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Zen and the Art of Losing Your Mind

Vikram Zutshi
A ‘Koan’ is a non sequitur, a seemingly paradoxical statement or question that cannot be grasped by the logical mind eg ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping?’ Its purpose is to subvert the causal nature of consensual reality, thereby inducing a sudden, intuitive insight or revelation into the underpinnings of consciousness itself.  The Japanese referred to this moment of ecstatic truth as ‘Satori’ (more)
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An Industry Emerges: The Rise of Medical Marijuana

Martin A. Lee
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The market for medicinal cannabis was estimated to be $1.7 billion in 2011. Like health food and hip-hop, cannabis was going corporate. As a wave of newbies began to challenge the old guard, movement veterans recalled the days before Proposition 215. "A lot of people want to cash in but they don't have an appreciation of what it took to get here. They don't know the history." (more)

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