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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...

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 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...

Burning Man Burns Early -- Caught on Video

Links for this Post: Burning Man torched early; artist held - Yahoo! News. Burning Man's 'man' burns early — S.F. man arrested for arson-- USA Today A Heated Q&A With the Prankster Accused of Burning the Man -- WiredThis video...

Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia

Link for this post : Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia - Brisbane Times. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of this Brisbane Times article: Teepees, dope, nudity and lashings of idealism. These were the essential...

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...

Changing the World Starts with You at Change.org

Link for this Post: Change.org.Activist Social Network Software I discovered change.org a couple of days ago and have spent some time there. I am a long time activist in the psychedelic community. 17 years ago, I started Island Group. In...

Google & Cisco Planning Digital Billboards & Subliminal Advertising

Links for this Post: LiveScience.com - "The Next Really Big Thing: Digital Billboards" By Bill Christensen. technovelgy.com: Subliminal Billboards technovelgy.com: Digital Billboards Worth Billions According to these stories, the old fashioned American billboards we are used to may be replaced...

The Personality Forge: Welcome to the Future Filled With AI Chat Bots

Link for this Post: The Personality Forge AI- Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots. The sign at the door to Personality Forge says "Welcome to the Future." According to this site, its a future filled with Artifical Intelligence (AI) Chatbots. Here is...

The Artificial Islands of Dubai

Dubai is fuxxing nuts! The picture above is: The Palm Islands in Dubai. New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from...

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...

Welcome to the Future Wikia

Link for this Post: The Future Wikia This wiki is dedicated to "futurology" and hosts a database of future-oriented ideas and technologies. Here is how the site describes its mission: Welcome to the future where advancements and changes in biology,...

Online Intentional Communities Guide Adds Live Links to Over 1500 Community Websites

Link for this Post: Online Intentional Communities Web Directory The Online Communities Directory is part of the Intentional Communities website. This website is the homepage of the Fellowship for Intentional Community a 501(3)(C) Non-Profit which tracks over 1500 intentional communities...

Back from the Burn

Links for this Post Are "Best Of" News Stories About Burning Man "20th Burning Man more unique than ever" United Press International "Burning Man festival leads to cool idea" San Fransisco Chronicle "Burning Man Art Festival Draws 30,000 Into Nevada...

A Slow WiFi Hello from Burning Man 2006

Links for this Post: Burning Man 2006 Entheon Village This is the first Internet connection I have had in several days. I arrieved at Burning Man almost three days ago. I spent a lot of time the first two days...

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'

Burning Man 2005 Image from Orbit by IKONOSI

Links for this Post: Giant Poster Sized (1280x960) Image of Burning Man 2005 from space Image of the Week: Burning Man 2005 Space Imaging Here is how Space Imaging describes this shot of Burning Man taken by the IKONOS satellite:...

Psychedelic Community Lectures By MAPS/Palenque Norte At Burning Man Entheon Village Aug 28-Sept 4

Link for this Post: Burning Man Lectures on Matrix Masters Burning Man has gotten a lot more civilized since the first one I attended a decade ago.I told the story of my experience at that event in the book Tripping...

Check Into the Habbo Hotel -- Updated with TechCrunch Info

Links For This Updated Post: TechCrunch: Habbo Hotel Microtransacts itself to $30m in Revenue Visit the Habbo Hotel USA The post below this update was done almost exactly two years ago. I was intrigued with the idea of a virtual...

Popular Science: Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?

Link for this Post: Popular Science: Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier? by James Vlahos In a special Issue that Popular Science I found this speculative article about potential futures for cognitive-enhancement drugs. Here is an excerpt: The prospect...

"Deadhead" Summer Festivals -- Rex Foundation

Link for this post Rex Foundation" Summer Festivals 2006 . The non-profit Rex Foundation lists three Summer Festivals in the tradition of the "Deadhad." The three are Grateful Fest June 30 – July 4 Nelson Lodges Quarry Park, Nelson, Ohio...

Digital Be-In 14 "Planet Code" The Earth Day Be-In Updated -- Live Webcast Tonight!

