Fourth-Level Digital Dharma: The Broken Heart of Television

Steven Vedro

At the fourth level of the digital dharma path, values are held at the heart chakra. This center's work is to integrate the reality of life's limitations with our dreams of a world of unconditional love. Out in the Infosphere, these are the same polarities held for us by the medium of television. (more)

Spiritual Boot Camp

Andrew Boyd

[Pilgrimage to Nowhere] • With the beautiful view, all meals provided, and the programmed group activities, it almost felt like a resort. But the only sport here was pantomime walking; the only relaxation, brute force sitting... With its rough lodgings and reveille at 4 a.m., Doi Suthep felt more like a Buddhist army barracks – a boot camp for the mind. But what army would make head-shaving optional? (more)

The Future of Psychedelics

Daniel Pinchbeck

New frontiers in psychedelic research are opening up, represented at the 2008 World Psychedelic Forum by an array of international therapists and scientists. After a 35-year blockade on the subject, psychedelic research with human subjects is being permitted again. (more)

Four Scouts to the New World

Brian George

It is discovered that life can be supported on a pristine planet just like the Earth located in a distant galaxy. The only difference is that there aren't any humans. Technology exists to get four people to the planet on a scouting mission. They will stay for one year, planning for the arrival of settlers from Earth. (more)

Religion and Insanity

Jay Michaelson

Who's more nuts: the Orthodox Jew who believes that God wrote a grammatically bizarre and narratively confusing text – or the businessman who spends most of his waking hours chasing money and possessions? Which is more nuts: the retreat center or Wal-Mart? Is it all just a matter of taste which insanity you choose to embrace? (more)

The Transformation of the God-Image

Paul Levy

The God-image is like a dream that we are dreaming that is simultaneously dreaming us. In a radical re-visioning of itself, the unconscious has offered us in the symbolic figure of Mercurious an image of God which includes and embraces evil as an integral aspect of our wholeness. (more)

Talking to a Little Dying Leaf

Joshua Rodriguez

I don't normally talk to plants. I had always been under the impression that they'd be terrible conversationalists. But this plant spoke to me, and that was enough to break open my head and let something new and still and rich enter in. (more)

The Awakening of Teotiwakan: A Paradigm Shift to the Living Cosmos

Marcos Villasenor

The first step in the process of re-polarization of the Earth's spiritual and consciousness energies has been achieved. The Pyramid of the Sun has been reactivated and is now fully functional as the energy resonator it was constructed to be. (more)

Albert Hofmann, 11 January 1906 - 29 April 2008

Dieter Hagenbach

Considered by many to be one of the most important chemists of the twentieth century, Albert Hofmann passed away on April 29. He was 102 years old. He was the discoverer of LSD, which he called both a "wonder drug" and a "problem child." (more)

Homo Luminous: The New Human

Alberto Villoldo

Many prophesies in the indigenous world speak of this time in human history as a period of great transformation. Through this process, a new human is emerging on the earth: “homo luminous.” It is for us to take that quantum leap into who we are becoming. We can become homo luminous in our lifetime. (more)

Last Bicycle Ride

Bill Machon

Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, died on Tuesday at the age of 102.

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Pilgrimage to Nowhere

Andrew Boyd

Like any half-literate member of the counterculture, I was theoretically part Buddhist. So I went to a Thai monastery to see what would happen sitting in silence day after day after day. Would I walk out of this spiritual boot camp slightly more realized, slightly more adult? (more)

Gnosis: The Not-So Secret History of Jesus

Jonathan Phillips

[The Electric Jesus] • Christianity originated in mystery schools where the rites of baptism, annointing, communion, and resurrection led initiates on a sacred path to inner knowing. But a sadistic emperor, literalist churches and 2,000 years of bad translations have covered up the origins of the greatest story yet to be told. (more)

The Cryptic Cosmology of Synchromysticism

Reid Mukai

Synchromysticism, according to its creator, Jake Kotze, is "the art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance." This emerging field of study reinforces the interconnectivity of everyone and everything, empowering us to "decode" the universe and ourselves. (more)

RoboSex

Kal Cobalt

With the advent of new technologies, author Mac Tonnies questions whether sex for "posthumans" will become the latest upgraded experience or an outdated relic?

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A Stroke Of Insight

Bill Machon

In an illuminating online video, a neuro- anatomist discusses what she learned about human conciousness while experiencing and surviving a stroke.

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Exorcising Christ from Christianity

Adam Elenbaas

My favorite theology professor from college recently wrote a book called The Myth of a Christian Nation: Why the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church. After meeting Christ in an Ayahuasca ceremony, if I were to write a similar book, I would call it, The Myth of a Christian Church: Why the Historical Jesus Should be Exorcised from Christianity. (more)

Speedy Recovery

Erin Shaw

Morphic resonance theorist Rupert Sheldrake is recovering after being stabbed at the International Science and Consciousness Conference.

Coping with Collapse

Charles Shaw

Four articles that address, in some form, the main “collapse” themes and the psychological process of integrating them (or not) into our realities. (more)

A Fair and Balanced Look at 2012

Adam Elenbaas

Surprisingly, LA's Fox News gave fair and open-minded coverage to the recent 2012 conference in Hollywood. Has 2012 gone mainstream? (more)

Sixth-Level Digital Dharma: Seeing Deeper, Seeing Wider

Steven Vedro

Sixth-level thinking is by its nature holographic, holding all levels of the "meta-universe" in awareness and appreciation; it is free to see deeper, to tune across the whole range of consciousness. Now new media technologies can lead to this higher state of awareness. (more)

Enlightenment Reason or Occult Conspiracy?

Daniel Pinchbeck

Can we pursue Enlightenment ideals while simultaneously exploring occult conspiracies? If we avoid becoming obsessive or dismissive, it seems possible to hold contrasting myths or models of reality in our minds at the same time. (more)

Psychedelic Predictions

Erin Shaw

In a March Scientific American interview, Alexander Shulgin predicts a dramatic increase in the discovery of psychedelics. (more)

Meditations on the Pineal Gland

Tristan Gulliford

A new scientific study suggests a connection between meditation and the activation of the pineal gland. (more)

A History of Hallucinogens

Bill Machon

A promising new documentary airing on the History Channel this month, Peyote To LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey, explores the colorful history of hallucinogens.

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The Gods Behind the Calendar

Brian George

The sheer scale of the Mesoamerican catastrophe is almost beyond imagination. I find myself hungry for adventurous interpretations. (more)

The Quantum Marioverse

Bill Machon

An online video uses clips from Super Mario Bros. to explain quantum mechanics.

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Burning Down the Hall: Castaneda's Critics versus Other Ways of Knowing

Alan Steinfeld

Carlos Castaneda's books are a concentrated, consistent and comprehensive study of a particular worldview. It is a perspective that those skeptical of anything other than Western thought refuse to explore. (more)

Psychedelic Research: Past, Present, and Future

Stanislav Grof

In recent years, researchers have been able to obtain official permission to start programs of psychedelic therapy. Could this be the start of a renaissance in psychedelic research? (more)

How Shamans Dream the World into Being

Alberto Villoldo

The power to dream is the power to participate in creation itself. For the Earthkeepers, dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one we must perform with grace and love. (more)