The True Light Of Darkness

An exploration of the turbulent struggles involved in entheogenic shadow-work.

Psychedelic Plato: A Review of Patrick Lundborg’s Vibed out book Psychedelia

Psychedelia is one of the most essential books in the argument for psychedelic shamanism and self-initiation into metaphysical mysteries—at this critical juncture of the post-internet age.

War God: Nights of the Witch (Chapters 14 & 57)

She realized now that the attraction had begun the moment she’d first set eyes on him weeks before when he lay gaunt and wasted in the royal hospital, on the edge of death. She’d wanted to cut his throat but had ended up saving his life. Read the last of four selections from the new novel War God. 

War God: Nights of the Witch (Chapter 12)

Guatemoc looked back over his shoulder and gave Shikotenka a mocking smile. "Behold," he said, "the precious creature has emerged from its burrow. Creep in my tracks if you wish, oh leader of men, the long grass will hide you." Read the third of four selections from the new novel War God.

War God: Nights of the Witch (Chapter 10)

Alvarado sprang to his feet, sent his chair crashing back and towered over the table, his right hand resting on his sword belt. "Five thousand pesos is a paltry price to betray a friend." Read the second of four selections from the new novel War God.

Our Drive To Bond

Since we’re driven to form bonds, we need to understand how Nature intended us to bond. Until we successfully learn how to couple, how can we follow the example of cells to create larger cooperative communities? Until we successfully learn how to couple better, the next stage of our evolution, wherein humans assemble to form the larger superorganism humanity, is stalled.

Say Know to Drugs

Dr. Ben Sessa’s new book, The Psychedelic Renaissance, is without doubt the best single source of information out there on everything having anything to do with the modern re-connection of science and culture to the psychedelic experience.

Empowering Public Wisdom: Chapter 1, A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics

The public is not just a bunch of isolated disengaged individuals. It is the people in the sense of Lincoln’s memorable phrase “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” When I talk about public wisdom I mean that the public has latent wisdom that can be brought out and then spoken by its public voice — the voice of the people. People can and must empower their public wisdom to have real impact in the world. 

Drugs and Redemption: An Interview with Charles Shaw

Charles Shaw is the author of the gritty memoir Exile Nation, a story about "drugs and redemption." In this interview, Shaw discusses drug culture, cultural attitudes towards addiction and altered states of mind, and what paradigm shifts are necessary as we move forward. 

Naming the Disease of the Soul

My new book, "Wetiko: The Great Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity," talks about the mind-virus that has infiltrated the human psyche.