Cognitive Liberty

The future. That bright, dismal, joyous, despondent, anticipated, dreaded, planned, unprepared for, arrival, departure, ascent, descent, source of optimism, pessimism, grand, disastrous and altogether fictitious state of Existence which never arrives...at least not as envisioned. We live as if our days ahead somehow express the Universe’s cooperation with our (generally…

One of the most challenging aspects of cultivating my reality from the inside out is trust and patience. I’m putting that not-so-little fact out there foremost and upfront. Everything that I type from here on out is based on that constant learning of trust and patience. …

We all see it. The system is broken. Our world appears to be reverting to a neo-feudalist, ecologically barren wasteland based on the noxious fantasies of our would-be tech and finance overlords. Encountering this shift towards a dystopian future, the question to ask is not only what can we do…

The pivotal role Drug Geeks have played in developing and improving culture & technology. Intro: Have Drug Geeks improved society? Photo by Simon Shwyter provided by Unsplash. Drug Geek (a term introduced by Earth and Fire Erowid at the 2002 Mindstates Jamaica conference) describes an expert in the field of drugs, drug use, drug cultures, drug history, drug laws, and drug aesthetics; someone who…

— A Note on Nomenclature — To begin, I should define a few terms. The psychoactive plants and substances that play such a central role in the cases discussed in this book were conventionally termed hallucinogens by the legal and medical establishments.1 …

What happens when religious freedom runs headlong into the mighty “War on Drugs?” — Nearly two decades ago, in an effort to answer the question, “how have the courts handled religious freedom claims by entheogen users?” I spent hundreds of hours carefully collecting, reading and analyzing all the published US legal cases in which a person presented a religious defense to criminal “drug” charges. …

In light of the current state of world affairs and a reflection of the past, I have come to realize it is rather difficult to make political statements of any kind on any public forum without the threat of being criticized. I think a lot of this has to do…