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The God Problem: The Material Power of Immaterial Things

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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)

The Meaning of Sacred Geometry, Part 4: As the Inner, so the Outer

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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)

The Rising of Little Sun

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Light is taken for granted in countries where electricity is not (yet) considered a luxury, but 1.6 billion people worldwide live without access to the grid. Little Sun is an artwork that aims to provide a practical, affordable source of artificial light. (more)

Life is a Reality Sandwich

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A new consciousness culture is being born, and the topics covered by Reality Sandwich are starting to enter the mainstream. Of course, there's still a long way to go. But now's a good time to assess how far we've come, as we kick off a Kickstarter campaign to take RS to the next level. (more)

The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs

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He begins to talk of Black Magic and Curses in Morocco, travelling with Medicine Men up the Amazon, and Astral Projection and Dream Control. I realise that for Burroughs all this is utterly real, the “Magical Universe” in fact. (more)

Civilization Class

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We have a War on Drugs that includes some holy sacraments, and a War on Terror that might also be a War on Islam. There can be no Santo Daime church in America as a fixed location, and Muslims can't build a mosque without facing protests. (more)

"And Beyond Here There Be Dragons...."

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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)

Wild Water

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Until recently, human beings drank exclusively of a water that could be described as "whole" or "wild." The removal of dissolved minerals and trace elements from water through filtration and distillation poses health concerns. Should you be drinking processed water? (more)

Culture and Horticulture: An Historical Sketch

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Agriculture started about ten thousand years ago. That's a long time for observations to accumulate and techniques to develop. It might be claimed that a healthy agriculture is the basis of a healthy culture and healthy culture implies a healthy agriculture. (more)

The Four Elemental Beings

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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)

Our World: Shamans and Spirits

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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 Believer vs. Disbeliever Cycle

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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)

The New Science of Psychedelics

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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)

In Memory of a Sexual Freedom Fighter

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John Williamson, a pioneer of the sexual liberation movement, passes away at 80 due to complications with lung cancer. He was best-known for creating the legendary Sandstone Retreat in Los Angeles with his wife Barbara. (more)

The Way of the Bodhisattva: Living in the World

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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)

Love in Motion: A Conversation with Occupy Love Director Velcrow Ripper

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Occupy Love began as an investigation of global warming, then a wave of revolutions swept across the Arab world and Europe, finally crashing on American soil in the form of Occupy Wall Street. In each case, Velcrow was there to capture events on film. (more)

Shamanism and Curanderismo: The Approach to Healing in Peru

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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)

This is Why I Don't Date Straight Guys

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The security guard frisks me at the gate, finds the baggie with enough Schedule 1 drugs to land me in prison for at least five years, and waves over an LAPD officer while I hold the vision of a teepee woven of golden thread surrounding me.

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An Interview with Visionary Artist Thijme Termaat

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Thijme's three-minute video,  I Paint, could have been made a century ago. He made it one frame at a time, at a rate of a minute of film per year, using no digital effects. Once it hit Youtube it soon had over a million views. (more)

Aligning Minds: My Heart is Love

1_albumcover_thumb.jpgAligning Minds’s newest album, My Heart Is Love, has been described as an ethereal future city. Listening to the album, I feel myself floating in a dream; swimming through a Miyazaki film or a Philip K. Dick novel — underwater undulating breaths, heartbeats, android love songs, dripping tunnels, cathedral hollows, hypnogogic blips and clicks, and siren arias. (more)

The Red Herring of Astrology

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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)

The Cycle of Terror

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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 Meaning of Sacred Geometry, Part 3: Expanding from the Point

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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)

TED Flirts with Scientism

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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)

High on Health: CBD in the Food Supply

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CBD is a molecular component of the cannabis plant. If just 10% of what research doctors are now saying about CBD is true, then this is a discovery with significance similar in medical impact to the discovery of antibiotics. Soon you will hear doctors (not just cannabis physicians) advising their patients to "exercise, and get your CBD." (more)

Imagine Reality Sandwich 2.0

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29 days to go! Why donate to the Reality Sandwich 2.0 Kickstarter? Find out what's planned for the next phase of RS, and how together we're building the new consciousness movement.  (more)

Sex in the News

-1.jpgSex therapy with puppets, Elizabeth Smart on the danger of abstince-only education, and how the NRAt is making bank on misogyny, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Is Spiritualism a form of shamanism, critics of non-local consciousness, veterans of Project Star Gate come together, and more in this week's update.  (more)

You've Got the Power

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Discover the health and spiritual benefits of energy healing with Talat Jonathan Phillips, Cyndi Dale, Anodea Judith, and more in the Evolver webinar, "Bioenergetic Healing Demystified.(more)

This Week In Psychedelics

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MAPS founder discusses treating PTSD with MDMA at the Pentagon, a whitehouse.gov petition to reschedule psychedelics, psychedelics today as popular among youth as in the 60's, and more in this week's update. (more)

OM Vibrations - A Convergence in Longhorn Cavern

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OM Vibrations is a yoga and music festival in Austin, Texas. Evolver Austin sat down with coordinators Rose and Jason Hahn to hear about it.  (more)

Journey to Peru

aya.jpgThe 9th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference will be held in Lima, Peru this July, with an emphasis on ayahuasca and San Pedro.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Telepathic super soldiers, is Sylvia Browne damaging to the field, ecology and non-locality, Chris Anderson and Deepak Chopra, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Monstanto vs. Mother Earth

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[Action Alert] • Monstanto and Co. are trying to patent away varieties of everyday veggies and fruits. Sign the petition - stop them from buying up Mother Earth.  (more)

Sex in the News

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Masturbation May, two guys, two girls and one mission: female ejaculation, figuring out feminist porn, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Victory for Bees: EU Passes Insecticide Ban

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In a victory for bees, the EU passes the world's first continent-wide ban on harmful insecticides.  (more)

Declaring Independence

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Beetroot Books is an online store that champions independent writers. (more)

What's the Matter with Matter?

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Join Charles Eisenstein and David Abram in a live, interactive webinar for a conversation about reclaiming the material and the sensuous. Weds, May 22.  (more)

The First Signs of Consciousness

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New research finds that babies show signs of consciousness and memory as early as five months old. (more)

Sex in the News

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A quadriplegic learns to orgasm through his thumb, Virgin's mile high stalking club, and a squid sperm tries to impregnate a human mouth in this week's update.  (more)

This Week in Psychedelics

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1,800 people convene for Psychedelic Science 2013, the Psychedemia doc hits YouTube, and red tape holds up UK psilocybin studies in this week's psychedelic news. (more)

A Darker Milky Way

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The first results from a dark matter detector indicate that the universe could have a dark side, complete with its own unique force. (more)

Know Your Stars

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The Nightlight Astrology school announces its new Free Student Reading Schedule, new 2013 Training Programs, and the Spring Speaker Series! (more)

Sex in the News

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The Supreme Court and prostitution, China's leftover men spike sex toy sales, explosive dildos hit a church in Spain, and more in this week's update.  (more)