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Thinking action as a performative and participative mental awareness

This paper seeks to evaluate experiential facets of thinking action using first-person phenomenological methods.

Why I don’t believe there ever was a Covid virus

I’ve grown increasingly frustrated about the way debate is controlled around the topic of origins of the alleged novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, and I have come to disbelieve it’s ever been in circulation, causing massive scale illness and death. Concerningly, almost no one will entertain this possibility, despite the

Clarifying the relation between mechanistic explanations and reductionism

The topic of mechanistic explanation in neuroscience has been a subject of recent discussion.

Psychedelic unselfing: self-transcendence and change of values in psychedelic experiences

Psychedelic experiences have been shown to both facilitate (re)connection to one’s values and change values, including enhancing aesthetic appreciation, promoting pro-environmental attitudes, and encouraging prosocial behavior. This article presents an empirically informed framework of philosophical psychology to understand how self-transcendence relates to psychedelic value changes. Most of the

Can Melatonin Impact Your Eye Health?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Melatonin, well-known for its role in regulating your body's circadian rhythm, is useful for far more than a good night's sleep.

Why You Should Destroy Your Smart Phone Now

So-called ‘smart phones’ — far more accurately described as ‘dumb phones’ — combine a mobile phone with a watch, with a road map, with a tourist atlas of the world, with a digital camera, with a personal stereo system, with a music collection, with a video recorder, with a diary, with a

How Aging Affects Mitochondria in Brain Cells

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.

Could This Vitamin Slow Brain Aging and Ward Off Alzheimer’s?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE When you eat a varied diet based on whole foods, your body enjoys access to the myriad nutrients contained therein.

AUDIO: Catte Black on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell

OffG’s founding editor Catte Black appears on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell to talk, covid, Ukraine and evolving nature of the grand narrative. SUPPORT OFFGUARDIAN For direct-transfer bank details click here. Read the full article at the original website References: * https://off-guardian.org/support-us/#bank

Report: Pet Owners Struggling Financially Because of Bidenflation

Pet owners are reportedly struggling to care for their animals under the weight of inflation and economic problems in President Joe Biden’s (D) America.

The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.” Supreme Court Justice Louis D.

FIFA Reverses Saudi Sponsorship of Women’s World Cup

In an off-field victory for human rights, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has reversed its sponsorship plans with Visit Saudi, Saudi Arabia’s state tourism authority, for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. The Women’s World Cup is the flagship global women’s football event

Biden Helps Jeff Bezos by Weakening Spaceflight Rules

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

The Agenda’s “Net Zero” could mean “zero” of anything and everything

What does the term “Net Zero” actually mean? That nothing will be left once zero carbon has been achieved? By reducing carbon dioxide to nil, zero carbon, all plant life dependent for its growth on this natural gas, will die. By extension, all humans and animals dependent upon the oxygen