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John Tierney reports on doctors who are revisiting the therapeutic effects of psilocybin, psychedelic compound. Excerpt: The subjects’ reports mirrored so closely the accounts of religious mystical experiences, Dr. Griffiths said, that it seems likely the human brain is wired to undergo these “unitive” experiences, perhaps because of some evolutionary advantage. “This feeling that we’re…

Cheered by the magnificent Pulitzer Prize success of my friends and former Dallas Morning News colleagues, I decided to do something I hadn’t done in a while: go to print journalism analysis sites to see if things might be looking up for the industry. Big mistake. The advertising collapse hasn’t found bottom yet. (See here…

If you read my post titled “The impermanence of things,” about visiting my elderly aunts’ cabin as a ruin, please go take a second look at it. My cousin Kevin e-mailed an image of the old cabin when my (our) aunts were still living in it, as well as a snapshot of Aunt Lois doing…

Father Tom Reese, S.J., has a good column in America suggesting how the European bishops can and should learn from the painful experience of the American bishops in our Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. Excerpt: Finally, the American bishops excused themselves by saying they made mistakes but were not culpable because of their ignorance. Sorry,…
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