Introduction The industries of talk-based therapy and anti-depressants have consistently failed to demonstrate significant benefits to mental health in trials. The life-coaching industry is similarly ridiculed with hypocrisy and fraudulent activity. With the impending psychedelic revolution in mental health treatments, people are starting to carve out niche job opportunities for themselves…

Introduction The English philosopher G.K. Chesterton once said that when a person stops believing in God, they will believe in anything (Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 2021). This same process seems to happen with many New Age or spiritual but not religious people. Visualization as a practice of contemplation has many…

The term ‘conspirituality’ has garnered a tremendous amount of attention in the last couple of years due to uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the Q Anon raid on the US Capitol building. …

In the U.K. in 2020, there were 5,224 suicides, and 75.1% of these were men (ONS, 2020). Many causal factors lead to suicide, but this article will focus on addressing male loneliness to help prevent suicide. This article is not an attempt to argue that men are lonelier than women…

In the lead-up to World War 1, Carl Jung had around 12 violent visions including a boot stepping on a European city and a sea of blood sweeping across Europe stopping at the Alps. He also heard a voice assuring him that the visions were “completely real” and that they…

In this reflection piece, I will discuss my frustrations with conventional schooling and university education. I discuss why there is a need to reform mental health practitioner training. …

Mmm pizza. Ahhhh, meditation. Is it a coincidence that the meditative sound of AUM is so similar to the pizza eating “nom nom nom”, I ask you? Definitely not! Can adding these two things together make each of them easier to digest? Can it help you with stress and anxiety…

I’ve started referring to my 52kg girlfriend as my mule because she has to carry our shared backpack everywhere as it gives me back pain. I…

work as meditation Hi, my name is Richard and I’m the idiot who went to an Indian ashram and paid them to let me work there. This wasn’t an internship with a step on the ladder at the end. This was ‘Work as Meditation’. This was me doing crappy jobs like greeting new…