Tag: Consciousness

Tantric Maps for Working with Plant Medicine

Awakening is the movement of consciousness becoming conscious of itself. Psychedelics and plant medicines do not offer a path for awakening but they can serve as powerful accelerators along the journey. This article examines the path to awakening as described by Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Shaiva Shakta Tantra and the role that plant medicines can play in it all.

The Universe Begins with a Question

In The Vedas, the universe begins when Shiva, who orchestrates the destruction that lays ground for creation, asks himself, “Who am I?” Why is it that most of us are afraid to become intimate with the uncertainty of this question and how can use the practice of meditation to examine this with more ease?

#017: Floating with Kevin Johnson

On the podcast this week Kevin Johnson, owner of Zero Gravity Institute in Austin, Texas. With over thirty years and thousands […]

#014: Talking Psychedelics with Dennis McKenna, PhD

The professional and personal interests of Dennis McKenna, Ph.D are centered on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. This podcast episode discusses ayahuasca, comparative consideration of psychedelics and their respective benefits and challenges, scientific knowledge and its limitations, the difference between Eastern and Western modes of thought, organized religion, and more…