After Jill Neimark’s dream NY apartment turned into a nightmare, she came down with severe environmental illness, forcing her to turn to nature in order to heal. She writes about leaving urban civilization behind in this moving essay for Aeon.
The Battle to Save Mt. Shasta
In California, fire and water are the big worries. How can we ensure having enough fresh water? How can we avoid out of control wildfires? In this dialogue, Dr. Arielle Halpern and Andy Fusso of the Mt. Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center discuss serious threats facing the Mt. Shasta area, how indigenous cultures can teach us about solving problems, their lives before they became Water Protectors, and more.
The Way to Standing Rock: Interview with Daniel Garber
An interview with Daniel Garber: Air Force Security Officer, bouncer at an infamous punk club, accountant, Rainbow Warrior, alchemist, artist, and Standing Rock Water Protector.
The Forest of Wonder
As long as environmentalism is approached as a purely rational, technocratic endeavor, it will only tinker at the edges. We need to go deeper. We need a re-understanding of our world as sacred.
This Week in Psychedelics – 6.16.17
LSD king Owsley Stanley’s ‘Sonic Journals’ surface after 50 years, why Dr. Bronner’s Soap is paying millions on MDMA research, man selling fake drugs at Bonnaroo doing ‘God’s work’, the DEA’s warrantless cash grab, and more in this week’s update.
Eudaimonia: Awaiting Lucidity’s Final Chapter
Lucidity has been shaping the West Coast transformational festival scene for the past 6 years with its progressive intentions and beautiful, symbiotic collaboration with its attendees.
Standing Rock Protectors Interview: Cosme Duarte
Standing Rock protesters are fighting to preserve the sacred rites and burial places of indigenous peoples, and protect their water. This interview with Cosme Duarte, a warrior and protector of Standing Rock, is the first in a series.
LSD / Psyche / Psychedelics
LSD and Spiritual Awakening
I give thanks for LSD, which provided the opening that led me to India in 1971 and brought me to Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharajji. Maharajji is described by the Indians as a “knower of hearts.”
A Visionary Art Experience: An Interview with Darren Minke
Keyframe caught up with Darren Minke, publisher and creative director of the groundbreaking collection of visionary artists “Alchemistas: A Visionary Art Experience,” to discuss Volume 2 and his creative process.
All About Art Outside 2015 (Including an Interview with Boombox)
Boombox is one of the featured artists at the 11th annual gathering of Art Outside. It takes place in Texas this week, and reveals a stellar, diverse, and creative vision, with hundreds of musicians/producers, visual artists, workshops, and more.
