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Andrew Cohen – What is the Evolutionary Impulse?
IN NOV 2012, I was invited by a friend who works with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen to interview him during a visit to Vancouver. Intrigued, I accepted the invite. Aside …
Thomas Hübl – How to come from the future
IN APRIL 2012, I had the pleasure of sitting down with spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl. The interview was prompted by the post I wrote (We Come From the Future) which …
Homecoming
WHAT IF you watched the last colours of dusk seep out of the atmosphere, leaving you silently in your own stillness? What if, beneath your modern certainty that life will …
Michael Stone: If you want to be radical, show yourself
AFTER A WEEKEND in Vancouver, Michael Stone must be tired. But you wouldn’t know it judging the amount of insight he offers consistently via yoga workshops, dharma talks, and film …
Chase the Nothing
I OFTEN THINK of the question “why is there something and not nothing?” It feels like the primordial question that arises from consciousness itself. To be aware that you are …
Electronic Awakening: emergence of the neo-tribal community
In Electronic Awakening, director Andrew Johner lifts the veil on an underground spiritual movement that has developed within electronic music cultures worldwide. Read my interview with him below. I’LL ADMIT: …
We Come From The Future
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the …
Dear Temple of Transition
In his new book “Sacred Economics” Charles Eisenstein reveals that when asked what is missing from their lives, most people answer “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we …
Levis Legacy: Can advertising ever be authentic?
I came across the new ad campaign for Levis jeans that tells the youth of today to “go forth.” From their site: THESE ARE NOT EASY TIMES. BUT THEY ARE …
The Light Has Gone Out
Excerpt from Witnessing the End of an Era by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee A light in the inner world that gave meaning and spiritual sustenance to our souls and to the whole …
Reality: A Diagram
I was recently passed an article espousing an new American revolution, drawing a firm line between us versus them. People versus corporations. A future of Ecotopia versus Mad Max. Passive …
Alan Watts: How To Change The World
Illustration: Randal Roberts Currently reading “The Book” by Alan Watts – a stunning essay on “the taboo against knowing who you are.” In particular, he offers a devastating critique for …
Storytelling
Someone asked me recently “what do you do?” I replied “I’m a storyteller.” In the moment, I was referring to my work in documentary film. I tell stories (or more …
the dream is real
On the side of a bus, the new poster for Inception says “The dream is real.” Tantalizing movie tag-lines aside, I decided to pose the exact opposite. The real is …
Inception
Funny enough, it’s been 11 years since The Matrix was released, first asking the masses “what is reality?” The answer, at least according to the Wachowskis Bros, is that reality …
Rationality vs Intuition
A decomposing bird carcass, filled with plastic pollution on Midway Island. Photo: Chris Jordan In 2008, worldwide consumption of bottled water surpassed 52 billion gallons. 86% of these bottles will …
The Trance
“For three hundred fifty years, people in the Western world have convinced themselves that they live in a bleak world of dead matter spinning in empty space, when the real …
Conflict
I type this from a tiny home in the Boquete hills, within the rolling jungles of Panama. I type and the rain continues to fall outside. One of the defining …
The Truth About Human Nature?
Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the ways that it has shaped our society. (Plus, it has some great sketching) The one part of the video that I …
There Is No Other
In my last post, I wrote about the problem with rampant consumption. Particularly, how all we appear to know is how to feed the “Machine.” It’s tempting to describe the …