July 15, 2009

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...

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July 11, 2009

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...

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July 01, 2009

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...

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June 21, 2009

Future Organic Technology -- The Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley

Link for this Post: Intro to Paul Laffoley and Future Organic Technology A couple of days ago, I found a site called Miquel.Com "Your Favorite Source of Random Information." Actually the information is not a "random" as advertised but along...

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June 17, 2009

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...

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June 02, 2009

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine. This is a wide ranging article about "smart drug's" that covers a set of topics much broader than its...

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May 06, 2009

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...

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April 18, 2009

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...

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April 07, 2009

Video: Storm NLP with Brainwave Entrainment on YouTube (Plus How To)

Links for this Post and embedded YouTube Video Storm NLP Plus Brain Wave Entrainment, How To Information on the Healing MindN Power Circle Blog Mind Stereo Mind Media Player for Windows Version 1.0 I resonate with the YouTube video by...

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March 06, 2009

Mattel Will Release Neurofeedback Brain Game -- Brain Flex -- CBS Video on YouTube

Links for ths Post include embedded video below plus: Mind Flex Like Basketball for Your Mind on Gizmodo Odball Gadgets: Mattel Mind Flex by Melissa Perenso on PC World Video: Mattel Mind Flex hands (and heads) on Engadget The Mattel...

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March 03, 2009

What Type Is My Blog? Find Out With Typealyzer!

Links for this Post: Typealyzer Blog Personality Analysis 'What Am I Like?' personality test Are you a regular Vision Thing reader and have been wondering about what I am really like? With Typealyzer you can find out almost instantly. Typealyzer...

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February 23, 2009

Digitizing Timothy Leary YouTube Video

Link for this Post: YouTube Video on the Project to Digitize Timothy Leary I posted several weeks ago The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com about an event which occured on February...

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February 18, 2009

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...

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February 16, 2009

Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars by Paul Hughes --- Updated Link

Link for this Post Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars My friend and fellow psychedelic blogger Paul Hughes, founder of the pioneering FutureHi weblog has written another of his extensive essays. This one is about us humans...

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January 27, 2009

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

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Might the Gods Be Alkaloids?

Link for this post: Entheology.org - Preserving Ancient Knowledge According to author Alex Polari de Alevega The question related in the title of our presentation addresses the role and use of psychoactive plants, throughout the process of human evolution, as...

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December 02, 2008

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...

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November 28, 2008

OBAMA Anatomy of a World Leader by Visionary Artist Alex Grey

Link for this Post:Obama Anatomy of a World Leader -- the making of a portrait by psychedelic artist extraordinaire Alex Grey My long-time friend Will Penna sent me a link to a portion of artist Alex Grey's site which is...

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November 11, 2008

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...

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September 16, 2008

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...

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August 26, 2008

Future Internet: Duncan Campbell examines the technology that will one day bring about the “thinking Web”.

Link for this Post: Future Internet - Internet - NetGuide I liked the picture that is featured at the top of this article by Duncan Cambell on the future of the Internet so I republished it at the top of...

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August 15, 2008

Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards

Link for this Post: Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards. Here is a link to a short interview with one of the researchers at John Hopkins doing research with psilocin. Mindhacks describes him and his work. I've...

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August 09, 2008

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...

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August 02, 2008

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...

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July 16, 2008

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...

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July 14, 2008

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...

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July 11, 2008

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore Published in Skeptical Inquirer I've posted about Susan Blackmore previously. I had the pleasure being introduced to her the Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference in January 2006 by Stanley Krippner. I found this...

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July 05, 2008

Links By George: A Biweekly Blog Of Links To Articles And Websites Alternative Lifestyles, Culture, Shamanism, Spirituality, Politics And The Environment

Link for this Post: Links by George: An Eclectic Biweekly Collection of Links From time to time, you have seen posts on my blog with the source of the link attributed to my friend George Douvris. I first connected with...

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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...

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July 02, 2008

Study Tests Magic Mushrooms -- CNN Video

Link for this Post: Study tests magic mushrooms CNN Video -- John Hopkins Psiilocybin Study with Terminal Cancer Patients I'm decompressing from my PhD candidacy orals which I passed on Monday. I got up early this morning and on CNN's...

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June 11, 2008

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...

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June 03, 2008

Will Harvard drop acid again?

Link for this Post: Will Harvard drop acid again?. by Peter Bebergal in the Boston Phoenix A long article about the MAPS funded research using LSD to treat cluster headaches currently being conducted by Dr. John Halpren. The article does...

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Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10...

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June 01, 2008

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...

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May 18, 2008

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...

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Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - Features, Music - The Independent

Link for this Post: Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - - The Independent. According to this article in The Independent from the UK: It's the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped...

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May 17, 2008

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...

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May 14, 2008

FutureHi Founder Paul Hughes New Site on the Web

Link: Paul Hughes' Site on the Web. Paul Huges who started the lively FutureHi blog back in 2003, which was a MUST READ for those of us interested in psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and the future of humans, our...

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May 11, 2008

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...

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May 04, 2008

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...

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April 30, 2008

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...

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April 28, 2008

The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

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April 21, 2008

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...

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April 09, 2008

World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube

Links for this post: Series of World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube As I mentioned, I wanted to go to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel but I guess two visits to Basel in one lifetime is probably enough. The...

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February 14, 2008

Horizon: Psychedelic science by Bill Eagles Google Video

Video Embedded Below A short excerpt from the Google Video introduction to this film: Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again. In the USA. My...

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January 26, 2008

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...

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January 21, 2008

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific American

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old friend David Jay Brown is made available by the...

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January 19, 2008

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner Steven Pritzker Filmography Ruth Richards Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature Jeane Achterberg Rituals of Healing Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agent I'm in San Fransisco again at my school, Saybrook Graduate School and...

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January 09, 2008

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

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December 17, 2007

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...

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