New Gold City

Can you feel it? There's some lift going on again. The doors are open. So are the windows. And we're starting to move. We're not flying yet, but we're certainly not tethered to asphalt anymore, either. The potential of the human mind is now a big deal again, and it's getting to be a bigger and bigger deal if you're paying attention. That lift you should have noticed by now is a surge in rising awareness about the powers of the human mind. I find it interesting that my novel,  Beyond the Will of God , so much about the validity and mystery of these powers, was ready for publication in 2000 but didn't make it to the light of day until this summer...makes total sense, though. Twelve years ago few people wouldn't have gotten it at all. Let me explain as briefly as I can. A whole bunch of stuff is coalescing out there causing this lift. First, over the past several decades diagnostic tools for mapping the chemistry of the human mind have advanced dramatically...

David Jay Brown covers the far edge of consciousness research. I stumbled into his work while reading a weekly report on entheogens at Reality Sandwich. Brown recently did a piece for the Santa Cruz Patch on telepathy and precognition studies performed on subjects under the influence of LSD. You can read that article HERE .  There really is a lot of movement going on out there in the world of psychedelic and entheogen research. It's surprising how dramatically things are changing but how quiet this research still is. Brown probably covers this information better than anyone with his Catch the Buzz column, and has been called "the altered statesman."  What he's best known for is his in-depth and intelligent interviews with consciousness visionaries. He is the author of at least 8 books, many of which are compendiums of his interviews with everyone from Deepak Chopra and Allen Ginsberg to Terence McKenna and Jerry Garcia.  His web site, Mavericks of the Mind , is like a...