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Our minds create defense mechanisms to help preclude future traumas. Plant medicine has helped people such as Aaron Rodgers transcend traumas and release those defenses. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

The term “maybelatership” may be trending on social media and possibly increasing in prevalence, but how different is it from a “situationship,” and what should you do? Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Skipping the intro credits on streaming platforms denies us anticipation and a gateway to another world. It also can teach us how to engage mindfully with boredom or discomfort. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Did you know that talking is great exercise for your brain? Experts are worried that talking is declining as we focus more on our phones. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the world, with the parameters of permission for imagination we call reality. The triumph of life is turning that collision into a…

Newcomb’s Paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The dread philosopher Robert Nozick published a paper on it in 1969 and it was popularized in Martin Gardner’s 1972 Scientific American column. I described the game in my previous essay in this series. As a philosopher, a game master…

“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work of thought and feeling — a book, a painting, a song — that becomes a fountain to which…

Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining of its conscious owner, is a greater mystery still. We know that ever since REM evolved in the bird…