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The year 2012 coincides with the next predicted solar sunspot maximum. A dramatic increase in cosmic radiation is likely to affect Earth's magnetic fields and the atmosphere of the planet in unpredictable ways. The question is to what extent and how these changes will manifest. (more)

11-6-09

Commons

Networks of Grace

Andrew Harvey

From my study of terrorist and fundamentalist organizations, I had learned that they rely on small cells of people who sustain and inspire each other. I envisioned a network of individual cells of people praying, meditating, and acting together for positive change on local or international issues. Now there are a dozen "Networks of Grace" cells around the country. (more)

11-5-09

Psyche

Polyamory on Parade

Amy George

It happened in a moment of compassion for my friend. I somehow spontaneously channeled a higher-worldly force that moved through me to sexually heal her. I couldn't stop saying, "There's enough of me to go around." It was beautiful and amazing. How can this be wrong? Is this "cheating"? (more)

11-4-09

Life

Glory in the Highest (Part Three)

Rob Brezsny

But wait a minute. What about all the people who don't have enough to eat and a comfortable place to sleep? How about the victims of war and epidemics, and the oppressed who live under the rule of tyrants, and the innocents whose lives are distorted by bigotry? Where's their glory in the highest? Why should they feel grateful? Part Three of a three-part series. (more)

11-3-09

Life

Glory in the Highest (Part Two)

Rob Brezsny

I'm arguing against the grain, compiling evidence that the cynics' hypothesis is a delusion. I'm insisting that we are not pitiable actors in the most hellish chapter in history. I'm even inclined to entertain the possibility that the reverse is true: We may be living in the best of times. Part Two of a three-part series. (more)

11-2-09

Life

Glory in the Highest (Part One)

Rob Brezsny

What's your position on making love? Do you regard it as one of the nicer fringe benefits of being alive? Or are you more inclined to see it as a central proof of the primal magnanimity of the universe? I'm more aligned with the latter view. Imagine yourself in the fluidic blaze of that intimate spectacle right now. . . Part One of a three-part series. (more)

10-30-09

Psyche

Ayahuasca Pilgrimage?

Robert Tindall

As a writer on ayahuasca shamanism, and a leader of small groups down to the rainforest to encounter the practice of traditional medicine, I have watched the rising of the phenomenon labeled "ayahuasca tourism" with apprehension. (more)

10-29-09

Commons

Sweat Lodge Tragedy

Carl Hammerschlag

I put off writing about the Sweat Lodge tragedy at a spiritual retreat center near Sedona, Arizona, that left three people dead. I didn't want to write until I heard the man in charge explain what happened. But James Arthur Ray, a best-selling self-help entrepreneur and promoter of financial abundance, is not talking. (more)

10-28-09

Psyche

Ascension, Entheogens & Inter-dimensional Exploration: The RS Retreat

Marisa Smith

RS's latest retreat, The Supernatural: Exploring Other Dimensions, brought together brilliant hearts and minds on some of today's most intriguing topics. If you've ever wondered what do you'd get if you mixed 2012, ascension, entheogens & inter-dimensional exploration, this retreat just might have offered an answer. (more)

10-27-09

Psyche

The Spiritual Nomad

Lisa Renee

When one enters a major spiritual transition, it can be so painfully unnerving that it not only devastates one's self esteem, it also undermines our ability to fulfill even our most basic survival needs. This process is designed to cultivate the inner strength needed to face your deepest fears and learn how generous the universe really is. (more)

10-24-09

Life

How Shipibo Healers Cured My Brain Tumor

Aprile Blake

From a Chinese perspective, my condition is conceived as a stagnant one, and this is exactly what I felt was being cleaned out of me; old, stale and putrefied energy. Somewhere deep in the midst of this strong physiological flushing, I understood that I had found not merely facilitators, but people who could actually cure. (more)

