Christopher Bache is professor emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University and the author of LSD and The Mind of the Universe – a book that details his experiments taking high-dose LSD, using protocols developed by psychedelic pioneer Stanislav Grof.

For two decades, Chris lived a double life — a professor in public, and in private, a man conducting 73 high-dose LSD journeys in search of insight into consciousness and reality.

There are few who have ventured as deep into psychedelics as Chris, but even fewer who have been able to articulate these experiences in such a clear, systematic, and insightful way.

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Do psychedelics hold genuine spiritual and philosophical insights that aren't otherwise accessible through meditation or other forms of contemplative practice?

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I joined a company recently, had a good friendship with a colleague who was contractor initially, she always hinted on differences that the company had between employees and contractors.

After my break up, I sought some help from her which she denied, even after that I kept talking normally, she was more focused on getting to know the details of my breakup.

Been couple of months now, she's going around talking about my character, work ethic etc. to everyone around us. I just got to know about that. people who know me, tell me about it.

I'm worried it will tarnish my image in long term.

She also on some medication that i know of to help with mental issues, i don't want parade this around. She will most likely have a drama created if i tried to confront her.

Should I talk to her about it or ignore?

Basically,I reconnected with a schoolmate (M) cuz my other schoolmate girl let's call her SOPH who became good friends with me added me in a GC.i talked to him a lot he became my rlly good friend,he was the only one who would even text me first,care,talk like he was actually interested,I miss him a lot but then SOPH who was good friends with him started ghosting him cuz he said some weird stuff to her like sexualized her sis as a joke or like idk,she then later told me he said stuff like "is (me) hot" or like "send me her pics so I can hook her up" or "send me her sister's insta",ok so when she told me this,I ghosted him,didn't block him cuz he knew where I lived and a few days before asked me if I lived at the same place so I was kinda scared btw we are in like early high school ok.so I was wondering how should I confront him,it's been Abt 5 months since I last msged him,how shd I do it cuz maybe il figure out he didn't say that shit and I was lied to or smth like that but I think I'm js coping cuz he was my only actual good friend cuz I don't think it's a lie idk tho.one clue here is once on DMS I talked to him Abt my sis and we had a whole joke Abt her insta and him liking older women lol,so the thing SOPH told me he said correlates,guide me on this plz guys don't ignore it,help a lil sis out,I'm a girl btw.

I want to preface this entire situation with the fact that I’m a survival sex worker and the person I borrowed money from is a customer.

I borrowed 3000 dollars from him. The agreement I made, in desperation, was for me to pay him back 6000 and also give him free services.

A week after he lent me money, I gave him 3500. I did not offer him free services and blacklisted him. People are telling me I’m a liar and a bad person for telling him I don’t think I’ll pay him an additional 2500. Is this something I should even feel bad about? I’m not sure. I Dont and does that make me a bad person?

I don't really know where to post this but I'm going through it. They didn't teach us this stuff in Sunday school. Without complaining about my troubles, I feel like I'm being tested with every turn I make. What is one supposed to do? I'm still striving to dig myself out of holes that I've dug myself into and what feels like divine intervention.

Does JP talk about this? Logically, the only way out is through. Keep grinding kind of thing and I respect that. But what do you do if your it seems like at best you're being redirected constantly?

I'm left questioning my faith which is never ideal yet sometimes necessary

Dr Iain McGilchrist talks about a tension between what we deeply experience and what academic paradigms try to teach us. Before university, he already “believed, from experience,” that the whole isn’t simply "the sum of its parts". That we cannot reduce ourselves into simple categories. It reminds me of when Alan Watts said that “trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” The richness of life will always slip through neat categories and reductionist traps. Unfortunately, we we will never be able to neatly understand ourselves as some 'one'.

My name is Oliver Trace. I interviewed Dr Iain McGilchrist over three days in 2016, recording 10 hours of audio. During lockdown in 2020 I edited the audio into 18 chapters. I am now sharing insights from that conversation. For the full multimedia story, including podcasts, animated intros, journal articles and interactive quizzes, please take a look at themasterbetrayed.com.

