By Graham Hancock
Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.
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CLEAR ALL
In this recent conversation we had with Dr. Tafur, he shares his perspective on what the materialistic West stands to learn from the mystical side of spirituality, emotions, and mental health.
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Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike.
It may be that the best way to understand the world is not through science or spirituality alone – but through an approach which combines them both.
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
For a long time, research into flow states was subjective—researchers had to rely on people’s self-reported experiences to understand altered states of mind.
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The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.
In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.