10-23-09

Life

The Ethics of Food

Maya Joseph and Marion Nestle

Today, so many Americans are demanding a food supply that is healthier for people and for the environment, that attempts to improve food policies can be considered a new social movement focused on community food security, organic production, local food, worker rights, animal welfare and fair trade. (more)

10-22-09

Life

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology

Michael Garfield

It wasn’t until the nineties that anyone suggested biology could be better understood by looking at it through the lens of quantum theory. Now, a new kind of science, called “quantum biology,” is beginning to emerge -- and it could change everything we know, again. (more)

10-21-09

Life

My Reconciliation with Christianity

Christopher Becker

Any tradition with a rigid, circumscribed, dualistic, dogma-based identity is, in my opinion, inadequate and inappropriate for the present conditions we face as a planet. I could not stand to have my beliefs handed to me. I had to construct them from the ground up for and by myself. (more)

10-20-09

Life

Human Being or Human Going?

Xander Stone

Although being is shared by all humans of all cultures and all eras, and by all living creatures, being as an aspect of our human condition and potential is not celebrated in modern Western culture. One way to illustrate the experience of being in an alternative, magical way, is to recall being in love. (more)

10-19-09

Psyche

Into the Quantum Realm

James Oroc

At the subatomic level, where everything is a pulsating sea of electrical possibility, the universe takes physical form because we are here to observe it. Just as the Australian Aboriginals believe that their ancestors sang up the world as they walked through the desert, it is possible that through perceiving, we create the universe. (more)

10-16-09

Arts

Shamanic World Mirroring: The Artist's Inner Journey

Chris Kaplan

Our technology-driven societies have given us global reach as a species, but removed us from the collective mind and brought us to a crossroads where we now must become aware of the interconnectedness of all life. By accessing different states of reality, we can communicate beyond our current means, with forces that we are only now starting to believe can exist. (more)

10-16-09

Psyche

Are We Possessed?

Paul Levy

Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization." (more)

10-15-09

Commons

Clearing the Road: Lessons from the Ancient Maya

Robert Sitler

I sincerely doubt there will be any peak moment of terrestrial catastrophe in connection with the passing of 13 pik (December 21, 2012). Yet I still feel compelled to scream out a warning. The natural world bestowed upon us by infinitely complex processes of creation, in many very real ways, is actually ending. (more)

10-14-09

Life

Love & Detachment

Kristi Bowman

When we choose to cut cords, we are not saying that we must disconnect ourselves from experiencing or feeling love. On the contrary, once we distinguish attachment from love, we open ourselves up to experience a more powerful, pure, and expansive love, for it is no longer limited to just one person, and no longer based on need. (more)

10-13-09

Psyche

Singing to the Plants

Stephan V. Beyer

Some of them will drink ayahuasca, and some will not; some will drink for vision, and some for cleansing. Some drink in order to see the face of the envious and resentful enemy who has made them ill.... All are here for don Roberto to heal them. (more)

10-12-09

Arts

All the Music You Will Ever Need

Steven Taylor

All the music you will ever need appeared in three boxed sets of LPs in 1952, produced by Harry Smith and published as The Anthology of American Folk Music by Folkways Records. This anthology was an important source for the folk music revival of the 1950s, and through that movement played a role in the larger cultural phenomenon that we call "the sixties." (more)

10-9-09

Psyche

Rituals for Lover Earth

Charles Eisenstein

Humanity today is transitioning into a new Story of the People, a new Story of Self, and a new Story of the World. I sometimes articulate it as "The connected self living in joyous cocreative partnership with Lover Earth." Rituals connect us to what is real within these stories. (more)

10-9-09

Arts

Adventures of Power: The Power of the Beat

Ari Gold

"Adventures of Power," an award-winning comedy about air-drummers and the American Dream, is being released independently starting October 9. Here, filmmaker Ari Gold speaks with co-conspirators Adrian Grenier, Elvis Perkins, and Ethan Gold about the film. (more)

