I recently came across a fascinating study of 3,684 people suggesting that meditation might actually serve as an opening to paranormal experiences. The conclusion was that avid meditators are more accepting of the unknown or unseen, and they’re more likely to have experienced paranormal activity compared to non-meditators. The research hit close to home. I’ve […]
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The $180 billion video game industry is so huge that’s it’s now more profitable than movies and music combined. People spend countless hours playing Fortnight, World of War, you name it. And so, with all of that time spent on gaming consoles, it makes sense that companies would start to look at how they could
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Psychedelics are serving as a new frontier for venture capitalists. I have some friends who are a part of psychedelic companies that are looking to exponentially grow much like a Silicon Valley unicorn. Two such firms have already gone public: COMPASS Pathways and MindMed. This isn’t surprising. Psychedelics offer better a solution for depression and
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A new study published in Biological Psychiatry has found that LSD therapy was strikingly effective in reducing anxiety and depression. A team of Swiss researchers administered 42 participants with microdoses of LSD as part of a Phase II clinical trial under the supervision of trained therapists who used scientifically validated questionnaires. The most interesting thing
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Coaching is now all the rage. It started to become prevalent in the ’90s, mainly with what they call “life coaches,” and then that extended out to executive coaches. Now it’s more relevant and common than ever before. Many companies are investing in group and organizational coaching, as well as one-on-one coaching, for their employees.
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Given my Persian background and cultural heritage, I was really intrigued in learn from a recent LinkedIn post that as far back as March of 2014 the Grand Ayatollah Rohani from Iran issued a legal ruling, known as a fatwa, that allows Shia Muslims to use entheogens and psychedelics for treatment and spiritual growth. He specified
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Fresh from Burning Man, an experiment in deconstructing social constructs. I found the experience to be transformative, psychedelic and magical. Attending the latest incarnation of this annual event in the Nevada desert was physically challenging following massive dust storms. The main structure at our camp collapsed a few days in and was never rebuilt. Depriving
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I recently listened to an interview that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had with Aubrey Marcus. Aubrey is a well-known podcaster who is very involved in the psychedelic community and a proponent for the healing and expansive qualities of psychedelics. The controversial QB, who last summer misled the press about his vaccination status, talked
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I recently enrolled in a program at my alma mater, George Mason University. To learn some new tools to help my executive coaching clients field high-performing teams. I would assert that wellbeing is correlated directly to higher productivity and there are several key components. One is getting enough sleep. For years, it was almost like
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I first heard about vision quest, a rite of passage in some Native American cultures, from actor-comedian Jim Carrey of all people. He noted in an interview with Howard Stern about communing with nature for four or five days to think through whatever he was wrestling with in his life at that time. It may
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