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Mind Control in the Music Industry
By Tai Carmen “As an artist, I think delusion is the greatest gift that you can bear.” ~ Lady Gaga You’re not supposed to take pop music seriously. By definition, it is fluff; pure sugar. But sugar,...
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Mind Control in the Music Industry ~ Part 2
By Tai Carmen “As artists we’re highly sensitive people, and this machine around us, this so-called ‘music industry,’ is such a demonic thing. It’s sacrifices people’s lives and their essences at the...
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Creative Connections & The Science of Inspiration
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.” ~ Terence McKenna The creative spark...
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Rites of Spring: Rituals of Renewal
By Tai Carmen That men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson The Spring Equinox – when the sun lines up with the earth’s equator — is rich with...
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America’s Vanishing Civil Liberties & The Controversy of Indefinite Detention
By Tai Carmen “Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of...
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The Love Pill: Future Brave New Drug of the Masses?
“The warm, the richly colored, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was! [...] Swallowing half an hour before closing time,...
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The Art of Seeing: Third Eye Perception & The Mystical Gaze
“There is a vast difference between looking and seeing.”~ Ernest W. Watson “No wonder once the art of seeing is lost, Meaning is lost, and all life seems ever more meaningless.” ~ Frederick Franck...
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Starseeds, Cosmic Consciousness and the Galactic Generations ~ Part 1
Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ~...
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Starseeds, Cosmic Consciousness and the Galactic Generations~ Part 2
If you haven’t read Part 1 ~ CLICK HERE “The whole universe exists inside you. Ask all from yourself.” ~Rumi “And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,...
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Navigating The Dark Night of the Soul
“The night sea journey takes you back to your primordial self, not the heroic self that burns out and falls to judgment, but to your original self, yourself as a sea of possibility, your greater and...
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Transformation, Destruction & The Inner Apocalypse
Tai Carmen “Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. Our divided, schizophrenic worldview, with no mythology adequate...
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Twenty-Thirteen: Year of The Dream!
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” ~ T.S. Elliot “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them...
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How To Be A Living, Breathing Dreamcatcher: A Conversation With Rachael Rice
By Tai Carmen Rachael Rice is an Oklahoma-born, Vermont-bred dream coach, artist, digital media maven, teacher and dreamcatcher maker — featured in the likes of People Magazine– living in Portland,...
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Alchemy: An Allegorical Map to Consciousness Transmutation
By Tai Carmen “We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment....
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The Emerging Study of Intuition
T’ai Carmen “Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation”. ~ Eileen Caddy “The only real...
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Authenticity & the False Self
By T’ai Carmen “No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Soul Retrieval
By Tai Carmen “Why do we describe a distraught person as being ‘beside himself’? Because the ancients believed that soul and body could part, and that under great emotional stress the soul would...
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Synthesis: Reflections on the Journey
By: Tai Carmen “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” ~ Marcel Proust “The only journey is the one within”. ~ Rainer...
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Dreams: Symbolic Keys, Subconscious Communication & Catharsis
By: Tai Carmen Part 1 “All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” ~ Jack Kerouac “Yet it is in our idelness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to...
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Dreams: Symbolic Keys, Subconscious Communication & Catharsis ~ Part 2
By Tai Carmen All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams....
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