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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...

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...

RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2

Link sfor this Post: RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2. Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology According to the website announcing this event: In his recent book The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and...

Thomas Szzaz Psychologist and Civil Libertarian Accepts Award in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Rollo May Award Presentation Thomas Szasz, Ph.D. The Conquistador Bringing the Plague: The Medicalization of Malingering, Saybrook Graduate School Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility Thomas Szasz From Wikipedia Saybrook Graduate School and the...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally at Tate Liverpool - Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY

Link for this Post:: Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Orig Tate Liverpool) Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY. Back in May 2005, I posted about Tate Museum Liverpool's Summer of Love exhibit. The Whitney Museum of...

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...

Speaking This Morning at Orange Coast College Biology of Drugs on the Subject of LSD Updated with PowerPoint

Links: for this Post Download PowerPoint of Talk Orange Coast College, CA It's Saturday December 9 and I am speaking today at my a class my friend Kellie Elliot (my friend Clay's wife) teaches called the Biology of Drugs at...

LSD & Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country -- Basel Switzerland on Google Video

Regular readers of Vision Thing will remember that I went to Switzerland in January for the International Symposium the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann. I posted the essay I wrote for the conference magazine Gaia News titled...

Conscious Entities

Link for this Post: Conscious Entities. Peter Hankin publishes Conscious Entities. It asks questions about the nature of consciousness, a topic close to my head. Here is how he asks the questions: Among the many theorists discussed in relationship to...

Thomas Roberts on Psychedelic Education

Links for this Post: 'Psychedelic Horizons', by Tom Roberts -- Reviewed by Bruce Sewick, LCPC on TripZine Buy Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas Roberts on Amazon I got to know Tomas Roberts over 30 years ago when I joined a group...

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the...

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...

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...

Growing Up Absurd -- Remembering Paul Goodman

"LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Paul Goodman" The following excerpt from this tribute blog post to Paul Goodman echoes my feelings about him perfectly: Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the...

The Singularity Summit at Stanford University May 13th

Link for this post: The Singularity Summit at Stanford. The man holding the sign is none other than Ray Kurzweil, who's new book The Singularity is Near is a prime progenitor for this conference. Here is a statement by Kurzweil...

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...

The Infinite Mind Public Radio Show

Link for this post: The Infinite Mind Public Radio Show This program which is broadcast on some public radio has some great shows and people who I have written about here on the Vision Thing. Some of the names from...

Have You Heard?

Links for this post: "Four Gerald Heard Audio Clips from the The Official Gerald Heard Website" (Note: the site uses some "cleaver" frames thing so I can't link directly to the page with the audios) Go to the bottom of...

Minds Are Simply What Brains Do --Marvin Minsky

Link: Minds Are Simply What Brains Do --Marvin Minsky . Cognitive Scientist Marvin Minsky of MIT's prestigious Media Lab says that "human personality is not controlled by a centralized "conductor" in the brain, but rather emerges from seemingly unintelligent and...

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...

"Bound By Law" Free Comic Book Explains Current Intellectual Property Debate

Links for this post: "Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? Bound by Law? on Joi Ito's Web Joi Ito posts about this fun and educational comic book: Fellow Creative Commons board member and friend James Boyle helped work...

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...

Timothy Leary: The Man Behind Both the Internet and LSD Revolutions

: Links for this post: "The Internet, Revolution and LSD: A Brief Review of a Recent Speech" by Steve Gordon on The Hammer of Truth Blog. He discusses a speech which is found at the next link. "The Internet vs....

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...

Free Event at LA MOCA January 14th : How the Psychedelic Revolution Marked Our Culture

Link for this post: Ecstasy In And About Altered States In September, I posted about the Ecstasy: In and About Altered States art exhibit which is now going on at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) until February 20th...

The Day the Counterculture Was Born

Preface: I wrote this essay two years ago and published it in an early post on Vision Thing. I did not know how to use Typepad at the time and it got published with weird line breaks. So I worked...

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...

Just When You Thought You Would Never Get the Answer -- Along Comes MeaningofLife.tv

Link for this post -- "Meaning of Live TV". Have you been wandering in a virtual desert for years, looking for real answers to life's bigger questions? Not satisfied with those supplied by your local house of worship or college...

BBC - Science & Nature -The Human Mind

Great site -- The BBC's Human Mind. Full of free psychology tests.. and even an "Interactive Brain Map."

School for Designing a Society

The School for Designing Society had its annual summer session in June. It might be a good place to attend next summer. Here is a bit about what happens there. Participants will explore the question, "what would I consider a...

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...

Dreamtime Festival, this July 14-18 2005 In the Rocky Mountains of Western Colorado

The Dreamtime Festival is an annual collaborative outdoor arts and music festival held in the Rocky Mountains of Western Colorado. This year it will be help July 14-15th I've never been to one of them but from the sounds of...

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...

Ralph Metzner and the Green Earth Foundation

Ralph Metzner's Green Earth Foundation describes itself this way: "The Green Earth Foundation is an educational and research organization dedicated to the healing and harmonizing of the relationships between humanity and the Earth, through a recognition of the energetic and...

Brain Art Peace Streams

Updated: This 2002 article from Wired, Art is a State of Mind begins: "Paras Kaul really lets you know what's on her mind." This turns out to be literally true as the project that they wrote is "brainwave music called...

And they say America is Number 1

Here is an exerpt from Micahel Ventura in his recent Austin Chronicle " column titled No. 1? : "No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our...

Which Search Engine to Use?

I found Which Search Engine to use on the popular page of del.icio.us. The page is low graphics high information format but makes up for its lack of glitz with usefulness. Based on what kind of information you need, What...

Future Hi Features Audio Presentations by Albert Hofmann, Huston Smith, Joesph Campbell, Terence Kenna, Marilyn Ferguson and More

Future Hi's Paul Huges emailed me yesterday to tell me that his site is now featuring a set of new audio presentations Albert Hoffman, Houston Smith, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Ferguson,and Terrence Mckenna. There wee made mostly during the 1980's (with...

Google Labs Features Innovative Search Technologies

Google Labs features a changing set of new services that the fledgling public company does not consider quite ready for "prime time." Among the ones I have tried previous to this visit was the service that prompted the visit, Google...

William James and the History of Psychology

I'm taking a class this week called "The Case Study Method and Personality Theory" with Dr. Eugene Taylor. The course is much better than it sounds, especially for me as I have been looking for someone who knows something about...