In today’s world that is spellbound to the seductive wonders of technology and industry, the modern medicine woman casts her own spell. Hers is a spell that leads the suffering out of despair.
Alexander Wilder, Blavatsky, and the Sunset of American Platonism
The world of Eclectic Medicine and of Emerson reinventing Thomas Taylor to inspire Americans had come to an end, although it would see rebirths in places like the Philosophical Research Society and movements like the New Age of the 1980s.
Neurodharmology: A Book Review of “Siddhartha’s Brain”
You probably won’t be finding any of this in your Zen master’s upcoming teishos, but it is nonetheless worthwhile to get caught up on recent neurological studies of meditation and its impact upon the brain.
Change Your Words, Change Your World: An Interview with Dani Katz
For years, journalist and author Dani Katz has been fascinated with the vibrational frequencies that words possess, and how they program the subconscious mind. Her book “The New P. Handbook Vol. 1: Little Languaging Hacks for Big Change” unpacks the subtle (and some not so subtle) ways our communication, patterns inform our perception.
Healing the Eye of the Cyclops – An Indigenous Prophecy from Homer’s Odyssey
The clash between the Cyclops and Odysseus is, in its unique way, the strongest analog to a cave painting that exists in the literature of the West, containing, as it does, a sacred space where indigenous vision is transcribed for future generations.
Scarlet Crow: An Interview with Marya Stark and Carmen Crow
Powerhouse duo Marya Stark and Carmen Crow combine forces as Scarlet Crow to bring their unique musical medicine to the stage and community. Keyframe caught up with Marya and Carmen to discuss their new album “Remembrance,” women empowerment, mythic influences, the role of divine feminine in their work, and their upcoming projects.
History in the Making at Standing Rock
There is a systemic psycho-spiritual disease—a true madness—that pervades the body politic of humanity, and what is happening at Standing Rock is an acute localized outbreak of this disease.
Neon Tribes – Ecstatic Highs, Techno-Trance and Digital Gnostics
The neon tribes of the digital age are seeking alternative spiritual streams. There is something inherently magical about our technologies of connection and communication, which are now lending their hand to our unfolding cultural topographies.
The Castalians vs the Pranksters
The notoriety of DMT as a perilously mad trip was amplified in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, as author Tom Wolfe related an episode where one of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters was administered DMT at Timothy Leary’s expansive new digs in Millbrook, New York. It was the summer of 1964.
Mind Power: A Manifesto
I am interested in formulating a tough-minded, intellectually defensible, and useful distillation of New Thought ideas. But make no mistake: I am not interested in intellectualizing New Thought. I am interested in using it. And, if I’m able, in helping my neighbor to do the same.
