Pablo Amaringo (1938-2009)In 1999 Donal Ruane, a film maker, artist and writer, met Pablo Amaringo, a former healer from Peru. Pablo became known around the world for his astonishingly vivid… Read More

Among the many socio-ecological challenges faced by modern civilization, one looms especially large: the dwindling of the fuel resources that form the lifeblood of “developed” co… Read More

Earlier this year, in the spirit of Cambridges Strawberry Fair, Toby & I dressed up as Prima Ballerinas, all pink netting tutus, green tights & flowers in our hair — Strawberry… Read More

The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk is a loose global network of occultists aiming to counterbalance, through an emphasis on art and spontaneity, the structured approach to magick… Read More

I am hurrying down the street under a gray winter sky. I notice several eerily familiar toys arranged in a storefront, and I stop to look. A flood of realizations arises. First, I know that… Read More

When I travelled through California in June 2005, Erik Davis (author of TechGnosis) and his partner Jennifer Dumpert were kind enough to host my brief stay in San Francisco. Knowing part of… Read More

Renewing the World Perhaps the most outstanding feature of us humans is our adaptive nature, which gives rise to our restless changing. We dont come with a ready-made identity and purpose in… Read More

Dreamflesh was conceived in despair and hope. Its roots are nurtured by these entwined opposites that characterise our interesting times. Either may lead to action: grasping at straws or at… Read More

Full disclosure: Dave introduced me to breathwork and it changed my life, so this review may not be fully objective. But then, this book is as much a manual to use as a book to read, so it&r&hell…Read More

In 1651, in his book Leviathan, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes put forward one of the seminal propositions in modern thinking about human nature and society. Hobbes thought that… Read More