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Democracy as we know it will soon fall at the feet of a nationalistic environmentalism, a movement that may include the destruction of the global poor among its methods of achieving "sustainability." If the current rate of biofuels expansion continues, ethanol plants will be using almost all of the U.S. corn crop within 5-7 years. (more)

5-9-08

Arts

Family Doin's

Rudolph Wurlitzer

"What about it, Mister Healer-Dealer? Can you strut your healin' stuff? Got me a bad knee, shoulder ain't right, arrowhead been stuck in my leg for ten years, teeth gone or rotten, sluice line to my gut plugged up. Not only that, but I'm spiteful with bad notions." A story from the new novel, The Drop Edge of Yonder. (more)

5-8-08

Psyche

Religion and Insanity

Jay Michaelson

Who's more nuts: the Orthodox Jew who believes that God wrote a grammatically bizarre and narratively confusing text – or the businessman who spends most of his waking hours chasing money and possessions? Which is more nuts: the retreat center or Wal-Mart? Is it all just a matter of taste which insanity you choose to embrace? (more)

5-8-08

Life

First, Love Yourself

Wendy Strgar

I have been thinking about self-love lately, and not the emotional kind. The month of May has recently been named National Masturbation Month, in recognition of the most common sexual practice on the planet. It's not just for lonely people, either. (more)

5-7-08

Psyche

The Transformation of the God-Image

Paul Levy

The God-image is like a dream that we are dreaming that is simultaneously dreaming us. In a radical re-visioning of itself, the unconscious has offered us in the symbolic figure of Mercurious an image of God which includes and embraces evil as an integral aspect of our wholeness. (more)

5-6-08

Psyche

Talking to a Little Dying Leaf

Joshua Rodriguez

I don't normally talk to plants. I had always been under the impression that they'd be terrible conversationalists. But this plant spoke to me, and that was enough to break open my head and let something new and still and rich enter in. (more)

5-6-08

Life

Midwifery is Messy

Jennifer Braun

My journey from lobbying to legalize midwifery in Colorado ("No, Senator, we don't deliver babies to sacrifice to Satan") to being a "spiritual midwife" in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Uganda. (more)

5-5-08

Psyche

The Awakening of Teotiwakan: A Paradigm Shift to the Living Cosmos

Marcos Villasenor

The first step in the process of re-polarization of the Earth's spiritual and consciousness energies has been achieved. The Pyramid of the Sun has been reactivated and is now fully functional as the energy resonator it was constructed to be. (more)

5-2-08

Arts

Stop. Hey. What's That Sound?

Ken Jordan

In the mind, sound is not so neatly sectioned off from space, touch, words, or image. One bleeds into the next, slipping and sliding in a spiral of associations. Digital media has already begun to reflect qualities of consciousness that had been beyond the means of artists to capture. In coming years, this will only accelerate. (more)

5-2-08

Psyche

Albert Hofmann, 11 January 1906 - 29 April 2008

Dieter Hagenbach

Considered by many to be one of the most important chemists of the twentieth century, Albert Hofmann passed away on April 29. He was 102 years old. He was the discoverer of LSD, which he called both a "wonder drug" and a "problem child." (more)

5-1-08

Psyche

Homo Luminous: The New Human

Alberto Villoldo

Many prophesies in the indigenous world speak of this time in human history as a period of great transformation. Through this process, a new human is emerging on the earth: “homo luminous.” It is for us to take that quantum leap into who we are becoming. We can become homo luminous in our lifetime. (more)

5-1-08

Arts

Aren't We Already Living in Paradise?

Michael Brownstein

[Must Not Sleep] • "It was like Mardi Gras on the streets, everyone giddy with the sudden release from winter's grip. After days of fasting we floated through the city, drifting without destination. Luminous beings, the light streaming from our eyes, we drew riveting stares from passers-by." Episode 5 of the novel Must Not Sleep, a transformative ride through shamanic space. (more)

4-30-08

Tech

Particle Accelerators and Parallel Universes

Tristan Gulliford

While the innovative projects at CERN laboratory might revolutionize our communications technology, the new LHC particle accelerator could also potentially change our reality into a bizarre parallel universe. (more)

4-30-08

Eco

The Tipping Point: A Global Death and Rebirth Story

Jim Fournier

It felt like the end of the world at the time. The climate had spiraled out of control much faster than predicted. The Arctic ice was already gone in the summer, when a huge ice sheet collapsed sending off a tidal wave that flooded D.C. and left the ocean level six inches higher overnight. Only looking back on it now do we see it as the birth of a new world. (more)

4-29-08

Arts

Tom Waits Meets Super Joel

Paul Krassner

The anonymous Vietnam War protester who was photographed placing a flower in the barrel of a National Guardsman's rifle later appeared in a lyric by Tom Waits: "Joel Tornabene lies broken on the wheel..." (more)

4-28-08

Psyche

Pilgrimage to Nowhere

Andrew Boyd

Like any half-literate member of the counterculture, I was theoretically part Buddhist. So I went to a Thai monastery to see what would happen sitting in silence day after day after day. Would I walk out of this spiritual boot camp slightly more realized, slightly more adult? (more)

4-28-08

Arts

Commericals 2.0: Advertising the Divine

Ido Hartogsohn

How commercials could transform from media poison to media cure for a new age of enlightenment. (more)

