New Gold City

My introduction to how mysterious and seemingly magical the human mind is came from a reading of POWERS OF MIND , at one time a national bestseller written by Adam Smith (a pseudonym for George Goodman, a high-end journalist and editor). I read this book in the mid-1970s. Powers of Mind was basically a long set of straightforward descriptions of everything from biofeedback and memory quirks to meditation, rolfing, and psychedelics. I was 17 at the time. From there I devoured books by Carlos Castenada, Aldous Huxley, John Lilly, and Ram Daas. My favorite -- then and now -- was THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG , by Joseph Chilton Pearce. Needless to say, like so many people back then, I did my own experiments with consciousness, going as far as I felt comfortable on the outskirts of Mind and Reality. This experimentation lasted about six years. By the time I was 22 I just didn't have the emotional strength and intellectual stomach to run around on the frontier of psychology anymore. That...

Definitely a sunrise in August There's a quiet revolution going on worldwide. Some of you may know about it. I'm not sure how much of this revolution is a function of the Occupy movement and how much Occupy is a function of that revolution.  I've been doing last minute research into the world of transformative consciousness as I prepare to publish Beyond the Will of God . I've found some interesting places on the Internet. They all give me the impression that the "revolution" I speak of is one in which Consciousness Expansion and Sustainable Development are in the process of merging...again. I feel a bit as if I've stumbled into a very beautifully lit room full of quiet people reading various books and looking at screens, waiting for something to happen. In the 1960s, trailing into the 1970s, questions of enhanced awareness and transcendental consciousness led to the birth of the appropriate technology movement and re-fueled the environmental movement. Som...