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Under the Influence -- YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

Link for this Post: YouTube Video above Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for...

Neuromancer (the novel) at 25 - PC World Author Looks at What It Got Right and Not

Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong by Mark Sullivan on PC World I remeber spending time with Timothy Leary back in 1985 shortly after Neuromancer had been published in paperback. Tim pulled it off his...

Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness New Book by

Link for this Post: New Book Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness Back in February of 2006, after returning from the LSD Conference in Basel Switzerland, I posted REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of...

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...

Song Jack Kerouac Mexico City Blues CHORUS 16 on YouTube

Links for this Post include the embedded video below and in my comments. I'm the first to admit that I don't have a clue about who is who in contemporary music. I suppose that goes with the territory of being...

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...

Read the Online Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius

Link for this Post: Read the Free Online PDF Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius Many of you remember Mondo 2000, the Berkeley based magazine published by Alison Kennedy...

A Lazy Man's Guide to Thaddeus Golas at the Cyberspace "Café " Named for Him

Link for this PostL THADDEUS GOLAS -- The Official Thaddeus Golas Café In Cyberspace: I've posted about Thaddeus Golas previously in two posts. One post was called The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment is a link to a book which...

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 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...

Who Shall Speak for Us

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna...

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...

VOA News - Michael Murphy Helped Launch Human Potential Movement More Than 40 Years Ago

Link for this Post: VOA News - Michael Murphy Helped Launch Human Potential Movement More Than 40 Years Ago. Michael Murphy is featured in this post on VOA News. Murphy was co-founder of Esalen Institute, the crucible of the human...

Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video - Topics LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson

Link embedded below: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video. Topics include LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson As readers of Vision Thing know, I'm a big fan of Bill Maher and LSD...

Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising FREE eBook Download

Link for this Post: Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. Robert Anton Wilson passed on last year but his ideas live on in large number of books, essays and interviews. Prometheus Risingwas one of his most influential books during his life...

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...

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

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...

Ramon Sender and Memories of the Sixties

Links for this Post: Ramon Sender Homepage Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes: I first met Ramon Sender in 1969 at a hippie commune called Wheeler's Ranch in Northern California. Wheeler's Ranch was one of two...

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...

The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stan Grof on Reality Sandwitch

Link for this Post: The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity by Stan Grof on Reality Sandwich The essay I am posting about is by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who needs no introduction to most readers. The subject of...

Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads

Links for this Post: Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads The Stevens Seventy Greatest Science Books Combining video blogging with traditional posts, this amusing exchange between 'blogging heads" is worth a view. The list...

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

Remembering Jack Kerouac on the Smithsonian Magazine

Link: Remembering Jack Kerouac. by Joyce Johnson on the Smithsonian.Com Magazine According to the tagline on the story, "A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters." Here...

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...

alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic

Link for this Post: alterati » The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore. by Wes Unruh. This alerati post is interesting from a variety of perspectives. I actually own one of the Neurocomics. Timothy gave it...

Apocalypse - Maya - Armageddon - Rapture - End of Days -- New York Times Magazine

Link for this Post: Apocalypse - Maya - Armageddon - Rapture - End of Days - New York Times. I'm not sure how to characterize this New York Times. It's theme is apocalyptic predictions in general and ones around 2012...

Thomas Szzaz Psychologist and Civil Libertarian Accepts Award in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Rollo May Award Presentation Thomas Szasz, Ph.D. The Conquistador Bringing the Plague: The Medicalization of Malingering, Saybrook Graduate School Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility Thomas Szasz From Wikipedia Saybrook Graduate School and 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...

Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson by Joe Bageant

Link for this Post:Death By Digitalized Celebrity: Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson" by Joe Bageant. Note: the image to the left is from Joe's post. I have to thank my friend Will Penna for sending me this amusing...

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...

The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis

Link: The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis Erik Davis has recently redesigned his excellent Techgnosis website and added a bunch of new content. This essay by Davis, which has seen publication as an introduction...

Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine

Link for this Post: Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine. Paul Krassner who some consider the father of Underground Journalism describes author Kurt Vonnegut as " his favorite Luddite." Here is a short excerpt from his remembrances...

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...

The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda in Salon Books

Link for this Post: The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda | Salon Books By Robert Marshal When I was 19, I bought a VW Van and spent more than half a year traveling up and down the length of California....

Richard Dawkins Best Selling The God Delusion NPR Fresh Air with Terrie Gross

Link RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website. Podcast Reposted from the NPR Fresh Air Story and Podcast Audio requires QuickTime Player 7. Download the free player here. 38:46 : 20.7 MB This file is available for download here. Ctrl-Click...

Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner

Link for this Post: Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner. While continuing my research for Island Web's Voyages Elsewhere pages, I found this article by Fred Turner in Edge. I have posted about Professor Turner previously,...

Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube

I posted "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes" about the noted author and counterculture spokesman Robert Anton Wilson's passing in January. More recently, I have posted about a Robert Anton Wilson memorial...

Poster from Santa Cruz RAW Fest

Note: click on the image to see the full size This post is a continuation of my post 23 Snapshots from the Robert Anton Wilson Fest Feb 18 Santa Cruz CA I just got this poster by way of my...

The Journeybook Project Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness

Link for this Post: Journeybook. I found this site by way of eBlips. Here is what they say about the site: "The hyper-rad Aussie media collective Undergrowth is putting together a phat tome of trip reports & related essays–”Travels on...

RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers

Links for this Post: Available on Amazon: True Mutations (Paperback) by R.U. Sirius (Author), Ken Coffman (Editor), Ryder Carroll (Illustrator) Boing Boing: R.U. Sirius True Mutations book I got an email yesterday from Ken Coffman, aka R.U. Sirius that his...

Apocalypse's Eternal Return Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world! -- Reason Magazine

Link for this Post: Reason Magazine - "Apocalypse's Eternal Return.Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world!" by Brian Doherty Reason Magazine reviews Danial 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, by Daniel Pinchbeck, Bere is a taste from the beginning of...

A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes -- Updated Information

Updated Links: Cheerful "Reflections on Death and Dying" by RAW Robert Anton Wilson, RIP" by Jesse Walker on Reason A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays Jeff Diehl on Ten Zen Monkey's via Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007...

/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...

Web Consciousness Video Collection

Link for this Post: Web Consciousness Video Collection. I found this collection of "consciousness videos" via the Enthogenic Reformation blog. There are over a hundred videos including some I have not seen before by an assortment of consciousness personalities including...

Updated with Video Viewing Info: "Entheogen Guru" Pinchbeck to Appear on the the Colbert Report Thursday Dec 14th

Links for this Post Updated: Watch the Pinchbeck Interview at the Commedy Central Website: Entheogen "Guru" Pinchbeck to Appear on the the Colbert Report Yahoo! TV beta Daniel Pinchbeck on Colbert Report on Non-Prophet blog My friend Will Penna just...

Counterculture and the Tech Revolution -- RU Sirius + MP3 Download

Links for this Post Counterculture and the Tech Revolution By RU Sirius on 10 Zen Monkeys RU Sirius Interviews Fred Turner on Neofiles (MP3 Download) RU Sirius former editor of Mondo 2000 has a review of Fred Turner’s From Counterculture...

Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed

Link for this Post: Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed Here is a site with potential. Its just starting out so a but spartan but promising. Here is some excerpts from how it works: BuzzFeed distinguishes what is actually interesting...

RU Sirius Podcast -- Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson

Link for this Post: RU Sirius Podcast "Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson" My podcasting pal, RU Sirius emailed me with a heads-up about a show he is doing this week as tribute to the...