In Goddess We Trust: America’s Spiritual Crossroads

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Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,? Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. ~Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency, General Washington

Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past
. ~George Orwell, 1984  


With the House of Representatives recently passing a bill to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as America's official motto, a national discussion on the proper role of faith in civic discourse is long overdue. As recently as 2002 (and again in 2006) the Congress has already voted to affirm and reaffirm the motto. This bureaucratic move to reassert the authority of the imageless, law-giving Father deity over our civic and private affairs coincides with an alarming increase in what can fairly be called outright attacks on "women's" issues in our culture. Hundreds of bills to restrict or eliminate access to reproductive choices, the crumbling of our national infrastructure, an exponentially-rising income gap between the rich and poor, unending wars for profit, and the militarization of our police departments are all symptoms of a serious illness in the national psyche; signs of our lost loyalty.

Movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street show that Americans are engulfed in a revolution of thought. When the ideological systems and institutions of a nation no longer serve the needs of the people, it is incumbent on the people to redefine and restructure them. Many Americans feel that there is a spiritual bankruptcy evident among all of the "white noise" and fundamentalism that currently pass for civic discourse. Understandably, as the world moves into unprecedented environmental, economic and geopolitical upheaval, people turn to spiritual matters to ease their fears and provide them with a sense of unshakable purpose. But one definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results. A case can be made that our solely patriarchal ideas about the transcendent have been responsible for many of the ills currently facing our society. Perhaps what is needed is a reaffirmation of allegiance not to our nation's God, but to our nation's forgotten Goddess: Columbia, the Great Dove, the Maiden Martyr.

Thom Hartmann rightly points out that images of America's Goddess adorn the entrances to all of the major federal government buildings in Washington, D.C. She stands blindfolded, faithfully balancing the scales in front of the Department of Justice. She is the source of Inspiration and Knowledge displayed at the entrance to the Department of Education. She is the Goddess of New Life, abundance, provision and harvest who offers her cornucopia to her subjects at the Department of Agriculture. She stands guard atop the Capitol Building and from behind the Speaker of the House's podium. America's Goddess watches, protects and guides from atop her silent perch; encouraging her subjects to set aside selfish desires and serve her in faithful submission. In fact, the holy city and temple of our Goddess, the "District of Columbia," does not allow its citizens to vote based partly on the notion that all who come to the "district of the Goddess" should forfeit their individual egos and agendas and instead work for the Great Goddess and her agenda of liberty, justice and democratic self-governance. A song in her honor, "Hail, Columbia," was actually an unofficial national anthem up until 1931.

But who is she? And how is it that we as a nation have come to forget her, despite her ubiquitous presence atop the nation's most prominent institutions of power?

The name "Columbia" for "America" seems to have been coined by Samuel Johnson as a feminized version of Christopher Columbus. "Columbia" first appeared in 1738 in the weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in Edward Cave's "The Gentleman's Magazine." Publication of Parliamentary debates was technically illegal, so the debates were printed under a pseudonym and the names of all participants were disguised. Goddess imagery, it seems, was always "unofficial" and symbolic as opposed to the imageless God who is affirmed in law over and over again. Though already lost in the mental sickness that has crippled our world, it seems our forbearers were apparently still able to intuit the important distinction between word and image, between the abstract part and the organic whole. And the fundamental necessity of each mental association, each way of knowing and interacting with the world, to create and sustain a civilized, democratic society.

But it was an association that had already lost most of its primal, divine essence. An association now void of its initial transformative power.

