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Wandering Mindless -- an Experimental, Visionary and Psychedelic Video by Larry Carlson

Link for this Post: embedded above WANDERING MINDLESS by Larry Carlson on Vimeo. Back when I started this blog, I posted about Larry Carlson's Flash animation, Medijate. More recently, Calson has been putting a lot of experimental, visionary and psychedelic...

Nick Herbert - Psychedelics & Consciousness on YouTube -- Updated with Quantum Tantra: Nick's New blog

Links for this Post: YouTube Video embedded above Quantum Tantra: Nick Herbert's New Blog Nick Herbert's Long-Standing Webpage I first mentioned my long-time friend Dr. Nick Herbert in a post Quantum-Tantric Sage Nick Herbert's Home Page three years ago although...

The Buzz from Burning Man 2008 The "American Dream"

Link for this Post: Burning Man 2008 -- "The American Dream" Offical Site The theme of this year's Burning Man is the American Dream, which is appropriate since many at the Democratic convention noted that the American Dream seems to...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary Updated Now on YouTube

Link for this Post: See You Tube Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves and the other folks at...

Return of the Light

Happy Solstice. Today in the Northern Hemisphere where I live, it is the shortest day of the year in terms of sunflight and in the Southern Hemisphere it is their longest day. In this way, the Solstice marks a day...

Star Larvae Addendum: Exo-Psychology Revisited

Link for this Post: Star Larvae Addendum: Exo-Psychology Revisited. There was a time, a quarter century ago, when the hippest thing you could be doing was reading Timothy Leary essays written like channeled manuscripts, published from behind prison walls. Here...

Is Life All Just a Dream? - Times Online -- Updated with Videos

Updated with New Information and Videos: One of our readers emailed me to tell me that the article I had cited was from November 2004 and that the BBC videos are online at the following links: Three Videos in the...

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...

Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help Updated with a Message from RA Wilson

Updated Link: Message from RA Wilson on Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help on Douglas Rushkoff's Blog Bob Wilson's Daughter sent Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder a letter along with a note from Bob Wislon. Here is the...

10 Zen Monkeys -- Sex For Memes’ Sake

Link for this Post: 10 Zen Monkeys - a webzine "Sex For Memes’ Sake" The idea that meme theory which was discussed extensively in Dr. Susan Blackmore in her ground breaking book The Meme Machine can help explain the wide...

The Cosmic Calendar

Link for this Post: Cosmic Calendar: Timeline of the Universe Using the Metaphor of the Age of the Universe as One Year Note: Image to the left from the Cosmic Calendar website. Click on it to blow it up to...

"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...

Douglas Rushkoff on CNN March 25th" Welcome to the Future"

Links for this post: Welcome to the Future on the Douglas Rushkoff Weblog CNN Show: Welcome to the Future (first airs March 25th) Here is a long excerpt from Douglas Ruskoff' from his post about the show: I just spent...

I thought Googe Earth Was Cool! Wow Google Mars

Link for this post: Google Mars If Google Mars weren't a well rendered topographic map of what we know so far about our neighboring red planet, it could make a good art project. The colors and textures are awesome. By...

Future Positive : The Geometrization Of Thought by F. David Peat

Link: Future Positive : The Geometrization Of Thought This post has a bit of a lineage since it came by way of Bird on the Moon and is an essay re-posted from its author F.David Peat's website on Future Positive....

Timothy Leary: The Man Behind Both the Internet and LSD Revolutions

: Links for this post: "The Internet, Revolution and LSD: A Brief Review of a Recent Speech" by Steve Gordon on The Hammer of Truth Blog. He discusses a speech which is found at the next link. "The Internet vs....

Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game

Links for this post: Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game. by: Willard Van De Bogart Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society by Timothy Leary Part 2 The Glass Bead Game : (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Book by Herman Hesse...

Guru Guru Plays LSD March for First Time in 25 Years Live in Basel, Switzerland

Link for this Post: LSD Conference Official Homepage of Swiss Psychedelic Band Guru Guru Guru Guru, the Swiss Psychedelic Band of three decades ago played their noteworthy "LSD-March" for the first time in 25 years (the number is appropriate). According...

"Star Light" Song Performed by Doctors Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary

Links for this post: Fiorella Terenzi Website Download "Star Light" MP3 by Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary by clicking this link On several different occasions I watched my friend Timothy Leary perform with an Italian physicist turned musician Fiorella Terenzi...

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...

Poem: No Answers

Time has already swept me into oblivion As I write these words there is no one to write them The person who I think I am has been fabricated From shards of dreams and the froth of chaos Although it...

The Long Now Foundation: Making a Long Bet

Links for this post: "The Long Now Foundation" "Long Bets" The Long Now Foundation says of itself: The Long Now The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become...

Wired News: on Web 2.0 "When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer"

Link: Wired News: Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show. Via an review article called Questioning Web 2.0 By Chris Campbell, on Particletree, I found my way to the Wired article with great quote which I put in the headline of...

Hands Within Hands Within Hands -- Lyle Zapato’s Dactyl Fractal Zoom

Link for this post: Lyle Zapato’s Dactyl fractal zoom This trippy demonstration of the chaotic notion of self-similarity comes via Growabrain (the title of that particular blog is a suggestion many Republicans should consider). They have a few more fun...