Over the course of two consecutive weekends, I flew between Entheogenesis Australis (EGA), Australia's premier gathering of psychedelic pioneers, and Cartographie Psychedelica, a California-based conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). These are some of my observations. (more)

We all want to change the world for the better. Even political nut jobs want this; they just want the world to resemble their personal vision of it. When you slow down and ponder how to make the world a bit better, you may come to the same conclusion that so many Buddhist masters have come to: we must base change in compassionate wisdom, not speed and aggression.  (more)

It is the ultimate estranging Enlightenment thing to reduce God to an entity that, like the brain, can be weighed and compared pound to pound. But then once you have taken that plunge, it is hard to resist going the whole hog. Is he middle class? Is he even a guy? (more)

Given the ancient prophecies and the acceleration of world events, 2012 could indeed live up to its billing as the end of an era.....and then what? If we merely view the turmoil on the surface, we will miss a far more profound, meaningful and hopeful understanding of what is underway. (more)

The universe may not be a cold, meaningless machine. Objects, individuals, emotions, dreams, and events with similar vibrations tend to resonate with one another and co-occur. Some theories of quantum physics require such synchronicities. (more)

In the Five Percenters' system of Supreme Mathematics, "Understanding" corresponds to the number 3; "Equality" to 6; "Born" to 9; Understanding your Equality (3+6) leads to your knowledge being Born (9). Hip-hop is filled with these secret references. (more)

You do what you can to relieve somebody's suffering with food, or shelter, or whatever you can do.  But there is another level in which you know suffering is Grace.  They are not asking for Grace that way.  And you can't lay a trip. You can't say it's good for you, suffer.  That's the beginning of dealing with the issues. (more)

At various times in our history, oracular, archetypal systems such as the Tarot, Astrology, the I Ching, and Norse Runes have emerged out of various cultures. Within the last forty years, the discovery of a different group of archetypes has emerged -- the nine archetypal character styles of the Enneagram.  (more)

We are 26,000 light years from the galactic center. Now, under the galactic starlight of 24,000 years ago, we all have the opportunity to do a clearing of thoughts, memories, words, actions, processes and energies that no longer serve us, humanity or the planet. (more)

Astrocartography is one of many techniques that can be applied in the enlightening art and science of Astrolocality or Relocation Astrology. Where do you want to be for December 21st, 2012? (more)

Dynamic paradoxicalism is my attempt to create a meta-philosophy that is a counter to fundamentalist and absolutist thought, which is nearly as common amongst New Agers and the Left as it is amongst religious fundamentalists and the Right.  (more)

Physicalism asserts that only that which is the subject of physics can be held to be real. If physical reality does not comprise the whole of what is real, then it is possible to accept the truths of physics while asserting the falsity of physicalism. (more)

The tragic sense is the power behind religion. God is an impossible concept. This has led, on the one hand, to rampant agnosticism and, on the other, to the silence of the Buddha. Today, instead of recognizing and accepting impossibility, we defiantly demand the impossible. (more)

"Our studies have also shown that the more one becomes coherent, the more one has access to or is aligned with their higher selves..." A discussion with Institute of HeartMath's Dr. Rollin McCraty about the harmonic link between our hearts and their psychic environment. (more)