The author is invited to join a progressive coalition to monitor the 2004 election, and finds himself in the middle of the third stolen election in four years. (more)

Community is impossible in a highly monetized society since community is woven from gifts. Intimacy comes from co-creation, not co-consumption. We must do more than simply get people together: we need to create together. Creating gift circles can reduce our dependence on the traditional market and help us transition to a co-creative partnership of interdependence. (more)

The author moves on to New York City for the 2004 Republican National Convention, participates in the largest public demonstrations since the height of the Vietnam War, and ends up mass-arrested and stuck in a prison camp with 2000 other peaceful protestors. (more)

Even before we have printed a single note, everywhere we go in Baltimore people have already heard of the BNote, and businesses are signing on to accept them when we launch next year. We are finding that people are very receptive to the idea of an alternative economic system – one that will benefit people instead of corporations. (more)

Since its March launch, the Evolver Social Movement has activated more than 10 new local Spores, sent several speakers across our growing network, and introduced the world to the first therianthropic petroglyph by Alex Grey. Here’s an update of the latest in the front lines of “the evolution.” (more)

The author is approached by a spiritual teacher and healer who invites him to the woods of Maine to hear an interesting proposition, after which he heads to Boston to lead the protest movement at the Democratic National Convention, and finds a city under military occupation. We return to Boston for the explosive conclusion to the DNC protests, and then journey back to Maine to decompress with Wolf, with unforseen consequences. (more)

The author attends the 2004 Green Party nominating convention and is made a party official. Back at home, things are changing rapidly for him and Edie. (more)

This year at Burning Man's Entheon Village, I gave a talk on how evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, philosophy, architecture, and art challenge our constructed categories of "individual" and "collective," pointing us toward a new understanding of the self as a multitude and our communities as living, sentient beings. (more)

Sasha and Ann Shulgin on phenethylamine compounds, the ‘alchemy of medicinal chemistry,’ and the Federal Analogue Act. (more)

How I made the long journey from louche literati to shamanic apprentice to social movement orchestrator: an ongoing saga. [An RS Encore Presentation]  (more)

From at least the time that Jesus threw the moneychangers from the temple, we have sensed that there is something unholy about money. At the same time, no one can deny that money has a mysterious, magical quality as well, the power to alter human behavior and coordinate human activity. [An RS Encore Presentation] (more)

Go to the window and look out at your street. Imagine the alternatives to what you're seeing; where did the materials out there come from, how could the ecology that created them and the people who made them be treated better? How could the resources you're seeing be used more positively? Are you really getting the most out of your time here?  (more)