Keeping The Portal Open: Erik Davis on TechGnosis and the Blurring “Real” & “Virtual”
Over a glitchy Google Hangout, Erik and I discussed our culture’s highest hopes and darkest dreams for our collective future, and how they’ve both become more complicated since the turn of the millennium.
Reflections on Damanhur (Part 1)
My impression of Damanhur is that it is one of the hotspots of miracles on earth. Unlike most metaphysical musings, the operating mythology of Damanhur is generating results.
Mysticism: Contemplative and Chemical
Some drugs can indeed induce genuine mystical experiences in some people on some occasions. However, they seem more likely to do so and more likely to produce enduring benefits in prepared minds.
A Retrospective for Transformational Artist, Poet & Writer Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
World-renowned artist, poet, and writer Carolyn Mary Kleefeld & contemporary of Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna & others, celebrates her life’s work and rarely-exhibited paintings with an upcoming Retrospective Show in Big Sur, California.
Eckhart as Sufi
Sufis, the mystics of Islam, have employed poetic language as a way to convey their unorthodox teachings while protecting themselves from charges of heresy. We can see the same approach in the work of the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
View into Skyland
Sky is a paradox and problem explored by phenomenologists and landscape artists. It blurs the line between self and other, and the specific way we perceive it is partially determined by our history, environment, and embodiment.
Mirror of the Heart
Join author of The Good Life Lab, Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, for a Sufi retreat at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors on Sept. 21.
Masonry and the Mysteries of Eleusis Revisited: Threshing Floors and Waterfalls
There are two types of initiation. Formal initiation plants the seeds that through time might blossom into actual initiation. To ensure that formal and actual initiation coincided, psychedelic drugs served in the ancient Mysteries.
The Battle for Our Angel
There is a “battle for the Soul
of the World,” a battle for our guiding spirit in the form of our Angel. We are battling along with the Angel against dark forces, but also to ultimately reclaim and unite with our Angel, our true and
perfect nature.
The Meaning of Sacred Geometry, Part 3: Expanding from the Point
The
primordial point is the world seed, the supreme formative and paternal potency,
which is sown in the primordial womb. What constitutes the
womb of the ‘supernal mother'? Geometry provides the answer as we shall
see.
