I have just read about a delightful report that reindeer and other animals as well eat mushrooms to get high.  Having done the same myself (and seen colors that are not on the spectrum) I can only nod in approval. The entire issue of seeking kinds of consciousness different from the businessman doing his books,…

David Spangler was one of the early leaders at Findhorn, and has since  worked in his own way in a broad spiritual approach  that I often find attractive: a mystical approach that honors and loves the world of manifestation rather than endless seeking to transcend it.  I was just sent a very interesting little essay…

Daily Kos has a fascinating story on the rapid increase in whooping cough cases in California in 2004, a spike apparently correlated county by county with the number of children whose parents chose not to have them vaccinated.  This increase  in whooping cough cases has been accompanied by a increasing infant deaths.  The falsehood that…

Every medium of communication has its strengths and weaknesses.  Some of the strongest media have the greatest weaknesses.  David Abram’s wonderful The Spell of the Sensuous makes a powerful, and for me convincing, case that literacy helped sever our awareness of the meaning and communication intrinsic to the natural world.  Its gains were great, but so…

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