I’ve never really fought to hold onto the past. The present was always more interesting. New and totally unexplored space! There was only one direction to go if you let go of your past: the only way was forward. No past meant no preexisting you to be beholden to. What a thought. To be born totally new each moment.
Philosophy
CHANGE WHO YOU ARE. BECOME WHO YOU WANT TO BE.
Words are the first step. That’s the thought that comes when I see what my friend has written to himself. The words are bold and black and scrawled on a sheet of paper stuck to a bathroom mirror: “Change who you are. Become who you want to be.” I’m a writer. My passion is telling…Read more CHANGE WHO YOU ARE. BECOME WHO YOU WANT TO BE.
Terence McKenna: Hallucinogenics, Mind, and Motion
McKenna is a breathe of fresh air for for anyone interested in the unknowns that lie beyond standard accepted fact and theory. A drug smuggler turned art historian turned biologist, he has an uncanny eye for detail which he uses to explore the great grey areas of life as well as radical ideas that pertain to the functioning of the human mind.
Memory, The Watch on Your Wrist, and an Attic Full of Dusty Photos
It's only human to preserve past experiences as memory. That's how we learn. Or at least how we believe that we learn. But does memory actually inhibit us from continual learning? Do memories of the past sometimes cloud our vision of the present?
Pensive Nomad 