Burning Myrrh: How to Use the Resin Safely
Quick answer Myrrh is the dried gum resin of Commiphora trees, sold as reddish-brown tears. It smells warm, balsamic and slightly bitter — heavier and earthier than frankincense....
Shamanic Journeying: How the Drum Method Works
Quick answer A shamanic journey is a light, self-directed trance brought on by steady drumming at roughly four to seven beats per second. You set one question, follow...
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely Three separate lineages feed the phrase, only some of the practice has research behind it, and one...
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says Bostrom's simulation argument is not the claim most people think it is, the quantum "observer" is not a person, and...
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show The famous images of "thanked" and "insulted" water are real photographs of real ice. What they are not is evidence...
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls There are two competing definitions, one of them is a documented magazine error from 1946 that...
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports A working guide to gratitude as a practice — the four formats that hold up, the evidence behind them at its...
Quantum Healing and the Two-Point Method, Examined
Quantum healing is an umbrella term, not a protected title. It covers methods in which a practitioner touches two points on the body lightly, enters a state of...
North Node and South Node: Meaning in Your Chart
The lunar nodes are not bodies but the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic. The north node is the ascending crossing, the south node the...
Curse Tablets: How Ancient Defixiones Worked
A curse tablet, or defixio, is a thin sheet of lead from the Greek and Roman world with a binding text scratched into it. It named a target,...
Freemasonry: History, Symbols and What Lodges Do
Freemasonry is a fraternal order whose members work on their own character, using the medieval stonemason's tools as symbols. The central image is the rough ashlar shaped into...
Near-Death Experience: What the Studies Found
Between roughly 9 and 21 percent of people who survive cardiac arrest report a structured experience from the time they were unconscious, depending on the definition used. Three...