Colin Wilson was ever the Outsider. As he huddled in his frigid room in Brockley, a South London suburb, alone on Christmas Day, he contemplated his position. He was alone, in isolation. He had no family or close relation to share that Christmas with. His girlfriend was at her parents’…
What’s so great about weird movies? Some movies can be mind-bending. Others might make us question things we thought were set in stone. And others still might bring us face to face with things that are part of us but better left undisturbed. And there are weird movies. No matter…
There is an intensely eerie quality in cases of mysterious disappearances. The loss of people as a result of violent crime is one thing. But an unexplained absence is on a completely different level. In mysterious disappearances, it is the silence of the empty space where the person used to…
“Beware the Borley Rectory”. Once upon a time, in a picturesque piece of country land on the border between Suffolk and Essex, a man of God decided to make a home for himself and his family. His name was Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull, and he would end up living…
If the West is now experiencing a meditation and Eastern philosophy fad rush, it has Alan Watts to thank for it. Centuries before Alan Watts and his meditation guidelines popularized Eastern thought for western audiences, throngs of mystics and ascetics had been practicing numerous meditative paths on their way to…
Some movies make us laugh, some make us cry, and some completely break us down emotionally and scar us for years. Some shed light on serious social or political issues, and some are just meant to entertain us and make us forget our mundane world for ninety or so minutes.…
Did you know that in the center of our galaxy exists what is basically a ruthless vacuum in space and time? That's right, our entire galaxy, like many other large galaxies, rotates around a black hole. It is not impossible to speculate that the helix-like shape of the Milky Way…
There is something about the dystopian films featuring an affectless, emotionless, disengaged society that makes for compelling viewing. Technology allows us to be connected to one another constantly. Which raises the questions of what it means to be part of social order and what it means to be alone. Kirstie…
We've all seen the movies, we all know the theory; the possibility that one day, machines become superintelligent, develop an individual conscience and decide to enslave the human race, most likely resulting in a dystopian world. “The Matrix” trilogy is the most mainstream manifestation of this theory in popular media, and…
We've all heard of MDMA; otherwise known as “Molly” at rave parties. For those who are not familiar with the drug, MDMA is a psychoactive drug, the consumption of which has euphoric effects, hence it is taken in the context of parties. Of course, like most drugs, MDMA is also…