In essence, the Goddess is the personification of the totality of the brain's creative and critical faculties. She represents the limitless potentiality of our individual and collective minds. As such, she has traditionally taken many forms but remains the same primary principle. In the ancient traditions of prehistory, she is the Triple Goddess: the original Holy Trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone. As a symbol of the circle of life and the fusion of the whole, she represents life and death, light and darkness. In Hindu culture, she is Kali, the Great and Fearsome Mother of All.  In later Greek tradition she reappears as the Triple Goddess of Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. In any of the traditions in which she appears, including the American one, she is the symbol of life, change and unlimited potential. In America, she is the personification of Liberty, Justice and New Life. For those steadfast pilgrims who ended their long journey to freedom at Her feet, justice and hope were personified in Her form. A form that told the wise sojourner, as Proust observed, "the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

America's Goddess welcomes scores of immigrants into New York harbor with the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She offers these gifts up to the world's downtrodden in her own name as they enter the New World seeking New Life; asking the world to give Her their tired, poor and huddled masses.

The seven points of her crown represent the archaic myth of the Seven Sisters, or Pleiades, and connect America's Goddess with the Greek Goddess Aphrodite and the Great Goddess of Prehistory. A certain ‘maiden martyr' called St. Columba (Holy Dove) was widely revered, especially in France, and it is this very Goddess (and another aspect of her named Libertas) that inspired Frédéric Bartholdi to create the Statue that would become the face and soul of the United States forever.

Long before Lady Columbia topped the U.S. Capitol or the Statue of Liberty dominated New York Harbor, however, images of women were already being widely used to symbolize the soul and national character of the United States. In fact, art historians have traced images of America's Goddess back to the very beginning of European discovery and invasion. At the outset of Colonization, America was symbolized as a noble, enigmatic Indian Queen. For many, however, the Indian Queen was seen as "too savage" a symbol and she was soon replaced with a tamer, more anglicized American image: the Indian Princess. In the 19th century, the "Indian" in the face of the Indian Princess dissolved into a lighter-skinned, more classical image. Her headdress of eagle feathers evolved into ostrich plumes spraying from a bonnet or helmet. The European settlers began to adopt this exotic princess finally as their own.

In the years surrounding the American Revolution, the image of this Indian Princess began to mesh with that of the Greek Goddess emerging from the European schools of classical art and architecture. "By the late 1790s," folk-art historian Nancy Jo Fox points out, "it was not clear whether a feathered Indian Princess had changed into a Greek goddess or whether a Greek goddess had placed feathers or plumes in her hair."  Alluding to the order and sovereignty of the antique democratic state, the "Plumed Greek Goddess" represented what this eager new country wanted to be. Especially in the 19th century, Columbia would be visualized as a goddess-like national personification of the United States, comparable to the British Britannia, the Italian Italia Turrita, the Swiss Helvetia and the French Marianne. This personification was sometimes called "Lady Columbia" or "Miss Columbia."

With so many variations of the Lady Liberty, it is no wonder that artists began to mix traits from the Indian Princess, the Plumed Greek Goddess and Columbia. Other figures then merged with these images, especially the Greek representations of the Goddesses of Wisdom and Liberty. The Goddess of Liberty was, according to Thomas Fleming, "so intimately identified with the American cause as to become Americanized. We have either Liberty representing the United States or the United States interpreted as Liberty." In any case, it is the image of this feminine power that our founders apparently saw as an essential part of our national consciousness. If the imageless God of America established and empowered law, the embodied image of the Goddess established and empowered this new community with the potential for an integrated, interdependent and visual identity. She would give Law, and thus the Lawgiver, its authority.

As a mythological figure Columbia first appears in the poetry of the slave Phillis Wheatley in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. Without herself enjoying freedom, Wheatley's poem illustrates how removed our nation already was from its own stated ideals. Directing the poem to General Washington, Wheatley put her trust in him as a "godlike" hero who would rescue the people from tyranny and oppression. Washington, in service of America's Goddess, would "sacrifice" himself as the archetypal warrior-king to her greater glory and this sacrifice would produce, for the people, a nation of peaceful abundance; built on character, integrity and justice. A nation made great, Wheatley hoped, by the solidarity and empathy of its citizens. A society not built on one class of citizens perpetually serving the other, but on people serving each other with equanimity and peace, in "worship" of the Great Mother. A hope, tragically, that still awaits realization. A hope cut short, it turns out, by the very systems of thought that produced it.
New research in neuropsychology, evolutionary biology and child development has shown that Western Civilization has been suffering from a several-thousand-year-long hallucination. Many of these scientists are claiming that, for a number of reasons, we have become a dangerously left-hemisphere dominant society. Modern civilization is suffering mightily from this extreme dominance of the rational, intellectual mind. This imbalance, suggests Dr. Paul Levy, "creates a one-sidedness that seemingly disconnects us from nature from empathy, and from ourselves."

