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The virus won’t stop evolving when the vaccine arrives
As medicine battles bacteria and viruses, those organisms continue to undergo mutations and evolve new characteristics.

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Allegory of the Cave - Legion

Beautifully done analogy of Plato's, "Allegory of the Cave" depicted in the modern world in the FX show - Legion. No spoilers for the greater arc of the show.

Pivotal mental states

We highlight how certain natural inducers of stress such as social isolation, starvation, atypical breathing, sleep deprivation, extreme body temperature and pain can be intentionally manipulated for the purposes of personal and/or spiritual development, presumably by promoting endogenous psychedelic-like signaling and we review several cross-cultural, historical and modern examples of such manipulation.


This paper has proposed that certain traumatic, spiritual, psychedelic and psychosis-relevant experiences can be viewed as examples of what we call PiMSs: transient, intense hyper-plastic states of mind and brain that have the potential to mediate rapid, major and potentially enduring psychological change.


Before the relatively recent advent of secular psychology, religious traditions provided useful resources to prepare and guide individuals through PiMSs, for example, for purposes of self-transformation and growth. Note, in this regard, religions have excellent narrative and infrastructural resources for dealing with ‘psychological rebirth’ .
In modern secular environments, we presently lack the same quality of integrated support, shared values and unified vision. Thinking towards the future, consideration could be given to the value of creating humanistic contexts supportive of positive self-transformation.

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