Archive for June 2006

I've just posted a new review to the site, of Steven Mithen's brilliant but flawed account of the origins of music and language, The Singing Neanderthals. I bang on about him not mentioning psychedelics, but what do you expect? I should also note that Dreamflesh Journal One, while still most definitely... More »

I recently read Stanislav Grof's Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research. It's basically a summary of his life's work: from LSD psychotherapy in Prague during the fallout from World War II, to Holotropic breathwork in the States, taking in psychosomatic traumas, psychedelic mysticism, spontaneous psychic crises, death... More »

I'm close to finishing Mary Midgley's fascinating, though far from faultless, analysis of the "myths and dramas" behind much modern science, Evolution as a Religion. I'll put together a review once I'm done. Here I'll just note an interesting quote she takes from C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, from a letter... More »

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I've not read Wired for a while. When I read it relatively regularly at the turn of the millennium---before the dot-com crash hit, before the gloomy wake of 9/11, and before I started learning more about the nuts-and-bolts of our energy insecurity situation---I was highly forgiving of its unashamed cheer-leading... More »