Ardor Co-founder Spiros Antonopoulos on DMT, the Holy Guardian Angel, and Finding Enlightenment
Jason Louv interviews Ardor founder Spiros Antonopoulos on his podcast. They discuss Spiros’ adventures in the far outer realms of consciousness—including how a ritual to contact his Holy Guardian Angel may have resulted in a stroke in his frontal lobe that left him without the…
Incorporating the Imagination into Science
“I’m not here to lay judgment on science, but it is true that our modern techno-scientific world has subscribed to an arid version of imagination, and it’s very different and very far away from what we know imagination is when we think about it as…
Babelcarp | Deconstructing Tea Terms
This nifty website allows you to enter transliterated Chinese terms, English words, and Chinese characters to help deconstruct those confounding tea titles – Wu Yi Rou Gui Oolong? Cinnamon Oolong, which is a tea that’s partially oxidized before drying! Fenglin Tea Factory? – a Kunming…
Wowee Zowee | Remembering Sleep
Our pal Erik Davis, who will be leading a weekend of Visionary Practices with us in February 2019, writes cogently and lovingly about one of his favorite albums of an era past: Dopesmoker by Sleep (2003). “Sleep here offers a mode of spiritual conversion beyond…
Upscale Tea | The Gentrification of Chai in Pakistan
Roadside cafes are hardly unusual in Pakistan; they have long sustained the country’s working class. What’s innovative about this new wave is the packaging: High-end cafes are taking the tea culture of the proletariat, wrapping it in a glossy coating, and using rhetoric about families,…
A Mossy Monument to Yoga
At a park in Finland, close to the Russian border, a reclusive artist spent the better part of 50 years crafting hundreds of statues poised in yoga postures. Veijo Rönkkönen once said that the park was a monument for the memory of his young body….
YES PLZ
Our friend Tony (aka Tonx) has a rad new coffee subscription service. We’ve promised we won’t *spill the beans* about how absolutely extra awesome and unique this coffee delivery really is…but trust us – it’s exciting. Hint: Think for yourself. Print is not dead! Sign…
Deny & Become
Let’s consider yoga, & perception itself, as a diligent unknowing: ‘Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.’—English biologist Thomas Huxley wrote in…
A Healing Lung Brew
Whether you’re in Northern or Southern California, the air is thick with smoke, and heavy with the task of rebuilding. Care for yourself and your loved ones with this herbal tea, crafted and blessed by Ayurvedic Practitioner and Registered Nurse Annette Shellenbarger. Stop by the…
Can’t Even
In the mid-80s Robbie Conal plastered the LA streets with a grotesque caricature of Ronald Reagan and the words “CONTRA DICTION.” Now he’s 74 years old and the portraits are decidedly more monstrous as the legendary street artist Robbie Conal takes on the Trump Administration…