Don Lattin shares his research on the Harvard guys who played a pivotal role in the psychedelic period of the late 1950s and 1960s, and who influenced them.

Poet Hirshfield points out that many people turn to poetry in times of great life transitions. Here she reads some of her poems and talks of the inspiration from which they come. She shares why…

Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D., illustrates what he means by spiritual bypassing and the addiction to being positive. He describes how our resistance to pain makes the pain worse and…

People are living longer, but this new longevity is not equivalent to an extension of old age or years added on at the end of life. Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., describes a whole new stage of…

Michael Meade regales us with many myths that illustrate how we can heal the multiple cracks in the world by finding our own gifts, our own ways to work meaningfully in the world, and how we can…

Cathy and Gary Hawk propose that we are the directors of our own play. As directors, we can choose where to point our attention and focus in order to be effective and get the results we are…

Cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D., has been researching and documenting evidence that precognition is possible. She has also set up an extensive website that provides practical…

What are the practices that allow for wisdom to arise? Alan Briskin believes wisdom can emerge when individuals come together for a common purpose, even—or especially—when those individuals bring…

Moving away from busy behavior takes more than trying to just make a quick change. Yvonne Tally explains why quick fixes aren’t sustainable. Yvonne shares some concrete processes to help us…

Discover how we may become more effective communicators to create more empathy, intimacy, and understanding in all our relationships. The techniques and stories Jonathan Robinson shares here are…