Fasting
Fasting enhances detoxification, reduces inflammation, and increases production of antioxidants. It targets the feminine
DNA of mitochondria improving energy production, brain function, and clarity, and accesses healing feminine energy.
Psycultures: Theorizing the Globalization of Goatrance
In this interview, Graham St. John discusses his groundbreaking
study on the global electronic dance music movement, a culture of personal transformation celebrated in a collective fashion.
“Sharing” and the Surveillance Society
The Puritans seem to be gone now, but their surveillance society has intensified. The forced confession of sins before the assembled
community has become the compulsion to self-report, hourly; anyone who does
not is viewed with suspicion.
Our World: Shamans and Spirits
Shamanism is characterized by an
intentional change in consciousness to interact with spirits. Troubles of a spirit nature can have serious repercussions in a person's life. It is the task of the shaman to heal such persons.
In an Open-Minded Way: Jack Hunter on an Ethnography of Anomalous Phenomena
Since the late 60′s parapsychology has sought
objective verification for the phenomenon in the laboratory rather than
cultivating the experience as a participant in the field. Jack
Hunter is working with a group of researchers
that are changing this trend.
Unraveling Some Strands: Seeking the Origin of the Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor
The prophecy of the Eagle and
Condor, which is common to several traditional
indigenous cultures of North, Central, and South America, points to a time when humans face the evolutionary choice of moving into symbiotic presence within the
more-than-hum…
Syllable and Sound
It is the ultimate estranging Enlightenment thing to
reduce God to an entity that, like the brain, can be weighed and compared pound
to pound. But then once you have taken that plunge, it is hard to resist going
the whole hog. Is he middle class? Is he even a guy?
A Sorcerer’s Corner: Carlos Castaneda’s Doomed Romance with Knowledge
Carlos Castaneda was called "the godfather of the New Age" by Time magazine. He has also been denounced
as a hoaxer, opportunist, and liar. But there is simply too much in the books
of obvious merit for me to believe that he made it all up.
Digital Dead Sea
The famed Dead Sea Scrolls, described by some as the most important archeological discovery of the 20th century, are now available online for digital viewing.
The Power of the Poppy
Approximately 7,500 years ago agricultural communities began
to develop along the Danube basin. Within two centuries they had spread from Belgium to Ukraine. Unlike their hunter-gatherer ancestors, they planted crops, using seeds from the Near East. Amid all those eastern plants was one that came from the southwest — Papaver
somniferum.
