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A Vision for Getting to 2012

John L. Petersen

In the face of the rapidly converging trends approaching, we need to be on the offense: to shape and help manifest the new world that will certainly evolve. (more)

7-2-09

Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage. (more)

7-1-09

Tech

Biomimicry: Designing with Nature

Gil Friend

Industrial designs that consider and emulate nature are more likely to succeed, because they use design principles tested and refined in evolutionary time, and they use materials that renew, replenish, and support life's cycles. (more)

6-30-09

Psyche

Cosmovision: An Aya Odyssey

Rak Razam

The ayahuasca vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed; South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it. (more)

6-29-09

Commons

Bread and Circuses

Renee Verdier

My father insists that my dissatisfaction with consumerist and materialist lifestyles renders me an inescapably unhappy person, doomed to a life of politically-correct misery. I, however, take great pleasure from abstaining from the litany of excess and violence of mainstream American culture. (more)

6-29-09

Psyche

The Eight-Circuit Brain

Antero Alli

Timothy Leary indirectly turned millions of people on to LSD, but his central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness as a means not merely to get high, but for designing and creating new contexts for their lives. (more)

6-26-09

Life

Be Your Own Best Guinea Pig!

Evolver Health Editor

Evolver announces a new experiment: Try one of these alternative health products for free, and write about its effects on Evolver.net. (more)

6-26-09

Psyche

The Devil Made You Do It. Again

Lisa Kirchner

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

6-25-09

Commons

The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies

Charles Eisenstein

Our civilization is facing a crisis of language when our words no longer mean anything. What are we to do when our primary creative tool in the modern world has become impotent? (more)

6-24-09

Commons

The Iron Law of Fantasy Finance

Les Leopold

My economics professors drilled it in: as workers produce more goods and services per hour, their wages must rise. The proof was in the post-World War II data. As output went up, real wages rose, year after year. And then, suddenly, everything changed. The economy was still growing, and the money value of those goods and services had to go somewhere. Clearly workers didn't take that money home. So who did? (more)

6-22-09

Arts

Inside the Evolver Academy: A Chat with Lance Bauscher

Propaganda Anonymous

The man behind the keyboard at Evolver Academy and Maybe Logic Academy reveals all the secrets of these online learning hubs. Evolver Academy launches this month with classes by R.U. Sirius, Charles Eisenstein, Antonio Lopez, Anya Kamenetz, and Daniel Pinchbeck. (more)

6-22-09

Psyche

Seeing into the Unseen: A Personal Journey of Discovery

Timothy Wyllie

Encountering aliens, communicating with dolphins, conversing with angels – these confrontations with the unseen worlds can seem outlandish or delusional. Until it happens to you. Now these once subtle, hidden realms are rapidly emerging into greater human perception, and provide us a clue to our planet's true destiny. (more)

6-19-09

Psyche

The Double Dream of Spring

Brian George

The first act of creation is/was also an act of obfuscation, which is perceived, on the level of the human psyche, as a trauma. What allows us to exist as fully conscious beings is the flip side of the trauma that has cut us from the whole. (more)

6-19-09

Commons

Sustainability: The Five Core Principles

Michael Ben-Eli

The increasing popularity for "sustainability" has led to growing ambiguity about the concept. The set of five Sustainability Principles proposed here, inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, is offered to restore some rigor to our thinking in this vital area. (more)

6-17-09

Arts

Metamorphosis: Making an Ayahuasca Documentary

Adam Elenbaas

A new documentary, "Metamorphosis," is perhaps the most gripping and intense filming of ayahuasca ceremonies and personal shamanic journeys ever made. In this interview, I talk to the director, Keith Aronowitz, about the process of making his film. (more)

6-16-09

Psyche

Cognition Factor

Propaganda Anonymous

Mike Kawitzky's Cognition Factor offers up a kaleidoscopic field of cyberpunk 3-D imagery while asking the most pressing questions we face today. See the RS screening at the Wild Project this Sunday in NYC. [Trailer] (more)

6-16-09

Psyche

The Light of Darkness

Paul Levy

The root meaning of the word consciousness, etymologically speaking, is "knowing together or seeing with an other." The process of becoming conscious requires both seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. The birth of consciousness itself involves being both subject and object of the process at the same time. (more)

6-15-09

Psyche

The Body of Being

Jay Michaelson

The sages of Kabbalah often start with what we would deem the conclusion, if the proofs were satisfactory: that God exists, and is Infinite. They ask, if God is infinite, then what is your body, your heart, and your mind, but God itself? What are joy and terror, other than the skin of the Infinite? (more)

6-12-09

Psyche

The Blue Kachina Dance

Peter Deane

Water In Her Eyes briefly danced with me, and for a moment there was a balance. I then played my Cree flute as the winds became stronger and the electrical grid system was knocked out. All the T.V.s were off. People were out talking to their neighbors. They were all helping each other out. From the old, to the young, I never had seen such a beautiful sight. (more)

