On the one hand, we have Material abundance, which encourages individualism, and on the other we have Spiritual abundance, which encourages community and sharing. How can we achieve both? (more)

We twenty-first-century humans block most possibilities for psychospiritual growth, but faith is not frivolous. The Dalai Lama doesn't have a puerile, delusional intelligence, nor does a monk feeding the poor in Algeria, or a nun in Colombia. These are mature, sophisticated beings with a measured sense of who they are and what the universe is. (more)

The recent rash of shootings is beginning to look like a recurring nightmare. If we were to analyze the mass shooting phenomenon as if it were a dream, what would this show us about the state of our colletive psyche?
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The following document was produced as a collaboration between myself and the hyperdimensional symbiote. I should also establish that I don’t know what iyam doing. Not really. But iyam also among the lonely few that know anything at all about this topic. Those that would pretend to know generally don’t. (more)

Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. We are entering a new phase in the dissolution of our Story and of the edifice of civilization built on top of it. We do not have a new story yet. Here and there we see patterns emerging, but the new mythos has not yet emerged. We will abide for a time in the space between stories. (more)

Though the mainstream media, predictably, has ridiculed the 2012 doomsday straw man they themselves set up, the classic Maya did accurately foresee our time as the crux of a planetary transition.  We are the ones who have arrived at this juncture -- and we are the ones who will decide whether, or how, human civilization will continue. (more)

Dr. Ben Sessa’s new book, The Psychedelic Renaissance, is without doubt the best single source of information out there on everything having anything to do with the modern re-connection of science and culture to the psychedelic experience. (more)

In a nonlocal universe such as ours, the accuracy of our psychic awareness is found to be independent of space and time. Such spatial and temporal independence is what we mean by the nonlocality of the space in which we live. The idea of entanglement of separated quantum particles that were once together is now well accepted by physicists. (more)

Money is magic, a highly symbolic artifact woven together by the massive intentions of the collective human psyche. It is a signifier of stored energy, as much as a battery or a gas tank, an ability to do work, to do magic, to make things happen. (more)

The modern world is divided between reason and faith, as if there is no alternative to these two extremes of scientific certainty and blind trust. But there is another very simple and powerful form of knowing. This is the knowing that comes from personal experience. (more)

We live in a state of manufactured normalcy. There are mechanisms that prevent us from realizing that the future is actually happening as we speak. To really understand how the world is evolving, we need to break through this manufactured field. Unfortunately, that leads to a kind of existential nausea. (more)

Like most people, I was familiar with the ‘bright light at the end of the tunnel' scenario, but that was all I knew. As it turned out, I was forced to grapple with a number of tough findings, the result being the formation of a new concept concerning the creative nature of the unconscious. (more)

Recently, I met Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Assocation of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), for my research on the role of set and setting in the psychedelic debate of the 1960s. In this interview, Doblin discusses the current state and future of scientific psychedelic research. (more)

The roots and branches of the world tree form topographically a torus, a kind of donut, an explosion which turns continuously through itself, and whose end is in its origin. The sap moves from center to circumference and then back again to center. The whole of the tree is contained within one seed. In that seed is the city from which we set forth long ago. (more)

Join the Jivamukti Yoga Tribe for a consciousness-shifting week as we pass from 2012 into 2013, from Dec 31st, 2012 to Jan 5th, 2013.  (more)