Visionary mystical experiences are humanity’s most direct contact with God, the creative source of all sacred art and wisdom traditions. The best currently existing technology for outputting the mystic imaginal realms is a well-crafted artistic rendering by an eyewitness. That is why visionary art matters. (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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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’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 Internet has become the perfect tool of mind control. FB and the Net are SOMA. Huxley predicted it in Brave New World. We are enslaved by distractions and easy pleasures that cater to our narcissism and prejudice. It's better to be outside all of that, meet people in the real world, form alliances, organize and do something new. (more)

Where is the intersection between literature and healing? Between narrative and neuroscience? Between writing and life? . . . It is a little like tracing the boundary of self, like scrying a mirror for distinctions between mind and matter. What fearful, fitful relations exist between these sister terms? (more)

Filmmaker and Internet pioneer Tiffany Shlain recently released a short film and TED book. Brain Power: from Neurons to Networks explores the parallels between the development of a child's brain and the development of the global brain of the Internet. (more)

Our Reality Sandwich column of book, video and music reviews. In this edition: American Cyclopath, Supernatural, Downton Abbey, Leviathan, Push the Sky Away, The Psychedelic Future of the Mind, The Next Day, and WSIS +10.  (more)

Ebbot Lundberg, front man for Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives, is a true storyteller, a modern sonic shaman exploring the innermost depths of the human soul and condition, and the very same fabric that makes up the omniverse. (more)

Byron Metcalf is a musician in touch with this resonance and rhythm of mysteries in the unseen realms of the shamanic experience. I sat down to talk with Byron about his work and his interest in shamanic states of consciousness. (more)

Bellmay is an artist in every imaginable sense of the word. Both dance and visual arts have always been at the forefront of his life. The visions that he now brings to his audience to the furthest vistas he can venture out on in his mind’s eye. (more)

Alex is in touch with what Aleister Crowley called "True Will." He recognized his mission early on. Alex fulfills the foundational core of most True Will: commitment to consciousness and service to others. (more)

2012 was a year of All-things-Burroughs. We had the On the Road film and a two-volume set showcasing The Lost Art of Ah Pook and currently The October Gallery in London is exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and "talismanic objects."  (more)

"Within You With You" by The Beatles, "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno, and "The Art Teacher" by Rufus Wainwright. The are just some of the musical recommendations from Reality Sandwich contributors for those who want to be transported to a higher plane.  (more)

Killing Joke has seen three decades of critical engagement with contemporary culture, bringing ancient traditions forward and embracing a reality unbounded by arbitrary laws. With this interview, I wanted to understand how the death of bassist Paul Raven and extending friendship beyond temporal limitations affected Coleman's life.
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