Our real educational and cultural needs are in danger of becoming lost in the erro­neous fascination with the information processing model of the mind.  One of America’s foremost social critics, Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of the Counter-Culture and The Cult of Information, delivers a scathing indictment of the over-selling of computer and high-tech [...]

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Here she describes a gradual process through which she became aware of communications with the deceased. She describes her work learning from James von Praagh, Lyn Buchanan, Whitley Strieber, Tom Campbell, and others. She points out that her psychic sensitivities were sharpened as the result of traumatic and dangerous experiences, such as a stalking.

Keith Thompson, author of Angels and Aliens: UFOs and The Mythic Imagination, suggests that regardless of whether UFOs actually represent hardware from outer-space, reports of sightings and encounters with UFOs and their occupants are a source of modern folklore in the making. In tracing four decades of debate among UFO researchers and debunkers, he suggests [...]

Whereas goddess worship has been almost entirely suppressed in the West, it has always been recognized and largely accepted in India, where it is frequently associated with tantric traditions. The fierce goddess, Kali, is a form of the deity that often seems demonic to westerners. Debashish explains the symbolism associated with her. Darkness can be [...]

Here she explains to Emmy Vadnais how she began working in the classroom to assist children in cultivating and understanding their natural intuitive gifts. She describes a variety of exercises and provides examples showing how young children responded. She points out that children can learn to acknowledge their innate psychic potentials without feeling ego-attached. Such [...]

Here he identifies himself with Sufism and describes the influence of figures like Huston Smith and Frithjof Schuon on his thinking. He defines the traditionalist movement as one that recognizes the core truths to be found in the esoteric wisdom of the great religious traditions. He recalls his early years with the beatnik poets, the [...]