4-28-08

Psyche

Gnosis: The Not-So Secret History of Jesus

Jonathan Phillips

[The Electric Jesus] • Christianity originated in mystery schools where the rites of baptism, annointing, communion, and resurrection led initiates on a sacred path to inner knowing. But a sadistic emperor, literalist churches and 2,000 years of bad translations have covered up the origins of the greatest story yet to be told. (more)

4-25-08

Commons

Propaganda as Institutional Self-Deception

Antonio Lopez

Over time, even the slickest propaganda cannot hide murder, torture, or illegality, especially when a global society is increasingly transparent. But we often forget that propaganda makers are susceptible to their own deceptions. (more)

4-25-08

Psyche

The Cryptic Cosmology of Synchromysticism

Reid Mukai

Synchromysticism, according to its creator, Jake Kotze, is "the art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance." This emerging field of study reinforces the interconnectivity of everyone and everything, empowering us to "decode" the universe and ourselves. (more)

4-24-08

Arts

The State of the Sandwich

Daniel Pinchbeck

Important announcements about the present and future of Reality Sandwich: Get ready for the Evolver Exchange and the Evolver social network, coming soon! (more)

4-23-08

Arts

Bad Boy Nietzsche: A Play

Richard Foreman

Friedrich Nietzche "is a man who sees the darkness, where other people think there is a light still shining." The story begins with the philosopher collapsing when he sees a horse being beaten on the street, and explodes as characters identified as the Child, the Cruel Man, and the Beautiful Woman enter the scene. The full text of this "mesmerizing tragicomic fantasia of a play" (The New York Times). (more)

4-23-08

Commons

The New Urban Forager

Homegrown Revolution

Foraging can help us through lean times and enrich flush times, and it puts us in touch with the plant world and the cycle of the seasons, even when we're strolling down grimy Sunset Boulevard. (more)

4-21-08

Commons

Money: A New Beginning (Part 2)

Charles Eisenstein

The human identity is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. Part of this shift will be a new system of money consonant with the new human being. (more)

4-18-08

Arts

Alexander Supertramp and the Failure of Individualist Escape

Andrew William Smith

Sean Penn's film Into the Wild rekindled the debate surrounding Christopher McCandless's dramatic departure from mainstream culture, and his tragic demise. It forces us to ask: how can we preserve “human community” without “returning to civilization?” (more)

4-18-08

Commons

Stumble with RS

Jonathan Phillips

Reality Sandwich has joined the wonderful world of StumbleUpon. We invite you to add us as a friend and Stumble with us. (more)

4-4-08

Life

The Ecstatic Brain

Melinda Wenner

Scientists hope to treat post-traumatic stress disorder with a little white pill: ecstacy. (more)

12-11-07

Psyche

Short Notice

Morgan Maher

This video claims a 2012 shift may actually occur December 21, 2007. (more)

12-11-07

Commons

Garden of Peace

Morgan Maher

The restored Bagh-e Babur garden in Kabul provides residents with a place of peace and picnics.(more)

12-7-07

Featured

Commons

Unnatural Threat

Morgan Maher

The Canadian Minister of Health recently introduced Bill C-51. If the Bill passes, natural health products such as herbal remedies and traditional medicines will be outlawed.

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5-9-08

Commons

Crashing Waves

Morgan Maher

The UN World Food Program describes the global food shortage as a "Silent Tsunami." What happens next? (more)

5-9-08

Arts

Shift Happens

Antonio Lopez

An exciting documentary project highlights an emergent global culture and its push for change. (more)

5-9-08

Arts

Souldish NYC: May 8-15

Salma

This week, New Yorkers can experience Renegade Sitar, Clarity of Mind, Cosmic Convergence, Brent Kessel, Sexerati, Hofmann’s Potion, and Sacred Space of the Heart. (more)

5-9-08

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Arts

Helping RS Out

Jonathan Phillips

So far, 900 of you have completed the Reality Sandwich survey. Thanks! We're shooting for 1,000. If you haven't already filled it out, take a minute and help us reach our goal. (more)

5-8-08

Arts

Goodbye Albert!

Daniel Pinchbeck

This Sunday night in New York, Reality Sandwich presents a commemorative film screening followed by a discussion of Albert Hofmann's life and legacy. (more)

5-8-08

Commons

Major Infringement

Erin Shaw

If passed, the Orphan Works Act of 2008 will void all passive copyright protection and throw artists' work into the public domain. (more)

5-8-08

Life

Brain Workout

Bridget Algiere

PositScience is developing brain fitness programs to keep the mind active. (more)

5-8-08

Tech

Open Source Explosion

Bill Machon

A new study finds that the growth of open source software is expanding at an exponential rate.

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5-7-08

Arts

Plant Song

Morgan Maher

The Singing Plant art installation lets people create sound and light with a living plant. (more)

5-7-08

Arts

MANA-fest II: Cosmic Convergence

Jonathan Phillips

Check out the updated listing for this Saturday's "all-out, all-night escapade" across the Hudson hosted by Reality Sandwich, Souldish, and SEED Gallery. New additions include Kamal Sunflower, Spiro, Mikio, Nemo, Civ, and more. (more)

5-6-08