Awareness

"You can change and save the world by changing yourself. The most important part of personal transformation leading to planetary transformation is to become fully alive, alert, and aware of our surroundings and the divinity everywhere."

Thom Hartmann

Light Reading

This is cool:

7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

The vast majority of the knowledge humans have assembled over the centuries, has been lost. The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to themselves and then died, or else they put it down on paper which has long since rotted or burned or been used to line some parakeet's cage.

Obviously we'll never know what great books have been lost to time, but we have clues on some of them, and what those clues tell us is mind-boggling, and a little bit depressing. If you could make a library out of just books that didn't survive, you'd have a collection of some of the best freaking books ever written.

Pathfinder

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

Joseph Campbell

Enjoy the Ride

Reboot Your Mind

I've been revisiting some Terence McKenna shit lately.

Redo

Thoughts on redesigning society with Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows of The Venus Project.



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Hearts & Minds

"It is the content of our hearts that connects us to each other. It is also the content of our hearts that keeps us separated from each other, if that is how we envision the world."

Betsy, a friend

Color Me God

Color changing frog worshiped as a god in India?

Great Head

Are spiritual experiences all in your head?

According to Orrin Devinsky, who directs the epilepsy center at New York University, neurologists suspect some of the religious giants — like Moses — were epileptics.

Change My Mind

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

William James

Body of Work

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones."

Henry David Thoreau

Guess this means I'll be on the treadmill tonight.

Transcendental Medication

CNN on the lasting positive effects of "magic mushrooms":



I haven't shroomed in years. Now I'm tempted...

The Magic of Mushrooms

This just in: Magic mushrooms offer a lasting spiritual experience. Well, duh! 

The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.