With the rapid rise of the new spiritual counterculture, a generation of young avant-garde writers are making conscious magazine headlines and electrifying the festival-speakers' circuit. Featuring a brutally honest look at the shadow aspects of the Self, and society at large, these books -- while often focused on...
(11) Comments | Posted April 9, 2012 | 3:17 PM
It's Feb. 17 and I'm standing in front of a full room at Gatsby Books in Long Beach, Calif. Once again, we've filled up the seats and people are standing in the back as I deliver my opening line, "If you told me several years ago I'd be here talking...
(42) Comments | Posted February 28, 2012 | 3:20 PM
It's the evening of Jan. 25, 2007, and I'm hosting my first "Ayahuasca Monologues" storytelling event to a packed room at Eyebeam Atelier in New York City. On stage, "Breaking Open the Head" author Daniel Pinchbeck, who semi-popularized the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca within the spiritual counterculture, brushes aside his disheveled...
(849) Comments | Posted January 17, 2012 | 1:00 PM
In December 1945, during the tail end of the most devastating war in human history, a peasant named Mohammed Ali of the al-Samman clan stumbled upon an earthenware jar near limestone caves in the deserts of Upper Egypt. He feared an evil genie resided inside, but hoping for lost riches,...
(6) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 4:31 PM