Dr. Iain McGilchrist puts it plainly: “I love the solitude and I don’t have the slightest desire to be near whatever it is everyone else wants to be near.” That’s not just hermit talk: it’s a deliberate lifestyle choice that challenges the idea that happiness only comes from being around people or city buzz.

So, can stepping away from the noise actually unlock thoughts and presence that crowds stifle? Maybe solitude isn’t just emptiness but a richer way to really pay attention to ourselves and the world.

For those with very low industriousness.

What actually made me more productive?
This had the biggest impact on me. I didn’t want to work for money, I wanted to be part of a mission. It’s ironic. I hated the idea of working 9-5 x5 days a week, but loved the idea of working 9-9 x6 days a week. Sounds paradox, but I heard one guy say my gaming addiction was a superpower since most people don’t have the energy to sit in front of their screen for 12h/day grinding on one thing. Man that helped me see myself in a different light.

Have a specific dream. Saw no specifc goal for my degree. So I started letting Gemini write my bachelor thesis 3 weeks before deadline. Almost did not pass my own thesis (was lucky my professors didnt put me through that). But when I knew I wanted to apply for FAANG I grinded for my interview for 2h after 8h of work almost each day.

Having a boss? Undoubtedly motivates to work. I sometimes lied about my hours, but overall pretty productive.

Don’t work from home. The days where I lied about my hours were always homeoffice.

Divide your day in 15min increments and set a timer. When the timer rings, write what you achieved.

Future Authoring? Yes (did it every 6-12 months). My goal grew from choose degree -> finish degree -> try stuff out and change if you find sth more interesting -> get really good at what I do -> try to get into FAANG

Avoid phone in the morning. When you scroll right after waking up the day is lost.

When you wake up, go to your desk instantly and work for 4h straight on the task you assigned yourself the night before. Only then use your phone.

Would help a lot if you stick with it. I didn’t:

Wake up early? YES (for some reason the biggest productivity hack, too bad I‘m writing this at 3 am right now)

Scheduling your day? Yes, but I only did it 2% of the time.

Atomic Habits? Yes, but I didn’t do a single push up in 2 months (too busy)

What didnt help:
Uninstalling Steam. I uninstalled it 8 times. I deleted my library. I bought three games again.

Only reward yourself with 2 hours of play. Never worked. Always turned a good sleep rhythm i to a bad one. Just quit it for good.

Grey filter on phone. Had it 7 times.

Timelimit for apps. Nope, just annoying

Uninstall Reddit? I think I installed it for the 30th time.

For those who have no direction.

Try working as hard as you can, even if there will be days where you know you made the wrong career choice.

Even if you found the perfect degree but you threw it away because you were too busy playing Clash of Clans.

Even if you consider starting your 5th Bachelor because this right now is not your passion but you promised you will kill yourself if you quit for the 4th time.

Work as hard as you can at whatever interests you the most right now, even if you know your actual dream career only exists in a parallel universe.

Good work in itself is fulfilling, whatever you do. Approach it honestly and try your best.

For those who didn‘t have a regular sleep rhythm since they were 17.
You‘re fucked. I probably lost 2 jobs because of it.

Months ago I found that my husband was messaging females late at night it seemed to be just pet names. He apologized said he didn’t know why he was doing it and deleted their information in front of me. When I originally found the messages in December we were trying for a baby, i found out I was pregnant a few days after the blow up over the messages. If I wasn’t already pregnant I would have stopped trying and resumed my birth control. We haven’t even been married a full year yet, I’m currently halfway through my pregnancy. I suggested couples counseling/therapy, a few months back because I was checking his phone quite often for a while(told him I was) because my trust had been broken and he said it was dumb to do counseling within the first year of being married and didn’t actually seem to want to do it only told me to find a therapist to get me to drop the conversation so I never did pull the trigger because if he wasn’t fully invested I know it will do no good if only one of us is trying. He said he was focused and committed to his wife but I still have trust issues and went thru his phone because he always closes/switches apps when I walk by him on his phone which is shady, I’ve said something about it and he swears he doesn’t mean to do it. Going through his phone I found out he’s been spending money on jerkroulette. Almost $20 a couple times a day every few days. Went thru his email found those charges, as well as email confirmations from meet me, flirt, flirtini, adultfriendfinder most from the last month or two and I also opened his browser and saw a ton of tabs with the jerkroulette, jerkmate, chaturbate, livejazmin. One of the tabs is literally stuck on a video of his boxers down around his ankles in our bathroom in our house. I’m not sure how to address this with him or if it’s even worth trying to say anything and salvage as he doesn’t seem to be trying to change. This pregnancy has my hormones everywhere and I just don’t have it in me, I know if I confront him I’m going to be a mess. And he’ll probably play it off like it’s no big deal. What do I do here?

