Many of my clients have questions about why their relationships haven’t lasted or what they need to change about themselves in order to “be ready” for their soul mate. Although no two astrology charts and no two people are alike, if I had to point my finger at one relationship-destroying culprit, I would feel confident blaming what I call “orgasm addiction.” (more)

Being honest meant saying the thing I never wanted to admit publicly - that most of my spiritual initiation involved contact with extraterrestrial spirit guides. We're not talking clunky abduction narratives with 1950's tinfoil ships. This is much more shamanic, interdimensional, highlighted by the creative alchemy of awakening to our galactic brothers and sisters. (more)

Two mammoth cosmic events take place this week, both of which highlight the mercurial messenger in all of us: the Solar Eclipse and Venus retrograde. It is a time of personal growth and mental stimulation. May both inspire us to play and enjoy the endless proces of learning. (more)

Einsteinian physics and the atomic bombing of Japan birthed an era of global anxiety and metaphysical awe. Thus the major mythemes of science fiction and the comic book superhero came to play a special role in the early 1960s and the American counterculture.  (more)

As a community built largely by individuals choosing to opt out of the values and beliefs of an increasingly obsolete and fundamentally self-destructive paradigm, we can't help but notice the irony: Are we filling the void of antiquated understandings and fear-based behaviors with our own dogmatic principles? (more)

Jeffrey J. Kripal is one of the most unusual scholars of religion working in America today. His interests include superhero comics, the paranormal, UFO research, the human potential movement, and the mystical experiences of religious scholars. (more)

The "free love" of the 60s was an experiment that remains incomplete. Humanity was not then up to the task of integrating the psychedelic, psychic, and visionary aspects of our being into the repressive social structure. More than a political revolution, we need, first of all, a love revolution, which is also a revelation: a clear-eyed approach to love and Eros. (more)

Could the datasphere be an extension of our collective consciousness? If so, could an intentional organization of this data have a profound effect via our unconscious agents of empathy and evolution, mirror neurons?  (more)

The more a compound disrupts the Ego, the physically safer (less toxic) that compound will be, while the more a 'drug' reinforces and inflates the sense of Ego, the more physically harmful (toxic) that compound will be. (more)

The Mayan prophecy about the end of the cosmic cycle has been misinterpreted as predicting the physical destruction of humanity. 

This is similar to the misinterpretation of the term "apocalypse" to mean global destruction. The Mayan prophecy might imply a mass transformation of humanity -- the end of a world dominated by violence and greed.   (more)

The Irish philosopher, poet and shaman John Moriarty used Irish myths to illustrate his belief that there has been a schism between what we as humans instinctively are and what we have become and how we choose to live. He became a character living in a parallel Ireland called Fódhla, lamenting the wrong turn that the Western world has taken.
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Richard Dolan, trained historian and former Oxford student, is a leading authority in UFO studies, and the author of the two-volume work, UFOs and the National Security State. He brings an academic's rigor to the subject of extraterrestrial contact and secret government efforts to explore UFOs and alien technology.  (more)

The prophecy of the Eagle and Condor, which is common to several traditional indigenous cultures of North, Central, and South America, points to a time when humans face the evolutionary choice of moving into symbiotic presence within the more-than-human world or destroying the planet.  (more)

The Occupy movement is the most recent example of the collective mind beginning to center on love-consciousness.  Thousands of years of heart-centered practices are beginning to influence current patterns of activity.  Transformative spiritual principles and methods are becoming more easily known. (more)

As the world moves into unprecedented upheaval, people turn to spiritual matters to ease their fears. A case can be made that our solely patriarchal ideas about the transcendent have been responsible for many of the ills currently facing our society. Perhaps we need a reaffirmation of allegiance to our nation's forgotten Goddess. (more)

Having had enough of the carnival sideshow that passed as yoga in the West, one day I found myself halfway around the world, in the charming city of Mysore, located in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, far removed from designer bodies and streamlined studios. (more)

Darrin Drda's core insight is that only by truly coming to terms with the reality of our collective suffering (dukkha), can we develop the immeasurable states of joy, compassion, loving kindness, and equanimity that we wish to characterize the state of the human existence in the wake of history. [Click the link for information regarding the online Evolver Intensive hosted by Darrin Drda entitled, "Awakening the Global Heart Mind," starting April 28 at 3pm EST 12pm PST, 8pm London]. (more)