Tagged with consciousness

Many analysts paint a bleak picture of our future: we don't have enough energy or capital to sustain our civilization. But if we shift perspective, we might see this as an internal, fear-based collective projection rather than the truth. (more)

If nature is conscious, then Earth is not merely a web of mechanically reflexive predators and prey but something more magical than that: a vibrant, interdependent collective of living, thinking beings. (more)

We will never have a map for reality in the way we have Google Earth. Reality as consciousness cannot be represented in reality as matter. But that doesn't mean it is not real or "scientific." This is my basic refrain. (more)

This is the year when we will channel the spirit of the witch, honor the earth and our bodies, shift toward natural healing and whole foods, share our resources, collaborate and communicate more openly, and elevate women and girls to equality all over the world: these are all grand workings of feminine magic that we are manifesting together. (more)

To understand the play of surface events in the world -- whether social and political upheavals, natural cataclysmic events and gradual shifts such as climate change, or unpredictable and uncanny events in one's personal life -- it is necessary to understand the deep play of the Supreme Intelligence that underlies and pervades reality. (more)

While Tolkien might be surprised to find his fantasy works compared with the enthnography of Amazonian Indians drinking psychoactive brews, his depictions of characters singing over plant medicine in the forest reminds us how the Amazonian shaman will icarar the marirí of the plants into manifestation in the world. (more)

Join the Jivamukti Yoga Tribe for a consciousness-shifting week as we pass from 2012 into 2013, from Dec 31st, 2012 to Jan 5th, 2013.  (more)

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake challenges the mechanistic dogma of contemporary mainstream science.  He has recently released a new book, Science Set Free:10 Paths to New Discovery, which addresses the ideas that have become dogmas in modern scientific thought, exposes their weaknesses, and offers intriguing solutions for a way forward. (more)

In the past few decades, we have witnessed an explosion of information about death and the afterlife. This is one of many signs that the human race is poised to enter a new era, a revolution in consciousness. Death is not an end but rather a lifting out into that vast, knowing, luminous Presence, in which all things thrive and are made possible. (more)

Australia has a hugely vibrant psychedelic community. This island continent is steeped in shamanic tradition; it’s the spiritual home of the Dreamtime and the timeless dances practised by indigenous Australians to tell ancient stories, invoke spirits or send off a loved one. (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)

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)

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)

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)