Ram Dass: The Life of a Servant of God
Psychologist Baba Ram Dass was a well loved author and spiritual teacher who helped bring Eastern philosophies and psychedelic healing to the Western world.
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María Sabina: The Mazatec Magic Mushroom Woman
Magic mushrooms are incredibly popular today. How they became introduced to into American culture isn’t usually a topic discussed while tripping on psilocybin fungi. We all may have María Sabina to thank for exposing the Western world to the healing properties of the psilocybin mushroom. Who is María Sabina? María Sabina is the mother of …
Not Getting the Joke
Trump is a Perfect Creation, Frankenstein’s Frankenstein sent by Central Casting to Awaken us from the Nightmare of History
The Origins of Yoga Nidra
The origins of yoga nidra are lost in time immemorial, and one could also say that they are lost in the mysterious source of time itself.
The Enlightened Madness of Philip K. Dick: The Black Iron Prison and Wetiko
I have been delighted to learn that the science fiction author Philip K. Dick was, in his own completely unique and “Philip K. Dickian” way describing wetiko—the psycho-spiritual disease that afflicts our species—to a T.
The Singularity is here Art Exhibit March 23-25
In her large-scale paintings, Leah Montalto explores the visible and the invisible, the physical and the metaphysical, envisioning an expansion in both material and inner dimensions.
Inhabiting The City of Refuge: A Talk with Starhawk
Starhawk’s “City of Refuge,” sequel to her best-selling post-apocalyptic tale “The Fifth Sacred Thing,” answers the timely question: how do we build a new world when people are broken by the old? I spoke with Starhawk about what inspired this sequel, science fiction books, and how to get inside the minds of different characters.
Enchantment, Post Halloween
This year’s calendar juxtaposes the treat, Halloween, the most enchanted night of the year, with the most disenchanting, dickish trick of the year, daylight saving time, where government bureaucrats get to act like time lords…
Psychedelia in the Movies
As someone who took LSD whilst training as a film student, I was often struck by the notion that the sheer magnitude and pan-dimensionality of the acid experience could never be even remotely contained within the circumscribed parameters of film – but at the same time I understood the irresistible urge to try nevertheless.
The Sex Radicals: Seven Thinkers Who Can Revolutionize Sex in Our Culture
Sex shame in our lives and sex shaming in our cultural sphere are intimately tangled. Instead of telling you the right way to put a condom on or how to please your lover, this series will examine the lives and theories of thinkers who were interested in pushing sex forward in some cultural way.