Throughout recorded history, people have reported 'extraordinary human experiences' (EHEs) – strange phenomena lying on a spectrum from intuition and dream insi...
In 1992, neuroscientist Richard Davidson traveled with a team of scientists into the Himalayan mountains, lugging hundreds of pounds of computers, EEG electrode...
Mike Jay's Stranger Than Fiction features 24 essays "exploring the twilight zones of history, culture and the human mind" (available in paperback and Kindl...
Mike Jay is perhaps my favourite writer on strange and obscure history: his excursions into rarely traveled back roads of conspiracy theory, mind control, drugs...
We Westerners believe in the power of names.
We like to live under the impression that naming a thing gives us control over it; not only that, but we also th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
