Trippy Talk: A True War Story with VETS Inc.
In this interview, Marcus and Amber Capone, founders of VETS Inc., share their moving story and mission to bring psychedelic therapy to veterans.
In this interview, Marcus and Amber Capone, founders of VETS Inc., share their moving story and mission to bring psychedelic therapy to veterans.
Imagine a world where every house plant and tree could see, remember, and judge everything around it. Unfortunately for naked Zumba enthusiasts this is reality not fiction.
The clerk watched me embarrass myself as I pulled out a palmed hand full of nickels and dimes. “Here, I’ll buy out your change. So you don’t have to carry all that,” he said, and I refused until he practically shoved two bucks in my hand.
When we surrender the need to figure it all out and cultivate the
ability to let it all in, then our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of
healing service on the planet. More than the world needing saving, it
needs loving.
Byron Metcalf is a musician in touch with this resonance and rhythm
of mysteries in the unseen realms of the shamanic experience. I sat down to talk with Byron about his work and his interest in shamanic states of consciousness.
We twenty-first-century humans
block most possibilities for psychospiritual growth, but faith is not frivolous. The Dalai Lama doesn't have a
puerile, delusional intelligence, nor does a monk feeding the poor in
Algeria, or a nun in Colombia. These are mature, sophisticated beings with a
measured sense of who they are and what the universe is.
These personal accounts capture life at Zuccotti Park, as experienced by a young Civil Rights attorney and mother who arrived at the Occupy Wall Street protests a skeptic, but who was quickly pulled in by the excitement of witnessing a new movement being birthed.
The author is approached by a spiritual teacher and healer who invites
him to the woods of Maine to hear an interesting proposition, after which he heads to Boston to lead the protest movement at the Democratic National Convention, and finds a city under military occupation.
We return to Boston for the explosive conclusion to the DNC protests,
and then journey back to Maine to decompress with Wolf, with unforseen
consequences.
With real life "Avatar" scenarios playing out over the millenia, the movie is more documentary than pure entertainment.
Poet, singer, songwriter and anarchist genius Tuli Kupferberg died on Monday. A founding member of the Fugs, the first underground rock band, he was 86.