
I am Apollo Lemmon and this is my lifestream. I'm passionate about integral, transhumanist and futurist movements, and my love for truth, beauty and goodness is reflected in the content I collect here. I am living in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and spent years before in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I blog at Frozen Truth and I can be reached at apollo@apollolemmon.com, on Twitter, or through Facebook.
Are you a pastist, presentist or futurist? How would you know? Are these terms related to a particular personality profile, are they something in your upbringing, in your experiences or your firm beliefs. Does your orientation depend on what happened in the past, how your present satisfies you or what…
From my perspective, having a full, authentic life is about having healthy, vibrant relationships — your relationship with yourself, with…

In a series of studies, Netta Weinstein, Andrew Przybylski, and Richard Ryan, University of Rochester, show that exposure to nature can affect our priorities and alter what we think is important in life. In short, we become less self-focused and more other-focused. Our value priorities shift from personal gain, to…
Holly Branigan has time-space synaesthesia, a condition which causes her to see time in space. Here she describes what she experiences when she thinks about time. Holly discovered she was a "synaesthete" when she attended a lecture given by Dr Julia Simner, a psychologist at the UK's University of Edinburgh,…
Boundaries play an interesting and sometimes complicated role in developing compassion. They are like the stake and wires that are…

The year was 1374. In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance. Scarcely pausing to rest or eat, they danced for hours or even days in succession. They were victims of one of the…
Over the past few decades, social scientists like me have found consistent evidence that there is an almost zero association between having children and happiness. ... But the warnings for prospective parents are even more stark than ‘it’s not going to make you happier’. ... [P]arents often report statistically significantly…
Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point…

Join an intrepid band of adventurers in the Kingdom of Qualia as they explore Plato's Cave and battle P-Zombies in…

Original Blog posted this nice collection of alternatives to antidepressants for those dealing with depression, all but one of which…
