Elephant: Teacher of the Buddhic Way

When we are around elephants, something magical, elevating, and awe-inspiring occurs. Simply put, elephants make us happy. They elevate our spirits. They bring peace to our hearts. They make us feel joyous.

Nepal’s Lost Horizon

I began a journey with Nepal and her people in 1993 and was straightaway humbled and magnetized by the culture, larger-than-life mythologies and warm-hearted hospitality.

Lust Is the Teacher: Vladimir Solovyov’s Sexual Love

What if we took lust and desire seriously as a form of wisdom and meaning, not just chemical response? What if lust is a sort of faithfulness? What if lust is the ideal of love and not the other way around?

Ensconced in Eros, Bathed in Beauty

Allowing Eros in our hearts and bodies probably will not happen in the midst of traumatic or life-threatening situations. However, as soon as possible after the emergency passes, the body and psyche need the comfort and healing salve of Eros.

Philosophy and Psychedelic Phenomenology

Due to the general legal prohibition and modern cultural taboo against psychoactive chemicals, the academic discipline of Philosophy has left a potentially bounteous field of enquiry virtually unharvested.

Reality and the Psychedelic Experience

This possibility of hope in the face of clear and present danger to the biosphere is an opportunity not to be squandered in prohibition on the one hand, or in uninhibited silliness on the other. In my kindest moments I see humankind vis à vis psychedelics and their uses as very much in the monkeys-discovering-fire phase.

A Disconcerting Concert: Coniunctio Oppositorum in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 is the prototype of concerting perfection. The orchestra being the woman; the piano, the man; their music together, lovemaking.

J. R. R. Tolkien and the Intensified Trajectory of Consciousness

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.

Saturated with Spirit at Nihue Rao

At the beginning of the ceremony, I had asked the ayahuasca to fill me with the medicine teachings. Later on as I lay suffused with radiant love, as I felt an infinite and perfect compassion for all beings, the ayahuasca said to me "This is the highest of all the medicine teachings."

A Sorcerer’s Corner: Carlos Castaneda’s Doomed Romance with Knowledge

Carlos Castaneda was called "the godfather of the New Age" by Time magazine. He has also been denounced as a hoaxer, opportunist, and liar. But there is simply too much in the books of obvious merit for me to believe that he made it all up.

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Elephant: Teacher of the Buddhic Way

Nepal’s Lost Horizon

Lust Is the Teacher: Vladimir Solovyov’s Sexual Love

Ensconced in Eros, Bathed in Beauty

Philosophy and Psychedelic Phenomenology

Reality and the Psychedelic Experience

A Disconcerting Concert: Coniunctio Oppositorum in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto

J. R. R. Tolkien and the Intensified Trajectory of Consciousness

Saturated with Spirit at Nihue Rao

A Sorcerer’s Corner: Carlos Castaneda’s Doomed Romance with Knowledge

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