The discoveries of quantum physics require a novel response in us which, when more fully understood and integrated, will irrevocably change us─both on the individual level and as a species.
Paul Levy
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In the three years since the dizzying days of mass protests in Cairo, we have seen uprisings from Tunisia to Thailand, from Bosnia to Venezuela. But as the uprising in Kiev devolve into a Cold-War scenario, we must ask the question "What has changed?"
Mark Heley
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After 13 years of professionally shooting and producing a stunning body of work, photographer and artist Sequoia Emmanuelle is compiling it all in a hardcover coffee table book, Duende, which is being supported through her Kickstarter page.
Faye Sakellaridis
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When I met the GZA, I spoke with him about my idea for an article comparing his and RZA's birth charts. The resulting investigation aims to delineate the astrological principles reflected in the struggles and strengths of these two most notable MCs.
James Moran
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In a Psychedelic Hall of Fame, the section on chemists would be small; there have only really been two giants in this field — Albert Hoffman, who first synthesized LSD-25 and psilocybin, and Alexander Shulgin, who seems to have invented nearly everything else.
James Oroc
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If the universe is One, all is out of the One, the One is in all, and the cosmic spirit is in ours. This is the message of the quantum phenomena, and it is Hegel’s message: The cosmic spirit itself is thinking in us, becoming conscious of itself.
Lothar Schäfer
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In the 19th century an architect named William Stirling anonymously published a book that helped us rediscover the ancient secrets of sacred geometry. Today it's time to rediscover these secrets again, and apply their insights to our world in crisis.
David Metcalfe
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Positive thinking forms the keynote of modern life. Like all widely extolled principles, from healthy eating to thrifty spending, aspiration toward positivity seems like it has always been with us. But the concept is newer than we think.
Mitch Horowitz
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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.
Benton Rooks
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Since it is becoming overwhelmingly apparent that our world is in a deep set of crises largely created by humanity, it would be logical to think that it is the time to walk out of these failing systems, and walk onto systems that do work.
Magenta Imagination Healer
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In 1836, Emerson declared “every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.” Harvard Divinity School’s foremost Talmudic scholar, Jon Levenson, makes a similar observation: “Geography is simply a visible form of theology.”
davidtitterington
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Things are always ending, and always beginning. As winter folds into spring, let us take nature's cue and reflect upon the death of the old gods and the evaporating presence of history.
Jeremy D. Johnson
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While Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium depicts a highly exaggerated science-fiction future, and Charles Shaw’s The Plastic People presents the grim conditions of the all-too-real present, the inspiration for both films came from the same brutal streets of Tijuana.
Brian Duffy
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My monthly moon waste is organic waste, but it’s waste just the same – it takes water to flush, and resources to produce, package, distribute and market, and any way you look at it waste, waste, waste.
Dani Katz
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After I had studied with Don Juan for a year and a half, he decided it was time to present me with my initiation as a curandero. At the time I really didn’t understand the significance of this.
Alan Shoemaker
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The psychedelic movement is now entering a renaissance. How did this psychedelic revolution come about? What are its goals and its ideals? Are they different from the first psychedelic revolution of the 1960’s, or is this just fashion reinventing itself?
James Oroc
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Useful but improbable pathways into the future can be created or made more probable through at least two mechanisms: causality and synchronicity.
Amy L. Lansky PhD
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The role of the artist is to find deep personal experiences and ways of relating and share them with others. It's to be the mirror that much of our society – with its constant consumer blitz – is not.
Nese Devenot
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In the ‘90s, a lot of us working on social justice projects were also working for the dotcoms. As the movement began to fade, and the dotcom boom went bust, it became clear that venture capital wasn’t going to fund our work, so we created venture communism.
KMO
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The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself...In ordinary life, the struggle is [for symbols]...whoever first defines the situation is the victor.
Jonathan Zap
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In celebration of the new Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Joel Achenbach wrote a feature for Smithsonian about Carl Sagan's enduring impact on the popularization of science. Achenbach visited the recently-available Sagan archive at the Library of Congress and highlighted some great bits, including details of Sagan and astronomer Frank Drake's 1974 visit with bOING bOING patron saint Timothy Leary while Tim was incarcerated.
David Wilder
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For the first time ever, the out-of-body experience has been scientifically analyzed and documented by a team of scientists. After studying the brain of a woman able to induce OOB's at will, they were able to identify the correlative brain activity.
Faye Sakellaridis
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Georgia Tech Professor Gil Weinberg has created a robotic drumming prosthesis that can be attached to amputees. It motors two drumsticks - one is controlled by the wearer, while the other "listens" and improvises accordingly.
Faye Sakellaridis
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TIMEWHEEL talks with Spiral Out about Tool, how to Spiral Out, religions roots in psychedelia and much more on this episode of the Psychedelic Spirituality Podcast. Listen to it here.
Faye Sakellaridis
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This 1967 document by Lisa Bieberman, published shortly after LSD was made illegal in the US, serves as a guide for those trying LSD for the first time.
Faye Sakellaridis
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Join hosts David Metcalfe and Scott Olsen for the live, interactive video course, "Sacred Geometry and Alchemical Transformation: The Mystery of Squaring the Circle," and explore the geometry of the ancients. Starts TOMORROW!
Faye Sakellaridis
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After a class on out-of-body experiences, a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa came forward to researchers to say that she could have these voluntarily, usually before sleep. "She appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this," wrote the scientists in a study describing the case, published in February in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
David Metcalfe
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Essential viewing for those who wish to better understand how dire the mission of healing sick souls through ancient spiritual technology is, as the shamanic resurgence now begins to dawn on a global scale.
Benton Rooks
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Society 3.0, a book originally written in Dutch by Ronald van den Hoff, has been newly updated and translated in English. Society 3.0 investigates the issues of modern society, and provides a roadmap for a cultivating a more collaborative future.
Faye Sakellaridis
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Wikipedia editors are ignoring the fact that parapsychology is sanctioned as legitimate by mainstream science. Yet another fact disallowed on Wikipedia.
Dean Radin
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Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Rhine Research Center discusses a new research publication about mediumship titled "A Counseling Approach to Mediumship: Adaptive outcomes of Grief following an Exceptional Experience" featured in the Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology
David Metcalfe
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Studies conducted over a period of 35 years suggest that the human body "can apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 seconds in the future."
Faye Sakellaridis
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Today (March 9th) is Spring Ahead! day, the day we finally get back the hour of sunlight stolen from us each year by some sort of bureaucratic insanity that, with Orwellian Doublespeak, calls its unconscionable annual theft of light"Daylight Savings Time."
Jonathan Zap
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Alchemy is an initiatic system in which you may have no delusions. It is the only initiatic path where there is an objective control in the laboratory.
David Metcalfe
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Lynn Hershman Leeson has been making art and films about the thin line between the real and the virtual for four decades. In this interview, Leeson talks about her connection with Spike Jonez' film "Her," the theme of virtual characters in her work, and more.
Faye Sakellaridis
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Join hosts David Metcalfe and Scott Olsen for the live, interactive video course, "Sacred Geometry and Alchemical Transformation: The Mystery of Squaring the Circle," and explore the geometry of the ancients. Starts TONIGHT. Don't miss your chance!
Faye Sakellaridis
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As we at The Untz.com count down the seconds to SONIC BLOOM, we put together a mixtape to really demonstrate what these inventive sonic adventurers do.
Keyframe Entertainment
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