“Spoonbenders”
The novel “Spoonbenders” by Daryl Gregory tells the story of a family of psychics’ who aren’t doing very well. You’d think a bunch of people with supernatural talents could use them to get ahead in life, but the three adult siblings in...
I AM I AM I AM Seventeen Brushes With Death
Two remarkable poems written in the latter half of the 20th century, Wislawa Szymborska’s “Could Have” and Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise”, address the shadow life that presses itself against us in every living moment. It could have...
Why do we dream? Matthew Walker explores the theories in this exclusive essay…
First, when you were dreaming last night, you started to see things that were not there, you were hallucinating. Second, you believed things that could not possibly be true, you were delusional. Third, you became confused about time, place, and person, you were...
LSD at Princeton: New book blows minds
A new book, Blowing America’s Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen, documents the experiences of two University alumni who were subjects in LSD and hypnosis experiments at the now-defunct New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute’s...
