2012 Apocalypse: A Rorschach Inkblot Test of Consciousness

Mark Heley

To understand why we project the apocalypse onto 2012, we have to understand where we are in the evolution of human consciousness. Despite our ipods and helicopters, we are still embedded in a cosmology that not long ago thought the Earth was flat. (more)

Burner Biology

Michael Garfield

At this year's Burning Man, four evolutionary biologists came together to discuss the deeper issues of evolution. (more)

What is Reality?

Richard Smoley

What is accounted as real must, among other things, accord with our preconceptions. Nonetheless, the content of our preconceptions may differ wildly according to time and place. Many cultures give far more credence than we do to ghosts, spirits, good and evil, possession, and witchcraft. So did Western civilization five hundred years ago. (more)

Transparency is the Only Shield Against Disaster

Brian George

The lost world that imagines us does not need to be created; we, who are not other than its shadow, must learn how to approach it through the prism of our fear, whose force-fields we must navigate. A hair's breadth of a difference separates discovery from destruction. (more)

When Prayer Meets Medicine

Stephen Gray

When the peyote takes effect and the energy really gets rolling, the songs begin to sing the singers, the drum is a living spirit, and the fire has things to show us. It's a radically different way to pray. If we can find skillful ways to combine the visionary, teaching, healing medicines with our intentions, with our prayers, a whole new landscape of possibility opens up. (more)

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

Jay Michaelson

For most spiritual folks, state change is what it's all about.  Spiritual states have the power to open the mind, nourish the heart, and change the world.  They are, I think, the most important force for social and environmental sustainability on the planet.  And they can be lots of fun, too. (more)

Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

Jeff Brown

By the time we retire at sixty-five many of us cannot even begin to access our real self. With our God-seeds planted in the wrong fields, we have become too tired or ill to really touch the moment. If we don’t shape up, we may be shipped out.  (more)

Divination Preview

Erik Davis

Join me this Sunday, Nov. 8th, on a free call about our upcoming Evolver Intensives tele-seminar series, “Divination: How to Read the Future Now." (more)

Polyamory on Parade

Amy George

It happened in a moment of compassion for my friend. I somehow spontaneously channeled a higher-worldly force that moved through me to sexually heal her. I couldn't stop saying, "There's enough of me to go around." It was beautiful and amazing. How can this be wrong? Is this "cheating"?  (more)

Disclosure 2009

Matt Robson

A prediction that President Obama will reveal ET contact by the end of this year. (Video)

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Ayahuasca Pilgrimage?

Robert Tindall

As a writer on ayahuasca shamanism, and a leader of small groups down to the rainforest to encounter the practice of traditional medicine, I have watched the rising of the phenomenon labeled "ayahuasca tourism" with apprehension. (more)

Ascension, Entheogens & Inter-dimensional Exploration: The RS Retreat

Marisa Smith

RS's latest retreat, The Supernatural: Exploring Other Dimensions, brought together brilliant hearts and minds on some of today's most intriguing topics.  If you've ever wondered what do you'd get if you mixed 2012, ascension, entheogens & inter-dimensional exploration, this retreat just might have offered an answer. (more)

Hallucinating in the Dark

Bill Machon

A new study shows that hallucinations can occur after only 15 minutes of sensory deprivation. (more)

The Spiritual Nomad

Lisa Renee

When one enters a major spiritual transition, it can be so painfully unnerving that it not only devastates one's self esteem, it also undermines our ability to fulfill even our most basic survival needs. This process is designed to cultivate the inner strength needed to face your deepest fears and learn how generous the universe really is. (more)

Entheogens in "The Guardian"

Trish Nguyen

Author Alexander Beiner details how psychedelic experiences have changed his life by deepening his spiritual practice in a recent article published in the UK’s The Guardian.

