Richard Grossinger's blog

We will never have a map for reality in the way we have Google Earth. Reality as consciousness cannot be represented in reality as matter. But that doesn't mean it is not real or "scientific." This is my basic refrain. (more)

We twenty-first-century humans block most possibilities for psychospiritual growth, but faith is not frivolous. The Dalai Lama doesn't have a puerile, delusional intelligence, nor does a monk feeding the poor in Algeria, or a nun in Colombia. These are mature, sophisticated beings with a measured sense of who they are and what the universe is. (more)

Once upon a time, the universe was sacred and unfathomable by simple emanation. Humans accepted the operations of nature as the mirror and counterpart to their own existence. Before quarks and Big Bangs, they called it Spider Woman and Corn Mother. These are not fables; they are hard-won intuitions of something before form. (more)

A zendo with zafus for meditation and chanting is not the same brand as a lodge hall with quartz crystals and circles for conducting séances.  But theosophy and Buddhism are both running subtle energy.  (more)

If we can create the mystical crucible strong enough to stand the horror of facing our collective and individual shadows, then the depth of our depravity and enslavement might provide, through the mystery of grace, a glimpse of the divine light that is unbearably intense at this moment, and is trying to make us wake up and claim responsibility for our transformation. (more)

The first task in my new course at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, Psychic Healing 1, is to acquire a healing master. In mild trance the entire class undertakes this activity simultaneously. Apparently our young teacher Petra already contacted a number of spirits on the other side and has gotten some of them to agree to work with us. (more)