You are not a machine. You’re a living organism with purpose and feeling and irrational fuzziness. You’re autopoietic, meaning that you renew and regenerate yourself. You are sovereign in your subjectivity, an ecosystem unto yourself who’s...
As adaptogens go, shilajit is as unique as it is versatile. Also known as salajit, mimie, mummiyo, and shilajatu, shilajit is—unlike nearly all other known adaptogenic substances—neither an herb nor a mushroom, but rather an herbomineral exudate harvested from...
Winter is coming, and given the situation the world has found itself in this year, it’s more critical than ever to support our immune systems from every possible angle. We’re seasonal creatures. Our biology is designed to harmonize with the earth’s natural...
PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals”, have been detected in the blood of 99% of Americans. A recent study found them in significant amounts in multiple popular brands of bottled water, reminding us just how prevalent they still are despite the fact that we’ve...
Testosterone levels are plummeting, and human hormonal health is generally the most precarious it’s ever been. While many mainstream health-related websites remain unwilling to speculate on the reasons why, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that we know at...
Yin and Yang. Female and male. Earth and sky. Cold and hot. The manifest world is founded on the essential principle of the interaction of two opposing yet mutually dependent, ultimately cooperative forces. As above, so below, as the famous Hermetic maxim goes....
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass It’s been pigeonholed as the harbinger of hives, tears, and snot, but it’s also...
“The map is not the territory.” -Afred Korzybski Humans love to oversimplify reality because it makes it infinitely easier to understand. Because we specialize in metaphor-making, we tend to mistake our stories about reality for actual reality, and we’re rarely...
“Myths can become law when they’re repeated often enough.” -Anthony William How many times in your life have you heard the idea that mental illnesses like depression are caused by a ‘chemical imbalance’? Most of us have heard the phrase repeated hundreds if not...
We’ve all heard people call stress “the silent killer”. Frankly, it’s a bit of a tired cliché. However, taking into consideration the monumental level of disarray the world is in these days, what were once silly platitudes about stress and health have taken on an air...
