Remote Viewing and the CIA Stargate Files
In July 1974, in a room at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, a former Burbank police officer was handed a slip of paper with nothing on...
Ayahuasca: Tradition, Science and U.S. Law
Ayahuasca is a plant brew from the upper Amazon basin, used in ceremony by Indigenous peoples of the region for generations and taken under the guidance of experienced...
Aleister Crowley: Thelema and the True Will
No figure in modern Western magic is argued about the way Aleister Crowley is. The tabloids of his own day called him the wickedest man in the world....
The Morphic Field: Sheldrake's Claim and What Holds Up
I used the phrase for years without ever checking it. It fits so well: when something is in the air, when a group suddenly moves differently, when the...
Light Language: What It Is and What Linguists Found
Light language turns up at retreats, in videos and in one-on-one sessions: sounds, syllables and gestures nobody can translate, offered anyway as a language. Here is what is...
Ringing in the Ears: Spiritual Meaning, Left and Right
A high tone, out of nowhere, in the left ear only, a few seconds long — and then gone. Almost everyone knows it, and almost everyone has thought:...
Witch's Garden: What to Plant and What to Leave Out
A witch’s garden sounds like a secret and is in fact the oldest practical fixture of a household: an herb bed holding everything you actually use. Here is...
Dreamcatchers: Ojibwe Origins and How to Bind One
Dreamcatchers hang from rearview mirrors, over cribs and in vacation rentals — usually large, brightly dyed and strung with craft-store feathers. The originals were small enough to sit...
Singing Bowls: How to Play and Choose One
One strike and the room is different. That is the whole reason singing bowls have spread from monastery halls into yoga studios, therapists' waiting rooms and a great...
Energy Vampires: Signs and Real Protection
You leave a forty-minute conversation and feel like you unloaded a truck. Nothing bad happened. Nobody was cruel. You are just empty, vaguely irritable, and somehow heavier than...
Walking Meditation: How to Actually Do It
Most people who quit meditating quit sitting. The legs go numb, the back complains, the mind uses the stillness as an excuse to run errands, and after two...
The Crystal Wand: How to Choose and Use One
The wand has the worst public-relations problem of any ritual tool. Two generations of film have turned it into a thing that shoots light, which makes the real...