Can psychedelic experiences help us understand and explore the mystery of the near-death experience (NDE)? Cultures around the world have associated the two: th...
"I saw Bigfoot once. 1951, back in Sequoia National Park. Had a foot on him thirty-seven inches heel to toe. It made a sound I would not want to hear twice in ...
The Arctic is a liminal place for Westerners - unexplored until just a couple of centuries ago, painted with a palette that most Westerners are not familiar wit...
Teotihuacán is without a doubt one of the most popular archeological centers in all of Mexico. Just last year, according to official statistics, it received ove...
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 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...
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...
