During the last two years of his life, Philip K. Dick tried to make sense of a series of strange visionary experiences. Jonathan Lethem explains how these events changed Dick's life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Religion and Philosophy
The central question of Philip K. Dick's fiction is "What is reality?" Literary critic Umberto Rossi explains that Dick's work often contains many possible realities.
Long before Timothy Leary's study of LSD, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof launched his own investigation of psychedelics. Since then he's devoted his life to exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness.
We explore one of the world's most controversial and secretive religions — Scientology. Also, how much do we really know about the Mormon faith?
We meet an anthropologist whose life was transformed by Amazonian shamans and the hallucinogen ayahuasca.
Feeling hopeless? How about cake recipes for the Apocalypse? Shannon O'Malley offers a few of her favorite recipes.
We’ve heard your office looks like it was decorated by the Collyer Brothers, the famous book hoarders. Do you have a book fetish?
Steve Paulson: No! I have a library. It’s true, I can get obsessive about books – and yes, my...
Mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme talks to Steve Paulson about the nature of time and the human obsession with clock time.
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