Jonathan Talat Phillips's Blog Posts

Hey evolvers, after six years in the making, I’m pleased to announce that my memoir The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic has just come out through Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.

Hi everyone, it looks our Drupal mailing system decided to send out our most exciting events from over a year ago to a number of you yesterday. Apologies to anyone who received this. We've got a team of tech elves chiseling away at the problem right now, as well as tightening up our spam protection.

Hey evolvers, I'll be in Boulder tomorrow night for a chakra activation and E+SM talk if you live in the area and would like to come out. Kirsten and Gerard, our Boulder and Denver coordinators, will lead a conversation on how we can spread the movement on the Front Range. This is a homecoming for me -- I'm from Idaho Springs, CO (a small mountain town) and went to school at CU Boulder.

I just got back from the Boston Ayahuasca Monologues this weekend. "Fishers of Men" author Adam Elenbaas and I took the Bolt Bus from NYC to participate in the event.

Locate Your Spore.

Hi evolvers, as you may have already noticed, there's very little on the homepage explaining what the Evolver Social Movement is, what the Spores are, how to find your local Spore, how to start one up, or where one can learn about upcoming and previous themes (there's just a button to join in the top right corner).

Hey everyone, there's a tech bug on the blogs that doesn't prevent people from inserting large images at the beginning of posts. Please don't do this as it breaks up the homepage, especially on certain browsers. If you'd like to add an image, just use the "Blog Image" upload block to do that. It's the field directly under the text "body" of the blog.

A number of folks have asked how to get involved with the Evolver Social Movement. Here's a way to help out. ESM is seeking intrepid volunteers and interns to help build our international consciousness network.

Here's an interview Adam Elenbaas did with me about creating "The Ayahuasca Monologues." This was in celebration of the release of his book, "Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest." I think these videos do a nice job talking about the phenomena of ayahuasca's growing popularity in the West. Also, if you haven't checked out Adam's book yet, it's a real gem.

Evolver just celebrated its first ever Evolver Sporeganizer Summit at Heartland in upstate NY. After one year of action, we now have more than 40 Spore communities around the globe (and growing).

This Wed, we'll be hosting our first ever network-wide experiment in linking up our energies and intentions to help manifest positive change. At 10:30pm EST, 7:30pm PST, we invite you to join Evolvers across the world in sending a five-minute healing blessing to the fragile waters of the Gulf. You can link up with your regional Spore in the area, or send out a blessing from home.

While E+SM membership has proved extremely helpful in keeping us afloat (thanks everyone!), we'd like to do a Kickstarter campaign to see if we can make some upgrades to Evolver in the near future. I'd love to see what recommendations fellow evolutionaries have as to how we can improve the site in the next few months (remember, tech takes time, even when you have the finances).

Here's a video of my visit to the Long Beach Resilience Spore this month. In it, I talk about how Western Culture (energetically speaking) is a house divided, how the destructive fires of the third chakra may be pushing us up the body (and world) Tree of Life to a new vibrational consciousness of the heart.

Toronto, Tallahasee, Columbus, Des Moines, St. Louis, Wilkes-Barre, and Budapest will be kick-starting the consciousness movement in their towns with monthly Evolver Spores. If you're living in these cities, we invite you to contact the local regional coordinator and get involved.

If you're in Bloomington, IN this Saturday, join me in a discussion about Jesus, energy, and the Evolver Social Movement at the Introspective Truth Conference. Details below.

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Here’s the story of how I gave up on electoral politics, started seeing auras, and met up with Daniel Pinchbeck to help found Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net. This gives a behind the scenes view of why we started the Spores and discusses the large-scale healing potential of a consciousness movement.

I'm working on some of the text for the Evolver Social Movement, and in it, I'm writing some of the things we want to accomplish, such as sustaining/improving Evolver and RS, putting on Evolver festivals and conferences, creating complimentary currency systems, supporting regional communities, and doing partnerships on campaigns important to us (like preserving the rain forest).

As we discuss what an Evolver Social Movement might look like, I'd like to take a moment to point out that the seeds (or should I say Spores) of it are already taking root. Here's the early report-backs from this month's gatherings. We'll have more coming in over the next few days.

So, the question has been going around the Evolver blogs. What actions do Evolvers engage in? Are they all talk or are they creating positive change in their communities? Well, this ain't no SpaceBook or MyFace. Each month, our intrepid Evolver Regionals bring together people in their local community to explore, discuss, and act upon topics important to our time.

So, here it was -- one of the hardest week's working at Evolver and Reality Sandwich. Once again, our small crew was feeling overworked and overwhelmed. We're all so dedicated to this project but sometimes it hits you -- are all these sacrifices I'm making worth it, especially considering the absurd amount of hours we put in to keep it all going?