City of Refuge
These days, most of the popular media that address the future paint a fairly dismal picture of our possibilities. For me it is a writer’s responsibility to hold out some hope.
Synchronicity and the Mind of God: Unlocking the Mystery of Carl Jung’s “Meaningful Coincidence”
Most of us have, at some point or another, experienced certain unusual coincidences so startling they compel us to wonder about their possible significance or purpose. Do these strange occurrences hold some deep meaning for our lives?
Consciousness Wars
The following is an excerpt from my new book, The Secret Teachers of the Western World. In it I look at the history of the western esoteric or ‘inner’ tradition through the lens of the work of two important thinkers, the German-Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser, and the contemporary neuroscientist and English scholar Iain McGilchrist. My […]
Buddhism and the Psychedelic Society: An Interview with Terence McKenna
Allan Badiner conducted this following interview with Terence McKenna at Big Sur’s Esalen Institute in the Spring of 2001.
Kraftwerk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8: Museum of Modern Art on 10mg 2C-E
I opened up my pharmacopeia. Tonight, Kraftwerk would be performing in the Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art. It was my intention to not just witness this epic cultural event but to immerse myself in it.
Ode to the Psychedelic Revolution: An Interview with Killing Joke’s Martin Glover
Working with Paul McCartney and Lee Scratch Perry has taught me that you are only creatively contained by your own perception of who you are. As an artist you can go anywhere you like…
Deliberate Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness
In the gradual path many meditative approaches offer, effortless mindfulness is considered an advanced practice. However, I contend that it can be just as easy for beginners to learn as deliberate mindfulness.
This Very Moment: Teaching, Thinking, Dancing
Dance involves personal transmission from one practitioner to another, and it spans generations, like Indian classical music, like the living ancient arts of all cultures, like Buddhist teachings.
The Genius in the Bottle: Bioregional Animism and the Viridis Genii
The plant magician seeks congress with a living embodied spirit of a green feral kind, with an intelligence that brings the gifts of healing, divination, wisdom and growth, as well as darker needs and power.
Three Types of Telepathy
In experiments dating back to the nineteenth century, scientists have validated two types of telepathy: instinctual, or feeling-based, telepathy and mental, or mind-to-mind, telepathy. There is another, higher type of telepathy called soul-to-soul, or spiritual telepathy.