John Cusack on 2012

Jennifer Palmer

Actor John Cusack referenced Daniel Pinchbeck's book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl when asked in an interview about what he personally thought would happen on that fateful year. (more)

The Beat Hotel

Sue Dougherty

On the run from the puritanical morality of 1950s America, beatniks Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Gregory Corso fled to the bohemian Left Bank of Paris. Now, a new film chronicles these freewheeling years of sex, drugs, and poetry. (Video)

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What's Your FIX?

Trish Nguyen

Share with the world what you can't live without and win a chance to attend the premier of the movie FIX on November 14th in New York.

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The 2012 Evolver Spore

Daniel Pinchbeck

Two days before the release of Hollywood's "2012" disaster epic, 28 cities will host “counter-screenings” and discussions on the Mayan Calendar’s end date.  Find your local Spore or start your own. Hosted by Evolver.net and Dinsifo.com. (more)

The Fourth Kind

Kyle Davis

On November 6th, Universal Pictures will release, The Fourth Kind, a film based on actual incidents in Alaska involving alien abduction.

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Jesus and the Magic Mushroom

Marisa Smith

A long awaited reprint of John Marco Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross explores the idea that, "...Christianity is based on a fertility-mushroom/drug cult, and that Jesus was none other than the mushroom itself."  (more)

Souldish NYC: October 23-30

Salma

This week's Souldish events include the Evolver NYC Food Spore at Rebel, Brooklyn Bridge March, Drum Circles and more...

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Insect Machine Mash-up

Remi Gurak

Steampunk robots are built from dried insects and antique watches. (more)

Shamanic World Mirroring: The Artist's Inner Journey

Chris Kaplan

Our technology-driven societies have given us global reach as a species, but removed us from the collective mind and brought us to a crossroads where we now must become aware of the interconnectedness of all life. By accessing different states of reality, we can communicate beyond our current means, with forces that we are only now starting to believe can exist. (more)

Souldish NYC: Oct 16-22

Salma

This week's Souldish events include The Art of Ink, the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, The Importance of Being Wilde, Healthy Living Week at East West Living and much more! (more)

All the Music You Will Ever Need

Steven Taylor

All the music you will ever need appeared in three boxed sets of LPs in 1952, produced by Harry Smith and published as The Anthology of American Folk Music by Folkways Records. This anthology was an important source for the folk music revival of the 1950s, and through that movement played a role in the larger cultural phenomenon that we call "the sixties." (more)

Adventures of Power: The Power of the Beat

Ari Gold

"Adventures of Power," an award-winning comedy about air-drummers and the American Dream, is being released independently starting October 9. Here, filmmaker Ari Gold speaks with co-conspirators Adrian Grenier, Elvis Perkins, and Ethan Gold about the film. (more)

Souldish NYC Events October 9 - 15, 2009

Salma

This week, Souldish serves up a spicy simmer of Autumnal fun with the Fierce Light screening and workshop with Velcrow Ripper, Opus Novus at Seed, the Nonsense NYC 10th Anniversary salon show at Brooklyn's 3rd Ward, Health Week at East West Living and more!

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Throatsingers of Tuva Come to NYC

Remi Gurak

Evolver NYC is a proud media sponser of the US debut of Khogzhumchu at the Rubin Museum on October 14th.

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King of Rai Returns

Zachary Koval

Exiled for the past 20 years, Khaled is back with a fantastic stripped down album proclaiming "Liberté" in both his life and music. (more)

Aya on Film

Erin Shaw

Ayahuasca-centered documentary Heaven Earth artfully explores curanderismo from multiple perspectives. (more)

Evolver Atlanta Presents: The Bike Trip

Maya

Evolver Atlanta presents: The Bike Trip, "A Comedic Monologue About Peddling Chemical Truths", created and performed by Martin Dockery. (more)

A New Song Every Day

Zachary Koval

The lead singer of Rock Cookie Bottom challenges himself to write a new song every day.

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Send in the Clown

Sue Dougherty

Whether he's serving granola at Woodstock or curing blindness in Nepal, hippie clown Wavy Gravy brings compassion, love, and laughter to everything he does.  Now, a new film celebrates his extraordinary life. (more)

Souldish NYC Events 10/2 - 10/8

Salma

Delicious offerings abound this week on Souldish's NYC Events calendar including Sunday's Manifesting the Mind film screening, DJ Spooky at The Drop, Soul celebrations with MC Yogi, the DreamLab Workshop with Joey Levine, and much, much more! (more)

Reading Time Travel

Erin Shaw

Yndico Is is the first in a series of children’s books that mixes fantasy, science fiction and adventure in an exploration of what it is to “be yourself.” (more)

Poet's Passage (Jim Carroll)

Steven Taylor

Poet, novelist, and rocker Jim Carroll died on September 11, 2009. He was 60 years old. I wrote the following at the funeral at Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village. (more)

The Supernatural: Exploring Other Dimensions

Daniel Pinchbeck

There are still some tickets remaining for the RS Fall Retreat.  Embark on a four-day interdimensional journey with Graham Hancock, Lisa Renee, and me. October 7-11. (more)

Ouroboros

Daniel Moler

The world had progressed eloquently for two centuries, eating itself alive. It all started with the camera. (more)

Barbara Traub's Burning Man Photography

Jessica Pherson

Time Magazine does a video interview featuring the Burning Man photography of Barbara Traub. (more)

Souldish 9/25 - 11/1 2009 NYC Events

Salma

This week's menu of tasty Souldish NYC Events includes the Horizons Psychedelics Conference, the One Love Drum Circle, Le Arté Enveloupe's Absinthe party, Art Under the Bridge, Permaculture and many other workshops, events and parties.

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Sharing Songs Online

Stephen Hershey

Joel Park provokes the music industry with SongCycle.org, which encourages artists to freely share their work through an interactive musical experiment.  (more)

Australian Age of Aquarius

Sue Dougherty

Australian hippies bring The Age of Aquarius to Central Park this fall with “Rainbow Dreaming,” a photodocumentary celebrating the history of Australia's Woodstock-inspired Rainbow Region.

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Birds of a Feather and the Playthings of the 12

Brian George

Just as every human may have one or more animal forms, so too every animal may have one or more humanoid forms. "Therianthropes," or "man-animals," are some of the oldest images in the history of art. In some cases these figures are clearly shamans, who have undergone a transformation. In other cases, they appear to be inter-dimensional beings. How can we read these images?

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Utopian Disasters

Erin Shaw

The new book A Paradise Built in Hell explores the “redemptive, even utopian” potential of natural and man-made disasters. (more)