Tagged with Transformation

Part of the process of coming to terms with the crisis that we face has to do with following where each contradiction leads: We must, at some point, find the means to reenter the clear consciousness that surrounds us.   (more)

The best way to approach the upcoming Pluto-Uranus square is to consider the last time these two planets conjoined, forty-odd years ago, when the counter-culture was born. From 2010-2015 Uranus and Pluto will take the next big step in their relationship. The revelations of the 1960s will be ready for post-millennial application. (more)

The artist is a shaman. The artist's role, especially in the West, has always been to alter the state of consciousness of the viewer, and to force the big Other, the collective superego, to face its own shadow -- as well as to face the super-consciousness, the One that is beyond the Other, that it denies. (more)

Our reasoning abilities are not enough to create a more habitable, peaceful, and sustainable world. To experience enlightenment and learn to interact with the cosmic web, we must begin by healing that part of our bodies that allows us to dream a new world into being: our prefrontal cortex. (more)

The effort to direct life energy at goals unworthy of our knowledge is exhausting. Eventually, our reservoirs of health and luck depleted, we enter a state of crisis. This is a special state, the threshold between worlds. Many of us are there right now, individually; the collective human body is approaching it as well. (more)

The presentiment of the Noosphere awakened in me in 1969, upon seeing the Earth from space on TV. Soon after, I organized the First Whole Earth Festival. Buckminster Fuller suggested to me the presence of a psychic field or thought belt around the planet. It was by this means, Bucky wrote me, that he could converse with the pre-Socratics. (more)

A strictly objective, materialist worldview gives us a skewed view of consciousness where all subjective phenomena become mere epiphenomena of matter without causal efficacy. If consciousness has no causal efficacy, how can we transform? How can we love? (more)

We have entered a period of epistemological chaos. The true condition of our world, indeed the very nature of our phenomenal reality, including agreement regarding the meaning of knowledge itself, is completely up for grabs. This has led to the rise of a new and unprecedented kind of discourse, which can be categorized as psychotic knowledge. (more)

Mushrooms taught me that karma is real. DMT taught me that there is life after death. How could I fight a war? I was supposed to get on a plane and fly up to the base for duty. No doubt that's when they would serve me my deployment papers. I decide to miss my flight and go AWOL. (more)

If we can create the mystical crucible strong enough to stand the horror of facing our collective and individual shadows, then the depth of our depravity and enslavement might provide, through the mystery of grace, a glimpse of the divine light that is unbearably intense at this moment, and is trying to make us wake up and claim responsibility for our transformation. (more)

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)

Initiation is evident in one form or another in nearly every culture prior to the industrial age, at which point it became notably absent, at least on the surface. This absence has produced a widespread psychological crisis. In many ways the initiatory impulse has merely transferred itself, oftentimes to behaviors and beliefs which only shallowly fulfill that impulse. (more)