In this guide we cover different types of meditation, their uses, and benefits. Interested in starting a meditation practice? Follow these tips.
Belladonna Plant Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The belladonna plant has a rich history as a medicine, poison, and traditional herb in witchcraft. This guide tells you all about this “deadly shadeshade.”
Transcendental Meditation Practices for Your Everyday Life
Interested in transcendental meditation? Here we provide an overview of practice techniques and mantras to get you started in your own practice.
Arts / Body / Music / Psyche / Psychedelics / Science / Shamanism / Transformation
The Tradition and Science of Music during a Trip
We explore the traditional role music plays in ceremony, the science of music, and how to create the perfect playlist for your next trip.
LSD / Science / Substance Guides / Substances
LSD Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, or just acid is one of the most important psychedelics ever discovered. What did history teach us?
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.
Honoring the Crone
To age is to understand that you are responsible for gathering gifts and collecting timeless wisdom that you will later share. Only when you are able to stand grounded in your value and speak it will you be prepared to carry the next young woman upon your shoulders.
Down to Om: “Nameless Energy” Album Review
Down to Om’s recently released album “Nameless Energy” is a cinematic work of brilliance that will transport you into another sonic and auditory realm at lightspeed
Thomas Merton on Art as Meditation
Merton “named himself not only the author of ‘many books of prose and poetry’ but also an artist, and though living ‘as a hermit, solitary in the forest in contact with groups of poets radicals, pacifists, hippies, artists, etc. in all parts of the world.’ ”
Here to Go and Back Again: The Lives and Arts of Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin is a prime example of the 21st Century magical multimedia artist, psychedelic explorer, and techno-shaman, and he belongs to the future. His time is now.
