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I write about philosophy, meditation, psychedelics, wisdom, decision making, and related topics.

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Jun 01, 2022

Discovering connection through the psychedelic looking-glass

One of my all-time favourite quotes about psychedelics is the following by Stanislav Grof: It does not seem to be an exaggeration to say that psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy...

Jan 04, 2022

What is meditation, and why should you do it?

It's easy for meditation to be associated with Buddhism, spirituality, etc. However, although the practice of meditation definitely has the roots, this is not intrinsic to the practice. The abstract should definitely be longer. I think approximately four or five lines of text should be pretty good. Maybe even six lines. This makes me wonder whether I should write asbtracts for the cards or just use the introductions of the posts...