RealitySandwich - Psyche

2012 Apocalypse: A Rorschach Inkblot Test of Consciousness

Mark Heley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:41:18 -0800

Why is it that the vast majority of opinions being expressed about what may happen as we reach the Mayan calendar of the "thirteen baktuns" end date in December 21st 2012 are overwhelmingly obsessed with disaster?

Could it be that what we are observing is not really about what may or may not happen on that particular day, but instead an emerging into a new state of awareness that is being processed through the fear and uncertainty that surrounds it as the "end of the world"?

Burner Biology

Michael Garfield — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0800

At this year's Burning Man, four evolutionary biologists came together to discuss the deeper issues of evolution. Does it have a direction? Can we use it to inform social action? What form will it take if medicine conquers aging? The result was inspired discussion on the nature of our changing reality.

What is Reality?

Richard Smoley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:40:43 -0800

This article is adapted from Richard Smoley's new book, The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe (New World Library).

Transparency is the Only Shield Against Disaster

Brian George — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:34:35 -0800

When Prayer Meets Medicine

Stephen Gray — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:50:48 -0800

This article is adapted by the author form his book Returning to Sacred World: A Spiritual Toolkit for the Emerging Reality, due out in 2010 from O Books.

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

Jay Michaelson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:42:58 -0800

Spirituality is, in large part, a state-change business. Before you pray, do yoga, meditate, etc., you're thinking about mortgages and to-do lists, but during your practice, something shifts and you feel opened to something that feels "greater." Afterward, you feel refreshed and re-energized. This is what state-change is: moving your mind from one way of being to another. And spiritual seekers have developed a wonderful array of tools to enable it to happen.

Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

Jeff Brown — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:06:36 -0800

The following article is from Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation, published by North Atlantic Books.

No Delay

Divination Preview

Erik Davis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:42 -0800

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

Polyamory on Parade

Amy George — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:21 -0800

This article was written with Coyote Marie and other friends.

baton twirler: Sitting on my gramma's porch last Friday, a voice came into my head clear as day -- which is not something I'm used to, let me tell you! -- and it said, simply, "Love means you have to share it."

Disclosure 2009

Matt Robson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:21:53 -0700

Ayahuasca Pilgrimage?

Robert Tindall — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:33 -0700

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.

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

Marisa Smith — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:09:18 -0700

Down the Rabbit Hole

Hallucinating in the Dark

Bill Machon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:01:39 -0700

A new study, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, reveals that participants of normal health could achieve visual hallucinations after only 15 minutes of sensory deprivation. Interestingly, nobody pressed the panic button that was available to end the experiment.

The Spiritual Nomad

Lisa Renee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:48:11 -0700

Several years ago, Lisa Renee experienced a spontaneous kundalini event that catalyzed an awakening to perceive multidimensional realities and communication with inner dimensional beings. Guided by a Spiritual Hierarchy, Lisa was trained and downloaded with various information to transit into becoming a Spiritual Guide and Energetic Healer during this planets Ascension Cycle. She is a spokesperson for the Ascension (2012 Timeline) and discusses the impacts of the current Energy Shifts upon human beings and human consciousness.

Entheogens in "The Guardian"

Trish Nguyen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:39:30 -0700

Entheogens provide a peaceful way to experience the divine, writes Alexander Beiner, author of the book titled Beyond the Basin. In a recent post published in the UK's The Guardian, Beiner defends how plant-based medicines have changed his life and could potentially aid in shifting cultural conditioning, such as when the mass usage of LSD challenged social norms during the 1960s.

Full Disclosure

Greg Sullivan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:28:20 -0700

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.

Into the Quantum Realm

James Oroc — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:35:17 -0700

The following is excerpted from Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad, published by Inner Traditions.

If we think we can picture what is going on in the quantum domain, that is one indication that we've got it wrong. --Attributed to Erwin Schrödinger

May God us keep

Are We Possessed?

Paul Levy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:41:08 -0700

C. G. Jung, the great doctor of the soul and one of the most inspired psychologists of the twentieth century, had incredible insight into what is currently playing out, both individually and collectively, in our modern-day world. He writes, "If, for a moment, we look at mankind as one individual, we see that it is like a man carried away by unconscious powers." We are a species carried away -- "possessed" by -- and acting out, the unconscious. Jung elaborates, "Possession, though old-fashioned, has by no means become obsolete; only the name has changed.

LSD Re-Emerges as Tool for Therapeutic Research

Kyle Davis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:18:10 -0700

Singing to the Plants

Stephan V. Beyer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:56:58 -0700

This article is excerpted from Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon (University of New Mexico Press, 2009).

Rituals for Lover Earth

Charles Eisenstein — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:55:16 -0700

The medicine man enters the outer vestibule of the sacred healing chamber. He dons the ceremonial vestments and performs the ritual ablutions, purifying himself for the healing ritual that is about to commence. Putting on identical masks, he and his acolytes enter the chamber, to which all others are forbidden entrance. The man they are healing is ready, having been ushered into a deep trance by another shaman using a magical elixir. Within the chamber are the ritual implements, which have themselves been purified, and which none but the initiated are allowed to touch.

Fetishizing the Trigger

Jay Michaelson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:51:28 -0700

A version of this essay appears in the author's new book, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism, to be released this month by Trumpeter.

History and Celestial Time

Walter Cruttenden — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:39:21 -0700

Discoveries like the ancient Greek Antikythera computer (1500 years before the invention of precision geared devices) the Baghdad batteries (2000 years before Volta "invented" the battery) or dental and brain surgery artifacts found in ancient Pakistan (8000 years out of historical sequence) appear "anomalous" within our current paradigm of history. However, they are not unexpected according to the ancient cyclical view.

The Limits of the Limiting: The Failed Suicide of Philosophy

Yakov Rabinovich — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:18:28 -0700

Picture This

The Immanence of Myth

James Curcio — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:30:18 -0700

James Curcio is currently collecting submissions for an anthology entitled The Immanence of Myth (click the following link for submission guidelines). In the article below (a version of the anthology's introduction), he lays out the ideas that will frame the anthology -- particularly concerning the evolving role of mythology in our post-industrial, highly technologized, capitalist society.

Manifesting the Mind Film Screening

Salma — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:13:08 -0700

Sunday, October 4

Manifesting the Mind Film Screening and Discussion

Holy Weirdness

Amy George — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:18:08 -0700

This article was written with help from Coyote Marie.

Jung's "Red Book" To Be Published

Jennifer Palmer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:31:56 -0700

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. The Red Book is Jung’s record of his own hallucinations during a mental breakdown, which he chronicled using words, calligraphy and illustrations in the style of an illuminated manuscript.

The Way of Light: A Healing Journey with Ayahuasca

Rak Razam — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:34:08 -0700

The last time I came to South America I was seeking the mystery of ayahuasca, but this time the "vine of spirits" was no mystery. After drinking with over two dozen curanderos throughout Peru, as recounted in my memoir Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, and living through a grand quest to unite the separate streams of Amazonian and Andean shamanism, I had come to understand that ayahuasca was like a woman, la madre, the mother, and from the infinite abundance of her giving all things were made manifest.

Psychedelics and Nutrition: Carnivorous Cultures vs. Fungal Cultures

Ido Hartogsohn — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:26:20 -0700