You know it as the white powder in gym bags, the supplement that adds a few extra reps to your squat, the secret weapon of bodybuilders and sprinters. Creatine has been reduced to this: a tool for muscles, a lever for physical performance. This reduction is a failure of imagination. The brain, that three-pound furnace […]
The Brain’s Hidden Fuel: Creatine Beyond the Bicep Curl Read Post »
We misuse the word. We say we’re “anxious” about a meeting, a deadline, a social event. This is a dilution. True, disabling anxiety is not an emotion. It is a total physiological and cognitive state change. It is not something you feel. It is something you are. And what you are, in that moment, is disabled. This is not a
The Hostile Takeover: When Anxiety Disables the Operator Read Post »
We approach hypnosis with a binary, Hollywood-driven question: Is it real? Does it give one person control over another? This is a primitive framing. The reality of hypnosis is far more disturbing. It demonstrates that what you call “you”—your will, your memories, your perceptions—is not a sovereign ruler of your mind, but a tenuous coalition of cognitive
Hypnosis: The Controlled Dissolution of the Self Read Post »
Let us state the unassailable truth first: Sexual abuse of a child is a monstrous act. It is an act of violence that causes lifelong, catastrophic harm. Its prohibition is one of the few truly universal and necessary moral laws of humanity. Now, let us dissect the far more uncomfortable, adjacent truth—the one that exists
The Unchosen Torment: Dissecting the Taboo of Pedophilia as a Paraphilia Read Post »
