The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest “witches” remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives. By Robert Marshall April 12, 2007 | For fans of the [...]
The Return of Aldous Huxley. By JEFFREY J. KRIPAL. Was that a peace-sign flag I saw waving in Grant Park before President-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech? Despite all the talk of Obama’s being next generation, 21st century, post everything, and of the divisive culture wars bred in the 60s finally being put to rest, on [...]
Mind-Reading Infrared Device Knows If You Want a Milkshake | 80beats | Discover Magazine. In a new experiment, researchers didn’t have to ask their test subjects whether they’d prefer coffee or tea; instead, they just read their minds. With a nifty bit of technical wizardry, researchers beamed near-infrared light at the volunteers’ foreheads while asking [...]
Ayahuasca – Paranormal Investigator’s Ghost Buster? by Holly Stevens. There’s always a risk you’ll get burned when playing with fire, and the idea of a spiritual realm is definitely a metaphorical fire, if not a literal one. Paul and I have joked from the beginning about having to travel to Peru at the end of [...]
Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism. I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. What’s uncertain is, what is it? Is [...]
Here’s a pdf copy of my article on UFOs as published in the current IONS Shift magazine. “Despite significant evidence that something unusual has been going on in the skies above planet Earth, serious investigation remains taboo. The result: far more questions than answers. Like psi phenomena, the topic of UFOs provides a litmus test [...]
Video: Seeing Without Sight Times Health Guide: Blindness. BLINDSIGHT A patient whose visual lobes in the brain were destroyed was able to navigate an obstacle course and recognize fearful faces subconsciously. By BENEDICT CAREY Published: December 22, 200. The man, a doctor left blind by two successive strokes, refused to take part in the experiment. [...]
Scheduled book launch for Jeff Wells’ RIGOROUS INTUITION What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Them Wednesday Dec 17, 7 to 9 pm. Conspiracy Culture bookstore. The address is 1696 Queen St. W. Toronto. Rigorous Intuition book launch event.
Lucid Dreaming. Music is finding new ways to simulate dream states, the latest being the twilight zone sonic reveries of Richard James, aka Aphex Twin. Words: Rob Young. A Writer’s dream I am descending upon a distressed landscape of mud and dung. It is a muddied and muffled dream – shapes pushing up through the [...]
Evidence suggests CIA funded experiments at state hospital. By Louis Porter Vermont Press Bureau. Few people in Vermont remember Dr. Robert W. Hyde, but one of his former patients can’t forget him. The doctor was involved in one of the nation’s darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments [...]