Mental Health

From the get-go, here’s my thesis (or the “tl;dr” if you were born after Lady Gaga wore a meat dress to the MTV video music awards): lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is as effective or better than existing pharmacological interventions for schizophrenia1. As it turns out, I’m not the first person to advance this thesis2, and […]

It was a hot summer day, and the ice-coffee I was sipping was more delicious than ever. It had nothing to do with the beans, nor the brewing, nor the coffee shop – but rather, this ball of energy sitting across from me, laughing and telling me about his little adventures around the city. I

According to the early Buddhist, most of us are like junkies, fuelled by desire into addictive behaviour. The particular addiction that we suffer from is self-authorship. We are however, in the final analysis fictions who would live better lives if we gave up desire, and were motivated by compassion instead. In recent times, society has