Classic Psypol 🍄

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Limits, to Be Found Experientially

Navalny Enters Hyperspace

Feb 23, 2024 •

Russia's Agents in the Dreamscape

Some years ago, I had a vivid two-punch dream, in which I felt I was being recruited into a Russian intelligence agency.

Jan 9, 2023 •

Russia's Psychotic Break

I have given up on writing a Russia/Ukraine op-ed for the NYT—I’m too close to the topic, my feelings on it too raw and my thoughts too hopeless and…

Nov 21, 2022 •

The Psychopolitical Meaning of Marriage

Your subscription fees have reached $2000 in total, and I sent the whole sum to buy aid for the victims of the war in Ukraine.

Aug 12, 2022 •

Fear and Power in the Russian Dreamscape

In August of 2020, I wrote in Putin Does Not Exist: I’ve been playing with the idea of a “psychopolitical method”—a system of views and practices that…

Apr 20, 2022 •

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Giorgos Terzakis

Buddhist Machinery

My first contact with Tibetan Buddhism must have happened in my late teens. I went to the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe—the St. Petersburg datsan—on…

Nov 14, 2021 •

To Be Found Experientially

May 18, 2021 •

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