Daniel Pinchbeck's blog

The "free love" of the 60s was an experiment that remains incomplete. Humanity was not then up to the task of integrating the psychedelic, psychic, and visionary aspects of our being into the repressive social structure. More than a political revolution, we need, first of all, a love revolution, which is also a revelation: a clear-eyed approach to love and Eros.

Richard Dolan, trained historian and former Oxford student, is a leading authority in UFO studies, and the author of the two-volume work, UFOs and the National Security State. He brings an academic's rigor to the subject of extraterrestrial contact and secret government efforts to explore UFOs and alien technology. 

New Yorkers, please join us on May Day for a creative insurrection, the Dream House, at Bryant Park.

We couldn't have far-flung Empire until we had writing and a standardized code of law; we couldn't have the modern democratic nation state until we had the printing press. We now have media technology that is fully interactive, and this points toward "direct democracy," or "Society without a State."

Let the NYT know what, if any, changes you're making in your home in preparation for December 21, 2012.

Saturday's global rally in over 600 towns and cities worldwide was a momentous event. A month ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to pierce the veil of the matrix. The puncture has now become an unsealable rip in the fabric of Empire. Gas is escaping rapidly from the balloon.

Our current economic system is institutionalized psychopathology, a parasitic virus, and its perpetuation would likely lead to the termination of the human experiment in an accelerating series of catastrophes. The alternative is extremely difficult to imagine, until we realize it.

I threw a big party where I told everyone to bring seven dollars in one-dollar bills. We stamped the bills with the word, Satisfied? On the day after Thanksgiving, we took this huge bag of money and climbed to the top of a phone booth in the biggest shopping district in NYC, took out the money in big fistfuls, and tossed it out into the crowd.

This Thursday, I hope you will join me in a live dialogue with Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth Thompson, director of the Buckminster Fuller institute, on consciousness, social media, and potential solutions to the climate crisis. NYC

Reality Sandwich is partnering again with Guaria de Osa in Costa Rica, and the shamans of the Secoya tribe from Ecuador, for two plant medicine council gatherings this July.

For the next phase of our evolutionary unfolding, the spiritual and artistic counterculture must define the desired alternative, co-opt the propaganda tools and financial instruments of the dominant culture, and redirect or reverse the momentum of the system as a whole.

Following the release of his new book Notes from the Edge Times, Daniel Pinchbeck has been guest blogging for Powell's Books about post-Enlightenment culture, the extinction of the ego the use of NLP techniques in mainstream media and the motivations behind his work. Read all the posts here. (Video)

2012: Time for Change will be screening in San Francisco this weekend (Nov. 6 & 7).

Our documentary is being shown in Chicago today. [Video]

How do we confront the current mega-crises of species extinction, global financial collapse, and resource depletion and initiate a new planetary culture that integrates the physical and psychic aspects of our being, while meshing harmonically with our planet's fragile ecology?

How I made the long journey from louche literati to shamanic apprentice to social movement orchestrator: an ongoing saga. [An RS Encore Presentation] 

Evolver and Reality Sandwich are delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with North Atlantic Books.

I'll be embarking on a book tour in the fall for the release of my new book, Notes from the Edge Times, out October 14th.

As someone who has written extensively on indigenous prophecies relating to this time, it is hard to escape the uneasy presentiment that the massive, ceaseless, devastating cascade of more than 100,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico each day – apparently still mixed with the far more toxic dispersant Corexit that British Petroleum continues to inject, despite EPA objections – is anything but the inception of a new phase in the foretold unfolding of events that may terminate most life on earth, potentially leading to the rapid extinction of the human species. 

The Internet is ground zero in the global consciousness war, between those entrenched forces that want to control consciousness and manage perception, to maintain their power and market share, and those other constituencies who represent a range of outsider perspectives. We are in a new kind of Renaissance - a creative entrepreneurial gold rush.

Please come check out 'The Living Wake' at Cinema Village, NYC, Monday night, 7:25 pm. I am a host of the screening.

If you are in San Francisco, please reserve a ticket for a premiere screening of our documentary film, 2012: Time for Change, during Greenfest, April 9 - 11.

When you join the Evolver Social Movement as a charter member, you support our ongoing projects, Evolver.net, Reality Sandwich, and the Evolver Regionals. Members of E+SM actively build an alternative culture and create community together, while our media reaches out, inspiring new people to get involved.

Come to the premiere pilot episode of "Off the Grid", a television talk show filmed before a live studio audience in NYC and hosted by Daniel Pinchbeck.

The spectacular apparition of a glowing spiral over Norway could signify a deep shift in the nature of the Psyche.