Voyaging to DMT Space with Dr. Rick Strassman, M.D.

Martin W. Ball

Dr. Rick Strassman, pioneering psychedelic researcher, discusses his new book, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies – as well as Zen Buddhism, psychedelics and spirituality, Old Testament prophecy and more in this fascinating interview.  (more)

Kurtz in Birkenstocks

Andrew Boyd

[Pilgrimage to Nowhere] • After five days at the Thai meditation retreat, I had yet to find a proper teacher. When I met Roger, I launched into a capsule version of my checkered spiritual past, the eclectic influences; my suspicion of organized religion. As best as I could, I described the harrowing quality of those early mystical experiences. "It was as if I had died," I told him. "You did die," he said with a big smile. (more)

Cosmic Serpents and the Dark Side of Shamanism: Interview with Jeremy Narby

Jonathan Phillips

In this RS video interview, anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby discusses his first terrifying journey with "the spirit vine," the correlation between molecular biology and ayahuasca shamanism, and how modern-day humans could benefit from acknowledging their dark side. (more)

The Roswell Rock

Tristan Gulliford

An unusual rock found near the alleged UFO crash site of Roswell, New Mexico is baffling scientists, leading some to speculate that it may be an alien artifact. (more)

Reviews of the Future

Erin Shaw

From apocalypse countdowns to Y2K parallels, 2012 is running the media gauntlet. (more)

2008: The Return of Chicken Little

Daniel Pinchbeck

A few years ago, while working with shamans in the Amazon jungle of Brazil, I channeled a prophetic voice that announced itself as Quetzalcoatl, the Mesoamerican deity. The voice insisted a great karmic reckoning was on its way. (more)

The Resurrection Before Jesus

Derek Beres

Why did it take a recently discovered stone tablet for scholars to recognize that the resurrection myth is about society, not a particular person? (more)

Daime Dialogue

Adam Elenbaas

The most recent episode of Post-Modern Times features a conversation with Santo Daime Godmother Maria Alice and anthropologist Bia Labate regarding the sacred plant teacher ayahuasca.

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Evolution Begat Religion?

Bill Machon

Evolutionary anthropologist James Dow has created a computer program that predicts religion to be a product of human evolution.

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The European Roswell

Adam Elenbaas

A YouTube buzz video is advertising the release of a British Roswell DVD. The film explores evidence surrounding the supposed crash of a UFO outside of a Welsh village during the winter of 1983. [Video] (more)

Spiritual Psilocybin

Tristan Gulliford

In a follow-up to their ground- breaking 2006 study, John Hopkins researchers have found that the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms produces prolonged and powerful spiritual experiences. (more)

The Presencing of the Other

Daniel Pinchbeck

Whether the subject is crop circles, orbs, alien abductions, UFOs, miraculous appearances of the Virgin, spirit encounters in psychedelic states, and so on, we face the question of the existence of "the Other." (more)

Home Sweet Home: New Moon in Cancer, Alien Disclosure and the Forthcoming American Revolution

VerDarLuz

Since this New Moon falls on many of the USA's personal planets, including the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter, let's discuss what it means for us as a nation to consider our roots, our sense of "security" and Home. (more)

South Korean Crop Circle

Bill Machon

A photographer captures what is believed to be the first documented crop circle in South Korea.

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Eden: Trouble in Paradise

Jonathan Phillips

[The Electric Jesus] • Could the fable of the Garden of Eden be at the root of the titanic problems facing our world? Looking for a "Galileo-type paradigm shift" that could rectify the mess we're in, I found it on my thirtieth birthday. But was I ready for my entire life to turn upside-down? (more)

Dutch Apocalypse

Adam Elenbaas

A recent Dutch article suggests that many of its country's citizens are preparing for the end of the world in 2012. Will 2012 hype avoid the Y2K panic? (more)

Podcast Alembic

Andy Warren

Mitch Horowitz on Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, AyasminA with curandera Wendy Luckey, Dennis McKenna at WPF, and Wes Nisker on "Crazy Wisdom" are all in this week's digest of consciousness-exploring podcasts.

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Fresh Baked Bread

Jay Michaelson

In the Christian story of the Last Supper, Jesus distributes the flesh of God, initiating the first communion. To a Catholic, the significance of the scene is its mythic and theological context. But to a Buddhist, it's about fresh baked bread. (more)

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)

Crop Circle Season Begins

Kal Cobalt

The 2008 crop circle season is off to a suprising start with the discovery of what many call "the most complex crop circle ever found." (more)

Achieving New States of Consciousness Through NLP, Neuroscience and Ritual

Philip H. Farber

Atem is the Opener of the Way; his task is to create the possibility for a whole new pantheon of entities to come forth into the world. Each of us has the potential to engage in the art of bringing forth entities into the sphere of human awareness. (more)

Podcast Alembic

Andy Warren

Roberto Venosa, Cynthia Palmer, Caduceus Mercurius, Robert Thurman, Michael Brownstein, and Ana Forrest are in this week's digest of consciousness-exploring podcasts. (more)

The Cosmically Stressed Election of 2008

Barry C. Orr

Election Day 2008 is marked by a planetary combination that symbolizes the angst generating tension between stasis and change. (more)

Psychic Science

Adam Elenbaas

Post Modern Times has just uploaded its second video segment with the Institute of Noetic Sciences' Dean Radin discussing scientific taboos and psychic phenomenon.

Great Doubt, Great Faith

Andrew Boyd

[Pilgrimage to Nowhere] • "Doi Suthep is the third richest monastery in Thailand. There's a lot of tourist and other money flowing into this place." "The plot thickens." "Money..." "Intrigue..." "And embezzlement." "And murder!" "Murder?" (more)

Ayahuasca Convergence

Bill Machon

Shamans, thinkers, healers, artists, and more are gathering in Peru this month for Convergence 2008, an ayahuasca shamanism seminar in the Amazon rainforest.

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Sex, Age, and Caste: The Ultimate Macrohistories?

Lawrence Taub

Can macrohistories accurately predict future directions? Yes, if the model in question deals with a deep-enough structural level of history. If it doesn't, you are safer going to your local fortune-teller than to a macrohistorian. (more)

Reviving Harvard's Psychedelic Legacy

Bill Machon

Psychedelic researcher John Halpern is seeking approval to investigate the healing properties of LSD at Harvard. (more)

Back To The Future

Bill Machon

Cosmologists are exploring the possibility that time actually flows backward in a mirror universe that is inextricably linked with our own. (more)