Until recently astrophysicists believed that solar flares were a completely random phenomenon. But in recent years, patterns of solar flare cycles have been discovered using supercomputers. What's amazing about these cycles is that they coincide with the periods in the Mayan calendar. (more)

I thought women's religions were a thing of the past, blown away a long time ago by whatever means necessary. So I wondered, how would women make religion if left to their own devices? And I realized the answer was staring us all in the face. The great women's religions of India or China were standing there, popular as ever, in the modern world. (more)

This astrological paradigm is based on the understanding that every incarnation, each lifetime, is created as a result of unresolved desires from previous lives. The evolutionary journey of the soul from life to life is a matter of gradually exhausting all desires until the only desire that remains is the desire to reunite with the Source. (more)

In 1969, Jeff Kagel had a daunting decision to make: join a newly signed band, Soft White Underbelly, or move to New Hampshire to be with his spiritual teacher. Jeff made his choice and changed his name to Krishna Das. The band changed its name to Blue Öyster Cult.  (more)

The great wisdom traditions tell us we are born from love, though we tend to quickly lose that connection and go on autopilot much of the time. A passage in A Course in Miracles states, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” (more)

At the 6th Annual Entheos Summer Solstice Festival in Vancouver, Bradley Ross was found murdered in his tent. The tragedy was discovered on the final day of a gathering that marked the countdown to the "2012 shift."  In this interview, Reality Sandwich contributor and Entheos organizer Sobey Wing discusses the event.   (more)

I had come to the High Desert Carnival Realm with a magical agenda: to ritualize the experience by associating the Incendiary Person with aspects of myself that I wanted to transform, aspects I linked to Thanatos, the death drive, so that the burning would parallel my intention to transcend.  (more)

I recently attended a ceremony on "the healing of money." Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his strength to free himself and rise up. I knew that the man represented the divine masculine and his bonds were made of money. (more)

“If the universe is teeming with life, why have they not contacted us?” It is one of the great skeptical-analytical questions that get posed in apparent opposition to the ancient alien theory. There is a hypothesis which tries to explain the apparent lack of daily and visible contact with ET: the so-called Zoo Hypothesis. (more)

Recent clinical trials in which psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA have been administered to adult volunteers suffering from a variety of medical conditions have led to a new paradigm of psychedelic practice, defined by a medicalization of psychedelic discourse and a scientific professionalization of access to, and control over, psychedelic experiences. (more)

If we want to understand what will happen in 2012 and our role in this cosmic mechanism, we must understand the four movements that govern the most essential of all human aspects, namely our consciousness and perceptions. (more)

We have tried occupying Wall Street. Now let us create new streets without walls. Wall Street will fall of its own dead weight. Let us choose the unknown, not the known exhausted ways of the past; let us give Gaia a good reason to allow us to continue our project of conscious existence as beings of peace, benevolence, and loving unity. (more)

This Summer in the USA we've now witnessed our second public shooting spree.  A Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin became the target for another attack.  In a broader, evolutionary context these attacks aren't about darkness or evil as much as they are about daemonic possession. (more)

Soul describes a dimension of everyday experience. It is not eternally unchanging, but rather learning, growing, and maturing. If we respect her, soul can guide us and teach us, and she thrives with our respect. It may be that we don't have individual souls at all, but rather that there is only one, undivided. (more)

Julia Julieta Casimiro de Pineda, one of the founders of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, lives in Huautla de Jiménez, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. All of Huautla feels like an ongoing ceremony. Daily life seems to be ordained by a predetermination, as if every single action had a higher purpose. (more)

For millennia ancient cultures engaged the creative and spiritual potential of dreaming. In November "Gateways of the Mind" will bring together some of the foremost contemporary practitioners of these ancient traditions, and show how our ancestors paved the way for the many experienced practitioners who are now teaching in the west. (more)

Metaphysical and psychic phenomena have long existed on the fringes of conventional science and academia, in spite of extensive mention of these practices down the ages, across myriad cultures. That changed in 1995 when the CIA declassified a top secret program that had been training individuals in the esoteric science of "Remote Viewing." (more)

[RS Single] • Who is this older man, addressing a generation half his age, rhapsodizing about psychedelics and shamans? Simply, he is an icon with a thriving milieu of disciples. Join a conversation with the key words psychedelic, entheogen, DMT, ayahuasca, mushroom, shamanism, or 2012, and Terence McKenna's name is likely to crop up. (more)

Savants show us that it is possible to access transpersonal aspects of consciousness that are currently denied in conventional science. Are the occasional strobe-like bursts of insight, creativity, and epiphany that some people experience reminders of what we are capable of? (more)

However much archaeology has made Egypt into a land of ruins and mummies, there is an essence that can be sensed in the pyramids, the temples, and the hieroglyphs. The mere sight of these speaks to us, opening the heart to the magic that each of us feels -- knows -- that it once held. (more)

The ego has dethroned the soul, and enlightenment is only possible when the slimy usurper has been outed and slain, and the soul can re-animate the body again. A spiritual teacher is not a philosopher, prophet, healer, or sage. He is a hitman, an assassin. (more)