It sure is taking a long time for mainstream science to catch up with Terrence McKenna, but according to an AP News article on Wired.com, a recent study has found that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms has had long term benefits on those in the experiment:

Scientists reported Tuesday ...

So, I've returned from the festival and have recuperated enough braincells to be able to give some kind of recounting of the experience.

In a sentence, it was everything I hoped it would be. Or damn close to it.

I bought my ticket a day before finding out that ...

The truth is out there. That's why it's best to stay indoors.

A look back at those touched by the Professor.

When I was habitually off my face on cannabis and LSD as a youngster, I found my magical centre of gravity in the postmodern corpus of the professionally challenged publishing houses New Falcon Publications and Samuel Weiser, more specifically the works of Robert Anton Wilson and Peter Carroll. The postmodern ...

Ray and the Rev interview Xander Bennett on his upcomin comic Cages, published by Insomnia Publications

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This is just simply too good not to post in as many places as possible. Thanks to Media Underground and their "Alan Moore - Monsters, Maniacs & Moore" post, I found out that there is a whole Alan Moore Videos channel on YouTube, featuring 12 different videos of the comic book genius ...

Mythos Media launched its newly redesigned web site yesterday, offering a more in-depth glance at their products and philosophy - including the upcoming releases of Lives of Ilya and The Medicine Show.

As some of you might know, Mythos Media is a joint collaboration between multimedia artists P. Emerson Williams and ...

Some readers of Key 64 might already be aware of the works of Father Jordan Stratford. For those of you who aren't, Stratford is a very pragmatic religious writer and Gnostic Catholic priest, who has gained quite an amount of notoriety in the Gnostic and occult circles online. His ...

Probably one of the best occult blogs I've come across recently is Psyche's Plutonica. This blog really kind of caught me by surprise. Psyche posts comments here on Key 64, and I've occasionally clicked through to Plutonica just to see what was going on over there.

Recently ...

The Galactic Research Institute's Rinri Project has released the Rinri Project Newsletter III: Volume 4, Number 3.

Jose Arguelles is the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time, of which the Galactic Research Institute is a division. Arguelles gained much notoriety for his ...

I just had a weird mind-numbing web 2.0 moment. And I know it's a totally overused buzzword but it does describe the wave of network-aware applications and services wiring up across the Web. Data is flowing like mad across the globe. We need to find, sort, collaborate and ...

gnothi seauton

So read the inscription in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the travelogue writer Pausanias.  But what did it mean? The Temple of Delphi was of course built at the location of the famous Delphic Oracle.  So it could be an instruction of ...

Yee-haw! Let the tourism space race begin, my friends. I actually appreciate how independent companies and venture capitalists are stepping up in the great space race, rather than being spectators of the slow movement of NASA. There is a certain amount of red tape that an organization like NASA is ...

I mentioned in a previous article on the "green" fad about how environmentally friendly products aren't necessarily friendly to your wallet; and how "green" seems to be the new catch-word to milk a few more dollars out of your pocket.

A good example of the economic inefficiency of some ...

Euthyphro: a tale of epistemology, a tale of dialectic regard for piety and impiety, a direct and sudden tale to bring a stunning point across. On the surface, this may be one's first impression of Plato's short play. Further examination, however, reveals that not only is Euthyphro much ...

I was always taught that the greatest of religious thinkers (especially when dealing with Christianity) were the mystics. If you weren’t brought up on charges of heresy, then you didn’t have anything interesting and innovative to contribute. Judaism and true Christianity occasionally seem to be locked down by ...

This is what happens when economic interests get to run the country: short-term profits win over long-term sensibility, business contracts define policy spending, and greed wins over social justice & sustainability.
Housing meltdown
Credit crisis
Inflation increase
Oil skyrocketing
Dollar dropping
Food rationing
Unemployment rising
Record deficit
War spending out of ...

THE IMMANENCE OF MYTH:
INTRODUCTION
BEYOND REPRESENTATION

By James Curcio

The following are in-progress chapters for an upcoming work The Immanence of Myth, which picks up and expands on some of the ideas first presented in "Living The Myth" in Generation Hex. This will be an exploration of myth in ...

“Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.”(Platt).

What problem could a religious philosopher possibly solve? What contemporary ...

The latest Ripple podcast release is out.

In this episode, hosts Ray Carney and Ryan Dawson interview musician Trevor de Brauw from the Chicago band Pelican about the recent album City of Echoes (an 8 track CD available from Hydra Head Records). You can play it on the web at ...

MG:  The process of making the unconscious conscious seems like a common theme among various traditions of self work.  How does this tie into the 8-Circuit Brain model?

AA: The complex conditioning received from infant imprints, our culture at large, early childhood and parental influences, peer pressure, teachers in our ...

In games, immersive worlds, forums, social networks, and in blogs we inhabit multiple selves. In most cases, theses virtual spaces are walled islands with little relation between them. Increasingly it's becoming apparent that continuity is necessary to resolve these fractured selves and to open up the channels of communication ...

Hosts Ryan Dawson and Ray Carney interview artist, author, and medical doctor Slawek Wojtowicz about the new book Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies.

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Is Reverend Wright a racist? Even if he is, who really cares? Rev. Wright is not Barack Obama, and I’m actually pretty tired of politicians trying to shoot magic bullets, and media moguls trying to drum up ratings, by playing six degrees of separation and trying to draw guilt ...