Bringing a new meaning to the term High Priest, Chris Bennett’s Liber 420: Cannabis, Magical Herbs and the Occult reveals a world of lost knowledge about the origins and practices of mainstream religions and underground spirituality.
The Unveiling of the Mysteries: Eliphas Lévi’s Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
Though modern occultism has many sources and streams, a surprisingly large number of them can be traced back to Eliphas Lévi’s “The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic,” which played a key role in kickstarting a revival of magic that remains a significant cultural presence today.
Three Legs Best: Meeting the Sphinx on the Artist’s Path
Whether the sphinx is seen as a metaphor for society, the artist’s self-doubt, or the creative process itself, if there is to be art—immortality attained—then the monster must be defeated and toppled from its perch.
The LSD Study: You’re Being Subtly Deceived (Again)
Stigmergy happens when agents co-ordinate their actions indirectly, through the local effects of their behavior in the environment. There is vicious, insidious stigmergy in our society today. The agenda of this stigmergy is the maintenance of materialism.
The Initiatory Path in Fairy Tales
In the etymological and true sense of the word, initiation means “to put on a path, to introduce someone into a way.” It involves a dynamic projection starting from an initially static position.
Free Will Astrology: Week of June 11
Here are your horoscopes for the week, featuring prescriptions for loving your life even better than you already do.
ISHAR: A New On Line Library for Mind/Body Research
The Integrative Studies Historical Archive and Repository, ISHAR, has launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo.The goal of this on line library is to provide one stop shopping for Mind/Body research.
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.
Jeremy Rifkin on the Zero Marginal Cost Society and the Decline of Capitalism [Singularity 1 on 1]
In this Singularity 1 on 1 podcast, social activist, economist, futurist, and best-selling author Jeremy Rifkin speaks with Nikola Danaylov about capitalism, artificial intelligence, decentralized power and Bitcoin, and more.
Circumambulating the Alchemical Mysterium
The effort to define alchemy to everyone’s satisfaction may well be impossible. On one hand, alchemy needs to be defined in a way that encapsulates the living breadth and depth of the world’s alchemical traditions. On the other hand, such a definition must also be internally consistent with the many specific, historically contingent (and at times contradictory) expressions of alchemy.
