When it comes to girls just wanting to have fun, the Victorian era was the ultimate era of repression, denial and sin. Girls were kept from riding horses or bicycles because the feelings associated with these activities could turn a nice girl naughty. Did you know that cereal magnates Kellog and Graham got their start on the anti-mastrubation bandwagon, giving "the finger" to using one's hands? [An RS Encore Presentation] (more)

After writing an RS article about the psychopathic defenses of U.S. power structures, it hit me that our mass population may have a reactionary personality type to our nation’s overarching one.  If so, according to Bioenergetic therapy, millions of Americans might suffer from masochism.  If so, what can we do about it? (more)

It is easy to fall into an un-embodied state -- to lose yourself and not notice until the signs are screaming at you from every direction. In our culture of enslavement to dysfunctional norms, becoming embodied is a revolutionary act.  (more)

On Easter Sunday I had a vision that it was time to quit my job. The Universe would provide. Sure enough another job arrived, but a month later I walked out. Now for the first time in my financial life I am unemployed and uncertain about my future, yet I know in my heart the pain I feel is the diminishment of an old way of life.  Part 2 in the series Meditations from the Medicine. Read Part 1 here. (more)

Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham travels the world in search of the most remarkable remedies nature has to offer. I recently chatted with Chris about plant medicines, shamanism, and his upcoming Atlanta appearance at EvolverFest 2010. (more)

As our practice deepens, we experience a vast expansion into universal presence as well as the microscopic attention to the minutest particles of the body. This fusion of universal consciousness with precise cellular awareness is the door through which grace can enter.  (more)

As I dropped off to sleep I heard the Goddess in Celia say, "I pray that Rob will become a paranoid in reverse. He will know that all of reality is always conspiring to help him, and he will try to prove to everyone everywhere that the same is true for them: Life is totally and unconditionally on their side." (more)

What would happen if we could arrange a hundred million people, at thousands of parties across the planet, dancing at the same time, to the same rhythms?  Might this trigger transcendental chaos, the unified heartbeat of the human spirit? (more)

[The Ayahuasca Monologues] • If we could create a global movement for consciousness expansion we might become prophets. I see this strange figure, the intergalactic prophet. It is utterly alien. Terrence McKenna said that we have become so alienated from ourselves, that when our true self reveals itself it seems like an alien to us. I must become this alien. (more)

Theravadan Buddhism addresses the illusion of the ego and its grasping onto impermanent phenomena. Nondual Judaism addresses the illusion of the ego and its grasping onto the unreal. The solution in Theravadan Buddhism is training in wisdom, concentration, and virtue; in nondual Judaism, it is the three paths of contemplation, ecstasy, and fulfillment of the commandments. (more)

For Westerners visiting Peru, the first ceremony in which Earth and Mountain spirits manifest can be filled with questions. That's no surprise, for the Q'ero are asking us to take the idea of interconnectedness one step further: If you want to know that a mountain is alive, just ask it.  (more)

What if Mayan calendars and galactic cycles, aliens and dimethyltryptamine, and the presumptive science of rapture don't herald mass enlightennment? What if that beautiful giant cloud over Burning Man is really just a cloud? Have we hyped ourselves for a letdown? (more)

"Edupunks" are the radicals who want to liberate scholarship and learning from the constraints of institutions altogether. I also call them the monks, and they're part of the coming transformation of higher education.  (more)

The encircling bee was a guidepost to a new way of being. Even as the bee was buzzing circles round me, I intuited it as a Heaven-sent invitation to leave behind the old world for a new one in which the divine intelligence behind the natural world is conveyed through metaphor. (more)