This is a fun documentary to watch. In it, Graham Hancock quests to uncover the mysterious legacy of mankind, which leads him across the world in exploring ancient civilizations. Hancock goes on to try to link these civilizations to another much older shared ancestry. It could possibly even be a more advanced, forgotten civilization.

There are some pretty fascinating similarities between Egyptian, Mayan, and Cambodian civilizations, and the evidence lends to the credibility of Hancock’s theory. These civilizations existed far apart from one another, both in space and in time. So how is it that they were so similar?

Jason Silva, a futurist, provides a ton of great examples of psychedelics being used as tools for problem solving and creativity during a Q&A at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House in 2012. From the video:

That quote from Tom Robbins where I said that “We need to pull ourselves out of context in order to gawk in amazement at the wonders of the world.”, he was talking about psychedelics, but I think it applies to everything we in our lives.

He says, “It’s not that psychedelics manufacture wonderment or that they can automatically make us more imaginative beings, but what psychedelics does is pull us so radically out of comfort zones, they decondition our thinking, they thrust us out of everything we thought we knew about the world in order to see things as if for the first time and form new synaptic connections.

On cannabis:

Marijuana induced a state of hyper priming. It expanded their “associative net” so that they were able to make more far reaching connections...

Stress and anxiety sucks. In today’s post-industrial revolution world, they’re rampant issues. People are overworked, underpaid, and expected to conform to insane realities. So what do you do if you’re feeling stressed?

1. Make time for your hobbies.

Take a little time out of each day and do something you love.

2. Eliminate distractions in the workplace.

What keeps you from getting your work done? Get rid of it if you can. Find ways around it.

3. Turn off the TV. Make time for your own thoughts.

More and more, we’re consumed by media and news and music and noise. Take some time to yourself, get rid of the constant information barrage.

4. Ask for help.

Sometimes we need it.

5. Meditate.

Inhale. Hold. Exhale your stress.

6. Live in the moment.

No use in sweating the past or freaking out about the future...

We live in a time where more and more, science fiction is crossing paths with science fact. Scientists have begun to ponder the creation of a ‘warp drive,’ which would be able to take us to Alpha Centauri in only 2 weeks, as opposed to 4.3 years moving at the speed of light.

The idea is that a warp drive could stretch spacetime, causing the fabric of space ahead of the spacecraft to contract, while it expands behind the craft. This would allow the ship to bend the laws of physics and move much much much faster than the speed of light.

If you could travel like that, where in the universe would you visit? Would you go to see supermassive stars? Or burgeoning planets?

Providing further evidence that THC kills cancer cells! Since 1974, there have been studies that show cannabis to be an anti-tumor agent. The results of the 1974 Washington Post study found that THC “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36%.

A similar study, conducted in 1998 by a research team at Madrid’s Comlutense University found that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumors while not harming the healthy brain cells around them.

The evidence truly is mounting that cannabis can, at the very least, be a part of an effective treatment against cancer. Cancer is truly the demon of our era, but this demon will soon be banished back to the hell from which it came.