Is This a Blue Zone Thing?
The hardest discipline is refusing to build on stories we would most love to be true
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living
—Socrates, 399 BCE (brought to you by SoulCycle™)
What the No Is Protecting
"I don't do drugs" is a complete answer. It is also, sometimes, a locked door with something behind it.
The Half-Life of Insight
A breakthrough and a misplaced verdict
You Didn't Fail Treatment. Treatment Failed You.
Two decades of treatment, aimed at the wrong layer
When Science Meets the Sacred: Bureaucracy vs. Healing
Two rejection letters from a world that wants 3,000 years of healing reduced to one molecule, one receptor, and one placebo jaguar.
Two Thermostats: Why Your Addiction Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
Disease? Discipline? Well, not exactly...
The High Cost of Zero Friction
A rutted road and misplaced fury
The Curious Case of ... Inflammation
In 1858, a man in Berlin looked through a microscope and thought he had figured out disease. Like, all of the diseases.
Aldous Huxley Took a Vacation
A great trip can show you another world. Psychedelic therapy asks whether you can live differently in this one.
The Case for Mescaline as the Most Intense Psychedelic
A polemic, with notes from the lab bench
Herbalism for the Woo-Allergic
A short history of a long erasure