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Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

The Psychedelic Conspiracy

Links for this Post: The Aquarian Conspiracy Sex Drugs and Rock 'N Roll by Lyndon LaRusche; (first published in The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction on Bible Believers Psychedelic Alchemy on the Occult of Personality Blog Unlike my now departed...

He Has Ridden -- Celebrating Bicycle Day 66

Links for this Post: Editorial: He Has Ridden by Bruce Eisner first published in published Island Views in the Winter of 1993. Today is the 66th Bicycle Day, April 19, 2009 so I thought it would be appropriate to excerpt...

Gaia - The future of politics -- YouTube Video

Gaia - The future of politics (embedded below) I've been digging through my email bin trying to reach the bottom. It is getting closer or so I believe. I found a video sent to me late last year via this...

Spaced Out Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties--- Book and Blog

Links for this Post: Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties by by Alastair Gordon. The Spaced Out Blog Spaced Out Media: A Short Film about the Spaced Out book While talking with a friend about Ramon Sender, who...

Tell 5 Friends -- Don't Vote!! (Uncensored Version)

My friend Ramon Sender sent me this YouTube Video which is part of a series of non-partisan spots created by DiCaprios Appian Way production group. Here is what is written about it on YouTube: Whitaker have created public service announcements...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 3

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America The Huntington Botanical Gardens One of the panel members at the Laura Huxley Tribute said that if Laura Huxley were here, she would...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 2

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway on Amazon Sorry for the delay in giving you the rest of the story of my...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 1

Link for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America I'm writing this post from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks California. Many of a diverse International group of Aldous Huxley scholars attending this...

Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2

Link for this Post : Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2 -- Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies Note: The poster on the right is clickable and opens up to a larger size As regular readers...

Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Note: Clicking on the picture does not start a video, it takes you to the University of Texas at Austin Page where you can watch the video. Links for this Post: Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview. Transcript of...

YouTube Video: My LSD Lecture at an Orange Coast Community College Rondondo Beach California May 14, 2008

Above is an embed from part 1 of LSD -- A College Class Lecture. The video was made at a few weeks ago at a drug science class at Orange Coast Community College where my friend Kelli who you see...

Albert Hofmann - LSD - A Psychedelic 'Problem Child' Comes Full Circle - New York Times

Link for this Post: A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle By Benedict Carey in the New York Times My mother read this article about Albert Hofmann and his legacy, LSD. Here is a snip from the piece: Dr. Hofmann’s...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Leaves Lasting Albeit Controversial Legacy - CBC Sunday News Online Video

Links for this Post: Psychedelic Pioneer Albert Hofmann Video on Canadian Broadcasting Company Sunday News Watch Video with Windows Media (click here) I taped a short statement here in Vegas whch was included as part of a collage of people...

Rest in Peace Old Friend -- Albert Hofmann the Father of LSD Dies at 102

Links for this Post: Albert Hofmann Dies at 102 New York Tmes I had some dental work done today and my dentist does not believe much in giving pain killers. Usually I concur but tonight I wish he had give...

Sixties Philosopher Alan Watts Talks About Aldous Huxley's Island -- Pacifica Radio Audio

Links for this Post: These links are playlist files which when either opened with a streaming audio player like the free Winamp or clicked on if a playlist file player is already configured in windows. Each of them are KPFK...

The World Has Lost One of Its Greats -- Laura Archera Huxley 1911-2007 Updated

Links for this Post: Update: I just received an email from Karen Pfeiffer, the president of Laura's Children: Our Ultimate Investment. She sent an obituary which you will find in the extended portion of this post after what I had...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Named No. 1 Among Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph

Link:s for this Post Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph. British brains dominate list of living geniuses By Aislinn Simpson Telegraph I was pleased to see that my dear old friend Albert Hofmann, who turned 100 last year has been...

LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog

Link for this Post: LSD and DYING on eye of the cyclone. This is a three part post. The first part cited above begins: Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories...

Remembering Timothy Leary On His Birthday YouTube Videos

Link for this Post: Video Embedded in the Post Below If Timothy Leary were alive, he would be 87 years old today. But Timothy Leary is dead, having passed from our lives in 1996. In remembering Timothy on his birthday,...

In a Circle Remembering Peter: Celebration of the Litfe of Peter Stafford Santa Cruz CA August 26 Updated

Peter Stafford 1939-2007 Update: I am sitting in a circle of about 200 people as they pass a "talking stick" around, remembering Peter's life. In the room are people I have met through the years when I lived in Santa...

Peter Stafford Author and Psychedelic Investigator Dies -- Memorial to Be Held August 26 in Santa Cruz

Updated August 9th: The memorial will be at 1 to 3 pm at the Attic which is located at 931 Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz. Please see this new post for more updates: Updated August 7: The date of the...

Aldous Huxley Documentery: Gravity of Light on Google Video

Links for this Post; Embedded Google Video of the Entire Documentary and Gravity of Light DVD on Amazon (support the filmaker) I first saw this documentary five years ago and immediately purchased several hundred copies to send to members of...

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal, an excerpt

Links for this Post:: “Totally on Fire” The Experience of Founding Esalen" Excerpt from New Book Essen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal (this excerpt is also republished on this post in accordance with the...

When the Elite Loved LSD -- John Cloud -- Our Minister of Truth from TIME Magazine

Link for this Post: When the Elite Loved LSD -- John Cloud -- TIME. John Cloud is at it again. Having heaped his oddly reasoned form of ridicule on Timothy Leary in his last TIME magazine op/ed, he is now...

