Jun 10, 2022 |
“How does religion matter here? The reason that kids who are religious ‘abiders’ end up having an academic advantage, especially in the working class and the middle class, is because their grades are so much better in the middle and high school...
May 13, 2022 |
“I don’t think anybody can truly describe the [psilocybin] experience. One can use phrases and words that are common – ineffable, mystical, powerful. All I can say is it was the most powerful experience of my life that I have gone...
Apr 29, 2022 |
“That was actually Darwin’s hypothesis in observing his own son and he writes about this in “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.” He writes about this incipient laughter – he was the first one to recognize this as a built-in...
Apr 15, 2022 |
“All Jenny knew was that she wanted to lose weight. One of the things I say to people when I teach about eating disorders is ‘treating eating disorders is all about food and not at all about food’. It is not at all about food, there is always an...
Apr 1, 2022 |
“If somebody was to say a prayer to Jesus versus say a prayer to Allah versus say a prayer to Vishnu – in some sense that is going to be a similar kind of process in the brain. They are repeating certain words directed towards some higher...
Mar 15, 2022 |
“We understand that we are not alone. It is crucially important to feel like that because we are a large country compared to other European countries – we are the largest country in Europe and have 45 million population. But in comparison to Russia it is very...
