The collective unconscious has pulled the Trump Card on us from the shadowy bottom of the deck and we need to understand it as an oracular splinter in our mind.
Modern Fictions – How the Sacred Manifests in Chaos, Superheroes and Outer Spaces
Gnostic ideas are being gnawed over, processed, and consumed in ever more popular forms of culture. Perhaps through the loss of our gods we have had to become our own multiple gods, as we realized a need to fill a vacuum left by myth.
Art Shaman from Times Square
In September of 2014, through a mutual friend, I met Myztico Campo in his Brooklyn studio. I was very much taken with his paintings. We talked about doing an article for RS. I did some research about his life and work in various media and was struck by parallels in our respective life experiences. The interview turned out to be more of a conversation.
Why Did Our Brains Stop Expanding?
In the forest the human brain was expanding at a phenomenal rate. Around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, this process came to an end. The brain stopped expanding and started to shrink. Brain shrinkage appears to coincide with major dietary change.
Radical Spirituality for a Radical Generation
The Occupy Movement was brought on by a sudden burst of discontent by America’s youth. Though such anger was originally pointed at Wall Street, the movement encompasses a much deeper spiritual awakening.
Don’t Pray the Grey Away — Alex the Grey versus Alex the White
Expect some long tangential forays into cultism and
guru abuse which may seem far afield of Alex’s work,
but which I believe will be of interest and relevance to many readers. Alex wrote a response and that’s posted at the end of the article.
Marijuana Legalization is Not Enough! Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World
The drug war edifice is cracking and the end of prohibition may be nigh.
The future of cannabis is up for grabs — as
much as anything can be in our ailing, corporate-dominated culture. So
why not think big? Here are some ideas.
The Media Ecosystem
Corporate media and hamburgers have a lot in common. They succeed because they stimulate the pleasure centers of our brains. Media makers now have to make a turn toward planetary ecology to become aware of how our forms of mediation impact living systems.
A Gate-Crashing Journey at Joshua Tree
Through many years of yoga practice, I had developed an easy talent for accessing unusual
realms of consciousness. Yet I was aware that another set of tools existed for such attainment. Could eating hashish enable me to — as the song by the Doors put it — break on through
to the other side?
A Child of God in Misery: On the Origins of Spiritual Retardation
Consumerism robs us of our ability to define our own
experience. There is a malevolent force afoot in this
world, an historical movement to transform humanity's wild-begotten beauty into
a panopticon so ubiquitous that the very concept of escape becomes an archaic
curiosity.
