What Exactly Constitutes Epic-ness?
What is epic? Why is -epic- such a powerful word. So strong that our ears suddenly harden and our eyes shift focus? Using Dictionary.com, one of our internets finest resources (only second to it’s counterpart, thesaurus.com) The Definition to Epic…
El Alacrán de Fray Gómez. Part Two.
One morning Fray Gómez was in his cell in deep meditation, when the door was knocked lightly and discretely, and a voice with plaintive ring said: -Deo gratias… Praised by the Lord! -Forever and ever, amen. Come in, brother –replied…
Arts Contribution To Humanity
Art: that weird thing we all come across, interact with, and judge. Even though it’s something we deal with on an almost constant basis, art is very hard to define. It is such a weird concept, there are so…
Exclusive English Translation of El Alacrán de Fray Gómez. Part One.
Editor’s Note: My good friend Cesar J. Sanchez is a Peruvian native who is also an artist, writer, and thinker. I approached him about writing for MindPiff, and we mutually decided he should do some translation work of previously untranslated…
Dali and Disney collaborate in Destino
Destino is the most psychedelically substantial six and a half minutes you’ll spend on online-video-watching today. A collaboration between two twentieth-century artists of the heaviest weight–Disney and Dali–Destino enthralls and enlightens. Sometimes bits of art are lost, stored away somewhere…
Good Ideas Turned Inside-Out
The Good Idea Good Ideas build up inside our minds over time. We are struck with a hunch, a vague visualization, that through time turns into a crystal clear epiphany. Ideas answer our most thought-about questions and irritating concerns, and…
The Fight For Peace And Love
It was purely by accident that I walked along the south edge of Union Square on a random cool evening in early spring. I was on my way to the NYU library to study with my girlfriend and try to…
The Answer To All Our Problems
Ready? I had a lucid dream last night. My first consciously controlled, subconscious dream. In this dream, I was on a quest for a brief message that could enlighten the whole world in one shot upon its conception. Whenever Im…
Two Ted Talks that Inspired the Stars Out of Me
Jill Bolte A Stroke Of Insight Jill Bolte is a Brain Scientist who wakes up one morning to a stoke slowly disabling the left part of her brain, leaving all brain activity to occur on her right side. What happens…
Am I Dreaming? Lucid Dream vs. Reality
A Lucid Dream is a vivid reality, where limits are lifted and true free will resides. Mostly mistaken for the supernatural or surreal, while it is indeed, quite actual. It’s our concept of dream that has conditioned us to label…
Slam Poetry: Love
Three amazing slam poets sharing their thoughts about love and spreading the beauty of their words to help us all comprehend the strength — love– truly has. Janette Ikz I Will Wait…For You Joanna Hoffman The Anti-Love Love Poem…
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