When Europeans colonized the "New World," natives recognized this cultural mental illness and called it "wetiko" or cannibalism. Wetiko, or what Levy calls "malignant egophrenia" is a disease of civilization. To a large extent, the development of the wetiko disease corresponds to the rise of modern, industrialized civilization. "This is no mere coincidence," Levy assures. "The unsustainable nature of industrial civilization is based on, and increasingly requires violence to maintain itself. Genuine ‘civilization,' in essence, means not killing people." Due to its disassociation from the whole, wetiko is a "disturber of the peace" of humanity and the natural world; a sickness that spawns aggression and is, Levy claims, "the root cause of the inhumanity in human nature, or our seemingly inhuman nature."

Researchers are suggesting that our species is in the midst of a massive psychic epidemic, or what Levy calls "a virulent collective psychosis that has been brewing in the cauldron of humanity's psyche from the beginning of time." Like a fractal, he explains, wetiko operates on multiple dimensions simultaneously – intra-personally, inter-personally, as well as collectively. Like cannibals, those people or societies afflicted with wetiko will consume the life force of others for private purpose or profit, and do so without giving back something from their own lives. Over time, the patterns become so pervasive, so reinforced at all levels of the culture, that they become the norm. The lunatics forget they are hallucinating. The wheels come off the bus. "One of the most important characteristics of both memory, neural tissue and of development," claims child therapist and psychological trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry, "is that they all change with patterned, repetitive activity. So, the systems in your brain that get repeatedly activated will change and strengthen and develop and the systems in your brain that don't get activated won't." This "use-dependent" development is one of the most important properties of neural tissue." Although each of us is born with a unique set of genetic instructions, according to Dr. Perry, "we enter the world as a work-in-progress and await the deft hand of ambient culture to sculpt the finishing touches."

Neuropsychologist Iain McGilchrist argues that in our modern world, we have created a society that looks very much like the left hemisphere's world. "We've prioritized the virtual over the real, the abstract over the natural; the technical becomes more important than the organic. Bureaucracy flourishes." America is in many ways the full expression of the Enlightenment ideals of pernicious self-interest and detached, scientific rationalism. "The most basic consideration," states psychologist Rollo May, "is that the two principles of rationalism and individualism, the myths on which the modern age is founded, are chiefly male, left-brain activities." Our nation has become bewildered by the very ideals with which it sought to free itself. We find ourselves ensnared by our materialism in a cycle of diminishing returns. The mountains of Industry, Individualism, and Imperialism-long promised to offer us a path to the visionary peaks of human potential and individual achievement-have instead become burial mounds for the very people they were intended to lift up.

McGilchrist explains that people, and cultures, who lose their right hemispheres have a pathological narrowing of the window of attention. Our collective left-hemisphere has shaved off, smashed and ignored anything that is not consistent with its own relentless self-promotion. "Like a cancer of the mind that metastasizes," Levy argues, "a pathological part of the psyche co-opts and subsumes all of the healthy parts into itself so as to serve its pathology. The personality then ‘masks' the inner dysfunction, making it hard to recognize. In a psychic coup d'etat, the wetiko bug can usurp and displace the person, who becomes its puppet and marionette."
A vitally-important and unspoken message of this failed American experiment is that even the so-called 1% do not seem to be comprised of balanced, fulfilled people most of the time. It seems that it's not just the "losers" of this current system of unbridled, savage capitalism and its attendant institutions of repression and control that suffer all of the psychological, physical and spiritual fallout these systems produce. The elite themselves seem increasingly insecure, addicted, paranoid and discontent. Indeed it is just as George Orwell warned us so many years ago when writing about British Imperialism in the Far East, "When the White Man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom he destroys." The ennui hits them with an unrelenting force because it exposes the lie they have believed for generations: namely, that all they possess will make them whole. The Hindus have rightly diagnosed this psychosis by claiming a person can "never get enough of what they don't really need." A hundred years ago Jung already recognized that "the alarming poverty of living mythological symbols" is now the condition of our age.

