If you’ve ever watched a famous horror movie about possession like The Exorcist, you’ve probably become at least a little intrigued by the notion of a whole science around unsavory, dark beings whose maleficent presence threatens mankind—or at least makes annoying...
The first known person to explicitly reference a moral at the end of a fairy tale was Charles Perrault, who resided at the Royal French Court of King Louis XIV. However, while Perrault may have been the first to explicitly append moral instruction to bedtime stories,...
With all the recent advances in science and medicine, it’s easy to believe that people weren’t really living well until the modern day. This notion only seems solidified when we look back at times past—there are plenty of plagues, diseases, and deplorable cures...
Ghosts and spirits… We have all heard of such entities or non-entities. In our day and age it is quite easy to dismiss these claims rather quickly. Most people don’t believe in such entities because there is no “proof” for their existence. If...
The growing use and awareness of cannabis’ complex effects on the human body and mind, are closely related with the resurgence of the psychedelic culture and substances. The discussion about cannabis being psychedelic, though, is a very controversial one and more or...
The modern history of psychedelics starts with one of the most astounding errors in science, when a Swiss chemist working to develop a stimulant for a well-known pharmaceutical company, discovered LSD instead. The revelation that he had after absorbing the substance...