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Full Disclosure

Greg Sullivan

New Disclosure Project videos reveal Dr. Steven Greer's theories about the reasons for the continued secrecy regarding "black" technology in the government as well as his attempts to make contact with benevolent ETs. [Video] (more)

Into the Quantum Realm

James Oroc

At the subatomic level, where everything is a pulsating sea of electrical possibility, the universe takes physical form because we are here to observe it. Just as the Australian Aboriginals believe that their ancestors sang up the world as they walked through the desert, it is possible that through perceiving, we create the universe. (more)

Are We Possessed?

Paul Levy

Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization." (more)

LSD Re-Emerges as Tool for Therapeutic Research

Kyle Davis

The October issue of Scientific American has published an article on the "problem child" LSD's triumphant return to the medical community.

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Singing to the Plants

Stephan V. Beyer

Some of them will drink ayahuasca, and some will not; some will drink for vision, and some for cleansing. Some drink in order to see the face of the envious and resentful enemy who has made them ill.... All are here for don Roberto to heal them. (more)

Rituals for Lover Earth

Charles Eisenstein

Humanity today is transitioning into a new Story of the People, a new Story of Self, and a new Story of the World. I sometimes articulate it as "The connected self living in joyous cocreative partnership with Lover Earth." Rituals connect us to what is real within these stories. (more)

Fetishizing the Trigger

Jay Michaelson

In America, we're used to hippies being for peace and love not just rhetorically, but politically as well. But in Israel, many "fundamentalists" are actually part of the "peace and love" hippie crowd. These people are pulling a trigger and experiencing the Divine. (more)

History and Celestial Time

Walter Cruttenden

Most ancient cultures believed consciousness and history were not linear but cyclical, meaning they would rise and fall over long periods of time. New evidence suggests the ancient cyclical view could be true. Understanding the cycle might provide insight into where society is headed and why consciousness may be expanding at an exponential rate.
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The Limits of the Limiting: The Failed Suicide of Philosophy

Yakov Rabinovich

Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall walk upon dry ground in the midst of the sea.... Pharaoh and his armies drowned in the flood of material existence and unassimilated sense-perception, not so much through a want of piety as through a lack of philosophy. Jesus would later walk on similar waters, as did such of his disciples as understood the significance of the act. This art was lost to later Christians at the same time that they severed their connection to Judaism. (more)

The Immanence of Myth

James Curcio

Life is a dream you won't remember upon awakening, and myth is that dream retold. We transmit our living mythologies to each other through our art, but equally so through our impact upon one another in our day-to-day lives. (more)

Manifesting the Mind Film Screening

Salma

This Sunday, join Reality Sandwich for a screening of Manifesting the Mind, a film exploring the benefits of psychedelics. Filmaker Andrew Rutajit will be on hand for a panel discussion immediately following the screening. (more)

Holy Weirdness

Amy George

"Ascensionism" is the belief that humanity is evolving into a higher reality. How can we de-mysticize "Ascensionism," bring it back from the cosmos and ground it on the Earth? (more)

Jung's "Red Book" To Be Published

Jennifer Palmer

Sara Corbett’s piece about how Carl Jung’s last unpublished book finally found its way to publication was featured in the NYT Magazine this week.

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The Way of Light: A Healing Journey with Ayahuasca

Rak Razam

So there I am sitting in the dark, exposed to the naked raw emotion of true love as Maria sings to me, and when she is finished there's a pregnant pause like she's waiting for me to speak. For a second my tourist reflexes kick in and I think she wants something, dinero, that I've been drawn back to the level of buy and sell. But she doesn't ask for money. That's not what the mother does. (more)

Psychedelics and Nutrition: Carnivorous Cultures vs. Fungal Cultures

Ido Hartogsohn

The great excitement one gets when biting into lettuce or carrots after a psychedelic experience -- sensing their rich sweetness -- is tantamount, for me, to eating for the first time after six days of fasting. Suddenly, each fruit and vegetable regains its original heavenly taste, as though we are experiencing, for the first time, the real taste of food. (more)