Simon G. Powell's blog

Like most people, I was familiar with the ‘bright light at the end of the tunnel' scenario, but that was all I knew. As it turned out, I was forced to grapple with a number of tough findings, the result being the formation of a new concept concerning the creative nature of the unconscious. (more)

Some months ago, a chap called Jan Irvin put out a request for funds to help him pursue a project concerned with unveiling a sinister Elite/CIA/NWO conspiracy. Irvin is attempting nothing less than a total rewrite of psychedelic history. What got me involved were his insinuations about Gordon Wasson. I put my foot in it and all hell broke loose. (more)

Usually synchronicity is thought of as a highly meaningful coincidence between a psychological event and some external happening. But I suspect that this kind of curious interconnectedness runs deeper and wider, and that cultural events, people's lives, the web of life, and even cosmic processes can behave in synchronistic ways. (more)

Most people know Philip K. Dick through films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, which were all based on his writings. The Matrix and Vanilla Sky also owe a debt to his work. What is not so well known is that he spent the last decade or so of his life struggling to come to terms with a series of visionary experiences. (more)

The notion that I entertain in this essay is that synchronicities are real and that they evince a hitherto unacknowledged instance of self-organization. (more)