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Obviously the rationalistic approach to reality is one-sided: the principles of time, space and causality should be supplemented by the principle of synchronicity. And this means that both the absurd world of the unconscious within and the absurd nonsense of the world outside is pervaded by a mysterious and awe-inspiring Sense. Old-fashioned people would call…

…after decades of hunting, Torrey and his colleagues think they have finally found the infectious agent. You might call it an insanity virus. If Torrey is right, the culprit that triggers a lifetime of hallucinations… is a virus that all of us carry in our bodies. “Some people laugh about the infection hypothesis,” says Urs Meyer,…

If aliens were to swoop in from outer space and squeeze a human down to see what we’re made of, they would come to the conclusion that cell for cell, we’re mostly bacteria. In fact, single-celled organisms—mostly bacteria—outnumber our own cells 10 to one, and most of them make their home in the gut. The…

Perhaps the visions that we see are mere epi-phenomena, no more than our unconscious selves and our present culture desperately seeking a way to comprehend these alien intruders within our minds – psychic invaders from across the universe. If so, then are they probing for information, extracting data from us or taking genetic codes [?]…