Tristan Gulliford's blog

Visionary artist Robert Venosa lived in pursuit of beauty and truth, weaving together personal experiences with spirituality, philosophy, and plant shamanism to create vibrant, living works of art.

Speculations on ideas for future modes of social organization found in the writings of yogic mystic Sri Aurobindo.

Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine are based on the premise that health depends on the proper flow of life energy through the body. We can compare the descriptions of these systems in religious texts with known facts about human neurobiology.

The Bilderberg Group, an influencial gathering of global elites, meets this week in Switzerland to dictate the public policy of sovereign countries.

A new 'open source history' project aims to document the crazy story of Mondo 2000, a counterculture magazine that helped popularize transhumanism, cyberpunk, and psychedelics back in the late 80's and early 90's.

The German documentary New Swirled Order aims to uncover the mystery behind the geometrical designs of crop circles. [Video]

Is online television an alien plot for the mind control of humanity? Alec Baldwin may hold the answer.

In a promotional video blog for the next Emmerich disaster film, 2012, Woody Harrelson gives "crackpot" prognostications about our impending doom. [Video]

An interview with experimental hardcore band An Albatross about channeling the energy of chaos for live shows, their new collaborative album, and the psychedelic power of music.

In the film The Alchemical Dream, Terence McKenna explores the curious history of European alchemy – a mystical science now lost to history, that once sought to reveal "a magical theory of nature."

An unusual rock found near the alleged UFO crash site of Roswell, New Mexico is baffling scientists, leading some to speculate that it may be an alien artifact.

In a follow-up to their ground- breaking 2006 study, John Hopkins researchers have found that the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms produces prolonged and powerful spiritual experiences.

Paul Gringon's short film Money As Debt discusses tough questions about why the international banking system creates perpetual debt.

An interview with Rocky Caravelli about his work with the Dream House, a drug addiction treatment center in Mexico that uses the plant extract ibogaine to heal addiction.

While the innovative projects at CERN laboratory might revolutionize our communications technology, the new LHC particle accelerator could also potentially change our reality into a bizarre parallel universe.

A new scientific study suggests a connection between meditation and the activation of the pineal gland.

Last week British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke passed away, but he's left us a moving video to remember him by.

The Church of Google offers humorous philosophical proofs that the popular search engine may be God.

Prince Charles recently delivered a speech to the World Future Energy Conference via hologram.

RU Sirius is a writer, musician, and one-time presidential candidate best known for co-founding and editing the early '90s psychedelic cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000. In this interview, RU explores Open Source politics, transhumanism, and the wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson. "There's this group mutation that seems to have grown out of the counterculture – a new and possibly evolutionary, collaborationalist mind-meld."

An interview with Daily Grail editor Greg Taylor about liminal oddities such as surrealism, reincarnation, UFOs, secret societies, occultism, shamanism, and cryptozoology.

A study of music and trance states in Siberian shamanism.

Neatorama lists ten of the most beautiful temples in the world.

Highlights from the annual Bioneers conference, with practical strategies that environmentalists, social activists, and community leaders can use to move the world toward sustainability.

By letting fans choose their own price for album downloads, Radiohead and Saul Williams have taken their latest music into their own hands.