The market for medicinal cannabis was estimated to be $1.7 billion in 2011. Like health food and hip-hop, cannabis was going corporate. As a wave of newbies began to challenge the old guard, movement veterans recalled the days before Proposition 215. "A lot of people want to cash in but they don't have an appreciation of what it took to get here. They don't know the history." (more)

The material base of civilization is rapidly eroding. As the illusion of unlimited material progress gives way, we find that the only thing we truly possess is our own experience, our state of mind and inner being. The jewels and precious metals that industries mine from underground are irrelevant compared to our jewel-like nature.  (more)

Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind.   (more)

When lunar and solar forces work in consort, we are liberated from an age-old story of humans and gods that is based on appeasement and sacrifice. When loving hearts are offered, chains of separation and struggle are broken. The only sacrifice is to relinquish those chains. (more)

Many of the scientists who dismiss parapsychology are psychologists who invariably invoke principles of classical physics which have been known to be fundamentally incorrect for more than three quarters of a century. Physicists, on the other hand, have since the nineteenth century been more open to the possibility of psychic phenomena. (more)

The first few exact alignments may be a little more rough and tumble than the later alignments as we brace ourselves through the shifts.  We must purge our extra weight, which includes unleashing unconscious control issues, challenging us to reinvent ourselves as we destroy the old patterns and move beyond our previous limits. (more)

Last week while working on my new book in Costa Rica I was creatively awakened by a 7.6 level earthquake and several days of significant aftershocks. The awesome quake spoke a language of its own, not unlike that of plant medicine. (more)

As a world consciousness we are on the first wave of the new era.  Looking back over major social transitions for the last two millennia, this is the first time in history such a shift involves the entire world. We are united in the great collective unconscious, but that is now becoming increasingly the collective consciousness. (more)

By definition, a conspiracy is a "surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons." But within dominant reality constructs of socialized consciousness, the most conspicuous conspiracy is often self-perpetrated. The mechanisms of our perpetual self-creation are obfuscated by the meandering of our Monkey Mind. (more)

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)