The picture has become fragmented, Dr. McGilchrist warns. "There is a loss of vitality and uniqueness. The need for control leads to such a paranoia and distrust of one another in society, that we need to govern and control everything." This particular model of society is entirely self-consistent largely because it has made itself so. "The more we get trapped in this the more we undercut and ironize things that might have led us out of it," explains McGilchrist. "A hall of mirrors effect is created, and we just get reflected back into more about what we know about what we know about what we know." Einstein somehow understood this when he said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant." We have created a society that honors the servant, stresses McGilchrist, but has forgotten the gift. Referring to the lack of ‘civility' in modern society, Gandhi was asked once what he thought of Western civilization and responded by saying, "I think it would be a good idea."

These researchers are suggesting that for society to survive and reinvent itself in new and meaningful ways, it must somehow quickly and completely shift its perspective and rethink the social institutions and beliefs that have brought us to the brink of collapse. We must immediately shift into a right hemisphere perspective and define our culture along the lines of empathy and compassion instead of narcissism and competition or we will not survive. A return to the embodied Image of the Goddess might be the only thing capable of initiating such a monumental paradigm shift. As the embodiment of the right hemisphere's spiritual faculty, she does not need to be officially recognized in laws and decrees. Her laws are not written in books or official mottos but visible in the changing of the seasons, the pathways of the constellations and, it turns out, in the very DNA of who we are as a nation, and as a species.  

For thousands of years, people throughout the Fertile Crescent venerated a deity who personified the Great Goddess. These ancient cultures were all polytheistic, acknowledging the existence of many deities, but they also recognized the feminine principle as primary for life, spirituality and consciousness. When we speak of this area as the "cradle" of civilization, we subconsciously acknowledge the superior role the feminine principle played in the "birth" of modern humankind. Cultural mythologist Joseph Campbell writes of the Goddess:

The goddess is red with the fire of life; the earth, the solar system, the galaxies of far-extending space, all swell within her womb. For she is the world Creatrix, ever mother, ever virgin. She encompasses the encompassing, nourishes the nourishing, and is the life of everything that lives.

The material of our earliest cultural myths is the material of our lives, our bodies and our deepest, most profound experiences. And the first experience for anybody is the mother: what Jung called the "participation mystique." To be in tune with the universe as the child is in tune with the mother's body is the principal function of mythology according to Campbell. Woman is the center and continuer of nature, of life. Man creates and defends sacred space for her to bring forth and nurture life. The first object of a subject is, therefore, the mother. The child knows no other. The whole conception of eros, of libido, is for a return to the mother. And the child is immediately ready for that: Mother as environment, child as creature. The child knows exactly what to do and this is all pre-linguistic. "What does our great historical hunger signify, mused Nietzsche, "our clutching about us of countless other cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb."

Psychologist Rollo May believes Nietzsche is right. "Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home, and one would indeed clutch for other cultures to find some place at some time a ‘mythic womb.'" Myths are original revelations of the preconscious psyche. Dr. May suggests myths are "involuntary statements about unconscious psychic happenings." According to Jung, "They are the psychic life of the primitive tribe, which immediately falls to pieces and decays when it loses its mythological heritage, like a man who has lost his soul." Myths are archetypal patterns in human consciousness. May argues that myth and self-consciousness are to some degree synonymous. "Where there is consciousness, there will be myth." As such, it is the Goddess, not the God, who is the symbol of creation and life in most of the tribal societies of prehistory. She is the author of consciousness, and thus, as Buckminster Fuller calls her, the "architect" of culture. She is the first principle that informs both our animal and divine natures.

