Body Vs Mind

In Nepal, Datura is a holy psychedelic, but in the wrong hands it can become “The Devil’s Breath”

BY: TJ MOREY Scopolamine, the Devil’s Breath, Devil’s Apple, are some of the well-known and highly conspicuous names attributed to Datura, a deadly plant that has garnered enough attention, respect, and fear amongst the hardest of psychonauts. Found abundantly and…

This photographer tracks the change of her naked body through the journey of motherhood

BY: POLLY PENROSE Over several years, Polly Penrose created a series of photographs entitled A Body of Work showing the physical journey of her body over time. Each portrait is a reaction of her naked body to its environment and…

Science proves that hip-hop cures depression

BY: PILGRIM Hip-hop is a notoriously conceited genre, the musicians constantly boasting about their Lamborghinis, big-butted booty-calls, and magnificent estates. It’s strangely un-relatable content given that the genre’s primary listenership is impoverished youth. Yet from Rick Ross’s gold-chains to R.Kelly’s…

Imagine waking up paralyzed and trapped in a nightmare: Sleep Paralysis

BY: HANNAH WRIGHT Imagine coming out of a dream, attempting to awaken and rise from your bed, only to find that you are completely unable to move. Aside from this, you sometimes experience a plethora of colourful hallucinations. You lie…

Scientists Discover Both Good & Bad News For The Brains of Pot Smokers

BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS A new study has good and bad news for regular pot smokers: it appears that marijuana affects the brain, making one region smaller yet also increasing its connectivity. Researchers at the University of Texas recently published a…

MacGyver your own orgasm with these DIY sex toys.

BY: AL DONATO Sex is an industry. Even if you’re not literally buying it, you’re paying for ways to make it happen, make it better, or in the case of sex toys, substitute it. The sleek, brightly-coloured toys sold by…

Three mothers share their stories of raising transgender children in the face of adversity

BY: JESSICA BURDE Fifty percent of them will have attempted suicide at least once by their 20th birthday, according to the Youth Suicide Prevention Program. Politicians, religious leaders, and business owners can endlessly debate the validity of trans* rights, but…

He And She, Ze And Xe: The Case For Gender-Neutral Pronouns

BY: AL DONATO Gender as we know it is a lie. The male-female binary is a social construct, ignoring intersex, trans, genderqueer, and other non-binary individuals whose identities aren’t the same as the sex assigned at birth. Unfortunately, it’s a…

It Was My First Time Snorting Anything: This Was My Experience With Ketamine

BY: LILITH I did my first ever line of ketamine off a cheap wooden patio table at a shitty bar in downtown Toronto. My friend and provider, a seasoned raver, didn’t have any straws on him, so he rolled up…

Mpreg Central Is A Forum Of Men Who Take The Idea of Male Pregnancy Very Seriously

BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In a 1994 article in The New York Times, Dick Teresi cites the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Junior where a scientist, Dr. Alex Hesse, becomes pregnant after being implanted with an egg and taking a fertility drug he…

Blind runner just ran an 885 kilometre trail in just 20 days

BY: SINEAD MULHERN Rhonda-Marie Avery has only eight percent vision, but just completed an incredible feat of endurance this past summer that most people with the privilege of full vision would never even dream of. This Barrie, Ontario woman ran the…

Beginner’s Guide To Lucid Dreaming- You Spend One Third Of Your Life Asleep

BY: KARMUN KHOO ‘Lucid dreaming’ is used to describe dreams whereby the dreamer is aware that they are in a dream. The term was coined by Dutch psychiatrist, Frederik van Eeden, but the idea of lucid dreams predates the scientific…

This Simple Memory Mind-Hack Might Just Change Your Life In More Ways Than One

BY: PILGRIM Imagine you have a big yellow lemon in your hand. Give it a squeeze. Is it firm, or squishy? Take the lemon in front of you, and using an imaginary knife in your other hand, cut the lemon…

Auras: Maybe We Can All Feel Them And They Are Trying To Tell Us Something

BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS This has probably happened at least once in your life: you meet someone for the first time and take an instant dislike to their presence. Or you get a bad feeling from a room you’ve just walked…

These Five Savants Show The Mind Is Limitless With Talents That Are Superhuman

BY: PILGRIM Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which extraordinarily capabilities accompany a massive memory creating an endowment of talent that is seemingly superhuman. The syndrome is often accompanied by disabilities in cognitive functions, motor skills and social dexterity.…

Don’t Get It Backwards: Harvard Professor Proves The Quickest Road To Success Is Happiness.

BY: PILGRIM The belief that success is the predecessor of happiness is the carrot-on-a-stick which dangles at the forefronts of many of our lives. The old thought reverberating in our minds, “If I could only achieve ______, I would be…

My First Time In A Sensory Deprivation Tank

BY: DANIEL KORN I’m on the phone with Jesse Ratner-Decle, the owner of Float Toronto, a sensory-deprivation-tank centre on the west end of the city. Customers pay to go into an enclosed, pitch-black, completely soundproof tank and float on their…

NBOMes: Legal Synthetic Hallucinogens Are 10 Times Stronger Than LSD and 10 Times More Deadly.

BY EMMA MCINTOSH A new class of synthetic drugs similar to LSD has arrived on the market, and they’re called NBOMes. Originally synthesized in 2003, NBOMes were created to aid in the mapping of serotonin receptors in the brain. However,…

Learning To Pull The Strings Of A Stranger’s Subconscious: NLP

BY: TED BARNABY Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP), in short, is the method of performing mild hypnosis through conversation for the purpose of persuasion. By using certain verbal and non-verbal language patterns, an NLP master can trigger specific responses in their subject’s…

NoFap: The Twenty-First Century Abstinence Movement

BY: KARMUN KHOO The Ancient Egyptians believed that the world is a product of masturbation—an act committed by the god Atum. Early Indians wrote in the Kama Sutra that men should “churn [their] instrument with a lion’s pounce.” And if…