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)

When it comes to actual, real-life psi experiences, critics demand "hard" evidence. But new research is taking a different track to standard parapsychology - and it is all to do with light. (more)

More than a movie The Big Lebowski is the kind of miracle that, more rarely than occasionally, slips through the cracks of the Hollywood machinery. The Coen Brothers gave us an offering that, back in 1998, left the majority of the critics perplexed. What on earth had they just watched? (more)

The Day Zero Festival, Chichen Itza, McClure’s Beach, and the Nowever. We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out where they would most like to find themselves on December 21, 2012, as the heavily-hyped 26,000-year astronomic cycle comes to a close. Check out the results. Where will you be when the Mayan calendar ends? (more)

Random thoughts rained down on me like multi-colored confetti. It took a huge effort to keep sitting and not storm off into the wilderness. I could feel toxic residues seeping from the subconscious and was constantly in the churn of a great battle, entirely within my own head till only the Witness remained at the edge of a swirling vortex. (more)

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake challenges the mechanistic dogma of contemporary mainstream science.  He has recently released a new book, Science Set Free:10 Paths to New Discovery, which addresses the ideas that have become dogmas in modern scientific thought, exposes their weaknesses, and offers intriguing solutions for a way forward. (more)

In the past few decades, we have witnessed an explosion of information about death and the afterlife. This is one of many signs that the human race is poised to enter a new era, a revolution in consciousness. Death is not an end but rather a lifting out into that vast, knowing, luminous Presence, in which all things thrive and are made possible. (more)

Perhaps you remember a dream in which you seemed to have been alerted in an unusually accurate way to something that developed in your life later. Perhaps you and a loved one sometimes anticipate each other's thoughts. I encounter these things not infrequently in my practice of psychotherapy (more)

The editor of Gawker called me. He said he was doing a piece on Jared Loughner, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his deadly rampage in Tuscon in January 2011. Gawker had got a hold of some emails from Loughner. He said, "We have an email from him to you." (more)

I was browsing through the forum of the first mad pride organization in America when I came across a woman with bipolar disorder and psychosis. She said that God had told her His plans for global awareness and that she has a part in that. I told her that it was a sign of a prophetic calling.  She did not believe I was a psychologist.  (more)