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

Martin W. Ball — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:17:04 -0700

Kurtz in Birkenstocks

Andrew Boyd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:43 -0700

This essay is part five in a five-part series accounting the author's stay in a monastery in Thailand. Click here for parts one, two, three , and four. An abridged version previously appeared in The Sun.

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

Jonathan Phillips — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:05:28 -0700

In 1984, Jeremy Narby travelled to the Amazon to study with the Ashanica. There, he met shamans who claimed they received their plant knowledge and healing power from drinking ayahuasca. This began an adventure that lasted over ten years and

The Roswell Rock

Tristan Gulliford — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:15:20 -0700

The Roswell Daily Record reports that a strange rock recently discovered outside Roswell, New Mexico may be an alien artifact. The small brownish rock, measuring less than two inches across, was found in September 2004 by a local businessman named Robert Ridge who discovered it while deer hunting in Cedar Hill, 17 miles away

Reviews of the Future

Erin Shaw — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:23:40 -0700

2008: The Return of Chicken Little

Daniel Pinchbeck — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:25:51 -0700

This article originally appeared in Conscious Choice magazine.

The Resurrection Before Jesus

Derek Beres — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:47:14 -0700

Daime Dialogue

Adam Elenbaas — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:10:04 -0700

The most recent installment at Post-Modern Times features two women from the Brazilian based Santo Daime ayahuasca church. Godmother Maria Alice and anthropologist Bia Labate discuss the risks of ayahuasca being used as a drug by young people, as well as the benefits of Ayahuasca being used ritualistically and medicinally.

Evolution Begat Religion?

Bill Machon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:02:59 -0700

Using a computer program of his own creation, evolutionary anthropologist James Dow has come across a theory that religion is a product of evolution. His program analyzes how early humans interacted and adapted to co-existing with each other, and the evolutionary benefits of those interactions with regards to the passing on information between people with religious beliefs and non-believers. He argues that religion flourished because of the complexities of these interactions.

The European Roswell

Adam Elenbaas — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:41:59 -0700

In the winter of 1983 a UFO crash was supposedly witnessed and documented by locals across several country farm fields outside of a small Welsh village. One national newspaper covered the story, a small group of civilians were said to have seen the crash site, and a collection of debris supposedly remains.

Spiritual Psilocybin

Tristan Gulliford — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:32:01 -0700

In a follow-up to the groundbreaking study of psilocybin by Johns Hopkins University in 2006, researchers have found that the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms produces a prolonged and powerful spiritual experience in most people who try it.

The Presencing of the Other

Daniel Pinchbeck — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:26:29 -0700

The following piece was written as an "abstract" for a lecture on orbs and other odd phenomena that I will be giving at the upcoming Prophets Conference in Glastonbury, UK, titled "Orbs: Interacting with Other Realms", from July 11 - 13. Information about attending this conference, along with other essays by presenters, can be found at http://www.greatmystery.org/ .

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

VerDarLuz — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:16:42 -0700

South Korean Crop Circle

Bill Machon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:55:52 -0700

Eden: Trouble in Paradise

Jonathan Phillips — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:15:49 -0700

[The Electric Jesus] • I've been turning my Electric Jesus workshop into a book, and here's the first attempt at the second chapter . You can check out the first chapter here. Portions of this chapter appeared in a previous podcast.

Dutch Apocalypse

Adam Elenbaas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:49:13 -0700

A recent Dutch Newspaper, De Volkskrant, released an article saying that thousands of Dutch citizens are preparing for the end of the world in 2012. Although the numbers are greater in the United States, the particular buzz of this article is fascinating.

Podcast Alembic

Andy Warren — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:35:33 -0700

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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The C-Realm Podcast

Fresh Baked Bread

Jay Michaelson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:31:05 -0700

Spiritual Healing in the Dream House

Tristan Gulliford — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:20:44 -0700

Rocky Caravelli is the Treatment Facilitator and House Manager for the Dream House, a drug addiction detox center in Mexico. In this interview we talk about the powerful sacred plant iboga, the process of curing lifelong substance addiction, the usefulness of dreams in spiritual healing, and the spirit of iboga who watches over the Dream House.

Crop Circle Season Begins

Kal Cobalt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:03:49 -0700

On June 1, a 300-foot crop circle was found near Barbury Castle, a hotbed for crop circle activity. Though initially appearing somewhat more humble than circles which have come before, analysis of the "ratchet" design has left many experts breathless with the complexity hidden within its angles.

Achieving New States of Consciousness Through NLP, Neuroscience and Ritual

Philip H. Farber — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:05:37 -0700

This article is excerpted from Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem, newly released by Weiser Books.

Foreword

by Douglas Rushkoff

I DON'T BELIEVE IN TRADITIONAL MAGICK. Nor should you -- especially if you want to learn to practice it.

No, it's probably easier just to get everyone else to believe in it. Then just proceed according to plan and watch the rest of the world conform to your intention.

Podcast Alembic

Andy Warren — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:57:49 -0700

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

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The C-Realm Podcast

The Cosmically Stressed Election of 2008

Barry C. Orr — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:23:35 -0700

Psychic Science

Adam Elenbaas — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:48 -0700

Great Doubt, Great Faith

Andrew Boyd — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:11:42 -0700

This essay is part four in a five-part series accounting the author's stay in a monastery in Thailand. Click here for parts one, two, and three. An abridged version previously appeared in The Sun.

Ayahuasca Convergence

Bill Machon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:40:13 -0700

For nine days (July 10-18), shamanism, science, art, and music will come together in Peru for Convergence 2008, an ayahuasca shamanism seminar in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The extraordinary gathering will feature lectures, exhibitions, workshops, musical performances and ayahuasca cermonies..

http://www.amazonconvergence.com/

Sex, Age, and Caste: The Ultimate Macrohistories?

Lawrence Taub — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:39:50 -0700

Reviving Harvard's Psychedelic Legacy

Bill Machon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:36:24 -0700

Back To The Future

Bill Machon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:07:13 -0700

Cosmologists are at a loss to explain the nature of time as we are able to observe it from within our universe. The very existence of this conundrum leads scientists to conjecture that our universe is part of a greater multiverse, and that time actually flows backward in a mirror universe that is inextricably linked with our own.

God Remixed

Morgan Maher — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:44:40 -0700

Stuart Kauffman, author of Reinventing the Sacred and head of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary, proposes a new engagement with God and the universe to create a "transnational mythic structure" in order to sustain and enrich the emerging global civilization.