Pablo Amaringo Passes

Morgan Maher

Legendary shaman, teacher and artist Don Pablo Amaringo died on the 16th of November, after a lengthy battle with illness. (more)

Lucid Food

Kyle Davis

Featuring over 85 recipes, chef Louisa Shafia's first book, Lucid Food: Cooking For an Eco-Conscious Life demystifies contemporary food issues for the home cook and presents simple, seasonal dishes that follow nature’s cycles. (more)

Woody Plays Daniel?

Jennifer Palmer

In its review of the newly released 2012 disaster movie, The NY Times interprets Woody Harrelson's "doomsday prophet and radio broadcaster" as being based on Daniel Pinchbeck. (more)

Sixth Sense Migration

Bridget Algiere

A new study suggests a visual center in the brain tied to light-sensing cells in the eyes guides birds on their migratory journey. (more)

Why Pigs Can't Fly

Marisa Smith

Scientists have big plans for the newly decoded swine genome, including the development of an H1N1 vaccine for pigs.

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13 Grandmothers in NYC

Remi Gurak

Evolver NYC is a proud media sponsor of a weekend-long celebration of the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers including prayer, healings, prophecy and teachings on sacred medicine.  
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United Knowledge

Erin Shaw

The Traditional Knowledge Initiative explores how traditional knowledge can be applied to climate change, water management, forestry, international policy, and higher education.

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Glory in the Highest (Part Three)

Rob Brezsny

But wait a minute. What about all the people who don't have enough to eat and a comfortable place to sleep? How about the victims of war and epidemics, and the oppressed who live under the rule of tyrants, and the innocents whose lives are distorted by bigotry? Where's their glory in the highest? Why should they feel grateful? Part Three of a three-part series. (more)

Glory in the Highest (Part Two)

Rob Brezsny

I'm arguing against the grain, compiling evidence that the cynics' hypothesis is a delusion. I'm insisting that we are not pitiable actors in the most hellish chapter in history. I'm even inclined to entertain the possibility that the reverse is true: We may be living in the best of times. Part Two of a three-part series. (more)

Glimpse of First Dawn

Chris Kaplan

An ancient gamma ray bursts open a window onto the beginning of our Universe.

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Glory in the Highest (Part One)

Rob Brezsny

What's your position on making love? Do you regard it as one of the nicer fringe benefits of being alive? Or are you more inclined to see it as a central proof of the primal magnanimity of the universe? I'm more aligned with the latter view. Imagine yourself in the fluidic blaze of that intimate spectacle right now. . . Part One of a three-part series. (more)

How Shipibo Healers Cured My Brain Tumor

Aprile Blake

From a Chinese perspective, my condition is conceived as a stagnant one, and this is exactly what I felt was being cleaned out of me; old, stale and putrefied energy.  Somewhere deep in the midst of this strong physiological flushing, I understood that I had found not merely facilitators, but people who could actually cure. (more)

"Telepathic" DNA Stumps Scientists

Kovvy

Somehow, intact double-stranded DNA can recognize similar DNA strands from a distance.  This new revelation has baffled scientists, who have no explanation for this remarkable ability.

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The Ethics of Food

Maya Joseph and Marion Nestle

Today, so many Americans are demanding a food supply that is healthier for people and for the environment, that attempts to improve food policies can be considered a new social movement focused on community food security, organic production, local food, worker rights, animal welfare and fair trade.   (more)

Crop Circles in the Sky

Jennifer Palmer

The "Mystery UFO Halo" seen over Moscow last week is being explained as a rare hole punch cloud--possibly the result of the city's attempts to manipulate the weather in order to decrease snowfall in the city. (more)

The Great Gathering

tony damico

In the recent Project Camelot conference talk, Miriam Delicado discusses "the great gathering" that we are undergoing on a global scale--information made known to her through her ET contacts and work with indigenous tribes.(Video) (more)

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology

Michael Garfield

It wasn’t until the nineties that anyone suggested biology could be better understood by looking at it through the lens of quantum theory. Now, a new kind of science, called “quantum biology,” is beginning to emerge -- and it could change everything we know, again. (more)

My Reconciliation with Christianity

Christophoros

Any tradition with a rigid, circumscribed, dualistic, dogma-based identity is, in my opinion, inadequate and inappropriate for the present conditions we face as a planet. I could not stand to have my beliefs handed to me. I had to construct them from the ground up for and by myself. (more)

Ritual Hijacking

Chris Kaplan

Chief Arvol Looking Horse responds to the Sedona sweat lodge deaths. (more)

Human Being or Human Going?

Xander Stone

Although being is shared by all humans of all cultures and all eras, and by all living creatures, being as an aspect of our human condition and potential is not celebrated in modern Western culture. One way to illustrate the experience of being in an alternative, magical way, is to recall being in love. (more)

Dawkins Defends Darwin

Sue Dougherty

A hundred and fifty years after the publication of  Darwin's Origin of Species, evolution is still a hotly-debated topic in America.  This fall, biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins offers evidence that evolution is true in his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. (more)

Rupert Sheldrake Speaking in NYC

Andy Warren

The biologist Rupert Sheldrake will be giving his talk, "Morphic Resonance, Collective Memory and Creative Evolution" tonight at the New York Open Center. (more)

The Return of Asteroid Apophis

Chris Kaplan

Astronomers breathe a sigh of relief as new calculations reveal it is unlikely that Asteroid Apophis will hit the Earth in 2036--but in the process discover a new possible collision date in 2068.

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Love & Detachment

Kristi Bowman

When we choose to cut cords, we are not saying that we must disconnect ourselves from experiencing or feeling love. On the contrary, once we distinguish attachment from love, we open ourselves up to experience a more powerful, pure, and expansive love, for it is no longer limited to just one person, and no longer based on need. (more)

Mayan Elder Insists 2012 Isn't End of the World

Jennifer Palmer

Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan Mayan Elder, says the doomsday theories surrounding 2012 spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. (more)

Where Will You Be for The Moon Bombing?

Remi Gurak

On Friday morning you can watch a missile hit the moon in search for water. (more)

Celebrating Our Cosmic Journey

James Eggert

Every once in a while it is helpful to experience a true sense of place -- even on a galactic scale. Who hasn't felt a shiver down their spine contemplating the creation, the vastness of the cosmos? (more)

Who's the Crazy One?

Eliezer Sobel

Oh, sure, I thought. I'll take an hour out of my day and pay you a fee, open myself up and pour my heart out, and then stop midstream to either listen to you talk to your residents or else take a call myself from my friend Marty in California . . . No, I don't think so. (more)

Mind Over Money

Stephen Hershey

Recent studies suggest that money can buy happiness if spent in the right place. (more)

The Cleanser

Margaret L. Wade

In some African villages, widows are expected to have sex with a man they call "the cleanser," to make them fit for society again by driving away evil spirits. Now some women are becoming empowered to resist the tradition. (more)