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Katarina Phang, a.k.a. “The Man Whisperer”, is a sought after dating and relationship coach, with an unconventional approach focusing on developing in her clients what she calls “feminine magnetism”. She is the author of He's Really That Into You, He's Just Not Ready: The Ultimate Guide of Dating Emotionally Unavailable Men or Guys Who Want … Continue reading "Katarina Phang – The Shadow, Trump and Feminine Magnetism" The post Katarina Phang – The Shadow, Trump and Feminine Magnetism appeared first on The Eternities.

Lincoln Cannon is religious about human enhancement. ‘We're on the cusp of a biotech revolution that will make the information technology revolution of the late 90s / early 2000s look like a small thing in retrospect.' Cannon, a philosopher and technologist, is a founder, board member and former president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the … Continue reading "Lincoln Cannon – Feed Your Head: How to Enhance Your Brain Now and Soon" The post Lincoln Cannon – Feed Your Head: How to Enhance Your Brain Now and Soon appeared first on The Eternities.

Podcast interview with out-of-body experiencer and researcher Graham Nicholls. The post Graham Nicholls – Out-of-Body Evidence and Ecstasy appeared first on The Eternities.

It's a question often asked of the conspiratorially minded, born from an irritation with the modern tendency to question every event and its mainstream media account. Of course, it's really a statement – “Everything isn't a conspiracy!” – with perhaps the added subtext, “You paranoid, irrational, basement-dwelling loon.” However, in an attempt to get a … Continue reading "Roberto Quaglia – Is Everything A Conspiracy?" The post Roberto Quaglia – Is Everything A Conspiracy? appeared first on The Eternities.

Aldous Huxley stated in The Doors of Perception that the mind is “a reducing valve”, filtering a greater reality – what he called Mind-at-Large – to the human organism. In his latest book, the consciousness theorist Anthony Peake employs cutting-edge science to more thoroughly investigate those doors of perception and makes a profound conclusion regarding … Continue reading "Anthony Peake – Opening the Doors of Perception" The post Anthony Peake – Opening the Doors of Perception appeared first on The Eternities.

The following ontological movies (ie. those concerned with the nature of existence and reality) were discussed in a podcast discussion with the consciousness theorist Anthony Peake. Click for Part One of the podcast, and see bottom of the page for Part Two. Or listen to both parts in YouTube, below. SPOILER ALERT: The podcast contains spoilers, as … Continue reading "20 Great Ontological Movies" The post 20 Great Ontological Movies appeared first on The Eternities.

“It's like The Matrix, isn't it?” We've heard the phrase many times and probably said it ourselves. We live in a time when mind-bending perspectives on the nature of reality are both commonly abroad in the culture as well as entertained by cutting-edge scientists. But it wasn't always the case. The mainstream success of movies such … Continue reading "Anthony Peake – What Must We Learn to Escape the Era of the Ontological Movie?" The post Anthony Peake – What Must We Learn to Escape the Era of the Ontological Movie? appeared first on The Eternities.

Last week would have been Shakespeare's 451st birthday, had he been as immortal as his work. Some would have it that you might need to have lived that long to have garnered the experience, the wisdom, and even to have had the time (or sufficient typing monkeys) to have been both so prolific and profound. In … Continue reading "Nick Buchanan – What Happens in Shakespeare" The post Nick Buchanan – What Happens in Shakespeare appeared first on The Eternities.

Johnny F D is an online entrepreneur, a location independent “digital nomad”. After a three week vacation to Thailand in 2008 he left his home and corporate job in Los Angeles and bought a one way ticket back to Thailand. He talks in the podcast about the strategy for creating online businesses – known as “drop … Continue reading "Johnny F.D. – Siamese Dreams 2: From Cubicle to Globe" The post Johnny F.D. – Siamese Dreams 2: From Cubicle to Globe appeared first on The Eternities.

Conor McMillen is a therapist and lifestyle coach with a popular YouTube channel, Handyman Bananas. Just three years ago he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He believes that eating a fruit diet was the key factor in his rapid recovery. The interview took place at the recent Fruit Winter festival which Conor now organises each … Continue reading "Conor McMillen and Brittany Taylor – Siamese Dreams 1: Fruit, Simplicity and Self Love" The post Conor McMillen and Brittany Taylor – Siamese Dreams 1: Fruit, Simplicity and Self Love appeared first on The Eternities.

