Wellbeing is something that is hard to define and yet we all have an understanding of what it is. It derives from how you feel about…
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were.…
There’s a certain magic to the business of patenting medicines. For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been seeking out indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants and bringing this into the…
It’s a strange world of newspeak we live in. What was once a society devoted to logic and progress is now being herded in echo chambers of thought…
Something important is missing from the psychiatric model of ‘mental illness.’ It’s not a secret or anything, but rather more of an omission. It should be…
“The Spiritual Price of Urbanized Life” by Frank Giokas How can One feel so alone – in a bustling, crowded city? People often wonder. The answers may not…
Painting by Mauro Reatigue Perez Late in the night, after preparations have been made—hammocks have been strung, the participants have purged and fasted, and the brew…
“All your problems are on the inside, in your heart. The problems aren’t from the outside, from other people, so you need to study who you…
Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of natural healing that originated in the Indian Vedic culture. It is one of the oldest healing modalities that is still…
“Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook, but the ocean’s depths are calm.” – Buddha How would you handle no phone, no television, no reading, no…
Human consciousness is a subject of infinite fascination in these time because people are realizing just how much our frame of mind is manipulated by mainstream…
“Make no mistake about it – Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or becoming happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling…
In his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgramdiscusses in detail the findings of his now famous experiment. Milgram demonstrated just how…
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and…
The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor is a story about the unification of the indigenous peoples of North America with those of South America.…
Featured art by JR Slattum How do you reconcile the utter madness of the world with the overwhelming joy of being alive in it? “Paradox: a situation,…
To find the secret meaning of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you need to first study how certain parts of a tree…
Apparently forgetting that he owns stock in the megalithic corporations Facebook and Google, billionaire George Soros called the companies a ‘menace to society’ because they are…
Entheogens
New Study Reveals Mushrooms Cure Depression by Doing the Exact Opposite of Anti-Depressants
A revolutionary new study is once again revealing a natural approach to be far superior to big pharma solutions—this time involving psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms.…
by Jayaram V According to many schools of Hinduism, the world is an illusion, a play of the supreme consciousness of God. It is a projection…
“Life is torn by the tension between what it actually is and what it feels it ought to be. Such a tension is the inescapable consequence of…
Featured art by beeple “In the long run, nothing escapes the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The pull of entropy is relentless. Everything decays. Disorder always increases.”- James Clear…
Similar to animals, plants and trees have symbolic meanings. If a certain plant or tree comes into your life on any given day, then take the…
Featured art by Irina Erka “Who are the men who without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to…
Was early Christian tradition inspired by psychedelics? This is the question which Julie and Jerry Brown set out to answer in their new book The Psychedelic Gospels. According…
The end of 2017 has been one heck of a roller coaster ride when it comes to your favorite cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has been through more ups…
Photography by Marina Choy Warning: Expletives ahead. If you’re a fragile snowflake afraid of a little harsh (yet healing) vocabulary, turn away. Move onto the next…
Featured art by Allan Swart After Bitcoin hit $10,000, it, at last, seemed to dawn on the mainstream financial press that this thing matters. There has…
Karma is a term that has been used by many civilizations to explain or rationalize, in the of simplest terms, the notion of, “what you reap,…
