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"If you dug a hole all the way to the other side of the earth, where would you be? What animals would you see?"--

A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for

This is a study of the phenomenology of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. The author's research is base

A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the wor