At some point in your life you've experienced at least one moment of clarity. Maybe it was just a little bit of clarity, maybe you got reamed up the third eye by The Whole Enchilada, but to a greater or lesser extent you caught a
Pretty much all I do here is sit and look at what humanity's overall problems seem to be and find different ways to point at those problems and talk about them.The longer I do this, the clearer it becomes that there isn't actually any separation
Can you sink below the burbling headnoise and feel your flesh singing the sacred syllable?Can you look inward with your original mind and coo to the nest of angel eggs in your chest?Can you turn your back on the neck-craning gossipers, on the eels your parents planted in
You run into a lot of despair in this line of work. The more you learn about the mechanisms of power, the more hopeless things seem at first glance.The political system is totally locked down, with anyone who tries to upend the status quo being
I talk about the power of self-enquiry a fair bit in my musings about enlightenment and human consciousness, so I thought it might be good to tap out a simple how-to on the subject in case anyone finds it useful.Self-enquiry, or self-inquiry, is a practice
In the late 1960s, the sudden widespread availability of psychedelics combined with the circulation of eastern philosophy to the west to begin a radical transformation of human consciousness. Our species, desperate to transcend the residual trauma from two world wars and the existential terror of
Name a quote by Mahatma Gandhi.Odds are the first thing that jumps into your mind is the famous, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." It's a good quote. It's pithy enough to fit on a bumper sticker, and it resonates deeply
After struggling against our own self-destructive tendencies throughout the entirety of recorded history, humanity is now at a point where that struggle is probably going to be resolved, one way or another, within the lifetime of most people reading this.The movie about this struggle has
A radical change in human behavior away from its patterns of oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide will necessarily involve a drastic transformation in humanity's relationship with thought. I've been saying this over and over again in different ways for a long time now, and yet
I've been writing a lot about how the ability to control public narratives is the only real power in this world, and how the need of the ruling elites to wield that power explains everything from the feigned panic about "Russian propaganda" to Wikipedia's bizarre