With vacations being on temporary hold due to COVID-19 and worldwide quarantine restrictions, many people have turned to taking trips within their spirits instead.

Psychedelic trips.

Though psychedelics have always been a prevalent topic, they’ve gained quite a bit of traction in recent years. In fact, psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms, was decriminalized and legalized in Oregon via a statewide ballot just this past November. And for good reason, too.

With more research coming out around the substance, there have been indications that it can be an effective treatment for some mental health conditions including depression and obsessive-compulsive…

Welcome Home! You’re on your way back to Earth. It’s been quite the journey where you've been. You’ve seen things, felt things, heard and maybe even tasted things that you now find hard to explain to people. Language suddenly feels redundant or insufficient. You feel like you haven’t learnt enough words, or maybe you’ve brought back some wisdom that you can’t describe.

I get it, I’ve been there.

The psychedelic renaissance is truly here now — if you’re reading this, you probably know that already. …

Beginning with St. John’s Wort (SJW), I’ve been experiencing the magic of plant-based medicine for years. The SJW literally saved my life from my own hands and opened up my perspective. As a result of this psycho/spiritual shift, I experienced cannabis and mushrooms for the first time in my late 20s, followed by ayahuasca on my 34th birthday.

I’m 38 now.

Within the last year, as the world collectively faced the arrival of COVID-19, I finalized my divorce, received a serious cancer diagnosis and began the heavy process of closing one company and cultivating a freelance career. I moved with…

At some point on our cosmic journey, we began to experience more deeply than we ever had before. We gained the capability of sharing more complex ideas and expressions of sensations. Archaic shrieks and calls became a complex arrangement of tones which came to represent both the outer and inner worlds of this thing. This thing which since the dawn of its coming into being, has been at the centre of human fascination. Today it is largely referred to as consciousness. In the past, it was better known as spirit.

Mythology and The Cosmic Pillar

As we developed this spirit, we began to wonder. We…

A beautiful aspect of the human experience is that, to the extent that time is a construct, we have the ability to build our own narrative around it.

Part of time exists mathematically, as an aspect of gravitational force called space-time. We cannot change the fact that an hour in the center of a black hole would be eons on our planet. Likewise, time exists astrologically as markers for the location of our nearest star (and all the others,) the distance the earth leaves between itself and other planets, etc.

These aspects of time are concrete. There is no re-shaping…

Today, I would like to draw our attention — not to an ancient Zen master who lived in a far off Temple separated from society — but to a man who rose to great stature within our modern world. A man who, upon achieving his wildest dreams, discovered that they were not the path to salvation he thought them to be. This sent him on an arduous internal quest, one from which we can all learn a great deal.

For the uninitiated, Jonny Wilkinson is a former English professional Rugby player, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of…

“Religion is consistently treated as a source of intellectual and emotional insecurity, not as a challenge to complacency and pride.” — Christopher Lasch

Individuate. Be yourself. Become who you are. Now. Then. But when? How? In our bricolage culture of identity politics, micro-moralities, liberation and ‘progress’, the pressure to ‘be your own person’ has never had more weight. On the one hand, this is easy to welcome: our desires are our own, our truths ‘My Truth’, my life is mine to create. This stems from the gradual re-realisation since the Renaissance of our inner life as a hero’s journey, perhaps…

As of late, I have been working for myself. After a long spell of working for others, I’m in the process of figuring out how to be my own boss. How can I hit my weekly writing target on Medium? How can I make sure I’m making ample progress with my YouTube channel and start-up creative production company? How do I even know what good progress looks like without ‘the man’ breathing down my neck?

I’m sure a lot of you out there face the same questions each and every day, be it a fintech startup, online Etsy store or…