Yesterday I stood on the peak of a mountain in the Olympic National Forest, the cold wind biting fiercely at my sweat-soaked t-shirt. While I had violated Les Stroud’s main invocation for cold weather survival, ‘you sweat you die,’ it was not dangerous as long as I kept moving and the weather didn’t turn. More …
I leave for work between 0550 and 0555 every weekday. When I first started this job in April I would be pulling my motorcycle out of the garage in the half-light before dawn. As the solstice approached, the days lengthened and I revelled in the bright sun that greeted me earlier and earlier each day. …
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna “LSD …
