The More We See, The Less We Know

Honour and pride. Two words that describe the state of mind felt by many from time to time, are liable to being prone to attachment. And attachment causes dependency, which in turn led to craving, and then attachment all over again. If all our lives, our interactions and choices, so to speak, were to be …

The Ancients Were Tripping, Evolution Did The Rest

Boomhouse Hello and Welcome to the 2nd Edition of Boomhouse, our weekly newsletter specifically dedicated to the science, history and practical applications of the cannabis plant. This endeavor will not only help us understand the history of the world, but also help us develop an understanding of the history of civilization itself. In the sense, …

Tripping on The Origin Theories of Plants and Cannabis

Boomhouse Hello and Welcome to the 1st Edition of Boomhouse, our weekly newsletter specifically dedicated to the science, history and practical applications of the cannabis plant. The purpose is quite simple really: it is to communicate to the world at large that it is time to move beyond surface level knowledge and make the time …

Complex Systems and Complex People

The sense of calm enveloped him like a crooning lover. It felt like..being balanced, homeostasis. He had finally reached equilibrium, the mode of being where focus, attention and being in a state of flow was all that mattered. Bedeviled by distractions on all sides, he felt as if his sense of attention had become blunt, …

The Heart is Racing, It Keeps on Repeating

Three hearty swigs of freshly brewed beer later, Mr. Well reckoned that another couple of hearty swigs of beer were in order. He didn't drink often, preferring to let his body recover for days and weeks at a time before the next swig of beers. Mr. Well liked mind-altering substances and his preferred choices were …

All Aboard the Evolutionary Cannabinoid Lifestyle

The gist of the post is about one's lifestyle. Just like how nature evolved to produce cannabinoid compounds in both humans (the human endocannabinoid system) and the cannabis plant, is there a best way to live? Or rather, keeping in mind the unique genetic and personality traits honed from an individual's life so far, from …

How Can You Understand The World?

When Sins was five years old, he saw the mighty train engine. Mighty, as he called it, seemed like an understatement. As he slept that night, its sounds reverberated in his ears, causing him to wake up in the middle of the night, imagining that the earth had cracked into several pieces at once. The …

Someone To Hear Your Prayers? Someone Who Cares? Its You.

"I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me. The dawn reminds me of her presence, a few miles away. Walking down the road, I get a feeling that I should have told her yesterday, that it's her energy that I feed off, in spirit, in conversation, in times of good and bad, …

Your Problems Will Not End. Make Them Better.

She was sitting right opposite to him in another room and the walls were transparent. He pretended to work, clicking random icons on his screen, unlocking his smartphone from time to time, every few seconds, in a bid to look busy in case she was looking at him. He wondered what was up with him, …

You Can Change Yourself To Become Whatever You Want.

For as long as he could remember, irrespective of the characters and personalities of every individual he had met in his life so far, he had always preferred to focus on their best traits and ignore the worst ones, mainly because, he had realized that over the long-term, it paid to be good and do …

Why Has The World Become So Complex To Understand?

It wasn’t everyday that he got to lash out, and today he figured it was better if he let it all out, safely, but still, in the manner that was socially acceptable, like ignoring one’s own thoughts and wishes in favour of the collective’s, mostly pushed forward by a vocal group of insisters, who favoured …

The Chaos and Unknown In The World and How To Overcome It.

The worst was over. The time had come for him to deliver on all his professed potential and promises to himself at breakneck speed, and deliver them as soon as possible. It was possible to be productive on an insane level, yet manage to create a wealth of balance between his personal and professional life. …

Know Yourself, Know The World, Know Everything. The Time is Now.

He knew there were two sides of him. Possibly more, but, from a self-awareness perspective, he knew there were two sides of him. To come to think of it, everyone behaved differently with different people, hiding or revealing a few facts here and there, mixing a few fictions here and there, depending on how useful …

The Sins Of The Global Order

He didn't know what to believe in any more, neither did he understand why was he living any more, torn as he was asunder by multiple ups and downs that seemed to plague his existence day after day. He wanted to live, there was no doubt about it, because bodily sensations experienced through the pleasures …

Mind And Matter – The Unresponsiveness.

He imagined her smile in his mind's eye and smiled. She wasn't responding to any of his text messages. Presuming, she was busy, he tried his best to let it go, but couldn't. He just couldn't, which seemed very immature on his part, considering he had other friends to chat to, people whom he knew …