Sarah Rose Bright is a sex coach far beyond the vanilla kind. “Conventional sex therapy just deals with talking,” she explained in a recent interview with The Eternities podcast. “A lot of people carry a lot of fear, a lot of shame and tension, and all sorts of things that are difficult to address with … Continue reading "Sarah Rose Bright – Sex Coaching: From Shame to Shamanism" The post Sarah Rose Bright – Sex Coaching: From Shame to Shamanism appeared first on The Eternities.

“If you want to influence [the student] at all, you must do more than merely talk to him; you must fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.” So argued the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, said to be a key … Continue reading "Jerry Mintz and Daniel Sage – Home-Schooling, Unschooling and Teenage Liberation" The post Jerry Mintz and Daniel Sage – Home-Schooling, Unschooling and Teenage Liberation appeared first on The Eternities.

The tide seems to be turning with regard to attitudes to the healing powers of psychedelics, says Tom Shroder, the author of a new book on the subject. And, according to some researchers, their incredible efficacy is down to their ability to unleash the mind's own “innate healing intelligence”. The award winning journalist and ex-editor … Continue reading "Tom Shroder – LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to Heal" The post Tom Shroder – LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to Heal appeared first on The Eternities.

The main character in Andrew Clover's latest novel has an accident, her consciousness splitting to revisit significant scenes in her past and to review her life. And this, he claims, happened also to him. He discusses his near death experience during which he seemed to leave his body in the latest podcast from The Eternities. … Continue reading "Andrew Clover – A Novelist's Near Death Experience" The post Andrew Clover – A Novelist's Near Death Experience appeared first on The Eternities.

In a time when Artificial Intelligence is getting all the headlines, English author and film-maker Simon G. Powell is making the case for Natural Intelligence – the idea that life itself is intelligent and nature has solutions to problems we have yet to even understand. And it was a series of mushroom trips – “like … Continue reading "Simon G. Powell – Magic Mushrooms and Natural Intelligence" The post Simon G. Powell – Magic Mushrooms and Natural Intelligence appeared first on The Eternities.

“Agriculture is really the dominant system of 8,000 years, and it's more than a way of growing food. It's a way of domesticating humans and organising humans. It is ‘the' system.” So says the environmental author and journalist Richard Manning in the latest podcast from The Eternities. “And the system that brought us here and … Continue reading "Richard Manning – Free Yourself from the Afflictions of Civilization" The post Richard Manning – Free Yourself from the Afflictions of Civilization appeared first on The Eternities.

“You only need to do something as stupid as a detox because you're eating stupid things,” said the nutritional researcher Dao Earl. Dao is co-founder of Sura Detox, a retreat centre in Devon on the south coast of England. “I was troubled for a long time in bringing people into the retreats. They go through … Continue reading "Dao Earl – What on Earth is Food, Anyway? A Fresh Take on Human Diet" The post Dao Earl – What on Earth is Food, Anyway? A Fresh Take on Human Diet appeared first on The Eternities.

It's over thirty years since his death, but fascination for the work of science fiction author Philip K. Dick continues to grow with more than ten major Hollywood movies based on his novels and short stories, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. A new biography shines further light on the … Continue reading "Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future" The post Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future appeared first on The Eternities.

Humankind was expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit. But, according to a radical theory, it was actually for not eating enough of the stuff. Consciousness theorist Tony Wright argues that human evolution stalled around 200,000 years ago, an event that may have been recorded in the world's myths as “the … Continue reading "Tony Wright – Oral Sex, Molecular Engineering and the Fall from the Brain of Eden." The post Tony Wright – Oral Sex, Molecular Engineering and the Fall from the Brain of Eden. appeared first on The Eternities.

