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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Let's Party Like Its 1999!

Barack H. Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States Links for this Post: BarackObama.Com Cable Network News I have not posted in several weeks. I've been having problems with the computer network in my home and decided to...

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...

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...

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...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

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...

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...

Some Images from Burning Man 2008

I got an email tonight with this: Hi Bruce, Here's a link (to some photos) of the art installation I did at Burning Man last week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/actualcontact/ Includes photos of Sasha & Ann, and Erik Davis speaking in the dome....

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...

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...

Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1 from the other side of the Eschaton.

Link for this Post:Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1. From the other side of the Eschaton. Its been over six years since I moved to Las Vegas. I spent most of my adult life my Natural Bridges home near...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Remembering Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy

Links for this Post: In the text My memory of what I was doing on the day Martin Luther King was murdered forty years ago today is vivid. I was going to college at California State University Northridge, back then...

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...

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...

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...

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation This fun adventure has some fascinating features. Richard Albert (Ram Dass) is having a featured workshop: Be Here Now with...

Sex, drugs and second thoughts in Netherdlands - Los Angeles Times

Link for this Post: Sex, drugs and second thoughts In Holland - Los Angeles Times. There has been a lot of information floating about that the remarkably tolerant attitude that the people of Netherlands has been changing recently. This article...

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...

The Six Wives of Timothy Leary

Links for this Post: The Six Wives of Timothy Leary reviewed in The Stage The Six Wives of Timothy Leary - reviewed by John Higgs MySpace profile of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary Here is an interesting take on...