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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...

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...

Miss Live Earth? Watch the Videos on MSN -- Concerts For A Climate In Crisis

Link for this Post : Live Earth on MSN: The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis. If you missed watching Live Earth live, then you can do the next best thing -- watch it on video at MSN. According to...

The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That

Link for this Post: The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That. by Mark Mitford in the May 2 San Fransisco Chronicle This essay in last week's SF Chronicle says that the group with "values" in our culture...

Digital Be-In 15: BIOMIMICRY San Fransisco April 21

Link for this Post: Digital Be-In 15: BIOMIMICRY My friend Michael Gosney's Digital Be-In is happening again. For the second consecutive year its on Earthday and as always in San Fransisco: Here is some excerpts from the event information:

Richard Dawkins Best Selling The God Delusion NPR Fresh Air with Terrie Gross

Link RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website. Podcast Reposted from the NPR Fresh Air Story and Podcast Audio requires QuickTime Player 7. Download the free player here. 38:46 : 20.7 MB This file is available for download here. Ctrl-Click...

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...

“The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine

Link for this Post: “The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine. Here is a soliloquy from Doug Ruskoff on his most recent adventures posted from Germany on Arthur Magazine. I'll supply a...

How Mirrors Can Light Up The World Guardian

Link for this Post: "How mirrors can light up the world" Guardian Unlimited Business I have to admit that I am not up-to-date on the latest alternative energy solutions. However that said, I was surprised to find out the latest...

Calif. Couple Calls for Orgasm for Peace - Associated Press -- New York Times

Links for this Post: Calif. Couple Calls for Orgasm for Peace - New York Times (Associated Press) . The GlobalOrgasm.Org website

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...

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'

If Your looking for Somting to have Faith In, There's Always Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Link for this Post: Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster Evolution has finally been put in its place by a new faith that his risen on the web. Here is how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster describes its...

AlterNet: How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)

Link for this post:: AlterNet: How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back). Here is an excerpt from this much commented on Alternet essay by Aston Taylor: Regardless of whether we were raised in the...

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...

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...

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...

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....

'Hippie Chimps' Fast Disappearing in Congo

Link for this post: 'Hippie Chimps' Fast Disappearing in Congo by Anjan Sundaram , Associated Press Writer I suppose that it is not unexpected that the a species of chimp known as the hippie chimp is headed for extinction. Unlike...

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...

Gregory Bateson and Thinking About Things

Links for this Post: Gregory Bateson in Wikipedia Every Schoolboy Knows from Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature a Necessary Unity I dropped out of college at California Statue University Northridge when I was 20 years old and returned to school...

MEDIA2017 Does Youthculture and Multimedia

Link for this post: " MEDIA2017 Does Youthculture,and Multimedia" Looking for a good youthculture site with lots of free multimedia music files, offbeat poetry, devianttart and angst. Look no futhur. Visit Media2017 for a youthculture refueling.

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...

Online Journal: "Primitivism is the pursuit of ways of life running counter to the development of technology ..."

Link: Primitivism. Primitivsm is a promising little online journal chock full of essays that provide food for thought. Here is how the site describes its title's theme: Primitivism is the pursuit of ways of life running counter to the development...

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...

Eerie Predictions of New Orleans Flood "Gone with the Water" National Geographic October 2004 Shows Crisis No "Surprise"

Link for this article. On Monday I posted "Drowning New Orleans -- Scientific American October 2001" which shows that despite Bush's remarks about the New Orleans catastrophe being "a surprise," there had long been warnings. A commenter on that post...

Upadated: Is Society Playing a Game of Chicken with Bird Flu?

Updated: With Summer in its last month and the Fall approaching, I am contemplating the possibility of a global pandemic which has been given the name Bird Flu. A good friend of mine believes that such an event is almost...

The Farm, Intentional Community and Memories of a Monday Night Class

The picture above is a composite I made from the website of The Farm. Few intentional communities from the sixties counterculture's "communal" experiments survive until the present day. The Farm.in Summerland, Tennessee is a notable exception. My first real girlfriend...

Ten Best Aldous Huxley's Island Foundation Related Links Year-To-Date

On an occational basis, I have written the Island Views ElectroZine for the past eleven years, one of the earliest Internet EZines. Here is the latest in its entirity. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Island Views ElectroZine No.34 July 2005 Edited by Bruce Eisner...

Trasformational Society

In an MSN link search looking for links to bruceeeisner.com I found "Transformational Society: Power to the People Creating Alternative Futures". Transformational Society is either a web published draft of a research study dated April 30,1995 by Manhard Schlifni. Although...

The hypnotic, intellectual, satirical, spiritual, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley.

SomaWeb is a collection of resources about "The hypnotic, intellectual, satirical, spiritual, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley." It has been maintained on the web by Mathew A. of Los Angeles since the mid-Nineties. Those of you who read Vision...

Peak Oil as Archetype: Will the World Soon Be Running on Empty?

A new Rolling Stone article by James Howard Kunstler is "The Long Emergency What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?" With current forecasts of oil shooting up to over $100 a barrel, this...

Why The Pope Can't Change The Church's Position On Birth Control

With the death of Pope John Paul II who has been called "a champion for the poor," it is significant to remember that some of their poverty might be attributed to Catholic policy which oppresses birth control. Population Connection (formerly...

Get Ready for Adbusters TV Turnoff Week

In less than a month, you will be able to make a political statement by not turning your TV on. Adbusters.Org -- the Culture Jamer's Headquarters has announced TV Turnoff Week. Here is an excerpt from Adbuster's TV Turnoff special...

Gaia Trust - Ecovillages

Gaia Trust - Ecovillages Pages introduction: The ideal ecovillage, which does not yet exist - is a sustainable human settlement which is in harmony with all aspects of life, including the cultural, ecological and spiritual dimensions. The ecovillage idea began...

The Map is Not the Territory: Institute of General Semantics

I found the Institute of General Semantics while going through results from Brainboost in the previous post. General Semeantics's most important notion is" "The map is not the territory." This same notion was contained in the Chinese Taoism of Lao...

The International Futures Model (IFs) Gives You a 2020 Peek into the Future

The "International Futures Model (IFs) allows you to take take a peek at projections of a variety of what the site considers key variables in our future to the year 2020. You can also create your own scenarios and take...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: For the Sake of Our Children

Perhaps it sounds corny to say this but there is something All American -- in an old fashioned and non-jingoistic sense of the phrase -- about 'For the Sake of Our Children" By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the winter...