The Nagual of Chiapas

There’s an aspect to recent events in Chiapas that has not been reported in the mass media. The Chiapas region of Southern Mexico is a strong-hold of Nagualism. A form of sorcery practiced by certain Yaqui Indians, Nagualism is vividly outlined in the books of Carlos Castaneda. Nagualism…

Castaneda and the Second Attention

Who was Carlos Castaneda, really?

According to his books, Carlos Castaneda was an anthropology student at UCLA who made repeated trips to the Southwest USA to “collect information on the medicinal plants used by the Indians of the area”…

Urban Exploration

A look into Psychogeography

Magic in the City: La Dérive as an Urban Therapy

Juliette Tocino-Smith

This paper will explore the relationship between rapid socio-economic development and the ‘invention of ritual’ in the streets of post-war Western Europe. I will address here the…

We need more walkable streets!

Drawing inspiration from a 50-min 4km evening walk that I had from Novena MRT station to a sport hall…

How do we re-capture the moment of our first arrival to a new place?

Tokyo Journeys: Travels in Psychogeography

Personalising a Sense of Place with Headphones

Music is something that connects us all. Our tastes may differ but everyone on…

Digital Echoes of Los Angeles

Towards the use of Videogames for Psychogeography — with a focus on L.A.

How to Find (or Lose) a Zahir

“I asked the owner for a brandy and orange juice; among my change I was given the Zahir; I looked at it for an instant, then walked outside into the 
 street, perhaps with the beginnings of a fever. The thought struck me that 
 there is no coin that is not the symbol of all…