Strategies for 2012

Marisa Smith

In his new book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, futurist John L. Peterson tackles the question of what government and business can do to plan for the Mayan end date.

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Lick the Frog

Tollevin S Williams

Vice Magazine's resident pharmacologist Hamilton Morris risks life and limb in search of the Amazon's psychedelic sapo frog. [Video] (more)

Cosmovision: An Aya Odyssey

Rak Razam

The ayahuasca vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed; South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it. (more)

The Eight-Circuit Brain

Antero Alli

Timothy Leary indirectly turned millions of people on to LSD, but his central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness as a means not merely to get high, but for designing and creating new contexts for their lives. (more)

Crop Circle Ceremonial Complex

Bridget Algiere

Crop circles found during routine aerial surveys have uncovered temples and tombs that may pre-date Stonehenge by 1,000 years. (more)

The Devil Made You Do It. Again

Lisa Kirchner

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

Quantum Biology

Jessica Pherson

Electron tunneling and femtosecond lasers are providing evidence of quantum phenomena in single cells and living systems. (more)

Seeing into the Unseen: A Personal Journey of Discovery

Timothy Wyllie

Encountering aliens, communicating with dolphins, conversing with angels – these confrontations with the unseen worlds can seem outlandish or delusional. Until it happens to you. Now these once subtle, hidden realms are rapidly emerging into greater human perception, and provide us a clue to our planet's true destiny. (more)

The Double Dream of Spring

Brian George

The first act of creation is/was also an act of obfuscation, which is perceived, on the level of the human psyche, as a trauma. What allows us to exist as fully conscious beings is the flip side of the trauma that has cut us from the whole. (more)

Aztec Tomb Discovered

Marisa Smith

Archeologists believe they have found their first-ever Aztec royal tomb.

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National Psychedelic Radio

Alan Scheurman

NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty investigates the science of spirituality while shedding light on the role of entheogens to a wide listening audience. (more)

Cognition Factor

Propaganda Anonymous

Mike Kawitzky's Cognition Factor offers up a kaleidoscopic field of cyberpunk 3-D imagery while asking the most pressing questions we face today. See the RS screening at the Wild Project this Sunday in NYC. [Trailer] (more)

The Light of Darkness

Paul Levy

The root meaning of the word consciousness, etymologically speaking, is "knowing together or seeing with an other." The process of becoming conscious requires both seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. The birth of consciousness itself involves being both subject and object of the process at the same time.     (more)

Rise to the Equation

Remi Gurak

Nassim Haramein will be giving a talk on his unification theories at Collective Hardware in NYC on Friday.

The Body of Being

Jay Michaelson

The sages of Kabbalah often start with what we would deem the conclusion, if the proofs were satisfactory: that God exists, and is Infinite. They ask, if God is infinite, then what is your body, your heart, and your mind, but God itself? What are joy and terror, other than the skin of the Infinite? (more)

The Blue Kachina Dance

Peter Deane

Water In Her Eyes briefly danced with me, and for a moment there was a balance. I then played my Cree flute as the winds became stronger and the electrical grid system was knocked out. All the T.V.s were off. People were out talking to their neighbors. They were all helping each other out. From the old, to the young, I never had seen such a beautiful sight. (more)

Revisiting "Realms of the Human Unconscious"

Stanislav Grof

In the early stage of my psychedelic research, I suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology and medicine or the telescope has for astronomy. My later experience with psychedelics only confirmed this initial impression. (more)

British X-Files Released

Marisa Smith

The UK's Ministry of Defense is finally beginning to disclose the British X-Files. (more)

The Dragonfly Design

Adam Elenbaas

Is nature trying to tell us something? On the heels of the jellyfish crop circle comes a magnificent dragonfly. (more)

Jellyfish Crop Circle

Adam Elenbaas

The newest crop circle is a giant jellyfish. It appeared in a barley field in Oxfordshire, England. (more)

Salvia's Blueprint

Amy George

In my salvia vision, I felt roots growing from my head, through my throat and vocal cords, out of my mouth into the ground. I became afraid at the prospect of being stuck in that spot. My life flashed before my eyes, and I was happy with it. (more)

Twitter Gets Psychic

Jennifer Palmer

University of Hertford- shire's Richard Wiseman asks Twitter users to test out their remote viewing skills. (more)

2012 in Boston

Remi Gurak

On June 6th, The Emergence Project will host a conference on the 2012 phenomenon. (more)

The Secret Sacred Use of the Belly Button

Joanna Harcourt-Smith

I always thought my belly button was ugly, it sinks in deep. I wanted a belly button that was just a slight scar on my tummy, not a belly button you can sink your finger in. Well my belly button was to come in handy during the time I visited Timothy Leary in prison. (more)

Sunspots throughout History

Bill Machon

Space- weather's Sunspot Plotter lets you see how solar activity may have caused, or at least affected, events in history.

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Upcoming 2012 and Miscellaneous Pinchbeck Events

Daniel Pinchbeck

A bevy of enticing upcoming events feature Evolver co-founder Daniel Pinchbeck giving his particular skewed perspective on what may or may not happen in the near and far-fetched future.

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Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic

Tony Vigorito

Synchronicity, the sensation that something magical has just occurred, is but an artifact of our limited technology of mind. It is only astounding when we persist in the delusion that we are distinct from the all and everything. Expanding consciousness beyond the limited point of view of oneself -- this is the technology of magic. (more)

Heaven and the Hummingbird

Morgan Maher

In this interview, author, healer and psychologist Ross Heaven explores the magic and mystery of San Pedro, its relationship with ayahuasca, and the cross-cultural use of plants for healing. (more)

Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy

Joseph Gelfer

Since the 1990s there's been much interest in a "masculine spirituality" that offers little more than a thinly veiled patriarchal spirituality. The mythopoetic, evangelical, and Catholic men's movements all promote it, in various forms. Can we envision a masculine spirituality that resists old, patriarchal tendencies? (more)

The Secrets of Crop Circles

Tristan Gulliford

The German documentary New Swirled Order aims to uncover the mystery behind the geometrical designs of crop circles. [Video] (more)