Martín Bollati
This Past Does Not Exist
The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.
The Door of Perception
The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.
I haven’t shared anything from Terence McKenna in almost seven years, and yet few thinkers had a stronger influence on…
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
Biosphere 2 was one of the most lauded experiments of the 1990s, then one of the most ridiculed. Now it is back, offering a unique way to put theories about climate and environment to the test.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
The Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, can be considered the bible of counterculture in the 60s and 70s. It compiles tools that can empower the individual within the global community.
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
Andujar’s legacy is a shining example of art and activism coming together as one.
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
The following manifesto is a testimony of an awakened youth movement realizing its power. Born from the European rave culture…
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.
How do we want to live? These people choose a life away from the cities, willing to abandon lifestyles based on performance, efficiency and consumption.
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
The ancient art of wayfinding is an almost forgotten skill once common throughout the Pacific.
This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying.
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
Critical thinking in regard to technology isn’t overworked these days and it can’t hurt to reconsider our current course and if it is leading us towards a prosperous future.
In 1990, a BBC1 documentary film brought global attention to a remote South American people, the Kogi of Colombia, who…
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
R. Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of his major inventions and discoveries.
This account from lalaland is beautifully bridging the gap between science and spirituality to open up our perception of the world.
This book is the best reminder that a computer screen can’t replace the printing quality of a well produced book. The nuances of black are outstanding…
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds…
This text is immensely powerful to illuminate death or any transition into the unknown. Remember that you already went through a fantastic metamorphosis before.
At the time when I picked the name The Door Of Perception I didn’t know much about Aldous Huxley and his teachings — because that’s what his writings are, rather than novels.
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.
Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.
Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as…
A cinematic interpretation of this world’s largest round table gathering, Problema is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas.
Paul Stamets is a mycologist and a true renaissance visionary with a pathbreaking message.
My own infrequent writings are purely experientially and I’m not well-read enough to refer to the spiritual heritage of millenia. However others can.
Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.
I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000.
I am fascinated by people who make the bold step into alternative ways of living. If none of the given choices seem to fit you, create your own!
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.
I just discovered the greatest documentary of all time. I urge you to take the time and watch this carefully. What do you feel?
Isn’t it wonderful that the revelation of the psychedelic experience only confirms buddhist teachings.
The photographer Jimmy Nelson visited 31 secluded and visually unique tribes around the world. The result is huge — in extend and significance.
Laffoley is a visionary painter, designer, futurist & hyperspace cartographer based in Boston. Diving into his world may cause a feeling of dizziness due to an overdose of novelty.
Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by.
This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.
The fantastic Marina Abramović wants to share her legacy with the world. It’s all her knowledge condensed into a method — The Abramović Method.
Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…