More than skin and bones, the body is a hotly contested item. Without it we wouldn’t exist, yet our efforts to transcend it, escape it and control it are as…

Hyperstition describes the effects and mechanisms of apocalyptic ‘phase out’ or ‘meltdown’ culture. As a neologism it combines the words ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’ to describe, in the words of the…

In Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Eric Drexler outlines what promises to be the technology of the 21st century. In a nutshell, Drexler describes how the genetic…

Mandalas function by re-tuning perceptual phenomena. As cosmic tuning forks, they attune minds and hearts to the frequency of the infinite. As diagrams, they retune reality by acting as visual…

Contemporary technologically advanced societies appear to have actualized magic. Humans living in these cultures harness energies that were once the providence of sorcerers: they can fly, communicate instantly, cure ailments…

The realm of imagination is ethereal to anyone trailing the chimeras to their lair. Down an underground passage, it is a visit to a marvellous palace closed to the light…

At the dawn of the 21st century, we seem to be living in on a Euro-American planet. The phenomenal expansion of western civilisation from its spiritual heartland in western Europe…

Welcome to the postmodern present where reality is remixed ‘live’ to CNN theme-muzak. In a world where the real is no longer hip enough, there can be no talk of…

Swarming insects are the defining symbols of our newly emergent global culture. Assailed by a raging sea of pictures, icons and branded coding, the humanity of the new millennium is…

At trance parties partygoers are undertaking journeys into the web of interconnected living reality. In a psychedelic fusion between dance and idea they are experiencing an ancient shamanic…