Pascal's Wager demonstrated a certain rationality to a belief in god. The seventeenth century philosopher, Pascal, argued that if one believes, yet god does not exist, nothing is lost in death. But, if god exists, the reward is eternal happiness. For the transhumanist thinker, Giulio Prisco, if god doesn't exist, he believes we will create … Continue reading "Giulio Prisco – Transhumanist Spirituality, A New Religion for the Modern Age" The post Giulio Prisco – Transhumanist Spirituality, A New Religion for the Modern Age appeared first on The Eternities.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet. The idea for my first novel, Human+, came from a desire to write about psychic phenomena. That is, to write persuasively about psychic phenomena. Telepathy, astral travel, precognition, discarnate entities. There truly is more in … Continue reading "The Transhuman is Already Here and it's You: How I Can Write Seriously About Psychic Superhumans" The post The Transhuman is Already Here and it's You: How I Can Write Seriously About Psychic Superhumans appeared first on The Eternities.

Graham Nicholls claims to have experienced hundreds of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) since his first spontaneous one at twelve years old. Over the years he has sought to hone the art in his efforts to increase the number of his own experiences and their attainability for others. Graham has for several years offered one-on-one coaching and … Continue reading "Graham Nicholls – Navigating the Out of Body Experience" The post Graham Nicholls – Navigating the Out of Body Experience appeared first on The Eternities.

Roundtable discussion with the ITLAD Walker / Open Minds discussion group, based in Liverpool, UK. An examination of the ego, how it might be better operated, and possibilities for transcendence. The post The Ego – Use it or Lose it? appeared first on The Eternities.

Spiritual gurus have often warned against disturbing those still “deep in role” with reminders of their transcendent nature. There is a reason for what Alan Watts called “the taboo against knowing who you are”, and this evasion from ultimate truth, they say, is all part of the divine play. Dean Radin, the famous researcher into … Continue reading "Dean Radin – Supernormal" The post Dean Radin – Supernormal appeared first on The Eternities.

With the announcement earlier this year from Dr Rick Strassman's research foundation regarding the discovery of DMT in the pineal glands of live rats, modern science took a huge step forward in the understanding of this gland. But, according to the consciousness theorist, Anthony Peake, the pineal's central role in transcendent experience has long been … Continue reading "Anthony Peake – Our Pineal Gland and The Infinite Mindfield" The post Anthony Peake – Our Pineal Gland and The Infinite Mindfield appeared first on The Eternities.

Ramez Naam is the author of two SF books – Nexus and Crux – dealing with a mind linking nano-drug that he believes is theoretically possible. He is also the author of the non-fiction books More Than Human – Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and, his latest on the power of innovation, The Infinite Resource … Continue reading "Ramez Naam – The Transhuman Mind Meld" The post Ramez Naam – The Transhuman Mind Meld appeared first on The Eternities.

Roundtable discussion: With the ITLAD Walker / Open Minds discussion group based in Liverpool, UK. What are the dangers to humanity as we move into an ever more technologised world? Do we risk the neglect of some latent ‘psycho-spiritual' dimension? Or could the modern machine world be as natural as everything that has gone before? The post Can't Cyborgs Have a Soul? appeared first on The Eternities.

An interview with the unconventional psychotherapist, Tony Cawley. Subjects discussed: Tony's training in hypno-psychotherapy and the evolution of his method, especially his work in developing what he calls ‘The universal language of the soul', with which he finds a way to mediate between his clients and their own unconscious. Psychological blockages and how to remove … Continue reading "Tony Cawley – The Language of the Soul" The post Tony Cawley – The Language of the Soul appeared first on The Eternities.

Roundtable discussion: With the ITLAD Walker / Open Minds discussion group, based in Liverpool, UK. For most of its history, humankind has believed it is not alone, that there are beings that exist but are never – or rarely ever – seen. Spirits, pixies, elves, angels, devas, elementals, entities, daemons, demons … Today, modern culture has … Continue reading "Of Daemons and the Demonic: A Look at Consciousness Beyond the Corporeal" The post Of Daemons and the Demonic: A Look at Consciousness Beyond the Corporeal appeared first on The Eternities.

Roundtable discussion: With the ITLAD Walker / Open Minds discussion group, based in Liverpool, UK. Present in the discussion is the consciousness theorist and author, Anthony Peake. Is free will possible or simply an illusion? For an introduction to the topic, see Neuroscience, free will and determinism: ‘I'm just a machine'. The post Free Will vs Determinism appeared first on The Eternities.