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The Shame Organ

By Gordon Haber | May 26, 2017

Or, The Summer I Realized That The Grateful Dead Sucks

Too Much to Dream

Coming Down

By Scott Korb | November 28, 2011

A conversation with Peter Bebergal, an old co-author with a new book.

Photo of Ofelia Rivas by Jason Jacks for The Sierra Club.

Today Needs Another Name

By Quince Mountain | October 11, 2010

This Columbus Day, the spirit of 1492 is alive and well.

Killing the Buddha

Eddie Izzard’s Comedy of Belief

By Becky Garrison | April 2, 2010

As the progeny of a hippie college professor/Episcopal priest who dropped acid with Timothy Leary, I received an admittedly eclectic religious education. How many nine year olds can recite the Lord’s Prayer along with the lyrics to “The Vatican Rag” and “Plastic Jesus?” While other kids were watching the Three Stooges and other classic American…

"Mountains By Night" by Timitrius via Flickr

A Fresh End

By Zachary Redfearne | January 18, 2010

He was supposed to go up and never come down.

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The 2012ologists

By Andrew Marantz | November 13, 2009

Hollywood flies to Jackson Hole to hash out the apocalypse.

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Albertson’s Chicken for the Soul

By Kathleen Flanagan | October 7, 2009

Hungry, homeless, and caught in the rainstorm of life.

"rave & ravers" by cinocino via Flickr

Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts

By Andrew Thurman | August 31, 2009

The voice of the spirit world descends into an underworld.

Noemi Vagus, an Ashaninka shaman, standing in front of an Ayahuasca vine in the Peruvian Amazon

Meeting the Madre

By Alexander Zaitchik | May 18, 2009

A night high on ayahuasca with the Ashaninka of the Peruvian Amazon.

illustration by W. David Powell

Mothers

By Greg Bottoms | November 12, 2008

On learning to inhale, and a breeze of insignificance. Another excerpt from Greg Bottoms’ new book, Fight Scenes

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Anointing the Sick

By Al Masarik | June 24, 2002

An altar boy grows up just in time to watch his mother die.

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Zen Mind, Alkie Mind

By Martha G. | February 9, 2001

Lust, Liquor, and Bill W.’s Elegant American Buddhism.