Long before Timothy Leary's study of LSD, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof launched his own investigation of psychedelics. Since then he's devoted his life to exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Religion and Philosophy
We explore one of the world's most controversial and secretive religions — Scientology. Also, how much do we really know about the Mormon faith?
We meet an anthropologist whose life was transformed by Amazonian shamans and the hallucinogen ayahuasca.
Feeling hopeless? How about cake recipes for the Apocalypse? Shannon O'Malley offers a few of her favorite recipes.
We’ve heard your office looks like it was decorated by the Collyer Brothers, the famous book hoarders. Do you have a book fetish?
Steve Paulson: No! I have a library. It’s true, I can get obsessive about books – and yes, my...
Mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme talks to Steve Paulson about the nature of time and the human obsession with clock time.
Whose Islam is it anyway? Is Islam for the Jihadists or the Sufis? The Indonesians, the Saudis? And what about a Muslim convert in say, Iowa? This time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a closer at who's claiming, and reclaiming, Islam. From the Sufi spiritualism of a Senegalese pop star to the...
Laura Waterman is the author of a memoir called "Losing the Garden: The Story of A Marriage." The book explores how Laura could have permitted her beloved husband of thirty years to kill himself while suffering a profound depression.
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