Why Do Spirals Exist Everywhere in Nature?

Spirals are a common shape found in nature, as well as in sacred architecture. In the natural world, we find spirals in the DNA double helix, sunflowers, the path of draining water, weather patterns (including hurricanes), vine tendrils, phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem), galaxies, the horns of various animals, mollusc shells, the nautilus…

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Questions I Always Get Asked As a Vegan (#4): “Do You Really Think You Will Make a Difference?”

A question I often get asked is, something along the lines of, “Do you really think you will make a difference?” People are sceptical that someone changing their diet could have any impact on stopping the death machinery that is factory farming. I’ve often heard people say that me going vegan isn’t going to stop…

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Psychedelic Pop Art by Keiichi Tanaami

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In Defence of Philosophical Materialism

Physicalism is a philosophical position which asserts that everything that exists is physical. This philosophy is commonly referred to as materialism, which has a distinct definition, but I will use these terms – as well as ‘physical’ and ‘material’ –  interchangeably for the sake of this discussion. The physicalist outlook is contested by many in the ‘psychedelic’…

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