The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Occupational · Arthur C. Brooks · Portfolio / Penguin Random House · 2026
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Foundational
Wellness, Well-Being, and Happiness
Three words we use interchangeably. Three different things they mean. Why the distinction matters for how you live.
Deep DiveFinding Satoshi and the Cost of Money You Don't Control
What does it cost a person, in well-being terms, to live inside a money system they do not control? An editorial reading of the Bitcoin question, with the four-year documentary as further reading.
AppliedAll Flourishing Is Mutual
What Robin Wall Kimmerer's line means on an ordinary Tuesday. Six shapes a life takes when it holds the relational claim.
ComparisonMeditation vs. Medication
The non-pharmaceutical evidence base, side by side with the pharmaceutical one. Honest about where each belongs.
FeaturePsilocybin, A Soul Syndicate Special Feature
Clinical research, legal status, retreats, and articles, aggregated in one place.
Deep DivePsilocybin Companies: Oregon & Colorado
Who is operating under the new legal frameworks, and how the two state models compare.
Research
The Anxious Generation
Environmental · Jonathan Haidt · Penguin Press · 2024
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Physical · Peter Attia · Harmony · 2023
The Good Life
Relational · Robert Waldinger · Simon & Schuster · 2023
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See the full research database →Rael CahnMD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Rael Cahn is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at UC San Diego whose research sits at the intersection of meditation, psychedelics, and consciousness. His work has illuminated how contemplative practices and psychedelic compounds produce overlapping changes in neural oscillations and subjective experience. Cahn has published extensively on EEG correlates of meditative states and is investigating how combined meditation-psychedelic protocols may enhance therapeutic outcomes. His integrative approach bridges Eastern contemplative traditions with Western neuroscience methodology.
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