So then, we must change the medium, if we wish to change the message. And thus, the IMAGE of the Great Goddess must come back to the forefront if we are to reform our social, civic and educational institutions in meaningful and productive ways. "Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known," claims Joseph Campbell. "She lures, she guides, she bids us burst our fetters. By deficient eyes she is reduced to inferior states; by the evil eye of ignorance she is spellbound to banality and ugliness. But she is redeemed by the eyes of understanding." As the image of infinite potential, She is the ‘gatekeeper," the One who keeps man's drive for power in check. Our culture has become unhinged, hopelessly separated from the ability to self-reflect and heal itself. But as the losers of the "Me" generations begin to pick themselves up and dust off the centuries of corrosive ideological abuse, they are realizing that they are legion. The scales are beginning to fall from their eyes. Suddenly, the Emperor is seen to be wearing no clothes. And let us just say the reports of his potency have been greatly exaggerated. One by one, the traditional symbols of masculine power are being exposed for the corrupt, lifeless and abusive institutions they really are. No matter how many times we pass "official mottos" saying otherwise, the image of the divine, primal Mother is calling, in silent anger, from the deep recesses of our collective cultural mind. America must reinvent itself in order to survive. And to do so, we need to humble ourselves and go back to the very beginning.

Humanity is at one of its most incendiary crossroads. We know that our definitions and cultural institutions must change to serve the needs and anxieties of the emerging world but how that change must occur and what new foundational principles it should be based on are still unclear. It seems the goals of Industrialism, Colonialism and Philosophical Dualism have left us battered and assaulted as a species. Gone is our connection to the earth and the changing seasons. Gone is our sense of camaraderie with the other species of the biota. No longer do we keenly, intuitively, feel loyalty and brotherhood towards one another.

Our religions have stopped serving us in vibrant, relevant ways. They are dead, rigid, legal codes meant to keep us in states of perpetual guilt and confusion. They do not increase our understanding of ourselves or the world we currently inhabit. They live on through the uncritical passing of dangerous, misogynistic, Bronze Age memes and catechisms of left brained Ego-worship. Catacombs of our collective human shame, they have become unhinged from their mythological womb; from the vast, cosmic ocean that is the source of all knowledge and forms. 

We must no longer worship at the altar of unbridled greed and materialism. Right-hemisphere goddess identification will lead us to eschew celebrity, inherited wealth and the trappings of empty political slogans. Goddess consciousness will allow us to overcome our hatred of nature and distrust of one another, mercilessly bred into us over centuries of psychological manipulation. We can no longer abide a media that calls mothers like Cindy Sheehan "whores." We can no longer allow Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to be the icons of feminine power and beauty. A society that mistakes narcissism for self-confidence, and values people for what they have rather than for what they give is not one worth fighting for or, quite frankly, fighting over. A return to authentic Goddess consciousness will immediately begin to fire what Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor calls "the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres" and will have profound implications for how the culture redefines itself.

Economist, author and political activist Jeremy Rifkin speaks of the emergence of an Empathic Civilization before our very eyes, if we have the right eyes to see.  "Empathy is the opposite of Utopia," Rifkin explains. "It is the realization that to be alive in this world is a fragile and scary and beautiful thing. Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgement of death and the celebration of life and rooting for each other to flourish and Be." We have the technology to extend the central nervous system and to, as Rifkin asserts, "think viscerally as a family, not just intellectually." Rifkin argues that if our parenting, education, business practices and forms of government have suppressed this "soft wiring" for empathy and replaced it with the secondary drives of anger, aggression, violence, selfishness, materialism and narcissism, then we must work to rethink and reform these institutions so that they work to create an empathic civilization. One based, Rifkin hopes, "on the solidarity that arises from our shared understanding of the fragility of life and the right all living things have to thrive and grow in the biosphere." What if the left-hemisphere-dominant memes of our collective spiritual iconography are directly related to the imbalance of power, money and influence in our society? To worship the Goddess, then, would be to understand that you are valuable to your community not because of what you have, but because of what you do with what you have to make the world a better place.

