Last night, my brilliant wife and I were walking to the store, brainstorming ideas for the Saturday morning recipe. In a flash, the recipe’s name came to her: Illuminati Biscotti. Inside the store, we got the items off of our list, while brainstorming the special ingredient that would really be apropos to our recipe’s name. [...]

If you like homemade bread, and don’t already own Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, you should buy it. The method in the book is by far the easiest way to have fresh bread at your house on a daily basis short of sending your golem to fetch $6 loaves of delicious but overpriced [...]

We’ve talked about how we can remember more of our dreams. We’ve talked about how we can interpret our dreams. We even practiced those techniques on real-life dreams. But how do we act on our dreams? There are a few things we must learn before we can arrive at a good answer to that question.

Yesterday, I promised that we would practice our Five Techniques on an actual dream. So, here are two dreams that an anonymous reader had one night.

Two days ago I promised you some techniques for understanding your dreams. Here you go. 1) Every dream contains a meaningful message. Dreams lack the logic and syntax that we enjoy in waking life. Because our dreams jump from one scene to the next, often filled with jumbled and distorted forms of whatever was on [...]

So you want to expand your consciousness? Looking for a spiritual experience? Want to feel connected to something greater than you? But… you’re not sure that you believe in God? You have a justifiable mistrust for religions and cults? You have “issues”? Welcome to the club. Dali’s “The Dream”

Another name for alchemy is “the spagyric art”, a term that refers to the use of plant-based tinctures that alchemists often made in their pursuit of life-extending and consciousness-raising elixirs. Today, the world’s most widely imbibed psychoactive tincture is coffee. The process of growing, roasting, grinding, brewing, and serving coffee is an alchemical process if [...]