If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviou….

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that wa….

As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make….

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes..

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our m….

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, i….

The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are m….

Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts th….

I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and no….

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constant….

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Ap….

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spir….

Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed ….

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet..

My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basicall….

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. ….

The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that ….

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe..

Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift a….

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us..

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies..