Virtual reality shamanism is real, totally nuts
God in the machine
drugs
The Sun Does Not Exist recreates Fear and Loathing’s psychoactive weirdness
Get weird. But why?
First clinical trial of LSD in 40 years. Where do I sign up?
Uh, wait. On second thought, never mind. Seems you have be terminally dying first. But this study by Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser was performed on 12 dying patients, many of whom reported a significant decrease in anxiety as they approached their final days. The New York Times doesn’t go into det
SoundSelf creator Robin Arnott talks games as meditation, sensory deprivation, and acid
SoundSelf is a game like none other: a tantric, psychedelic, Zen-like, trancelike, hypnotic, and hyperreal experience of being one with algorithms, and, yeah, the universe. When I played it, or rather chanted to it, a year ago in San Francisco, I found it a completely engrossing and soothing experie
The strange etymology of the word "joystick"
As usual: thank Stephen King.