6-12-09

Psyche

Revisiting "Realms of the Human Unconscious"

Stanislav Grof

In the early stage of my psychedelic research, I suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology and medicine or the telescope has for astronomy. My later experience with psychedelics only confirmed this initial impression. (more)

6-11-09

Commons

12th Hour For Arcology

Doctress Neutopia

Experiments in arcology are being conducted around the world, such as the low-carbon city being built on Dongtan, an island off Shanghai. Arcology not only disrupts the American Dream of life in suburbia, it replaces it with a new form of city design, a "biomorphic" city designed as a living entity based upon molecular structure. (more)

6-9-09

Commons

Evolving Toward Local Credits

Thomas H. Greco

The tidal wave of globalization smashes all but the biggest boats. Local communities can regain control over their own welfare by encouraging human solidarity and private, voluntary initiative and creativity. The first step is to organize regional mutual credit clearing associations. (more)

6-8-09

Commons

The Joy Project

Charley Wininger

How do you generate joy in your life and in those whose lives you touch? How do you give high? I described one way, but I don't want to play alone. So feel free to share your thoughts and ideas here, and tell us what's the shortest distance between you and joy. (more)

6-5-09

Psyche

Salvia's Blueprint

Amy George

In my salvia vision, I felt roots growing from my head, through my throat and vocal cords, out of my mouth into the ground. I became afraid at the prospect of being stuck in that spot. My life flashed before my eyes, and I was happy with it. (more)

6-4-09

Arts

Discovering Your Dance

Katie Clancy

In Brazil, on a journey into nature using Butoh dance and improvisation as a way to experience paradise with all senses, we learn that performance stimulates the will to live and a longing to allow the rumbling of the universe to enter one's body. (more)

6-3-09

Commons

New York Internship Call Out

Daniel Pinchbeck

If you are in NYC and you've got the time and the skills and would like to volunteer, Evolver has some cool stuff for you to do.

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4-17-09

Arts

Sell Ads for Reality Sandwich

Ken Jordan

RS is looking for experienced ad sales reps to join our team of dedicated evolutionaries. Connect with great people while helping your favorite web magazine pay some bills (more)

10-10-08

Arts

Moderators Wanted

Jonathan Phillips

With over 300 comments each week and growing, RS is looking for volunteer moderators to help foster a healthy transformational community. (more)

1-30-09

Arts

Twittering the Sandwich

Jennifer Palmer

Catch daily updates of the ongoing evolution by joining RS on Twitter, or add us as a friend on Facebook and MySpace. (more)

10-30-08

Featured

Life

Acoustic Black Holes

Bill Machon

Physicists have created artificial black holes that are capable of trapping sound rather than light. (more)

7-2-09

Eco

SF's Recycling Revolution

Jessica Pherson

San Francisco has recently passed the most vigorous recycling laws in the United States. (more)

7-2-09

Commons

Evolver Spores: Beyond Money

Daniel Pinchbeck

For our second Evolver Spore, "Beyond Money: What Comes Next?," we will explore workable alternatives to the current economic paradigm. Spores are already taking place in 20 cities. Find your local gathering or start your own. Wed, July 15. (more)

7-1-09

Eco

Caribou Crash

Matt Toussaint

A recent study reports massive declines in caribou populations worldwide. (more)

7-1-09

Life

Quantum Teleportation

Kovvy

New discoveries in "quantum entanglement" may assist scientists in developing teleportation devices. (more)

7-1-09

Psyche

Strategies for 2012

Marisa Smith

In his new book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, futurist John L. Peterson tackles the question of what government and business can do to plan for the Mayan end date.

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6-30-09

Psyche

Lick the Frog

Tollevin S Williams

Vice Magazine's resident pharmacologist Hamilton Morris risks life and limb in search of the Amazon's psychedelic sapo frog. [Video] (more)

6-30-09

Life

Self-Aware Plants

Jessica Pherson

Ordinary sagebrush shows a unique ability to "look out for their own kind." (more)

6-30-09

Eco

Open Source Farming

Nathan Clark

The Open Source Ecology movement is bringing individuals together to develop replicable "resilient communities." (more)

6-30-09

Tech

Turbines on a Wire

Remi Gurak

Existing power lines could become home to wind turbines thanks to a new design from Victoria University in New Zealand. (more)

6-29-09

Arts

Rapping about the Masculine

Propaganda Anonymous

Byron Hurt's documentary Beyond Beats and Rhymes explores the complex issues of masculinity, misogyny, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. [Trailer] (more)

6-29-09

Commons

Exorcising Consumerism

Erin Shaw

In the latest episode of "The Last Televangelist," Reverend Billy preaches against the "demon monoculture" that's threatening to gentrify Coney Island. [Video] (more)

6-26-09