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Wise Mind - A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation

By admin • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Healing, Visionary Plants

By Flore Singer Aaslid
Fragmentation ultimately leads to pathology both individually and collectively, whereas integration promotes health. Fortunately, there is integrative potential in many fields of experience; art, myth, dreams and ritual all have this effect, as do many Eastern introspective techniques.


San Pedro and the shamanic tradition of Northern Peru, the Mesa Norteña

By admin • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Healing, Visionary Plants

An interview with Juan Navarro by Howard Charing
Juan is a descendant of a long lineage of healers and shamans working with the magical powers and plants of his bio-region.


Psychedelic Healing? Scientific American article

By admin • Jan 6th, 2008 • Category: News & Events

“Psychedelics could ease a variety of difficult-to-treat mental illnesses, such as chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency. Clinical trials with various substances are now under way in humans.”

www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=psychedelic-healing


Forest Dweller : A Song of Gaia Sophia

By Daniel Mirante • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Mythos

By Daniel Mirante
Describing a period of journeying in the wilderness, Flowing Balance describes mythopoetic transformations of consciousness interpreted as a dialog with the wisdom of the earth-Goddess Sophia


Effing the Ineffable: Reconciling Nonduality in The Doors of Perception and The Joyous Cosmology - Part 1

By admin • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Text

Tim Hardwick discusses the non-ordinary state of consciousness and insights described within two historically pivotal literary pieces, Alan Watts ‘The Joyous Cosmology’ and Aldous Huxley’s ‘The Doors of Perception’.