These volumes give a multidisciplinary overview of altered states of consciousness (ASC) and shows how their study is necessary to gain a fundamental understanding of human culture, history, and biology. In volume 1, contributors present ...

"Between 1946 and 1964,more than 75 million babies were born in the United states - the largest single population spike in the country's history. The size of this generation (at times approaching 1 out of 3 Americans) has had a profound impact on ...

The Alchemy of Opposites explores the dance of opposites within the individial, realtionhips and society.

One of the 1960s counterculture's most fascinating characters was Kerry Wendell Thornley -- a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlightened prankster, and, possibly, an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination. A ...

Collected from a wide range of resources and based on years of experience, this book assists the reader in working out a plan to deal with personal survival in areas such as health, emergencies, natural disasters and victimhood.

Collects interviews given on the British television series "Disinformation" by people including Robert Anton Wilson, Grant Morrison, Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Peter Russell, and Genesis P-Orridge.

Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, human knowledge, robots, and the future.

“Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field.” With those words in Genesis, God condemns the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve, and the serpent has shouldered the blame ever since. But how ...

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"This is a quietly earth-shattering project that constitutes a logical next step in the development of Jeffrey Kripal's thinking over the course of his career and grows directly out of Esalen. In Kripal we have a classic Romantic thinker/writer ...