The Trip Treatment

Here is a feature article, The Trip Treatment, in the New Yorker with a great in-depth history on the use of psilocybin for healing. 

Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klimt. 1915.

“But more than a year after their psilocybin sessions volunteers who had had the most complete mystical experiences showed significant increases in their “openness,” one of the five domains that psychologists look at in assessing personality traits. (The others are conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.) Openness, which encompasses aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and tolerance of others’ viewpoints, is a good predictor of creativity.”

— Michael Pollan

Moonassi

A series of illustrations by Moonassi that I'm finding intriguing.

Via: ButDoesItFloat

Pierrot Le Fou Revisited

Excited to watch this French Noir film restoration at Cinefamily tonight. 

Alms of My Own Kindness

“But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself—that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved—what then?”

— C.G. Jung

Sunday Ride

Goodbye Starman

A fond farewell to my dear hero of change.

Dance

“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

— Rumi

Awake

“And after years of wanting to be the princess, she finally became the priestess”

— awake woman