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ABEL

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active: 2023-08-29 → 2026-07-19

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

AMANITA MUSCARIA: The Oldest Drug on Earth That Nobody Understands

It is the most recognizable fungus in human history, appears on Super Mario power-ups and Christmas decorations, inspired the first GABA…

Jul 12, 2026 · 17 min read · 474 claps paywalled #psychedelics #science #history

AMANITA MUSCARIA: The Oldest Drug on Earth That Nobody Understands

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

LSD: The Most Suppressed Cognitive Tool in American History

A molecule that rewired Silicon Valley, dissolved addiction, and inspired the Beatles was criminalized because it worked too well.

Jul 06, 2026 · 27 min read · 356 claps paywalled #psychedelics #science #psychology

LSD: The Most Suppressed Cognitive Tool in American History

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

RAM DASS: The Harvard Professor Who Fired Himself

He had a PhD from Stanford, tenure at Harvard, a Mercedes, and a private plane. He gave it all away for a name that means servant of God…

Jul 10, 2026 · 13 min read · 341 claps paywalled #psychedelics #spirituality #psychology

RAM DASS: The Harvard Professor Who Fired Himself

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

MICHAEL TALBOT AND THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE: The Man Who Decoded Reality and Died Before He Could…

How a Michigan writer synthesized quantum physics and neuroscience into the most radical model of consciousness ever written for a general…

Jun 07, 2026 · 14 min read · 303 claps paywalled #science #consciousness #physics

MICHAEL TALBOT AND THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE: The Man Who Decoded Reality and Died Before He Could…

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BILL HICKS: The Comedian Who Told Us Life Is Just a Ride

He dropped Acid, saw through the machine, and died at thirty two while CBS hid the tape of his final performance.

Jul 19, 2026 · 19 min read · 255 claps paywalled #philosophy #humor #consciousness

BILL HICKS: The Comedian Who Told Us Life Is Just a Ride

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THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: The 1,200-Year-Old Technical Manual for the Only Journey You Cannot…

The 8th-century Tibetan consciousness map that survived political purges, colonial theft, and Timothy Leary's acid trips to become the most…

May 17, 2026 · 20 min read · 252 claps #buddhism #consciousness #death

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: The 1,200-Year-Old Technical Manual for the Only Journey You Cannot…

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THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS: The 114 Sayings of Jesus That the Church Buried in a Jar and Called Heresy

The suppressed wisdom text discovered by a peasant digging for fertilizer in 1945 that rewrites the origin story of Christianity…

May 18, 2026 · 13 min read · 243 claps #history #archaeology #philosophy

THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS: The 114 Sayings of Jesus That the Church Buried in a Jar and Called Heresy

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AB Abel · Technology Hits

NEURALINK: The Brain Chip That Is Actually Working

A 34-year-old who could no longer speak or type is now composing thoughts at 120 words per minute. Twenty-six people worldwide are living…

Jul 09, 2026 · 11 min read · 223 claps paywalled #technology #science #artificial-intelligence

NEURALINK: The Brain Chip That Is Actually Working

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

TERENCE McKENNA: The Man Who Mapped the Machine Elves

He said DMT was a doorway into the divine. In 2026, a pharmaceutical company patented it.

Jun 25, 2026 · 13 min read · 208 claps paywalled #philosophy #science #spirituality

TERENCE McKENNA: The Man Who Mapped the Machine Elves

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

ALDOUS HUXLEY: The Man Who Saw the Cage Before It Was Built

He predicted mass pharmaceutical control in 1932, coined the reducing valve theory that explains every psychedelic experience, inspired Jim…

Jul 14, 2026 · 13 min read · 208 claps paywalled #readers-club #psychedelics #philosophy

ALDOUS HUXLEY: The Man Who Saw the Cage Before It Was Built

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

THE BOOK OF ENOCH: The Suppressed Cosmology That Explained Everything Genesis Was Afraid to Say

Quoted directly in the New Testament, cited as scripture by early church fathers, preserved for a thousand years by Ethiopian monks while…

Jul 16, 2026 · 17 min read · 207 claps paywalled #religion #history #christianity

THE BOOK OF ENOCH: The Suppressed Cosmology That Explained Everything Genesis Was Afraid to Say

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

ROLAND GRIFFITHS: The Man Who Unlocked the Science of Spiritual Experience

He proved psilocybin could heal depression, addiction, and the fear of death. He died watching corporations patent everything he built.

