Prophecies, Prediction, and Anticlimax 8.25.2015
What should we make of yet another major apocalyptic forecast circulating on the web? The market just plummeted. This one says we’re in for it next month.
What should we make of yet another major apocalyptic forecast circulating on the web? The market just plummeted. This one says we’re in for it next month.
Once upon a time, the universe was sacred and unfathomable by simple
emanation. Humans accepted the operations of nature as the mirror and
counterpart to their own existence. Before quarks and
Big Bangs, they called it Spider Woman and Corn Mother. These are not fables; they are hard-won intuitions of something
before form.
The lie of separation in the age of usury is now complete. We have explored its farthest extremes, and have seen the deserts and
the prisons, the concentration camps and the wars, the wastage of the good, the
true, and the beautiful. Now, the capacities we have developed through our
long journey will serve us well in the imminent Age of Reunion.
A zendo with zafus
for meditation and chanting is not the same brand as a lodge hall with quartz crystals and circles for conducting séances. But theosophy and Buddhism are both running subtle energy.
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In the words of Dennis McKenna, Peter
Gorman has "been way, way beyond the chrysanthemum on many a dark jungle
night." Gorman's long awaited book Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of
Medicine Dreaming tells the story of his long, deep relationship with
ayahuasca. This book review, and an interview with the author, sets up camp to
explore the edges of an astonishing journey.
It's a not-so-dirty little secret that most of today's leading meditation teachers were interested in drugs. By "drugs," of course, I don't mean alcohol or Oxycontin, but rather that subset of chemicals which our society has deemed unfit for human consumption, including cannabis, psilocybin, MDMA, and others.
As I dropped off to
sleep I heard the Goddess in Celia say, "I pray that Rob will become a
paranoid in reverse. He will know that all of reality is always
conspiring to help him, and he will try to prove to everyone everywhere
that the same is true…