Yoga, Ayahuasca, and a Course in Miracles: Notes on the Ongoing Revelation
Yoga helped bring me to ayahuasca, and ayahuasca brought me to A Course in Miracles (ACIM). To me, ACIM is the Master Teacher that has elucidated both yoga and ayahuasca. Ayahuasca takes you down the rabbit hole to give you the experiences towards which the Course is pointing.
Our Secret Teachers: An Interview with Gary Lachman
I had the pleasure of reading through Gary Lachman’s astonishing new book this spring, “The Secret Teachers of the Western World.” Gary was kind enough to answer some of my questions.
Jan Kounen on Visionary Ayahuasca
I spoke to acclaimed filmmaker Jan Kounen (Blueberry, 2004) recently on art, consciousness, and his most recent book Visionary Ayahuasca.
The 8 Laws of Change
Everything starts with one person holding an intention and making decisions expressing that intention. This process constitutes one of the least understood social forces in our world.
The Living Universe
The mechanistic view of the universe, where everything is separate, creates isolation and depression and loneliness and hopelessness. But when we step into this bigger picture of the Living Universe, then all of a sudden we are independent free agents, but we’re also supported by this deeper web of relationship that makes us feel empowered.
Reflections on Damanhur (Part 1)
My impression of Damanhur is that it is one of the hotspots of miracles on earth. Unlike most metaphysical musings, the operating mythology of Damanhur is generating results.
The Rise of an Intuitive Humanity
There is something immensely exciting happening here on this planet. Something is rising within us, amongst us, through us, and penetrating the very fabric of our reality. It is a transformation without words, passing through each and every individual.
Ex Machina, et al, and the Metaphysics of Computer Consciousness
How can something with neither mass nor dimension arise from that which has mass and dimension? How can that which has subjectivity and intentionality arise from that which has objectivity and has no intentionality?
Ex Machina: Are Homo Sapiens Failing the Turing Test? A Dialogue with Alex Garland
This dialogue with writer/director Alex Garland is meant for people who have already seen Ex Machina (plot spoilers abound). The conversation ranges from looking at the film as a Turing Test directed at the human species to a discussion of psychopathy, evolution, and the illusory nature of perception.
The Reality Nervous System
We do not need to postulate a whole material universe outside of consciousness anymore. Empirical reality is merely the outside image – the external aspect – of the mental activity of a cosmic consciousness.