Jul 18, 2026 · 13 min read · 170 claps paywalled #psychedelics #science #consciousness

ROLAND GRIFFITHS: The Man Who Unlocked the Science of Spiritual Experience

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

ALAN WATTS: The Man Who Gave the West Its Mind Back

He explained Zen, Taoism, and the nature of consciousness to fifty million people in plain English, influenced every psychedelic pioneer…

Jul 11, 2026 · 13 min read · 160 claps paywalled #consciousness #spirituality #philosophy

ALAN WATTS: The Man Who Gave the West Its Mind Back

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

ALBERT HOFMANN: The Chemist Whose Problem Child Is Finally Being Welcomed Home

The man who discovered LSD by accident spent his life fighting to reclaim it as medicine, died still waiting, and the FDA is now closer to…

Jun 30, 2026 · 20 min read · 157 claps paywalled #science #psychology #health

ALBERT HOFMANN: The Chemist Whose Problem Child Is Finally Being Welcomed Home

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

TIMOTHY LEARY: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

The Harvard psychologist Nixon called the most dangerous man in America died with his ashes in orbit. His research just came back.

Jul 01, 2026 · 12 min read · 135 claps paywalled #psychedelics #psychology #history

TIMOTHY LEARY: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

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AB Abel · Readers Club

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

The 1,200-Year-Old Technical Manual for the Only Journey You Cannot Rehearse

May 30, 2026 · 20 min read · 88 claps paywalled #readers-club #buddhism #consciousness

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AB Abel · Technology Hits

CERN AND HAARP: What These Machines Actually Do, and Why the Internet Insists They Don't

Two real research facilities, one still running underground in Switzerland, one shut down and handed to a university in Alaska, have spent…

Jun 25, 2026 · 11 min read · 87 claps paywalled #science #technology #physics

CERN AND HAARP: What These Machines Actually Do, and Why the Internet Insists They Don't

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THE ZOHAR: The Book of Radiance That One Man Wrote, Attributed to a Dead Rabbi, and Used to Rebuild…

The 13th-century masterpiece of Jewish mysticism that one man wrote, attributed to a dead rabbi, and used to rebuild an entire…

May 22, 2026 · 15 min read · 78 claps #religion #history #judaism

THE ZOHAR: The Book of Radiance That One Man Wrote, Attributed to a Dead Rabbi, and Used to Rebuild…

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

THE CORPUS HERMETICUM: The Forgery That Launched the Renaissance and Burned a Man Alive

How seventeen Greek treatises delivered to Florence in 1460 reshaped Western civilization for two centuries before a Swiss scholar proved…

Jun 12, 2026 · 16 min read · 75 claps paywalled #history #philosophy #spirituality

THE CORPUS HERMETICUM: The Forgery That Launched the Renaissance and Burned a Man Alive

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AB Abel · The Humor Pub

RODNEY DANGERFIELD: The Comedian Who Bombed for Nine Years, Quit, and Came Back at 46 to Build an…

How a failed salesman named Jacob Cohen reinvented himself as the most efficient joke machine in history and launched the careers of Jim…

Jun 14, 2026 · 10 min read · 61 claps paywalled #readers-club #comedy #humor

RODNEY DANGERFIELD: The Comedian Who Bombed for Nine Years, Quit, and Came Back at 46 to Build an…

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

ALEXANDER SHULGIN: The Man Who Wrote the Book the DEA Made Illegal

He synthesized 179 compounds that no government had ever classified, published every recipe in a book you can be arrested for owning, and…

Jul 09, 2026 · 12 min read · 53 claps paywalled #psychedelics #science #chemistry

ALEXANDER SHULGIN: The Man Who Wrote the Book the DEA Made Illegal

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AB Abel · The Humor Pub

KATT WILLIAMS: The Comedian Who Did the Math on Hollywood and Won

How a homeless teenager who failed a scholarship test on purpose became the only comedian alive who can call out the entire industry by…

Jun 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 50 claps paywalled #readers-club #humor #comedy

KATT WILLIAMS: The Comedian Who Did the Math on Hollywood and Won

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AYAHUASCA: The Amazonian Botanical Technology That Indigenous Healers Developed 10,000 Years Before…

How two plants that grow miles apart in the Amazon basin produce a chemical combination so precise it could not be accidental, what…

Jun 05, 2026 · 14 min read · 31 claps #psychedelics #science #health

AYAHUASCA: The Amazonian Botanical Technology That Indigenous Healers Developed 10,000 Years Before…

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AB Abel · ILLUMINATION Philosophy and Metaphysics

THE SIMULATION HYPOTHESIS: Physicists Are Actually Testing Whether Reality Is Code

Real scientists at real universities have spent over a decade designing experiments to detect the seams of a simulated universe, and the…

Jun 21, 2026 · 8 min read · 31 claps paywalled #science #physics #philosophy

THE SIMULATION HYPOTHESIS: Physicists Are Actually Testing Whether Reality Is Code

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AB Abel · The Humor Pub

BILL HICKS: The Comedian CBS Censored, America Ignored, and the Rest of the World Called a Prophet

How a kid sneaking out of his bedroom window in Houston at fifteen to perform stand-up became the most dangerous voice in American comedy…

Jun 17, 2026 · 14 min read · 30 claps paywalled #readers-club #comedy #humor