Imagine that you are sitting quietly in a familiar room, perhaps with a cup of coffee beside you, a window somewhere nearby and the low murmur of traffic, voices or music entering from another part of the house, while everything around you appears reassuringly solid, continuous and self-evident. The table seems to possess its color…

LSD, Hypnosis, Secret Rooms and the Cold War Search for Mind Control On the evening of November 19, 1953, a group of American scientists and intelligence officials gathered at a retreat in Maryland, where dinner, conversation and drinks should have made the meeting indistinguishable from countless other professional gatherings taking place during the early years…

Imagine waking tomorrow morning and discovering that absolutely nothing around you has changed. The same light enters through the window, the same objects occupy the same places, the same memories tell you who you are, and the same laws of physics continue to govern every falling glass, passing cloud and beating heart. There is only…