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)

Once upon a time, the universe was sacred and unfathomable by simple emanation. Humans accepted the operations of nature as the mirror and counterpart to their own existence. Before quarks and Big Bangs, they called it Spider Woman and Corn Mother. These are not fables; they are hard-won intuitions of something before form. (more)

The first two rules of science are: the truth at any price and look at things as if you've never seen them before. Your mission: finding the questions that will produce the next big perception shift, that will allow others to radically reperceive. So how does God get into the picture? (more)

If you want to know what a dream shaman of the West would be like, consider Carl Jung, as he is now revealed in his Red Book, compiled from the journals he kept during the years of his "confrontation with the unconscious," when the "spirit of the depths" dragged him, night after night, through the terrifying stages of Underworld initiation. (more)

Last week I spoke with Joseph Chilton Pearce, an author who has had a big influence not only on my work, but on the way I have raised my children. A World War Two veteran, he could be considered one of the elders of the human potential movement. "We have an absolutely unlimited possibility within us, and an equal amount of self-imposed limitations. For every possibility, we have a self-imposed limitation." (more)

The solar eclipse on November 13, 2012 will be the final full eclipse of the current 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count.  The significance of this event transcends even Mayan cosmology in which it is deeply integrated, speaking to a unified planetary vision of natural cycles, harmonic mathemagics, and the opportunity for a radical cultural renewal. (more)

In 2008, I met a psilocybin and cancer therapist and my life changed. Now there is a documentary film called The Medicine: Science and Psychedelics. It depicts psilocybin as a form of palliative end-of-life care.  I sat down with producer and director Roslyn Dauber to discuss the film and to help promote these important psychedelic research projects. (more)

While the modern, academic approach to geometry sees it as the very embodiment of rationalism and left brain, intellectual processes, which indeed it is, it has neglected the right brain, intuitive, artistic dimension of the subject. Sacred geometry seeks to unite these two dynamic and complementary aspects of geometry into an integrated whole. (more)

[RS Singles] • Let's face it: of all the people that you and I know who have spent a good deal of their lives sitting on meditation cushions, chanting in Sanskrit, gulping psychedelics like M & Ms, and subscribing to The Yoga Journal, how many have achieved the pinnacle of human possibility that all of the great spiritual teachings insist is available to anyone? (more)

Sandy supports what I have been writing for years about this time as one of intense transformation and planetary initiation. At the end of the process, we will either have transformed as a species and reached a new level of consciousness, or we will be on our way toward extinction. The choice is ours to make. (more)

[RS Singles] • Long demonized, ridiculed, or ignored by the mainstream media, psychedelic drugs are finally seeing the light of day, and new scientific research is confirming the results of older studies, which suggest that these unusual substances have a myriad of useful medical applications.  (more)

The day after Super Storm Sandy hit the east coast, the Nightlight Astrology School hosted an Astrology "Storm Panel." After listening to what several of our guest astrologers had to say, and after looking closely at the planetary transits during the storm, there are more than a few solid reasons we have to believe this will not be the last major event before the end of this calendar year. (more)

With no visceral rites of passage to provide a spiritual transition into adulthood, a certain portion of American youth reach for the powerful yet ultimately impoverished substitute of the cinema. Star Wars dances on the line between gaudy commercial spectacle and indispensable world-explaining myth. (more)

An unprecedented kind of mind has suddenly appeared during the last couple of millennia. Enflamed and encrusted with growths like the insupportable noggin of the elephant man, this self cannot help but look upon the world to presuppose a somewhat larger Self: the One and Only CEO and Sole Manufacturer of Absolutely Everything. (more)

Why do we tend to guru-ize the shaman? How do we reconcile our fantasies of what the shaman should be with what is often a very different reality? In this conversation, Stephan Beyer, Stanley Krippner, and Hillary S. Webb discuss the Western world's intellectual and spiritual fascination with shamanic practices. (more)

One of the significant aspects of precognition that distinguishes from it from directed psychic activity is that it is involuntary. Precognition happens to the precog. Normally, the experience is unsought and the recipient is passive. Experientially it feels like an awareness shift towards incoming data and images that are coming from ‘elsewhere'. (more)

Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, in print ever since 1877, targeted the materialist, reductionist science that was reducing the universe to a machine. Sadly, that vision remains firmly in control, but Blavatsky struck a powerful blow against it and started the ongoing struggle for a more spiritual view of the world that many are carrying on today. (more)

This is the crucial moment for our species, and we have to give it everything we've got. Ayahuasca is moving out in the world and making new covenants. Maybe it wants to make contact with these strange new minds and to co-evolve with us. I'm afraid it's going to get it, whether it wants it or not. (more)