Jaxon Lubyk Interviews on alterati podcast - G-Spot

Links for this Post: Jason Lubyk Interviews on alterati podcast - G-Spot. I got an email from Jason Lubyk who has published an eclectic website and blog called New World Disorder. Jason Lubyk talks with former Mondo 2000 co-founder and...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

/patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one)

Link for this Post /patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one). I have written about John Higgs biography of Timothy Leary in a pevious post. This is just...

LSD & Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country -- Basel Switzerland on Google Video

Regular readers of Vision Thing will remember that I went to Switzerland in January for the International Symposium the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann. I posted the essay I wrote for the conference magazine Gaia News titled...

Eleusinian & Neo-Eleusinian Mysteries: The History & Future of LSD - Bruce Eisner Video

Link for this Post: The History and Future of LSD on Google Video or use video player below I've been working with my video library recently and uploaded almost 2 hours of a talk I gave at the 2001 International...

Thomas Roberts on Psychedelic Education

Links for this Post: 'Psychedelic Horizons', by Tom Roberts -- Reviewed by Bruce Sewick, LCPC on TripZine Buy Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas Roberts on Amazon I got to know Tomas Roberts over 30 years ago when I joined a group...

Burning Man 2006 Art Theme -- Hope & Fear: The Future

Link for This Post: Burning Man 2006 Theme -- 'Hope and Fear The Pavilion of the Future' This year's Burning Man Theme fits right along with some of my writings. Below the Burning Man icon is inscribed The Road to...

Zach Leary "Remembering Leary" Letter Replying to New York Times Book Review of Greenfield Bio

Links for this Post : Remembering Leary by Zach Leary in the New York Times Book Reviews Luc Sante "The Nutty Professor" Review of Greenfield Bio in New York Times Books Some people hold the New York Times and its...

"Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event"- Associated Press - CNN.com --Updated PDF Download

Link:s for this post: CNN.com - Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event - Jul 11, 2006. Updated: Download a PDF Download Original Scientific Paper on Study: "Good Friday Experiment Replicated!" Neuroscientists Probe Psychedelic Psilocybin Note: Image "psychedelic Mushrooms" from Carol Muse...

The Battling Leary Biographies -- New UK Book A Different View of the Late "Performing Philoophers'" Life

Links for this Post: The I have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary Website Buy the UK Edition I have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs at Amazon for Immediate Delivery Pre-Order the US Edition...

Variety Timothy Leary lives Miramax high on Harvard legend's biopic Based on a Hatchet Job Bio Book by Robert Greenfield

This is from Variety, the Hollywood trade paper: Accoring to Variety Miramax nabs the rights to 'Timothy Leary: A Biography.' biopic of Timothy Leary for the bigscreen after snapping up rights to the upcoming tome "Timothy Leary: A Biography" by...

"10 years since Timothy Leary's death" on Joi Ito's Weblog

Note: Picture above is from Joi Ito's post cited below Link for this post: "10 years since Timothy Leary's death" I've heard from some of Timothy Leary's friends the past couple of days, remembering that it has been an entire...

Updated Posters Did Not Sell on ebay -- You Can Still Celebrate the Sixty-Third Anniversary of The Discovery of LSD with a Psychedelic Poster Personally Autographed by Albert Hofmann

Updated for Bicycle Day: the auction of the two poster did not successfully sell them on eBay (the same thing happened last year). I'm not sure why as one of the posters Island Foundation sold resold on eBay last week...

Have You Heard?

Links for this post: "Four Gerald Heard Audio Clips from the The Official Gerald Heard Website" (Note: the site uses some "cleaver" frames thing so I can't link directly to the page with the audios) Go to the bottom of...

Updated Version of My Basel Presentation: LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country

Links for this Post: My Basel presentation: "LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country" published at Bruce Eisner's Writing Weblog Google Video of LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island Basel Lecture Updated: I spent the last couple...

REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of Age Rak Razam in Undergrowth

Link for this post: REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of Age Rak Razam in Undergrowth. My friend Will Penna describes this account of the recent LSD conference ... " this is the 'Fear and Loathing' gonzo journalist's account of...

Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library

Link: Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library. I have written about the "open source" American Buddha library with relationship to Timothy Leary in a previous post. This post is about a short piece by...

Wired News: "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?" and TripZine Hofmann Conference Wrap-Up

Links for this post: Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?.By Ann Harrison TripZine: LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug I'm back from Spain, fresh from the LSD conference dedicated to Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday. My friend Will Penna tells...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

Albert Hofmann Updated The New York Times: Father of LSD, now 100, and his 'problem child'

Link: Father of LSD, now 100, and his problem child -by Craig S. Smith in the New York Times Update: Some Albert Hofmann Links Albert Hofmann on Wikipedia LSD My Problem Child -- Psychedelic Library The Albert Hofmann Foundation In...

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

Link for this post: "The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005" by Dion Hinchcliffe Web 2.0 was the buzz idea of 2005 and Dion Hinchcliff's Web 2.0 Blog has made some intelligent choices about which new web sites and services...

Listen to the Project Eleusis CD Cool Psychedelic Mix Music in Honor of Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday

Some cool psychedelic mix music on Project Elusius, a CD which will be released January 9th 2006 in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Albert Hofmann. You can listen to the CD online now by visiting Dropout Productions. The dedication...

The Day the Counterculture Was Born

Preface: I wrote this essay two years ago and published it in an early post on Vision Thing. I did not know how to use Typepad at the time and it got published with weird line breaks. So I worked...

Much Food for Thought: Greylodge Occult Review and GPOD

Links for this post: GPOD the Greylodge Occult Review Index. and The Antiquities of the Illuminati. While checking out some backlinks from Vision Thing on Technorati, I found a link coming from the Discordian Research Technology (DRT). I clicked on...