Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
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Offshore Psychedelic Healing >>> Proposal for Entheogenic Seastead Resort and Testing Lab
Was the appearance of the white killer whale a sign of humanities need to shift to the oceans? After finding out about seasteading, I found this article on The Institue For Ethics & Emerging Technologies website from Ben Goertzel on his proposal to take shamanic healing to the sea. It is certainly a grandiose idea that would take years if not decades to turn into reality, but one I think, and the white whale may be signifying, is a must needed direction humanity should ...
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10 Most Sacred Spots On Earth
MSNC takes us on a dazzling trip around the world to some of it’s most sacred spots. I can feel my mind slipping away and spirit glowing brighter just reading about each magical place: When we modern folks visit a beautiful natural site, the experience may evoke a sense of peace, a feeling of awe … or just the need to snap a million photos. For our ancient forbears, though, these places were so much more. Throughout history, civilizations all over the ...
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Holi Festival Of Colors >>> World’s Biggest Color Party Captured In Brilliant Image and Video
If I was told I was going to die in a year, I would say the one thing I wanted to do was go to the Holi Festival of Colors. A religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus where people hurl brightly coloured, scented powder and perfume at each other. Come to think of it, once I died, this is exactly how I would want my funeral to be as well. Thankfully, due to the increasing quality of high definition cameras we can experience the ...
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5 Great Spots For Dropping Off The Grid >>> Article
CNN features some perfect places to leave behind the rat race, set up some solar panels, and take in a the beauty of life without illusions: Now is your chance to flee society. Drop off the grid. Pull a Thoreau. Be you a survivalist, an environmentalist or a cheapskate-ist, you can join the growing movement of Americans embracing off-grid living. “There’s a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche,” ...
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Free Publication ‘Earth’ Issue 2 >>> Vernal Equinox
I think I felt the smiles of the stars grow wider when the second issue of the fresh and free publication Earth hit the digital universe this last week. The enlightening topics are infinite featuring the geometry of the natural world, curiosity and the source of creativity, The Gaia hypothesis, adventures into nothingness, letting go of your identity, and the medicine wheel to name a few. Like the issues name Vernal Equinox suggests, meaning spring equinox…spring has bloomed into a garden of cosmic flowering ...
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Soatanana >>> Photography Series of Isolated Culture in Madagascar by David Buchmann
David Buchmann, an up and coming Danish photographer, is the perfect example of what I love about photo journalism style photography. Before seeing his photo series Soatanana, I was plagued with ignorance assuming Madagascar was an island filled with lemurs…and of course some people. Now, with just a few photos, my personal bubble as yet again been expanded. Not only geographically, but throughout time learning that Madagascar flourished with religious communities in the 19th century. Through Buchman’s will to adventure ...
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Alto Paraiso >>> Brazil’s Budding New-Age Hot Spot
I contemplated writing this post as I fear exposing this magical sounding Brazilian town will lead to it’s losing it’s transcendental low-fuss charm. However, with the residents values being “to focus on the simple, beautiful, idealistic stuff that should be normal, but isn’t,” I figure no matter how much tourism flourishes there, it will maintain its humble ideas of living. Surrounded by waterfalls and founded on a culture mystical healing Alto Paraíso, meaning ‘High Paradise’, seems like the highest of the high paradises ...
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A Psychonaut’s Adventures in Videoland
I don’t know how I overlooked this Vice.com series ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia‘, but the fact that I am finding out about it by the New York Times is yet again another exciting example of how the entheogenic healing movement is on the verge of busting through the scientific and governmental barriers of the last couple decades into the awareness of modern society. No longer a thing of the past or that of tribal shamanic societies, with the power of the internet ...
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Understanding Life Off the Grid >>> Professor and Photojournalist Examine Back-to-the-Landers Across Canada
Have you ever wondered what life would be like without commercially-provided heat, water and electricity? >>> Phillip Vannini, professor at Royal Roads University and photojournalist Jonathan Taggart have these three questions in mind while they travel the country looking for the answers. The duo made a stop in Grande Prairie last week as part of their three-year study. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has funded more than $50,000 (taxpayers dollars) to Taggart and Vannini to examine the ...
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El Cosmico Resort >>> Luxury Hippie Livin’
Satisfying all my neo-hippie fantasies of living in a trailer, a teepee, or a yurt, a new concept in luxury hotels, El Cosmico, makes this all possible. Accompanied with their Mañana philosophy that “doesn’t care about email or normal hours of operation [recognizing] that we can’t all have everything we want at any given moment, I’ve practically stretched my thumb out over the road with one arm while I write this post with the other to make the trip down ...