Articles & Interviews

Director of Death; Producer of a Wilderness Spy Program; Simulated Professor; Political Speech Writer; CBC Grief Reporter John Troyer, Director of the Centre for Death and Society at Bath University...

“That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”― Yann Martel We seem to lack the ideal terminology to...

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”― Albert Einstein By far the most valuable quality of philosophy is its dynamic ability to evolve alongside those who rely on...

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”  — Carl Jung One of the most misunderstood figures in the field of psychology is that of Carl Gustav Jung, iconic...

 "You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself." - Alan Watts Steve Schild — Part of the dissipated MarsOne program.  Q: Why are you okay with...

How does the social contract hold up in the midst of this pandemic? “It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to...

The impact of COVID-19 on art and aesthetic entertainment “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”— Friedrich Nietzsche As the Coronavirus fervently wraps itself around our...

Examining our collective tendency to formulate, propagate and believe in conspiracy theories at the most uncertain of times  “Conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth...