Counterculture refers to a cultural, social, or political movement that emerges as a response to and rejection of the prevailing norms and values of mainstream society. Countercultural movements often challenge established norms, traditions, and institutions and seek to create alternative ways of living and thinking. Counterculture isn’t limited to any one decade or generation, these […]
Continue reading "Counterculture"A SHAMANIC BANISHING RITUAL Shamanic banishing ritual or what is known as the “Ritual of drawing a shamanic circle” is a cleansing/banishing ritual that stands as a basis for all other shamanic practices. One of the main purpose of drawing a shamanic (magical) circle is to prepare a balanced container/space for further magickal practices […]
Continue reading "Shamanic banishing ritual"Entheogens (from the Ancient Greek ἔνθεος entheos [“god”, “divine”] and γενέσθαι genesthai [“generate” – “generating the divine within”]) are a family of psychoactive substances, typically of plant origin, that are used in religious, ritual, or spiritual contexts. Jonathan Ott is credited with coining the term in 1979.[1] Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context […]
Continue reading "Entheogen"Shamanism represents humanity’s most ancient forms of healing, spirituality, and community ritual. shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago, there was no other form of religion on this planet; that was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred. When stripped of local […]
Continue reading "Shamanism"Neural oscillations, or brainwaves, are rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in the central nervous system. Neural tissue can generate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appear either as oscillations in membrane potential or as rhythmic patterns of […]
Continue reading "Neural oscillations (Brainwaves)"Adam Scott Miller An altered state of consciousness (ASC),[1] also called an altered state of mind, is any condition that is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig[2] and brought into common usage from 1969 by Charles Tart. It describes […]
Continue reading "Altered States of Consciousness"Visionary Art Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. The artist’s mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art […]
Continue reading "Visionary Art"Psychedelic The term psychedelic means “mind-manifesting” which implies that all potential states of mind may be manifested under psychedelic states of consciousness experienced as a result of different techniques namely deep meditation, dancing, chanting, drumming, fasting, tantric sex, and using herbs and ethnobotanical agents solely or in combination with other techniques. If normal consciousness moves […]
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