News feed for the Metahistory.org web site which explores the power of human potential to shape society, serve the earth, and co-evolve with the non-human world. http://www.metahistory.org/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.metahistory.org/images/LogoSmall.gif http://www.metahistory.org/ A one-of-its-kind essay on erotic mysticism. This essay will be posted in two parts, with a week's interval. http://www.metahistory.org/TantraTenderness1.php Sun, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Remarkable imagery from another 13th Century psalter, illustrating the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because they ate the Forbidden Fruit. http://www.metahistory.org/ForbiddenFruit.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Chapter 2 of A Primer of Stellar Astrology, Astrology Without Stars, reveals what a horoscope is and what it does not show. http://www.metahistory.org/starbase/primer2.php Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Introducing John's unique system of real-sky astrology explained in recent talks on futureprimitive.org, linked to his groundbreaking book, Quest for the Zodiac. http://www.metahistory.org/starbase/primer.php Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Jung Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#contact Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#DSS Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Roswell Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#orgone Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 More heretical images from the Paris Eadwine Psalter, this time relating to shamanism, the Gnostic Pleroma, and the legend of Mary Magdalene. http://www.metahistory.org/MysticJesus.php Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 The second and concluding essay on the cult writer and his problems with women. http://www.metahistory.org/Castanova2.php Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 More astonishing pictures from the Paris Eadwine psalter, graphic evidence of entheogenic visions and encoded wisdom. http://www.metahistory.org/Wasson/IlluminatedHeresy.php Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 John's reflections on and critical response to Sorcerer's Apprentice - my life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace http://www.metahistory.org/Castanova1.php Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Revision and reformatting of key foundation material http://www.metahistory.org/themes_arch.php Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Bogomil writes about an updated kind of epistemology, the main idea of which is an adaption of the structuralism used in cultural anthropology. http://www.metahistory.org/INVITED/Bogomil1.php Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Ogdoadic science could be defined as that which comes out of the ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, and Dogon traditions describing the quatum and astrophysical world thought of by the Dogons as evenly divided between 'that which is seen and that which is not seen'. http://www.metahistory.org/INVITED/Munter1.php Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Kesey Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Psychedelic Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Reich2 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Allegro Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Einstein Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Reich Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#NHC Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Yogi Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#LaBarre Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Prelude Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Eliade Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Masters Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Orwell Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#DeRopp Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Watts Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Island Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Appleseed Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Crick Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#Russia Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Update on Psychonauts Generation ONE http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php#MKULTRA Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 More information on the unique illuminated manuscript John is using to support the Wasson thesis. http://www.metahistory.org/Wasson/Discovery.php Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Continuing with more extracts from John's unpublished ms, Paradise Denied, Entheogenic Revelation: The Paris Eadwine Psalter offers stunning images of psychoactive mushrooms growing in the Garden of Eden. http://www.metahistory.org/Wasson/EadwinePsalter.php Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 A new feature, Three Generations of Psychonauts, presents an inventory of key people, books, and events, with commentaries on the development of the entheogenic movement from 1935 to the present day. This new material links to the first chapter of the unpublished MS Paramour - My Life with Timothy Leary with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, which will be posted chapter by chapter on site in the coming month. http://www.metahistory.org/Psychonautics1.php Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200 More from John's unpublished book on entheogenic religion, The Oldest Taboo in the World decodes the myth of the Fall from Paradise in terms of the prohibition of visionary plants. http://www.metahistory.org/OldestTabooIntro.php Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200 A chapter from John's unpublished book on the Wasson thesis, and sets out what may be a startling challenge for all those who consider themselves involved in the coming planetary shift. http://www.metahistory.org/WassonCH1.php Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Some perspectives on the war on terror, environmental disaster, and global power games. http://www.metahistory.org/GnosticLens.php Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200