We’ve been certain that we can understand the cosmos based solely on material things. But we’ve missed the astonishing capacity of immaterial things. We’ve missed the importance of arrangements. (more)

In the study of Ancient Cosmology, we experience a sense of familiarity. Is modern physics merely recovering insights long ago entertained by the Egyptians, or the Masters of Kabbalah, or Tantra, or Freemasonry, or the authors of the Vedas? (more)

For too many years we've allowed social condemnation and the illegality of our experiences to prevent us from telling our stories. The time has come for all psychonauts to come out of the closet and proudly stand together so we can be heard. (more)

On the astral plane of our planet, there is a vast variety of spiritual creatures one may encounter. The elemental beings are mermaids (water spirits), sylphs (air spirits), gnomes (earth spirits), and salamanders (fire spirits). (more)

Shamanism is characterized by an intentional change in consciousness to interact with spirits. Troubles of a spirit nature can have serious repercussions in a person's life. It is the task of the shaman to heal such persons. (more)

The invention of science produced the miracle to generate believers on a truly massive scale. If you can see this, it's easier to see why science, even though it's still repressing its need to believe, continues to charge towards the methaphysical. (more)

My career as an interviewer, science writer, scientific researcher, and science fiction author has been inseparably linked with my thirty-three years of experimentation with psychedelic drugs and hallucinogenic plants. (more)

The bodhisattva way of life brings connection, love, and compassion into every facet of our lives. You don't have to be a Buddhist, a theist, or anything in particular to benefit from these perspectives. (more)

Shamanism is the oldest psychospiritual tradition known to humankind. In this dimension everything that happens, whether embraced and accepted by us or completely rejected, has a healing and evolutionary purpose. (more)

All "factual science" to the mystic is perhaps something more like art or music: there is reason and symmetry and structure and form, but each and every "fact" is only a signpost pointing toward the ineffable. (more)

To build a society of safety and trust rather than security and fear, we are going to have to act from the former rather than the latter. I therefore offer a few modest proposals for how to respond to the Boston bombing. (more)

The primordial point is the world seed, the supreme formative and paternal potency, which is sown in the primordial womb. What constitutes the womb of the ‘supernal mother'? Geometry provides the answer as we shall see. (more)

Historically, TED has provided an influential forum for cutting edge ideas that may not otherwise have had a fair hearing in the public arena. Recent events, however, reflect the increasingly polarized debate between science and religion. (more)