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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...

Obama as Superhero -- Video

Link is video below After having a President who launched the careers of more comedians than any other in history, at the beginning of his Presidency, Barack Obama appeared to be a bit harder as satiric muse. However, now that...

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...

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...

Adam Cheyer and the Intelligent Software Assistant

Links for this Post: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide" By Erica Naone in the Technology Review Published by MIT Adam Cheyer Home Page Information overload is...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

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...

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...

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...

I Upgraded to Englightenment 2.0 -- Beyond Belief

Link for this Post: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 It looks like some people are thinking the same thoughts I am. The above link is to a conference focusing on the recent trends in our society away from science and reason...

Surfer Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything - Telegraph UK and YouTube Video

Link for this Post: See YouTube Video Embedded Below Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything -- Telegraph UK by By Roger Highfield, Science Editor An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything on Blogger: Useful links regarding Garrett Lisi's 'An...

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

Neurofeedback for Peak Performance Video on YouTube

Link for this Post: Neurofeedback on the Brain blog (video is embedded below)_ I found this video by way of the Neurofeedback on the Brain blog. Dr.Karen Shue posted this video and says about it: I thought you might enjoy...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe

Link for ths Post: Consciousness Cafe. Here is an excerpt from this post: Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress Mariel Hemingway will host a fund-raising dinner November 9th for Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) in N Alex's art is...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Named No. 1 Among Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph

Link:s for this Post Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph. British brains dominate list of living geniuses By Aislinn Simpson Telegraph I was pleased to see that my dear old friend Albert Hofmann, who turned 100 last year has been...

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...

Peter Max (and a lot more) on lines and colors at blog

Links for this Post: Peter Max on lines and colors art blog. lines and colors a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts Until today, when you think of the name Charlie Parker,...

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Golden Gate Park 9/2/07 YouTube Video Updated with Stream Information

Links for this Post: Summer of Love Home Page YouTube Video embedded below I'm posting this as part one of two updates of my post about the Summer of Love celebrations this March. Here is the latest info about the...

Bruce On the Borscht Belt

Links for this Post: Added August 23: Havens Ellenville, N.Y. "Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival" in the New York Times Borscht Belt on Wikipedia If you wonder where I have been lately, the answer is,...

Burning Man Grows Up -- Business 2.0

Link for this Post: Burning Man Grows Up Business 2.0 This article begins with this: America's biggest counterculture jamboree is also a $10 million business. Now, Business 2.0 reports, it's trying to leverage its brand -- and save the planet...

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...

Poem: The Story of the Smarter Monkies

Links: None This is the poem I mentioned in my last post, It is about studying the psychology of writers The Story Of The Smarter Monkeys Sometime way back when Before we had a history A new and smarter monkey...

Staying in San Fransisco by the Bay

Link for this Post: See in text I'm back by the San Fransisco Bay but not on vacation. I've a Ph.D. student in psychology at the Saybrook Graduate School. The school does not have a campus proper, studies are all...

Updated with News Video: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference

Link for this Post: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital Conference. I first saw Steve Jobs speak at a conference in Santa Cruz back in the early 1980s,...

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...

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...

Invisible College PDF Magazine

Link for this Post : Invisible College PDF Magazine. There is a new edition out of the colorful but a bit cumbersome Invisible College Magazine out. If you remember, I posted about issue Invisible College Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download...

Giganews Premium Usenet Launches Giganews Accelerator Beta -- FREE Windows Software Download!

Links for this Post: Giganews Premium Usenet Newsgroup Service 3 Day FREE Trial Giganews Accelerator Beta Free Windows Software Download The Usenet is one of the last and vast largely untamed frontiers of the Internet. Google was one of the...

Nick Herbert and RU Sirius on Rudy Rucker's Flurb

Link for this Post: FLURB, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales No. 3 I just got an email from my Santa Cruz friend Nick Herbert was happy to report: "Four Milestones of Quantum Tantra just published in Rudy Rucker's FLURB." In...

Looking Through My Squidoo Lenses

Updated: The Bruce Eisner Vision Thing Group on Squidoo Links for this Psst: My Lenses on Squidoo Psychedelic Mind-Changers Everything About Ecstasy Squidoo (on Wikipedia) is a social website whose focus (no pun intended) is making lenses. Its taken some...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

Invisible College Entheogen Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download

Linkfor this Post: Invisible College Entheogen Enthusiast PDF Magazine Website. Download the first issue of Invisible College in PDF format by clicking here! (requires Acrobat Reader or other PDF program By way of the editor Gwyllm Llwydd's email this evening,I...

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...

Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Barack Obama - washingtonpost.com + YouTube Video

Linka for this Post: Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Obama - in the Washington Post by Zachary A. Goldfarb. YouTube Video: OBAMA: Calls on Students to "Bend the Arc of History" This Washington Post story is about the first...

"Mushrooms and mysticism" by Mark Kleiman in the Huffington Post

Link for this Post: "Mushrooms and mysticism" by Mark Kleiman in the Huffington Post According to this post with many comments by Mark Kleiman. Professor of Policy Studies at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Kleiman teaches...

Hotmail "Guru" Plans Hi-Tech Technology Utopia in India

Links for this Post: Hotmail guru plans Nano City Hindustan Times Silicon Valley clone planned for India By Paul Gordon and Ashok Bhattacharjee Bloomberg News All about Sabeer Bhatia's big India dream Forbes The legendary Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia plans...

Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011

Link for this Post: Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011. By Mind Machine Interface, the article is not talking about "mind machines" that evoke changed consciousness. It should actually read mind-machine interface in which you control machines...