Coming Out as a Buddhist

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When you sit down to meditate you become very inquisitive about your own self. When you are attempting to explain your understanding of Buddhism to people who are unfamiliar with it, you can apply this same level of inquisitiveness. (more)

Psi in the News

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Differences between induced and spontaneous Out of Body Experiences, the False Memory Archive, fraud and mediumship, and more in this week's update. (more)

Two Chaos Magic Practices

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We would be living in a much healthier world if people made a mindful, vibratory evaluation of any solid, liquid or gas that they chose to become part of  their body. At any decision nexus you can choose to make this a practice. (more)

So, You Wanna Do Aya?

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I am not an accredited expert on ayahuasca. I'm simply a gal who has participated in lots of ayahuasca ceremonies.  As I find myself on the receiving end of inquiries from curious newbies, I have compiled some helpful hints for your first aya ceremony.  You. Are. Welcome. (more)

The Joyous Cosmology: Prologue

AlanWattsthumb.jpg"The Joyous Cosmology inevitably sends me into a state of poetic euphoria and anarchistic delight," writes Daniel Pinchbeck in his introduction to a new edition of Alan Watts' classic account of the psychedelic experience. Followed by the author's prologue.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Induced afterlife communications, out-of-body experiments, the evolutionary fear of Psi, classics of psychical research, and more in this weeke's update.  (more)

A Waking Dream

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Explore the full terrain of the dream landscape with Robert Waggoner and guests in the live, interactive webinar on lucid dreaming, "Awakening within the Dream."  (more)

Emergence of the Entheopolitan

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A mass transmutation is occurring on our planet, leading to the emergence of a new kind of transhuman being: the Entheopolitan. The complex dissipative environment in which this shape shift is happening has unintended consequences. (more)

This Week In Psychedelics

twip.jpgThe FDA approves the first MDMA-assissted therapy study, a biological explanation behind the psychedelic-induced geometric tunnel hallucinations, D.A.R.E. decides to drop marijuana from their curriculum and more in this week's psychedelic news... (more)

Guidance is a Two Way Street

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Reality is co-creative. The universe speaks to us through signs and invites us to participate. All we need to do is listen carefully and respond sensitively. (more)

The Magickal Oil of Hashish

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I believe that early Christians and ancient European shamans made use of cannabis. We are just beginning to relearn what these people knew; cannabis oil is a magical substance capable of healing a variety of maladies. (more)

Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD

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Hofmann was impressed by his discovery and by the intensity of his experiences during his first self-experiment with LSD-25 which would long resonate for him. He knew of no other substance with such profound psychological effects at such a low dosage that so dramatically altered experience of the inner and outer worlds in human consciousness.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Clinical interest in paranormal experiences, NDE'ers don't fear the reaper, meditation helps develop compassion, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Lightning Philosophy

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Jaosn Silva's new weekly web series, "Shots of Awe," talks about the universe, technology, science, society, and more in 3 minutes or less.  (more)

Neurons to Nirvana: A Talk with the Filmmakers

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If everyone who smokes pot said, "I smoke pot and I also pay my taxes, I have a job, I am a soccer mom," that would change things. The same with psychedelics. The more people who out themselves, the better off we'll all be. (more)

Placeboing with Psychedelics

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Mystical experiences are the most powerful emotionally positive experiences humans can have. If normal daily positive events boost the immune system somewhat, do these strongest positive experiences boost it a great deal?  (more)

The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing from the Keyhole

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The ideological fixation on the physical brain will eventually yield to a transpersonal, nonlocal dimension of consciousness. When this happens within neuroscience, the Source will be recognized and we will wonder how we could have been so blind. (more)

Psi in the News

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iPads can help NDE research, $2.3 million in grants on post-mortem survival research, precognitive dreams, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Psychedelics Are Here To Stay

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Psychedelic use is as prevalent today as it was in the 1960s according to new research published by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. (more)

What's the Matter with Matter?

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Join Charles Eisenstein and David Abram in a live, interactive webinar for a conversation about reclaiming the material and the sensuous. Weds, May 22.  (more)

Altering Gravity in Deep Space

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New research supports the concept of a fifth force that has the ability to alter gravity outside our own galaxy. (more)

Music, Meditation, and the Skull as a Sound Chamber

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This music brings Hermetic and Buddhist insights into a contemporary setting where they interact in a relevant way with our media-saturated culture, transforming ambient urban noise into a complex meditation. (more)

Psi in the News

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Is Spiritualism a form of shamanism, critics of non-local consciousness, veterans of Project Star Gate come together, and more in this week's update.  (more)

The God Problem: The Material Power of Immaterial Things

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We’ve been certain that we can understand the cosmos based solely on material things. But we’ve missed the astonishing capacity of immaterial things. We’ve missed the importance of arrangements. (more)

You've Got the Power

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Discover the health and spiritual benefits of energy healing with Talat Jonathan Phillips, Cyndi Dale, Anodea Judith, and more in the Evolver webinar, "Bioenergetic Healing Demystified.(more)

This Week In Psychedelics

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MAPS founder discusses treating PTSD with MDMA at the Pentagon, a whitehouse.gov petition to reschedule psychedelics, psychedelics today as popular among youth as in the 60's, and more in this week's update. (more)

The Meaning of Sacred Geometry, Part 4: As the Inner, so the Outer

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In the study of Ancient Cosmology, we experience a sense of familiarity. Is modern physics merely recovering insights long ago entertained by the Egyptians, or the Masters of Kabbalah, or Tantra, or Freemasonry, or the authors of the Vedas? (more)

Journey to Peru

aya.jpgThe 9th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference will be held in Lima, Peru this July, with an emphasis on ayahuasca and San Pedro.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Telepathic super soldiers, is Sylvia Browne damaging to the field, ecology and non-locality, Chris Anderson and Deepak Chopra, and more in this week's update.  (more)

"And Beyond Here There Be Dragons...."

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For too many years we've allowed social condemnation and the illegality of our experiences to prevent us from telling our stories. The time has come for all psychonauts to come out of the closet and proudly stand together so we can be heard. (more)