Hi everyone, I know this will come off as extremely pessimistic but i just need someone to tell me it's going to be okay. It feels like very door in my life has been shut in front of my face i got accepted into my dream school but since i'm poor and can't afford to go i had to shut t down and go study a degree i don't even like in a school I don't even like. I tried to get a job to pay for my dream school but NOBODY wants to hire me because i'm too young and have no experience so I can't even get myself some money. I also failed my exams in this school that I hate on this degree that I hate and I swear I have gave my all to succeed but I still failed whereas the folks who didn't lift one finger to study aced it with ease I feel like I'm just meant to fail everything in my life and just don't deserve anything. And I promise you I am not a bad person I give money to charity everytime i have my monthly scholarship and give money to the homeless everytime I have cash in my wallet. Anyway it doesn't even matter I don't do nice things just to get something in return but sometimes I really feel like I deserve better but I might just not deserve anything. I hope everyone reading this has a lovely day and get everything they want in life.

Hello!

I’ve finished reading «Origins and History of Consciousness» by Erich Neumann, and was impressed. I wanted to ask you if there were any specific ideas, images, or sentences from the book that helped you better understand some experience in your own personal life?

For me, it made an impression reading his chapter on the Great Mother, particularly about the Blood Mother, and I now see micro-matriarchies existing everywhere around us, be it in families, friend-groups, or work-places, and my understanding and awareness of the feminine world, and feminine dynamics, has been immensely enriched.

I’m still beating my head against his Appendice «Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization». I ask myself what religious implications the annulment of personality has, and what the historical significance of that particular text really is.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, I am an old fan of Dr Peterson and have watched a lot of his older lectures. In my own journey to improve I found that the main obstacle was always avoiding, usually ideas, that needed facing and I would end up wasting a lot of time exploring things that were not the problem.

I thought about a way to allow myself to face thoose problems and I came up with this bravery trainer. I thought about how useful it would be to others and now feel like bravery might be one the most important virtues as it allows you to develop your other virtues so of like how pride prevents ur growth or renders you unable to see your flaws. In this regard I also wanted to add a sense of humility to this as it applies both to starting small with incremental progress as well as the first step in exposure therapy style break down of what you are avoiding. This felt really important to me as it would be the only way that people could get the maximum use out of the approach.

It's called Slay your Dragons and I would appreciate it if you guys checked it out and had any feedback including in terms of whether it is mythologically acurate in its representation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slay-your-dragons/id6754641259

Hey everyone,

Sadly, we can't make it to the show at Olympiahalle anymore. I’m selling our 2 tickets for 65€ each, which is a 15€ cheaper than the current price.

Details:

• Date: Tuesday, 20.01.2026
• Time: 8:00 pm
• Location: Olympiahalle München

Let me know if you're interested!

Wilful denial is a speciality of the left brain hemisphere. Also, a belief in theory, even in the face of contrary, real world observations. Contrary beliefs are seen as a threat to its world view, and must be closed down, at all cost.
https://thejollysociety.com/mcgilchrist-on-the-left-brains-wilful-denial/

The left brain is oestrogen sensitive (McGilchrist, 'The Master and His Emissary', page 33.

Why would women do this to other women..?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20z7xx6nr4o