Why mental illnesses are not mental illnesses – a neuroceptive perspective
Admittedly, the title is striking. Of course, emotional suffering is a mental problem and has processes in the brain. However, it will be difficult to claim that someone suffering from depression due to thyroid...
Why neither non-duality nor classical talk therapy can heal developmental trauma
Non-duality is a term for the ONE. You as the one absoluteness of the self. Perfection in which everything is allowed. Developmental trauma is attachment trauma. It is the result of a failed connection...
Elements of the DMT experience in The OA (Pt. II)
This text contains spoilers. It assumes both the reception of the series and knowledge of a terminology related to the DMT experience. N,N-Dimethyltryptamine is an endegenous molecule which, when supplied exogenously, immediately produces deep...
The medicalisation of psychedelics
Love was never meant to be contained. Adyashanti Due to proven therapeutic success psychedelics are perceived by an increasing public perception in a new light that shines through the discrediting propaganda fog of...
5-MeO-DMT – An overview
5-MeO-DMT is the strongest existing psychedelic, the only one in its league and illegalized in many countries, although the human body builds and contains it naturally. The following text is not a scientific representation...
The Babadook: The immediacy of the symbol (explanation)
The Babadook is probably the best horror movie 2014. He is at least the most loving. His story is about the love of a mother to her child and the love of the child...
Fight Club: The spiritual fight of Tyler Durden
Let’s delve into the spirituality of Fight Club. Tyler Durden, the protagonist of the film, is an unobtrusive representative of an average citizen in the capitalism during the turn of the millennium. He is...
Another Earth: Forgiveness as a gravitational field
The earth in Another Earth attracts a supposed copy of its own while the motive for forgiveness is the gravitation of the film. Rhoda Williams caused as the protagonist a car accident with a...
Breakthrough – Similarities between the plot of contact and the subjectively experienced effect of DMT
In the film Contact (1997) the protagonist Ellie Arroway makes contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence as a part of the SETI project. She gets plans for a construction that makes it possible to travel...
Enemy: Explanation (analysis and interpretation)
Although Denis Villeneuves Enemy is strictly composed and each scene and sentence is semantically loaded on a deeper level, a rational, coherent interpretation of the film is hardly possible. For this he plays too...
Fight Club: Suffering as a condition of progression
As so often, Slavoj Žižek is right when he says that the real issue of Fight Club is not resistance, but the fact that one has to suffer in order to reach consciousness and...