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You can visit a psychic shop in any big city and be told about your past lives: you were famous, you lost someone you loved. But the best past life regressions are like very sobering parables; they leave us with a feeling of freedom and of the multi-dimensionality of time and space. My first happened almost a year ago. (more)

For many years, Dimitri practiced a secular form of Iboga, which does away with religious ceremonialism and focuses on the therapeutic effects of Iboga, without stressing its African roots. This changed radically after he visited Gabon and participated in a Bwiti ceremony for the first time. (more)

Finding out that the world's corruption is a mirror of our own souls hurts. But sooner or later, we're going to have to realize that for a spirit being to try and be a spiritual person is just vanity. It is all in vain because it only takes us further from our actual nature. It is as if God wanted to be a Somebody. To whom, and for what? (more)

Many people still want to waste time arguing over how serious a crisis is this really, or whether any leader can be trusted to guide us through the transition, or if renunciation of egoic jouissance is a necessary part of a redemptive path, or whether grace will simply descend upon us all one day. Thankfully, there is no more time for such barren debates. (more)

Numerous indigenous "prophecies" cited in writings on 2012 are simply not true. Similarly, one finds all manner of statements allegedly supported by NASA, when in fact NASA has spent a good deal of effort refuting such things.  Equally, there is dishonesty amongst the writings that seek solely to debunk. What's missing is a balance between visionary and critical thinking. (more)

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)