10-9-09

Psyche

Fetishizing the Trigger

Jay Michaelson

In America, we're used to hippies being for peace and love not just rhetorically, but politically as well. But in Israel, many "fundamentalists" are actually part of the "peace and love" hippie crowd. These people are pulling a trigger and experiencing the Divine. (more)

10-8-09

Arts

Sell Ads for Reality Sandwich

Ken Jordan

RS is looking for experienced ad sales reps to join our team of dedicated evolutionaries. Connect with great people while helping your favorite web magazine pay some bills (more)

10-10-08

Psyche

The Great Pyramids of Russia

Jennifer Flynn

Russian Inventor Aleksandr Golod explores both modern and ancient healing technologies with two dozens pyramids that include "The New World Wonder." (more)

9-16-08

Arts

Moderators Wanted

Jonathan Phillips

With over 300 comments each week and growing, RS is looking for volunteer moderators to help foster a healthy transformational community. (more)

1-30-09

Arts

Twittering the Sandwich

Jennifer Palmer

Catch daily updates of the ongoing evolution by joining RS on Twitter, or add us as a friend on Facebook and MySpace. (more)

10-30-08

Featured

Psyche

Divination Preview

Erik Davis

Join me this Sunday, Nov. 8th, on a free call about our upcoming Evolver Intensives tele-seminar series, “Divination: How to Read the Future Now." (more)

11-6-09

Life

13 Grandmothers in NYC

Remi Gurak

Evolver NYC is a proud media sponsor of a weekend-long celebration of the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers including prayer, healings, prophecy and teachings on sacred medicine.   (more)

11-6-09

Commons

SyFy Covers 2012

Greg Sullivan

Unlike the apocalyptic focus most of Big Media takes with the mysterious topic of 2012, an upcoming documentary on the SyFy network promises to show things a bit differently.

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11-6-09

Commons

Souldish NYC: Nov 6 -14

Salma

Seeding Gift Culture with Charles Eisenstein, One Love Community Drum Circle, Archaic Revival’s Hypnagogia and more this week on Souldish.

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11-6-09

Commons

New Tales from the Spirit Vine

Adam Elenbaas

Last night the Ayahuasca Monologues returned to Webster Hall in New York City with five new visionary stories about the renowned sacred brew of the Amazon. Please post a comment and let us know what you thought about the show. (more)

11-6-09

Tech

Sex-free Babies

Chris Kaplan

Reproduction of the species no longer needs the copulation of a male and a female as scientists have successfully created sperm and eggs from stem cells. (more)

11-5-09

Arts

John Cusack on 2012

Jennifer Palmer

Actor John Cusack referenced Daniel Pinchbeck's book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl when asked in an interview about what he personally thought would happen on that fateful year. (more)

11-5-09

Eco

Glowing Shrooms

Kyle Davis

Seven new “glow in the dark” species of mushrooms were discovered around the globe this October. (more)

11-4-09

Life

United Knowledge

Erin Shaw

The Traditional Knowledge Initiative explores how traditional knowledge can be applied to climate change, water management, forestry, international policy, and higher education.

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11-4-09

Commons

Big Brother's New Home

Remi Gurak

The NSA is getting a million square feet of building space to house supercomputers that will permanently store private data. (more)

11-3-09

Eco

Future Ivy Outbreak

Stephen Hershey

Scientists testing the future effects of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere found that poison ivy grew 150% faster than other plant life. (more)

11-3-09

Tech

Man-made Black Hole

Marisa Smith

An artificial black hole made of metamaterials may provide a means for harvesting the power of solar light.

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11-2-09

Life

Glimpse of First Dawn

Chris Kaplan

An ancient gamma ray bursts open a window onto the beginning of our Universe.

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11-2-09

Commons

Evolver Intensives: Divinations

Jennifer Palmer

On November 10th, we invite you to join us for the start of the next Evolver Intensive Tele-seminar, "Divination: How to Read the Future Now"--an extraordinary series of live, in-depth conversations with true luminaries of divination and oracle reading.

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10-30-09