Ultraculture

A researcher just made a remarkable breakthrough in the area of brain-computer interfaces—creating a rig that allows a user to operate machines with thought alone, almost literally granting a form of ‘telekinesis’ over attached devices. It’s almost like a kind of “telekinesis helmet.” [Read more...]

Ancient humans were tripping balls, new research shows. But unlike us, they were doing it for the right reasons, and using entheogens as part of sacred rituals. [Read more...]

Osho (a.k.a. Rajneesh) was an Indian spiritual teacher and controversial figure in the New Age movement. He was a critic of orthodox Indian religions, saying that they oppressed followers with fear and shame, and made empty promises of blessings. He is reported to have called Mahatma Gandhi a “ma... [Read more...]

“It is not only our reality that enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament, when we are within ideology, is that when we think we escape it, into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology.” – Slavoj Žižek [Read more...]

Alexander Imich, who just made global headlines by being declared the oldest man alive, at the age of 111, turns out to be fascinated by the occult, mysticism and paranormal phenomena. Maybe he knows something that most people don’t—for instance, about the power of the mind and the unconscious to... [Read more...]

Check out the video below, done by 8-Bit Philosophy, which depicts Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, possibly one of the most well-known allegories in Western philosophy, which posits that man lives in a “cave” of his perceptions in which he never directly experiences the real world. Plato’s Cave all... [Read more...]

Mortality (and the lure of immortality) has tormented our consciousness since the first human witnessed death and realized his or her own eventual demise. The inevitability of death and speculation upon the nature of afterlife has always been an object of obsession for mystics and philosophers. F... [Read more...]