Writer, publisher, and journalist Adam Parfrey passed away on May 10 at the age of 61. Here is an interview from a few years ago with Parfrey, whose publishing companies Feral House and Process showcased the most fascinating underground culture and lost history for decades.
Hitchhiking to Machu Picchu and Arequipa
Most young males have the impulse to push themselves to the limit, to test their capacities. For me, this time of youthful testing was South America. I did not set out on a self-conscious vision quest in going to South America, but I had inadvertently experienced one.
The cost of wind and solar power keeps dropping all over the world
Wind and solar power are getting cheaper, and renewable energy is starting to compete with new fossil-fuel plants.
Why it’s important to stick with fair-trade chocolate this Valentine’s Day
Chocolate might make a lovely Valentines Day gift, but in many cases, the source isn’t so sweet. Children are kidnapped and worked to near-death to provide chocolate for many big brands. The best thing consumers can do is read labels and buy fair-trade only.
My Meeting with God, or Enlightenment Porn
Enlightenment porn comes mainly in the form of books whose centerpieces are stories of the authors’ enlightenment experiences. In hushed and reverent tones, the author tells you how he became one with the universe. The story is intended to make you lust after an experience just like the one you’re reading about.
Deep Green Jobs
Green work expands the economy by reducing waste of resources, workers
and wealth. Green jobs reduce the
costs of fuel, food, and housing, repair soil, water and
air, and build profound solutions to resource depletion and social inequity.
The Brothers Guthrie: Pagan Christianity of the Early 20th Century
Christianity remains the most acceptable religion in America, but American Metaphysical Religion has
intersected and in many ways transformed Christian belief and practice.
The brothers Guthrie are an excellent example of this.
2012, Climate Change and Permaculture
Shamans and scholars tell us that the close of this
great cycle of the Mayan calendar is not the cue for apocalypse but
rather a new beginning. Yet scientists are now predicting a 4 degree temperature
rise, which will indeed mean the end of civilization as we know it, if
not of human life on earth. The time we live in is a crucial turning point. What can we do?
Biopsychosocial Technoetics and the 99%
Occupy may be an
ethically motivated, bio-psycho-social response to a systemic process
that is being perceived as a threat to the collective organism.
Sacred Economics: Chapter 20, Right Livelihood and Sacred Investing (Part 21)
Etymologically speaking, to invest means to clothe, as in to take naked money and put it into new vestments, something
material, something real in the physical or social realm. Money is naked human
potential — creative energy that has not yet been "clothed" with material or
social constructions. Right investment is to
array money in sacred vestments.
