Steam Engine Time and Ideaspace: Fortean Theories of How Creative Ideas Emerge Simultaneously GregMonday, September 10th Last week on Twitter I came across a link to a sci-fi short story by writer Elly Bangs which sounded interesting. Clicking through I was taken to Bangs' piece a... 1 Comment7 min read
Life, Death, and Psychedelics: A New Paradigm in Psychiatric Medicine GregThursday, September 6th Just last week RPJ wrote here on the Grail about new clinical trials on the use of psilocybin - the entheogenic chemical in 'magic mushrooms' - as a treatment f... 0 Comments1 min read
“Consciousness is Fundamental”: Dean Radin Discusses Parapsychology and Magic GregMonday, September 3rd Last month the Parapsychological Association (PA) hosted their 61st annual conference, and I'm really pleased to see that they've already been posting some vide... 1 Comment1 min read
Bye Bye, Prozac! FDA Approves Psilocybin for Depression Clinical Trials red pill junkieWednesday, August 29th Here's another great news that shows the times, they are definitely a-changing: The FDA has granted Compass Pathways --"a life sciences company dedicated to acc... 0 Comments4 min read
Are Near-Death Experiences Caused by the Release of DMT in the Dying Brain? GregMonday, August 20th A new scientific paper linking the effects of the psychedelic DMT with near-death experiences has been making major news headlines over the past few days, and p... 3 Comments6 min read
Vale Michael Persinger (1945-2018) GregThursday, August 16th I'm sad to report that Laurentian University has this morning announced the passing of one of the leading lights in parapsychology research over the past few de... 0 Comments3 min read
Jacques Vallee: The Software of Consciousness and the Secret (Psychic) History of the World Wide Web red pill junkieTuesday, August 14th When it comes to the dawn of the modern computer age, most of us think of rebel visionaries and college dropouts working out of their parents' garage; whiz kids... 6 Comments8 min read
The Hypnagogia Hypothesis: Do Religious Visions Occur at the Edges of Sleep? GregWednesday, August 8th Dreams, when we are within them, seem absolutely real - despite often containing scenes and actions that, once we wake, are obviously absurd and surreal. Not on... 0 Comments3 min read
Review – CHASING ERIS Cat VincentMonday, July 30th By Brenton Clutterbuck, 2018. ----------- Discordianism is sixty years old. Yeah, I did a double-take when I realised that, and I’ve been involved with Disco... 0 Comments6 min read
Review: BECOMING DANGEROUS Cat VincentThursday, July 26th Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist Edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott (Fiction and ... 0 Comments6 min read
