It sounds like science fiction, but a serious philosophical argument, taken seriously by physicists and philosophers alike, suggests it might not be. Here’s Nick Bostrom’s actual argument, what physics has and hasn’t found, and why the honest answer is more interesting than either believing it or dismissing it outright.
For decades psychedelic research was frozen by drug policy. Over the last twenty years it has quietly become one of the most rigorous fields in psychiatry — and the results consistently point to something unexpected: the mystical quality of the experience itself may be doing the therapeutic work. Here’s what the studies actually show.
Millions of people have reported them. The experiences are strikingly similar across cultures and backgrounds. And science still doesn’t have a clean explanation. Here’s the honest state of the NDE research.