Psychedelic & AscensionBERLIN
One Body on the Dance Floor
A techno-rave order believes that enough people, enough bass, and the right chemistry can fuse a crowd into a single organism. They are chasing a m...
The Ascension Desk
Psychedelic & Ascension
Festivals that hardened into movements, promising a way up and out of a world they consider already lost.
The Brew That Calls the Old Gods
The Herd of God claims a sacrament it says is distinct from ayahuasca — one that opens a line not to the jungle's spirits but to the deities of the...
Dancing Back to the Pleroma
A neo-tantric development cult holds that ecstatic dance can return the body to the undivided fullness the Gnostics called the Pleroma. For a few h...
- Psychedelic & AscensionAUSTIN, Texas
A Perfect Body and a Perfect Soul
An Austin biohacking order treats optimization as a spiritual path. The perfect body is the entry fee; the perfect soul is what they say it buys.
Shakti Without a Riverbed
A movement to reclaim women's pleasure as a spiritual power began as a genuine liberation. It ended as a cautionary tale about what happens to a fo...
- Psychedelic & AscensionAUSTIN, Texas
From the Dance Floor to the Fifth Dimension
In Austin, a festival scene has hardened into a movement. Escape Velocity promises chemical ascension out of a 3D world it considers already lost.