Reality Sandwich | Tristan Gulliford's blog

Psilocybin Creates Lasting Spiritual Transformations

Tristan Gulliford

A follow up study by John Hopkins University finds that people exposed to the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms, psiocybin, have lasting positive effects from profound spiritual experiences. (more)

7-5-08

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Commons

Debtor Nations

Tristan Gulliford

Paul Gringon's short film Money As Debt discusses tough questions about why the international banking system creates perpetual debt. (more)

7-2-08

Psyche

Spiritual Healing in the Dream House

Tristan Gulliford

An interview with Rocky Caravelli about his work with the Dream House, a drug addiction treatment center in Mexico that uses the plant extract ibogaine to heal addiction. (more)

6-25-08

Tech

Particle Accelerators and Parallel Universes

Tristan Gulliford

While the innovative projects at CERN laboratory might revolutionize our communications technology, the new LHC particle accelerator could also potentially change our reality into a bizarre parallel universe. (more)

4-30-08

Psyche

Meditations on the Pineal Gland

Tristan Gulliford

A new scientific study suggests a connection between meditation and the activation of the pineal gland. (more)

4-8-08

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Arts

Arthur C. Clarke's Last Words

Tristan Gulliford

Last week British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke passed away, but he's left us a moving video to remember him by. (more)

3-25-08

Tech

Google Is God?

Tristan Gulliford

The Church of Google offers humorous philosophical proofs that the popular search engine may be God. (more)

3-11-08

Tech

Holographic Messages

Tristan Gulliford

Prince Charles recently delivered a speech to the World Future Energy Conference via hologram.(more)

3-5-08

Arts

Future Mutations: An Interview with RU Sirius

Tristan Gulliford

RU Sirius is a writer, musician, and one-time presidential candidate best known for co-founding and editing the early '90s psychedelic cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000. In this interview, RU explores Open Source politics, transhumanism, and the wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson. "There's this group mutation that seems to have grown out of the counterculture – a new and possibly evolutionary, collaborationalist mind-meld." (more)

2-5-08

Psyche

Liminal States with Greg Taylor

Tristan Gulliford

An interview with Daily Grail editor Greg Taylor about liminal oddities such as surrealism, reincarnation, UFOs, secret societies, occultism, shamanism, and cryptozoology. (more)

12-6-07

Music and Trance in Siberian shamanism

Tristan Gulliford

A study of music and trance states in Siberian shamanism.(more)

12-6-07

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Life

Top Ten Temples

Tristan Gulliford

Neatorama lists ten of the most beautiful temples in the world.
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11-26-07

Commons

Believing in Bioneers

Tristan Gulliford

Highlights from the annual Bioneers conference, with practical strategies that environmentalists, social activists, and community leaders can use to move the world toward sustainability.(more)

11-12-07

Arts

Big Label Letdowns

Tristan Gulliford

By letting fans choose their own price for album downloads, Radiohead and Saul Williams have taken their latest music into their own hands. (more)

11-6-07

Tech

Artificial Life: Here It Comes

Tristan Gulliford

Bad boy bioengineer J. Craig Venter will soon announce the first organism created with synthetic chromosomes.(more)

10-19-07

Commons

Quantum Youth Activism

Tristan Gulliford

Quantum Shift TV's "Be the Change! Share the Story!" challenge is awarding $50,000 for the best youth activism videos across the country. (more)

10-19-07

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Arts

Imagining Peace

Tristan Gulliford

On October 9, Yoko Ono will present her latest art project to promote world peace, the Imagine Peace Tower. (more)

10-4-07

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Arts

Sole Survivor: An Interview with Sole

Tristan Gulliford

Anticon rapper Sole talks about his new album with a live band, rap, life, social consciousness, the mountains, and his dogs. "In Europe I learned not to rush to and fro like a crazed American," he says, "to stop, smell the grass, take a walk, have your thoughts, chill, read, sip some wine, feel the sun on your face. And that's what this new album is about. When I talk about politics, or society, or history, its a sub plot to my own thoughts.... like 'Ooh the sunflowers just bloomed, four U.S. troops died in a suicide bombing, the dog shit on the carpet, we're gonna invade Iran, honey is the tofu ready?'"(more)

9-26-07

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Psyche

Soul Projections

Tristan Gulliford

Current research is supporting the phenomenon known as out-of-body experiences. Here are a few techniques to try it out yourself.

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9-10-07

Arts

Def Jux Downloaded

Tristan Gulliford

Underground hip hop label Def Jux offers up a free, fresh downloadable compilation, Definitive Swim.(more)

8-14-07

Commons

Designing Warlocks

Tristan Gulliford

Portland-area wizards, warlocks, and party people are conjuring up their own "designer reality expo" at this weekend's esoZone festival.(more)

8-9-07

Psyche

The Therapeutic Acid Test

Tristan Gulliford

After 35 years, the clinical study of LSD is making a long-awaited comeback.(more)

8-8-07

Arts

Power of Sound Revealed

Tristan Gulliford

The new double album by Libson's Blasted Mechanism fuses reggae, jazz, hindi, ska, prog rock, and electronica into an alien tribal expression. [video] (more)

7-26-07