in this time of ever ascendant materialism, greed, and pathological narcissism, when the delusion of the disconnected dominant individual grows stronger, the contrary life-affirming stream of connection and respect is gaining strength even as it is suppressed, vilified, and criminalized. This stream, which we can call ‘awakening consciousness,’ is the motor of civilization. It moves in the...
Silvia and Marta Landa were four-year-old identical twins who lived in the village of Murillo de Río Leza in northern Spain. One day in 1976, their father took Silvia to visit their grandparents, who lived several miles away. Marta, the other twin, insisted on staying home and helping her mother with household chores. Marta burned her hand on a hot clothes iron, causing a large red blister, a...
Research Article| January 01 2011 Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Transformation Phil Wolfson Phil Wolfson Author InformationPhil Wolfson, MD, is a practicing psychiatrist/psychotherapist in the Bay Area. He is the author of the forthcoming Noe—A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Sickness and Death. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tikkun (2011) 26 (1): 10–88....
Earlier this year I joined some friends at a performance by the New York Philharmonic of Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Not one of us was Catholic or professed any creed threatening an afterlife of eternal suffering for the wicked. No perpetual willies over Judgment Day. Nevertheless, when the massed voices of chorus and orchestra unleashed their frenzy in the climactic “Dies irae” section, we four,...
There is a reciprocal relationship between remaking the world and remaking ourselves, between the courage to be with our own pain and the ability to open to the suffering of others. There is no real separation between our inner spiritual landscape and the systems of power and privilege that operate in the world. When we become more aware of the inner obstacles to freedom and peace, we are more...
Other| January 01 2009 Male Sexuality Postzionism: A Reader Conscience Judaism and Justice Witness to Dispossession the Lonely American Psychedelic Psychiatry Male Sexuality, Bader, Michael, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008Postzionism: A Reader, ed. Silberstein, Laurence J., Rutgers University Press, 2008Conscience, Schulweis, Harold M., Jewish Lights, 2008Judaism and Justice, Schwarz, Sidney, Jewish...