"If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth."~ Julian Assange"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be."~ P C HodgellHuman life is confusing. A human's purpose in life is to make it less so.The healthiest desire a
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, as they say, then smartphone cameras are the windows to the soul of our society.In ages past we knew hardly anything about what was going on in a given civilization. Mythology about a population's history were
Revolution--the real kind--is an inside job.This is not a click-friendly fact to highlight. Whenever I talk about revolution as having more to do with sincere inner work than with demonstrations and pitchforks and the proletariat rising up against the bourgeoisie, I get met with a
You start out in the first womb and it's alright. There's not much to do but you don't get any bills, you never have to worry about where your next meal's going to come from, and you don't have to read anybody sharing their opinions
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