To worship the Goddess politically is to acknowledge and protect the "Commons" and to expand them to include education, health care, safe food, clean water and sustainable economic opportunity for all. When we stop taking more than we need, we will have more for those in need. The Goddess has suffered thousands of years of neglect, abuse and ridicule. We have burned her skin, drained her blood, cut her Old Growth forests, and polluted her rivers, streams and oceans. The glorious menagerie of her infinite forms has been forever diminished by our selfishness, greed and pathological forgetfulness. But she remains still. Ready and able to regenerate herself and all life that she sustains. This is the real power of the Goddess. As destructive as BP was as it raped and pillaged its way across the Gulf of Mexico, the Goddess is even stronger in her ability to heal, to forgive, to restore life. As catastrophic as the nuclear emergency at Fukishima was, and remains, the Goddess blinks at the half-life of toxic waste. We may not all make it through the transition, but those of us who do will be welcomed into a new heaven and a new earth. One that is guided by temperance and balance, not violence and greed.

What is not needed is another "ism." The way forward cannot be found in the resurgence of "alternative religions" or a repackaging of the New Age Movement. This is not about 5th Wave or 6th Wave feminism. Although, as those who have inherited the hard-fought wisdom and thankless sacrifice of untold generations of women in these movements we wear our heritage with them not as the filthy rags the establishment perceives them to be, but as robes of honor. Their blood the color of sunset, their eyes the blue of Mother Ocean. The brown and green the visual pulse of the embodied world. "Feminism is humanism," prophesized Judy Chicago. Now, it seems, in the reemergence of our Goddess tradition, we see that Feminism is indeed life. And life is a spiritual enterprise. And spirituality, in the embodied Image of our divine Mother, is the highest form of political correctness and social activism. We are awake, finally, and we speak in one voice with the author Terry Tempest Williams, "The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul."

Let us go forward with clarity of vision and unity of purpose. Women must be the face, the voice and the soul of this movement. Senator Barbara Boxer has declared 2012 "The Year of the Woman." Let us hope she is right. But this is not about electing female candidates who will simply reinforce the status quo and the corrupt corporate paradigm. The culture is brimming with talented, motivated, compassionate, educated and powerful women who are ready and able to transform our society if only given the chance. Randy Rhodes has encouraged people to "occupy" the public airwaves and to make their voices heard. She has also been one of the leading voices calling for the country to focus its attention on the corruption of power and money in Washington, D.C. by calling for a removal of money from politics. It is no accident that both of the currencies of power, law and money, have asserted the "In God We Trust" motto in justification of their own abusive systems of control. Together, they are capable of destroying the entire planet in pursuit of their own selfish goals. This is why D.C. must be "ruled" by the Goddess. She is the only thing powerful enough to control our destructive impulses.

Goddess "worship," it must be stressed, is an ancient technology meant to trigger the empathic drives of our collective right hemispheres. This is not about joining a religion or passing new laws. This does not cost any money or even require anybody to change worldviews or political affiliations. This is about recognizing that life is precious and sacred and that by increasing the dignity and freedom of all living things, we increase our own. The Goddess is the symbol of our highest responsibility to one another. Through understanding eyes, she is that purest image of our own potential to evolve from Homo sapien (the knowing creature) to Homo empathicus (the empathic creature). She allows us to see ourselves in the Other and, thus, to embrace it.

Occupy Movement: It is time to occupy your minds and meet your great, archaic spiritual Symbol. If you do the work to trigger your collective right-hemisphere, you will be able to reshape the culture into Her benevolent image. Tea Party: It is time to honor your patriotic roots by embracing our nation's most sacred symbol of justice and freedom. If you truly care about justice. If you truly care about freedom. Educators: It is time to move away from detached specialization and dead orthodoxy and embrace the power of knowledge to not just reassert the past but to shape the future. Resist the pressure to shill for the status quo and instead empower your students to change the world. Atheists and scientific materialists: it is time to recognize that the spiritual and the physical are one and the same. Your attempt to wrestle the natural world away from religion, well meaning as it may have been, has been short sighted and has failed. It is not religion that destroyed the Gulf of Mexico. It is not religion that has released dangerous amounts of Mercury into our food and water. And it is not religion that has turned the world into its personal toilet, devouring its resources in pursuit of its own unsustainable greed.

