2016, Planetary Mythologies and the Crisis of the Serpent
2016 isn’t the culprit. The mythologies we’ve used as a global culture are collapsing around us. Where do we look to find new ones?
The Importance of Seed Diversity: An Interview with Sean Kaminsky
Many people decry GMO seeds and corporations’ patent games, but few realize the full importance of seed diversity. Sean Kaminsky has made a film about the importance of seeds.
The Spirit of the Stratocaster: Talking Wolves and Ayahuasca with John Sheldon
After ayahuasca taught him to connect with divine energy, guitarist John Sheldon found a scintillating focus for his life’s work, writing songs that tell a new story about wolves in North America—and how we can save them from extinction.
The Mariner’s Rule
One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all. It’s a valid question, and it deserves a serious answer.
Eco-Networking Center at Envision Festival 2015
This center will be a place where ecocentric and regenerative design workshops, facilitated world cafes and open space exercises, and networking activities will take place all weekend!
Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums
I spoke with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.
Entheodelic Storytelling: A Conversation with Magenta Imagination Healer
Magenta is the Executive Director of the non-profit Evolver Network, which coordinates and supports a network of grassroots consciousness “Spores” across the globe. I had the pleasure of speaking with her about psychedelics, digital magick, education, and more.
Rehearsing for the Future at Boom Festival
We are seeing festival culture move beyond being merely a hedonistic playground and into a realm where radical engagement can occur. On a recent pilgrimage to Boom festival I witnessed a vibrant resurgence of psychedelic culture, a strong sense of oneness in a sea of global cultures, and a devout application of ecological principles.
Life, Death, Sex, and Mutant Flowers
I have a mutant in my garden. It is a flower of the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. Digitalis is a perfect example of how even those who dismiss herbal medicine rely on it on a regular basis, even if they do so ignorantly.
The Moccasin Flower’s Challenge to Our Ego
Many people do not realize that wild orchids grow in North America. Not only are our native orchids among our most beautiful wildflowers, they offer profound lessons for us about who we are as a species and as individuals.