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An Epidemic of Low Expectations

Years ago, I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth over the myriad difficulties facing the peace and social justice movement in the United States. We cited the usual suspects that stood in the way of progress: the entrenched corporate and

The Capture of Goodness

‘Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article.

Denying the Demonic

In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper was the people’s vaccine. My point was simple: excrement and death have long been associated in cultural history and in the Western

The Workers Who Make the Clouds

Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future.

Editorial: Integrating Philosophical and Scientific Approaches in Consciousness Research

Consciousness has a long history as a topic of philosophical investigation.But its status as an object of scientific inquiry is a comparatively recent development.

A Symbiosis of Humans & Technology – Changing The Conversation

Have you ever noticed that discussions about transhumanism tend to focus on technology more than humanism?

The Astonishing Evidence That Made Carl Sagan Believe “Reincarnation Deserves Serious Study”

Carl Sagan wrote in 1996 that reincarnation, among other topics within the realms of parapsychology, are worthy of serious study.

You Know “We’ll Never Know,” Don’t You?

In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, who has worked for the BBC for decades, tells us that nothing makes sense anymore and it is… pointless to

Epicureanism vs Stoicism: Two Different Approaches to Happiness

An Epicurean and a Stoic enter a bar.

The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale

PINOCCHIO • directed by matteo garrone • production designer dimitri capuani It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins. Then the story gets silently disclosed as we live it, even though most

The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness

Tolstoy’s grave on the edge of the ravine at his estate Yasnaya Polyana (BERT BEYNEN) After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in the depth of a dark winter morning,

Study: Organic Diet “Significantly Reduces” Urinary Pesticide Levels In Children & Adults

A 2019 study published in the journal Environmental Research found that an organic diet significantly reduced the pesticide levels in children and adults.

Consciousness in solitude: is social interaction really a necessary condition?

Recently, Cleeremans and colleagues presented their Self-Organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) of consciousness.

An Invitation to Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies

In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or prefaces. The purpose of such introductions is to give the prospective readers a sense of what to expect in the pages that follow,

Twitter is Blocking Access to OffG’s Content

Twitter is blocking all links to OffG with an incredibly vague and highly dishonest “warning”, they have been doing it for weeks and we have never received any notice or explanation. It is a blatant attempt at censorship, and it needs to stop. Any of you who follow us on