The Velvety Steel Balls Radiance Project (or something like it)
Why People Fall in Love with Psychopaths: A Psychological and Forensic Analysis
Love is often described as mysterious, unpredictable, and irrational. But few forms of attraction puzzle psychologists, clinicians, and laypeople alike as much as the phenomenon of falling in love with a psychopath. How can highly intelligent, manipulative, and often...
The Weekend I Discovered How Kind People Can Be
The unexpected encounters with love and humanity that changed my life. When I was 16, I spent a fall weekend on a Church retreat on the South Side of Chicago with about 30 other teenagers. We stayed at Hyde Park Union Church with pastors from our local Church. We...
Dangerous Men: Why “High IQ” Doesn’t Equal “High Safety”
Intelligence has long been revered in society as a marker of success, competence, and problem-solving ability. High IQ individuals are often assumed to possess not only cognitive superiority but also wisdom, morality, and sound judgment. Yet, history and psychological...
Understanding LSD and Depression Research
The Ultimate Consciousness Drug That is Experiencing a Resurgence Research into using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat depression is being renewed. LSD was extensively investigated in humans in the 1950s and ‘60s and was shown to attenuate depressive...
How Fasting Rebuilds You From the Inside Out
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
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— “Baba O’Riley,” The Who, 1971
