The Ray of Creation proceeds from emptiness to plenitude through seven distinct levels: Amun (emptiness) Ra (energy) Atum (matter) Ka (life) Ba (individual consciousness) Gaia (planetary consciousness) Jah (universal consciousness) Here we have succinctly summed up the whole of existence,…
When a trippy hippy says “All is One” the natural response is to roll your eyes. Yet there is no other way to say it. The universal message of a breakthrough “spiritual” experience on psychedelics is just this: the world…
Character 7 (see The Free Guy post) is: Beyond Babylon. In the world but not of the world. Beyond discriminative thought. Free from desire. Beyond good and evil. A Mystic-Shaman. A Warrior-Monk or Warrior-Nun. A Philosopher-King or Philosopher-Queen. Holy, virtuous…
The first reasonable premise in Brian Muraresku’s thesis is that, as his mentor Brother David Steindl-Rast says, “Every religion has its mystical core.” The second reasonable premise is that in the specific case of Christianity, there is also a psychedelic…
The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and strengthening their cores. Lao Tzu Why Meditate? Gary Weber has described in detail how the “default mode network” in the brain can be deactivated through meditation. He calls it the…
One summer twenty years ago, by the river Isis in Oxford, I had a profound experience of “waking up” from my ordinary, habitual “me” consciousness into an extraordinary “non-dual” consciousness, where I felt completely at one with my surroundings and…
the way of the holy mushroom 