Illustrations
The comic panel is to the scientific fig what subjective experience is to objective brain science: sloppy expressionist truant vs anal materialist authority. My book, The Head Trip was an attempt to bridge these two worlds.
The Spiegel Eye-Roll
Use this chart to hypnotize your friends. Actually it won’t help with that at all. But it will help with figuring out which of your friends can be easily hypnotized should you wish to bring the fuckers once and for all under your total beneficent control.
Ascending the Jhanas
Here I’ve taken thousands of years of hard-won meditative wisdom and completely trivialized it in the form of a simplistic board game. No need to thank me, I’ll get my reward in the next life.
Forman’s Mystical Progression
It’s fascinating to think about how the various mystical states all relate to one another. Former religious studies professor Robert Forman sees it as a progression outward. I tried to capture this in my comic panel.