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)

The Secoya elders, plant masters from the Upper Napo Region of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, will be present at Guaria de Osa Ecolodge, gathering in Council and offering teachings this Winter (Dec 2012 - Jan 2013) to facilitate boundless healing, personal transformation and renewal. (more)

Darwin attributes the development of the prefrontal cortex to the nurturing of love and altruism. This particular neural grouping constitutes the high point of evolution to date. Somewhere along the way, however, nurturing was compromised. Today, nurturing, as needed by our species and the Earth, has all but disappeared.  (more)

In the last few decades, Western therapists have rediscovered the healing potential of breath and developed techniques that utilize it. Deliberate increase of the pace of breathing typically loosens psychological defenses and leads to a release and emergence of unconscious (and superconscious) material. (more)

Materialism is the doctrine that only matter is real. Hence minds are in brains, and mental activity is nothing but brain activity. This assumption conflicts with our own experience. When we look at a blackbird, we see a blackbird; we do not experience complex electrical changes in our brains. But most of us accept the mind-within-the-brain theory. (more)

I was fortunate to attend Psychedemia in Philadelphia and felt blessed to participate in the highest expression of the current Uranus-Pluto square, the transit defining the 2010‘s. (more)

The introduction of the written word into social discourse initiated a fundamental change in the way human beings understood their reality. Alphabetic writing rewired our brains into left-dominant meme machines, instituting a period of intensive philosophical and cultural progress. But it would also, ultimately, initiate our long decent into self-destruction. (more)

Is it possible to take normal, healthy, emotionally stable people who do not think they're psychic, and haven't really had any prior experiences to their knowledge, and train them to become psychics? (more)

In Kabbalah, if we desire to cross consciously from one world to another, and, as things fall apart, to be actors and not just observers of the electromagnetic shift, the first stage of the process is referred to as "going down to the chariot" or "descent to the Merkavah." A modern phrase might be "descent to the unconscious," as used by Freud and Jung. (more)

There is a slow shift in our view of the nature of consciousness. It's occurring in incremental stages, its main bulk still writhing below the surface of frothing rhetoric and opinionated debate, but a Newsweek cover story on a Near Death Experience marks an important change in the public discussion. (more)

Lately I've been fascinated by the idea that there is no such thing as an original source energy, no awakening to oneness or singularity that we are returning to, and no evolution toward any spiritual destiny. What if these ideas were merely the psychic residue of displaced religious dogmas and an outdated scientific model of the universe? (more)

To really engage the creative process you cannot merely look through a sealed looking glass into an alternate reality, you must fall through the looking glass and allow yourself to be swept along by the current. (more)

Burning questions filled my mind and appeared on my Facebook page after my return from Black Rock City. I had a hard time making sense of the default world and understanding why I should participate in it. Inasmuch as I was able to maintain a consistent thought, it was this: What, exactly, is the point of it all?

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