Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age

contents

Introduction, Daniel Pinchbeck ix

1.
initiation

Meeting the Spirits, Daniel Pinchbeck 3
Homo Luminus: You with Wings, Stella Osorojos 6
A New Understanding of the Psyche, Stanislav Grof 13
Exorcising Christ from Christianity, Adam Elenbaas 21
The Wounded Healer, Paul Levy 37

ii.
the shamanic

Jaguar Medicine, Alberto Villoldo 49
Mayan Shamanism and 2012
:A Psychedelic Cosmology,
John Major Jenkins 56
Ayahuasca and Kabbalah, Jay Michaelson 72
Psyching Out the Cosmos, Daniel Pinchbeck 77
Shamans and Charlatans: Assessing Castaneda’s Legacy,
ST Frequency 86
Blood and Breath, Barbara Alice Mann 97
Insects, Yoga, and Ayahuasca, Padmani 110
Gnosis: The Not-So-Secret History of Jesus, Jonathan Phillips 114

iii.
art

Burning Men, Erik Davis 133
The Kubrick Gaze, J. F. Martel 145
Harry Smith: American Media Artist,
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid 159
Xenolinguistics I: Aspects of Alien Art, Diana Reed Slattery 162
Paint into Words: Alex Grey Interview, Michael Robinson 178
Is That a Real Reality, or Did You Make It Up Yourself ?,
Steven Taylor 181
Moby Click, David Rothenberg 192
Reality 2.0,Antonio Lopez 195

iv.
sex

The Testicular Age, Charles Eisenstein 205
Transforming Repression of the Divine Feminine,
Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple 209
Finding Peace Between Our Sheets:
Talking with Marnia Robinson, Adam Elenbaas 219
Gender Evolution, Kal Cobalt 228

v.
engagement

Impossible Dreams, Stephen Duncombe 233
Yoga as Spiritual Activism, Sharon Gannon 237
Cleaning Up Soap: Why the Bronner Family Is Washing Out a Few Mouths, Jill Ettinger 242
If You See Something, Say Something, Michael Brownstein 248
“I Know We Won”—Abbie Hoffman Speaks, Ken Jordan 253

vi.
community

Transition Town: A Tonic for the Peak Oil Blues, Alex Munslow 277
Become an Urban Homesteader, Homegrown Evolution 281
Sumerian Economics, Peter Lamborn Wilson 290
Mutual Aid Revisited, Anya Kamenetz 296
Radical Interdependence and Online Telepathy: How Twitter Helps Us Find One Another, Jennifer Palmer 305
Writing Source Code for Democracy, Ken Jordan 316
Acknowledgments 339
About the Contributors 341