Is the desire to take personal responsibility for things in life purely ego-based? In response to this important question from one of our members, Eckhart reminds us that it is our state of consciousness in any given moment that creates the world we see around us.
Eckhart describes why the collapse of ego-based institutions is absolutely necessary for the planet and for humanity to survive.
In this video, Jonathan Talat Philips, director of Evolver.net, talks to the Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen) and his wife Savitri D. about the “revelatory experience” of “radical instability” that’s created by visionary activism. His Church of Life After Shopping uses a singing, dancing choir to stage actions in “contested spaces” like Starbucks.
In the latest installation of 2012 Time for Change Presents, the psychologist and author Stanislav Grof discusses with Daniel how psychedelics helped him create an expanded cartography for the psyche, with a new emphasis on what he calls the “perinatal” and transpersonal consciousness.
Daniel Pinchbeck interviewing Stanislav Grof, a pioneer in the area of “Transpersonal Psychology” and Author of several books about the therapeutical use of entheogens, about death and consciousness in general.
In this interview, Joe Rogan discusses his experiences with DMT and sensory deprivation flotation tanks, while sharing thoughts about 2012 and predictions for the near future. Directed by Joao Amorim, this kicks off the series “2012: Time for Change Presents.” The 2012 documentary premieres this week in San Francisco, at the Lumiere-Landmark.
with Joe Rogan and Daniel Pinchbeck
Researcher and author Graham Hancock presented his thesis that “supernatural” entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings that humans encounter during altered states of consciousness. The ability to shape-shift has been ascribed to both modern aliens as well as elves and other entities reported centuries ago, he detailed.
Around 35,000 to 40,000 years ago humans underwent a sudden change, and the emergence of cave and rock paintings are evidence of this, said Hancock, who noted that some of their depictions were of part human/part animal beings. He believes these represent the supernatural entities, and through altered states (probably due to ingesting psilocybin mushrooms) humans learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings.
Nowadays, shamans commonly have such altered state communications. They feel humanity is at a crossroads– the West has lost contact with the spirit world, and many of the world’s woes are due to this, Hancock reported. As part of his experiential research, he traveled to South America and took the psychedelic plant mixture ayahuasca. During one such episode, he described a confrontation with an alien being, but rather than being an extraterrestrial, he suggested it inhabits another dimension that can only be accessed during an altered state.
Ever woke up a few times into a strange twilight zone before you were able to switch into your familiar daytime reality?
This article is for you: www.realitysandwich.com/sleep_paralysis
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the post-modern world that frames the following questions: How can a renewal of ancient initiatory rites of passage alleviate our ecological crisis? What do trance dancing and festivals celebrating unbridled artistic expression speak to in our collective psyche? How do we re-invent ourselves in a disenchanted world from which God has long ago withdrawn? Entheogen invites the viewer to consider that the answers to these questions lie within the consciousness of each and every human being, and are accessible if only we give ourselves permission to awaken to the divine within.
Frank Höfer (nuoviso.tv) gibt auf seinem Blog einen Blick hinter die Kulissen öffentlich-rechtlicher Berichterstattung in Deutschland und seine Erfahrung in der Zusammenarbeit mit Arte (ausgerechnet…eben doch alles eine Mischpoke)
Am 9. Februar 2010 konnte sich jeder GEZ Zahler davon überzeugen, dass die sogenannten “Verschwörungs Webseiten” nicht nur ein Hort von Spinnern sind, die in der Diskussionsrunde von ARTE sogar als „Vollidioten“ betitelt wurden – nein: sie sind regelrecht gefährlich, untermauern sie doch die antiwestlichen Argumente der islamistischen Terroristen und gefährden sie die Demokratie.
Allein die Wortwahl bei Arte klingt natürlich schon nach einer wirklich seriösen Auseinandersetzung (ganz im Stil von Fox). Praktisch auch, daß man das zur Zeit bekannte Feindbild gleich mit einbringen kann, es scheint ja immer noch zu wirken.
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