Tagged with 'Entheogens'

I have been using mind altering drugs for spiritual exploration for most of my adult life. I am 41 now and I feel like I am just beginning to understand how these amazing substances can really change the world. I have also been studying magick, shamanism and mysticism for most of my adult life. When I started combining the two over 20 years ago, there wasn't much published on the subject.

There is something very disturbing that is occurring in the music scene that I have noticed as of recently. I have been watching this pick up steam over the years o from being a promoter and being in the industry in general, but it has truly reached a point of serious concern. The issue I am talking about is, drug addiction and excessive use.

I think that the planet consciousness/mass consc uses certain shamanic plants as like a phone ,or like an advanced pheromone , and certain people are good receivers for the messages , when they get high they get the right visions and their experiences shape their goals in life in a way that are in line with nature etc ...

Terence McKenna's school of thought plays a huge role in laying the foundation of the next Renaissance and provides fuel to the engine of evolutionary thought.

The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys, by James Fadiman, PhD. Publisher: Park Street Press, 2011, ISBN: 1594774021

Having just got back from the Alchemeyez Visionary Arts Congress in Hawaii, aside from riding the good vibrations, Alchemy and the Transmutation of my reality tunnel/local universe has been constantly on my mind. The event is inspired by Terence's Alchemical Arts Gathering held in 1999, seven months before his passage into the bardo...

Is biomimicy really a new science? Maybe it should be considered/labeled a renewed thinking process, or a forgotten way of concept development.

Prior to gaining more comprehension and discipline concerning visionary practices, I used to wonder what function was served for all the funny patterns I would see during visionary encounters. Concentric circles, mazes, grids, eyes, perfect forms. When inquiring friends about such visual phenomena, some said they would see these things, others did not.

I will be releasing a self published book soon, that will have art by Antiquated Ontology as well as articles published by me on evolver blog as well as my articles from reality sandwich.
It will be published via Blurb, and will also be available for Kindles ect latter this year.

Jonathan Talat Phillips is our guest in podcast episode 99. Jonathan is the co-founder of the Evolver Social Movement, a network for "conscious collaboration," and a senior editor at Reality Sandwich, the premier web zine for transformational (counter) culture. In addition, he's also a Reiki Master, a member of the International Sufi Order, and a promoter of energetic and entheogenic healing.

(This essay is an effort to respond to comments on the previous essay, “The Ascendancy of Psychotic Knowledge,” and to carry forward the implications of the ideas expressed in that text.)