Link for this post: "Digital Be-In 14: Planet Code: The Earth Day Be-In" Updated: email from Michael Gosensy Digital Be-In NetCast & Live Bloggingf or the many people who can't make it in person, we will be uploading video and...

Plausible Futures Newsletter Offers Wide Ranging Coverage of Future Studies News

Link: Plausible Futures Newsletter. Plausible Futures Newsletters covers a wide-ranging set of topics withing the scope of future studies from a diverse set of sources as well as with original articles. For example from recent posts: 2020 - Future of...

Neurologic by Timothy and Johanna Leary

Link for this post: Neurologic by Timothy and Johanna Leary This site features a reproduction of the original printing of Neurologic authored by Timothy Leary and his then wife Johanna Leary. The book was one of the early publications (but...

Seasteading Project Aims To Build Sovereign, Self-Sufficient Floating Ocean Platforms

Link for this post: The Seasteading Project What is "seasteading"? Here is the way the site describes it: "Seasteading" means to create permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. Like the pioneers of old, seasteaders will be...

The Hippie Museum: Communal Living

Link: The Hippie Museum: Communal Living. I'm proud to tell you that this blog your reading -- "Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing" -- has been permanently enshrined in the Hippie Museum. I suppose that when I die, they'll stuff me and...

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...

I Believe in Standpoint .... Or Do I?

Link for this post: Standpoint: a social software community about beliefs If you really want to get discover Standpoint, it is probably better that I not tell you everthing about it on this post. So you can visit Standpoint and...

Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines"

Link for this post: Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines" Dr. Susan Blackmore is an endlessly fascinating person. Everything about her from her background in parapsychology to her multicolored hair and including her series of books on topics including...

The Day You Discard Your Body by Marshall Brain

Link for this post; The Day You Discard Your Body While hanging out on Digg (see previous post), I came across some links to the work of Marshall Brain. He has written web books with terse, punchy chapters and a...

"A Belly Dancer, a Snake Charmer": Naked Animal Reports on LA Burning Man Decompression Party

Links for this post are A Belly Dancer, a Snake Charmer" on Ron Cambell's Naked Animal blog Los Angeles Burning Man Regional Network - Decompression News!. Demonstrating how much out of the Burning Man loop I have gotten, an LA...

Human-Nature.Com: A Human Nature Review

Link for this post: Human-Nature.Com The Chinese philosophers spent centuries exploring the question: "what is human nature?" So many years later, we still do not know for sure. Certainly there are a lot of opinions and Human-Nature.Com is a journal...

The Future of Evolution on MSNBC.com

Link: Future of Evolution - MSNBC.com. Here is an interesting little section of MSNBC that I found in my web wanderings today,. An especially interesting part is called "After Humans." The author of this piece speculates on what we may...

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' -- Times (UK) Online

In the UK news from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online comes this story "Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'" By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent. Here is an excerpt: Religious belief can cause...

BBC NEWS Americas White House denies Bush God claim

Link: BBC NEWS | Americas | White House denies Bush God claim. Today the BBC news reported: The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade...

Oasis: A New Model for a Sustainable Community

Oasis has a "new model for a sustainable community." You can read a PDF with the details. The history of the project is here. This post comes by way of FutureHi's link listss. I visited there today and noticed that...

Strange Horizons Articles: The Ten Stupidest Utopias!, by Jeremy Adam Smith

Via my friend Will Penna comes an article on a a literary website called Strange Horizons "The Ten Stupidest Utopias!, by Jeremy Adam Smith". It an excursion through ten vignettes about literary Utopias including short views of classic Utopias beginning...

Enjoy the Burning Man Big Burn Tonight By Webcast

Enjoy the man burning tonight from the comfort of your home. at Burning Man: Black Rock City Year Round - Webcast.

Business Week's Sci Fi Guide to the 21st Century

My last post was from a special issue of Business Week, called 21 Ideas for the 21st Century. You can download a special PDF from the issue here. Here is a brief excerpt from the introduction: We're not looking 1,000...

Business Week: The Mind Is Immortal

Business Week in their collection of 21 Ideas fro the 21st Century lists "Your Mind is Immortal." Here is an excerpt: 'So you'd like to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish--providing you are willing...