The Door of Perception
Lately I read the Yage letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. I wasn’t able to get over my dislike towards Burroughs but I came across another name: Richard Evans Schultes.
His heritage is carried on by some of his scholars like Wade Davis. His TED talk is a good introduction to ethno-diversity and the ancient knowledge we’re about to lose forever.
Audio files of Schulte’s lecture Hallucinogenic Plants
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
This account from lalaland is beautifully bridging the gap between science and spirituality to open up our perception of the world.
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
This series from 1975 takes us on a journey around the world to reveal the making and use of tribal art in some of the few places on earth where the traditions are intact.
Finally, the story of the greatest science fiction epic never made has finally been told. Jodorowsky’s Dune is a new documentary about that beautiful, crazy-ambitious, disaster of an adaptation.
Gazing up into the kaleidoscopic worlds of these Iranian mosque ceilings invokes a feeling of transcendental glory.
Gurdjieff’s teaching combines mystical elements of Sufism, Buddhism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism and the Kabbalah.
These are the insights of one night in september 2011. It’s straight from the heart as I felt it back then. I think it’s worth sharing.
Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.
This is a simple yet powerful method for clear, empathic communication beneficial for all of us.
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
This talk is great and Terence is in a particularly good mood. Enjoy.
I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
If the human being is the only animal that knows it lives in time, the movie is about that knowledge, a modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive.
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
