My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.
Electric Dirt Zine and the Queer Appalachia Collective: An Interview with Mamone
I’m honored to interview Mamone, a Grammy Award winning audio engineer and producer, and cofounder of Queer Appalachia Collective and the zine Electric Dirt, both dedicated to helping queer folk in Appalachia and the south find their voices, each other, and an audience.
The Accidental Shaman
I came to lying face down, unable to move. The lift appeared to be rising slowly, and the door automatically opened. People were gathered outside (I later found out that the crash had been heard all over the building), and I was carried out to an ambulance and taken to a hospital. My life from that moment on was never the same.
Living in Dangerous Times
I consider television, and most recently the development of social media, to be the most powerful mind-control ‘drugs’ that have yet been developed, with their effectiveness at influencing and controlling docile (and often legally sedated) populations unparalleled in human history.
Your Mind Has Rights: An Interview with Mike “Zappy” Zapolin
Mike “Zappy” Zapolin is the winner of the Amsterdam Film Festival’s Van Gogh award for his documentary film “The Reality Of Truth,” which focuses on the importance of going inside one’s own mind for answers and healing.
From Burning Man to Standing Rock
An in-depth conversation with Bianca Heyming: herbalist, healer, co-founder of the eco-village and intentional community Emerald Village in California, Burner, and Standing Rock water protector.
Notes from Standing Rock
Linda Black Elk is a tribal coordinator of the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council, Lecturer in Ethnobotany at Sitting Bull College, as well as full time teacher and mother of young children. With her permission, I arranged some of her writing about Standing Rock into prose poems. This is the third in a series of Standing Rock Protectors features.
Mindapps and the Neurosingularity Project
Rather than just enhancing current human thinking skills, is the neurosingularity (the idea that future human brains will surpass ours of today) also likely to increase the kinds and number of our brain-based information systems? How might psychedelics contribute?
An Iboga Quest for the Cure for Addiction
“When Moughenda told me that iboga assists in spiritual awakening and brings someone to meet their own soul, I immediately replied, ‘Oh, you mean it can bring you to the beginning of Creation.’ He responded with a resounding, ‘Yes, exactly!’”
The God Molecule
The following article is excerpted from The God Molecule: 5-MeO-DMT and the Spiritual Path to the Divine Light by Gerardo Ruben Sandoval Isaac