Our connections are real, and they are life-affirming. Our connections are not optional; they are obligatory and intrinsic. This implies that we cannot secede from the web of life, even if we try. On this realization our future may depend. (more)

I am writing this letter in an attempt to inspire right action. As many of you may already know, Ann and Sasha Shulgin are currently suffering from financial distress largely due to Sasha’s increased medical expenses. This lamentable state of affairs is well within our collective powers to redress, and I feel that it is high time for the the psychedelic community to shower our heroic pioneers with a tangible demonstration of our everlasting gratitude. (more)

If nature is conscious, then Earth is not merely a web of mechanically reflexive predators and prey but something more magical than that: a vibrant, interdependent collective of living, thinking beings. (more)

The media hyped the end of the Mayan Calendar as predicting the end of the world. No one with any real understanding of Mayan culture said anything of the kind. The Mayans teach that time is consciousness. We have now entered the world age in which we will learn and live that reality. (more)

We will never have a map for reality in the way we have Google Earth. Reality as consciousness cannot be represented in reality as matter. But that doesn't mean it is not real or "scientific." This is my basic refrain. (more)

Throughout the past decade of working with ayahuasca, I've often thought of South American shamanism and the Santo Daime variety of shamanism as the yin and yang of the medicine world. (more)

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is bringing together presenters from all over the globe, April 18-23 in Oakland, California. The conference will focus to a great extent on clinical research into the use of psychedelic drugs for a wide variety of health needs. (more)

Krystle Cole is well known for her informational videos about psychedelics.  Her website, Neurosoup.com, addresses a broad spectrum of entheogens, entactogens, and other little helpers for greater understanding of the bigger picture of life.  (more)

This is the year when we will channel the spirit of the witch, honor the earth and our bodies, shift toward natural healing and whole foods, share our resources, collaborate and communicate more openly, and elevate women and girls to equality all over the world: these are all grand workings of feminine magic that we are manifesting together. (more)

I recently corresponded with Robert Tindall, now located in the cacophonous mestizo wilds of the Peruvian Amazon, about his new book, The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience.  (more)

We hadn't slept much the night before, and we were admittedly pushing the boundaries of good sense when we decided to drive into town from our campsite and ingest what we thought was a modest amount of the relatively unknown white powdered substance, methoxetamine. (more)

Everyone at some point experiences the anxiety that comes from not knowing what's the best choice to make. The time wasted in weighing the scales can feel criminal. At times like these, listening to a good psychic can give much needed perspective and valuable advice. (more)

What exactly is prophecy? Can we trust it? The esoteric tradition teaches that the future is, at least in principle, knowable. One theory holds that there exists a realm of images and forms, which has many names in many traditions. The Kabbalists call it the world of Yetzirah, or "formation." (more)

What if love is no big truth? What if there are two primary and simple desires wrapped into every love story or romantic escapade: the desire to lose ourselves and fuse with the source, and the desire to become ourselves and separate from the source? (more)

Being a Redvolutionary isn't about being invincible or perfect or "spiritual" or "enlightened" -- it's about being my messy, funky, shy, goofy, erotic, imperfect divine human self. (more)