Psychedelics & Ego Dissolution
Psychedelics & Ego Dissolution Contents I. What Is Actually Happening: the Entropic Brain II. The Compounds III. The Promise IV. The Risks V. Use, Not Abuse VI. The Ego Death Trap VII. Cross-Links Is your awakening real, or are you just chemically unburdened? Psychedelics, used carefully, can be among the most powerful tools a human […]
Mystical Experiences & the Nervous System
Mystical Experiences & the Nervous System Contents I. What the Brain Is Doing II. Breakthrough or Breakdown? III. From Revelation to Regulation IV. Cross-Links Not everything that feels divine IS divine. People have always had experiences that feel like contact with something beyond the ordinary self: the dissolving of boundaries, a flood of unconditional love, […]
The Trap of Spiritual Bypassing
The Trap of Spiritual Bypassing Contents I. Why It Is So Easy to Fall Into II. What It Looks Like III. The Body Keeps the Tab IV. Spot the Difference: Bypassing vs the Real Thing V. The Way Through Is Through VI. Cross-Links When “light,” “positivity,” and “higher consciousness” become a sophisticated way to get […]
Medical Ethics, Misinformation, & Personal Choice
Medical Ethics, Misinformation, & Personal Choice Contents I. Informed Consent II. The Misinformation Problem: From Every Direction III. The Vaccine Question IV. Where Autonomy Meets Others V. Navigating It as a Person VI. Bring It All Home VII. Cross-Links Where rigorous thinking, personal autonomy, and responsibility meet. Everything so far has been building toward a […]
Alternative & Integrative Medicine
Alternative & Integrative Medicine Contents I. Why the Alternative World Is So Appealing II. It Is Also an Industry III. What Works, What Is Placebo, What Harms IV. Why “But It Worked for Me” Is Not Enough V. Integrative and Functional Medicine: Reading the Label VI. How to Evaluate Any Alternative Therapy or Supplement VII. […]
Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model
Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model Contents I. How the Money Works II. What the Incentives Produce III. When the Incentive Turns Deadly IV. Why the Fines Don’t Stop It V. Holding the Balance VI. Reading a Drug’s Claims VII. Pulling It Together VIII. Cross-Links What changes when healing becomes a business, and how to read […]
Diagnostics & Systems Navigation
Diagnostics & Systems Navigation Contents I. You Are the Expert on Your Own Body II. Asking the Right Questions III. What a Test Can and Cannot Tell You IV. More Testing Is Not Always Better V. Navigating the System Itself VI. Putting It Together VII. Cross-Links How to work with the medical system as a […]
The Role of Modern Medicine
The Role of Modern Medicine What It Gets Right Contents I. What Medicine is Great At II. What Makes Us Healthier? III. Matching the Tool For the Job IV. The Red Lines V. Pulling It Together VI. Cross-Links Before this section examines what is wrong with the medical and pharmaceutical industries, it has to be […]
Transcending Death
Transcending Death Integration, Legacy, and Continuity Contents I. What Lives On II. Symbolic Immortality III. Rebuilding a World Around the Gap IV. Life Through Death V. Death as Integration VI. The Cheat Sheet: Making Peace With the End VII. Pulling It Together VIII. Cross-Links “Transcending” here does not mean escaping or defeating death. It means […]
Death as Dysregulation
Death as Dysregulation When Systems Fail Contents I. The Spectrum from Order to Dissolution II. Allostatic Overload: Death by a Thousand Demands III. Existential Numbness: the Lights Still On, Nobody Home IV. Mental Health as Death Rehearsal V. Grief: the System Relearning the World VI. Reading the Signals VII. What This Means VIII. Cross-Links Burnout, […]