And monotheists (especially Jews, Christians and Muslims): it is time to recognize that yours are not the only voices in the room. Your masculine deity shares in the creative power of the Universe and is indeed an important part of defining who we most deeply are. Your scriptures are language-bound, legal codes that present you with the image of a masculine god who is both your father and husband. Clearly this is a metaphor for the creative and critical faculties of the left hemisphere, filtered through the lens of ego and asserting itself in the world. It is time for you to also embrace the other side of your spiritual mind and engage the Goddess as both your metaphorical mother and wife, and to see her not in the legal codes and scriptures of the left brain but in the world in which she resides. You must remember that even your God was born of the Great Mother, because it is in this formulation that your right hemisphere peace centers will be triggered and your perception of the world inevitably changed for the better.

Religion can and must be (and used to be) truly holistic, providing us with the mythological symbols to intuit and understand the deepest and most connected parts of our humanity. The creation myths are symbolic narratives depicting for us the trauma of birth and the hope of one day returning to that state of preconscious perfection. When the Mother's heartbeat was our own. When we were nourished directly from her body, and when the darkness we knew was not filled with fear and isolation, but with unbroken intimacy and visceral, relational truth. After centuries of declaring and fighting for our independence, according to filmmaker Tiffany Shlain in her documentary "Connected," it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead. Let us redeem the stain on humanity left by the masculinized version of Columbia's name. If we do, it is possible to overturn the institutionalized systems of ignorance, oppression and greed that Columbus brought this Virgin land and reclaim our original inheritance as brothers and sisters with all that is, and all that is possible for us to become.

WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER ?
by
Alice Walker

We have a beautiful mother ?
Her hills ?are buffaloes; Her buffaloes hills.
We have a beautiful mother ?
Her oceans are wombs; Her wombs ?oceans.
We have a beautiful ?mother ?
Her teeth the white stones at the edge of the water;
The summer grasses her plentiful ?hair.
We have a beautiful ?mother ?
Her green lap ?immense ?
Her brown embrace eternal ?
Her blue body everything we know.

 

Image by Shane Henderson, courtesy of Creative Commons license.

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This recipe provides step by step directions on how you can make mushroom chocolates with the necessary ingredients. Read to learn more!

Why Do People Use Psilocybin? New Johns Hopkins Study
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicines has just published a new study on psychoactive effects of psilocybin. Read here to learn more.

How-To Lemon Tek: Ultimate Guide and Recipe
This master guide will teach you how to lemon tek, preventing the onset of negative effects after consuming psilocybin. Read to learn more!

How to Intensify a Mushroom Trip
Learn about techniques like Lemon tekking, or discover the right time to consume cannabis if you are looking to intensify a mushroom trip.

How to Grow Magic Mushrooms: Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide will show you how to grow magic mushrooms at home. Read this guide before trying it on your own.

How to Dry Magic Mushrooms: Best Practices
Read to learn more about specifics for the best practices on how to dry magic mushrooms after harvesting season.

How to Buy Psilocybin Spores
Interested in psilocybin mushrooms? We’ll walk you through all you need to know to obtain mushroom spores. Nosh on this delish How To guide.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

Having Sex on Shrooms: Good or Bad Idea?
Is having sex on shrooms a good idea or an accident waiting to happen? Find out in our guide to sex on magic mushrooms.

Gold Cap Shrooms Guide: Spores, Effects, Identification
Read this guide to learn more about the different characteristics of gold cap mushrooms, and how they differ from other psilocybin species.

Guide to Cooking with Magic Mushrooms
From cookies to smoothies and sandwiches, we cover various methods of cooking with magic mushrooms for the ultimate snack.

