Nirvana

His two typical companions are still missing, though.

The empty promise of luxury mysticism.

New testing finds psilocin, related to psilocybin, in gummies purchased in 2023.

There's nothing tragic about missing this week's toughest word, other than the word itself.

The mod is just a concept, but it sure looks swell

Two scholars dipped into 100 texts, and found that yoga is not as culturally homogenous as the Right Wing makes it out to be. Yoga is not a culturally homogenous, all-Hindu, Vedic tradition, as is often portrayed by revivalist demagogues and those who have set up a raucous campaign to reclaim its roots. It is, in fact, a liberal, eclectic tradition that absorbed freely from Buddhist, Jain, even Sufist ascetic…

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White House on Monday hosted the biggest Diwali reception ever on Monday which also saw the presence of several Indian Americans from the Biden administration.

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Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e'er surpass our art. We are the masters, them the slaves, And thus it ever shall be so! They learn, 'tis true, but they learn Only what we bid them learn, no more. They cannot understand the heart Or beauty of our words, you see. So let...

"Food is medicine" makes for a great bumper sticker. However, as health policy, things start to fall apart. The MAHA model, born from a blend of good intentions and Instagram-friendly catchphrases, skips the messy parts: the collision of biology and policy in creating the chronic disease crisis it claims to cure.

What happened when one anxious guy headed to a silent meditation retreat—no reading, no writing, no communicating, no eye contact—to spend ten days tuning into his psyche.

I really don't want to bone him when he's wearing my dad's button-up.

An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago.

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Can a single idea change the world?

Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms Behind Identity's Context-Dependencies

I share some private details of how I educated myself through books

Within a lot of spiritual circles, we hear terms like "inner peace" and "Oneness" thrown around a lot. In search of these fantastical ideas that promise relief from suffering, we hop around from one retreat, workshop, teacher, or book to another … and another, and another. Eventually, many spiritual seekers end up with a kind of "spiritual hangover" or inexplicable type of exhaustion that doesn't seem to go away no…

It sounds crazy: a kind of super yoga that can supposedly extend your lifespan, give you clairvoyant powers, and help you control your reality. But in a dark moment on a desert retreat, I became a believer.