For ages, folks told tales about dying and coming back. These accounts from death’s edge sounded vivid, often defying easy sense. Near-death experiences, called NDEs, along with terminal lucidity, ...

The novelist on her unclassifiable new work, “The Möbius Book”; the limits of autobiography; and the appeal of multiplicity.

Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming ...

Leaving your physical body, hovering a few feet in the air, and seeing your own body from the outside, is an out-of-body ...

One of the most energetic factions of today’s Right flirts with monarchy, myth, and high-tech transcendence. Drawing on the ...

Owen Flanagan argues that addicts are free and that self-directed shame about their behavior can help motivate them to ...

From the earliest beats of human civilization to the electric pulse of modern music, no instrument has carried the weight of ...

A US biotech startup called Mindstate Design Labs is doing exactly that—developing next-generation psychedelics designed to evoke specific, curated states of mind using a proprietary AI named ...