Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I love the man who wrote How to Do Drugs for Healing and Spiritual Growth While Your Kids are at School for Tasshin’s Share Your Knowledge! Essay Contest. He was trying so, so hard to be good, to do good, to spread good. He had so much information to share that had helped him (me)…

I slumbered for most of my life, bowed under the trauma of growing up with two mentally ill parents woefully unsupported in their communities. Their sins were more of omission than commission, which are often harder to see, what Romeo Stevens calls “negative trauma.” I suffered from something like what’s described as Complex PTSD. (Never…