part that stood out was Schopenhauer's warning about how excessive solitude can feed social anxiety.
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