2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

How DMT is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make DMT? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how DMT is made.

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

Microdosing DMT & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing DMT.

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

How Much Does LSD Cost? When shopping around for that magical psychedelic substance, there can be many uncertainties when new to buying LSD. You may be wondering how much does LSD cost? In this article, we will discuss what to expect when purchasing LSD on the black market, what forms LSD is sold in, and the standard breakdown of buying LSD in quantity.   Navy Use of LSD on the Dark Web The dark web is increasingly popular for purchasing illegal substances. The US Navy has now noticed this trend with their staff. Read to learn more.   Having Sex on LSD: What You Need to Know Can you have sex on LSD? Read our guide to learn everything about sex on acid, from lowered inhibitions to LSD users quotes on sex while tripping.   A Drug That Switches off an LSD Trip A pharmaceutical company is developing an “off-switch” drug for an LSD trip, in the case that a bad trip can happen. Some would say there is no such thing.   Queen of Hearts: An Interview with Liz Elliot on Tim Leary and LSD The history of psychedelia, particularly the British experience, has been almost totally written by men. Of the women involved, especially those who were in the thick of it, little has been written either by or about them. A notable exception is Liz Elliot.   LSD Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, or just acid is one of the most important psychedelics ever discovered. What did history teach us?   Microdosing LSD & Common Dosage Explained Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing LSD.   LSD Resources Curious to learn more about LSD? This guide includes comprehensive LSD resources containing books, studies and more.   LSD as a Spiritual Aid There is common consent that the evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. From the described process of how consciousness originates and develops, it becomes evident that its growth depends on its faculty of perception. Therefore every means of improving this faculty should be used.   Legendary LSD Blotter Art: A Hidden Craftsmanship Have you ever heard of LSD blotter art? Explore the trippy world of LSD art and some of the top artists of LSD blotter art.   LSD and Exercise: Does it Work? LSD and exercise? Learn why high-performing athletes are taking hits of LSD to improve their overall potential.   Jan Bastiaans Treated Holocaust Survivors with LSD Dutch psychiatrist, Jan Bastiaans administered LSD-assisted therapy to survivors of the Holocaust. A true war hero and pioneer of psychedelic-therapy.   LSD and Spiritual Awakening I give thanks for LSD, which provided the opening that led me to India in 1971 and brought me to Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharajji. Maharajji is described by the Indians as a “knower of hearts.”   How LSD is Made: Everything You Need to Know Ever wonder how to make LSD? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how LSD is made.   How to Store LSD: Best Practices Learn the best way to store LSD, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long LSD lasts when stored.   Bicycle Day: The Discovery of LSD Every year on April 19th, psychonauts join forces to celebrate Bicycle Day. Learn about the famous day when Albert Hoffman first discovered the effects of LSD.   Cary Grant: A Hollywood Legend On LSD Cary Grant was a famous actor during the 1930’s-60’s But did you know Grant experimented with LSD? Read our guide to learn more.   Albert Hofmann: LSD — My Problem Child Learn about Albert Hofmann and his discovery of LSD, along with the story of Bicycle Day and why it marks a historic milestone.   Babies are High: What Does LSD Do To Your Brain What do LSD and babies have in common? Researchers at the Imperial College in London discover that an adult’s brain on LSD looks like a baby’s brain.   1P LSD: Effects, Benefits, Safety Explained 1P LSD is an analogue of LSD and homologue of ALD-25. Here is everything you want to know about 1P LSD and how it compares to LSD.   Francis Crick, DNA & LSD Type ‘Francis Crick LSD’ into Google, and the result will be 30,000 links. Many sites claim that Crick (one of the two men responsible for discovering the structure of DNA), was either under the influence of LSD at the time of his revelation or used the drug to help with his thought processes during his research. Is this true?   What Happens If You Overdose on LSD? A recent article presented three individuals who overdosed on LSD. Though the experience was unpleasant, the outcomes were remarkably positive.

The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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