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What Is Sandy Telling Us? A Talk with John Perkins

Ken Jordan

"Mother Earth is sending us messages," says bestselling author and shamanic initiate John Perkins in this discussion about hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. Is Sandy an isolated, freak weather event, as much mainstream media coverage would have you believe, or is it something more? (more)

The Incorruptibles: A Requiem for Civilization

Tony V

From the oil shocks of the 1970s to the savings & loan crisis of the 1980s, the dotcom bubble of the 1990s, and today's mortgage meltdown, systemic crises are larger, more devastating, longer lasting, and closer together, and our so-called leaders are in denial. (more)

Pinchbeck Returns with Notes from the Edge Times

Daniel Pinchbeck

How do we confront the current mega-crises of species extinction, global financial collapse, and resource depletion and initiate a new planetary culture that integrates the physical and psychic aspects of our being, while meshing harmonically with our planet's fragile ecology? (more)

Anger is an Energy

somantics

Go to the window and look out at your street. Imagine the alternatives to what you're seeing; where did the materials out there come from, how could the ecology that created them and the people who made them be treated better? How could the resources you're seeing be used more positively? Are you really getting the most out of your time here? (more)

Faithkeeper: An Interview with Oren R. Lyons

"We are taught as leaders not to take away hope from the people," says Lyons, a Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan. "If you're going to bring hard news, you better bring something else with it. Indians can't do much, there is just a handful of us. We do have some ideas and some instruction. We still know how to pray. As long as we keep the ceremonies, we are going to hold on." (more)

2012: Tilt -- Game Over or Game On?

John Jay Harper

The good times were behind us and we did it to ourselves: no one was to blame. Even if culprits to this chaos could be identified, they were dead. The bullets and bunkers and bank holdings did not save them for long. These previous symbols of wealth proved totally worthless and non-negotiable for the one thing they couldn't buy from the hard-working, country-dwelling, "pagans": food. (more)

Prelude to the Noosphere: Report and a Vision

José Argüelles

To change our consciousness, to take advantage of the ascent that continues to occur even in the darkest hour of planetary crisis, we need only realize the example of the whole Earth, the Earth we see from outer space. This is the place to begin, for this is not only where we are, but who we are. (more)

Transparency is the Only Shield Against Disaster

The lost world that imagines us does not need to be created; we, who are not other than its shadow, must learn how to approach it through the prism of our fear, whose force-fields we must navigate. A hair's breadth of a difference separates discovery from destruction. (more)

2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn't Arrive

There are two stereotypical responses to the crisis points in civilization. One is the desire to return to some previous golden age; the other is the urge to leap into a dazzling future. The 2012 scenario seems to partake of both camps. Is there more to it than escapism? (more)

Glory in the Highest (Part Two)

Rob Brezsny

I'm arguing against the grain, compiling evidence that the cynics' hypothesis is a delusion. I'm insisting that we are not pitiable actors in the most hellish chapter in history. I'm even inclined to entertain the possibility that the reverse is true: We may be living in the best of times. Part Two of a three-part series. (more)

Who You Going to Call?: People and Possibilities in the Coming Collapse

somantics

Regardless of the drag of the day-to-day chains of obligation typical of the western lifestyle, we're capable of making ready for the fast approaching day when those chains break irrevocably, clearing the decks on our own terms, and acting rather than merely reacting. But it can only happen if we work together. (more)

The Oracle and the Smoking Mirror

William Douglas Horden

I take a deep breath and ask my question out loud: At what crossroads does our global civilization stand now, and in what direction does good fortune lie? A rare thunderstorm shatters the Oregon twilight. The lights blink off on off on. I shake the coins, drop them, count them, six times. The squall passes on to the next valley. The Oracle speaks. (more)

The Avatar Awakens

VerDarLuz

This summer the evolutionary forces of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron unite in the last degrees of the humanitarian idealist, the galactic visionary, the cosmic kindred, the paradigm-shifting harbinger of the new age, Aquarius. This month and throughout this summer we are asked to deeply investigate our identity as true Spirit. (more)

The Real Power Behind President Butch

Michael Brownstein

[Must Not Sleep] • "I'll tell you, it was a lesson in humility for us to accept that for the really sexy stuff we needed to rely on stone-age techniques of barefoot jungle shamans. The little guys with the shiny black hair and plugs in their noses.... Clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, they're all transformations of energy. They can be used by whoever's sufficiently attuned." Episode 7 of the novel Must Not Sleep, a transformative ride through shamanic space. (more)

Where the Political Collides with the Magical

Michael Brownstein

"Omigod, there it was, smack on the front page. The lead article in the upper right-hand column read: ROCKET, NOT AIRLINER, SAID TO HAVE STRUCK THE PENTAGON ON SEPT. 11." Episode 3 of the novel Must Not Sleep, a transformative ride through shamanic space. (more)