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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...

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...

Caroline and Teddy Kennedy Endorse Barak Obama on YouTube

I watched this live today on CNN and it found it inspirational. I hope you enjoy it If you are planning to Vote for Hillary -- Think Again!

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

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

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...

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...

Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics October 27 New York City

Link for this Post: Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics. A one-day event in New York City features Rick Doblin, Ph.D.of MAPS, Judy Holland MD, author of Ecstasy: the Complete Guide, Artists Alex and Allyson Grey, Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D,...

Singularity Summit 2007 Complete Audio Downloads And Kurzweil Video

Link for this Post: Singularity Summit 2007 | The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Futurists includ Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and Dr. Peter Norvig's head of research at Google were among more than a dozen presenters The Singularity Summit last...

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.

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...

In a Circle Remembering Peter: Celebration of the Litfe of Peter Stafford Santa Cruz CA August 26 Updated

Peter Stafford 1939-2007 Update: I am sitting in a circle of about 200 people as they pass a "talking stick" around, remembering Peter's life. In the room are people I have met through the years when I lived in Santa...

World Psychedelic Forum Basel Switzerland March 21-24 2008

Link for this Post: World Psychedelic Forum Basel Switzerland March 21-24 2008 The folks who brought you the International Symposium on Occasion of Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday are back with another psychedelicly oriented conference in Basel. Modestly titled the "World...

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...

Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30

Link for this Post: Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30. This is part two of the update to my March post about the Summer of Love Celebration. This post is about the 40th Anniversary of...

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...

Summer Solstice: The First Day of Summer

Links for this Post: Solstice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Today is the Summer Solstice -- the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Now all the days will get a bit shorter. These Solstices happen twice a...

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...

It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated

Links for this Post Updated: 'Sgt. Pepper' at 40 Summer of Love saw release of Beatles' landmark album By Jim Harrington, InsideBayArea.Com "A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40" by Jon Wiener, Nation "Musical Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

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,...

World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007

Link: World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007. Here is an excerpt from the gathering website: WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 - All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide - Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops - Time...

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...

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:

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies The Final Frontier San Fransisco April 28th

Links for this Post: Event info on Psychonauts: Tribe.Net Tickets and More Info at MAPS MAPS is having a fund-raiser in SF that looks interesting. Guests include Rick Doblin, David Jay Brown, Erik Davis, Stan Grof, Ralph Metzner and others....

Women's Visionary Congress 7/27-29 Northern California

Link for this Post: Women's Visionary Congress. I found out about this interesting gathering from posts on the eBlips and Autopoiesis and Cognition blogs. Here is how eBlips describes it: Kat Harrison, Mountain Girl, Amanda Fielding, Earth&Fire Erowid, Cindy Palmer,...

Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour + Festival Info

Links for this Post: Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour. Summer of Love Festival Website I found this information in the process of getting my Island Web Voyages Elsewhere directory cleaned up and online (more about...

Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube

I posted "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes" about the noted author and counterculture spokesman Robert Anton Wilson's passing in January. More recently, I have posted about a Robert Anton Wilson memorial...

Poster from Santa Cruz RAW Fest

Note: click on the image to see the full size This post is a continuation of my post 23 Snapshots from the Robert Anton Wilson Fest Feb 18 Santa Cruz CA I just got this poster by way of my...

Updated with Video Viewing Info: "Entheogen Guru" Pinchbeck to Appear on the the Colbert Report Thursday Dec 14th

Links for this Post Updated: Watch the Pinchbeck Interview at the Commedy Central Website: Entheogen "Guru" Pinchbeck to Appear on the the Colbert Report Yahoo! TV beta Daniel Pinchbeck on Colbert Report on Non-Prophet blog My friend Will Penna just...

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...

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder Paintings Featured at the Retrorama Exhibit, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle Nov 10th

Links for this Post: Mark Fraeunfelder's Paintings at Retrorama Exhibit Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle WA Note: Click on image on the rigth to see full size. I've known Mark Fraunfelder since the late 1980's, when Boing Boing was a...

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog -- Stanford U Nov 9th

Links for This Post: "From Counterculture to Subculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog" -- Stanford University Nov 9th I'm going to link the shrunken image of the event poster at the top of my blog post to the...

Douglas Rushkoff - Daniel Pinchbeck New York City Debate -- Videos

Links for this Post: Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 1 Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 2 Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 3 Timothy Leary once said, "Reality is an opinion." This observation was never more true than in the debate/discussion between authors Douglass Rushkoff and Daniel...

Google Earth Maps Burning Man

Links for this Post Burning Man Earth: Mapping the Cultural Genome Burning Man in 3D -- CNET Google Earth maps Burning Man Lifehacker. I got these links via a nice post by Lifehacker which I reference above. Here is the...

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...

Headed for Burning Man -- Want to Come Along?

Links for this Post: Email Me If Your Interested in A Ride and RV Space from Las Vegas to Burning Man The Burning Man Project

Updated with Torrent Video Download --Sundance Channel Premiers Documentary "The Drug Years" -- Also on VH1

August Update: You can download the entire program as a torrent by visiting Mininova here. Let me know the status of the link. Updated: I just got finished watching the entire 3 hour documentary. The author Martin Targoff reflects at...

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...

Love and Beatles in Las Vegas

"Revved-Up Magical Mystery Tour" Toronto Star "Love is All You Need" The Observer Cirque Du Soleil: Love Tickets Tickets for All Shows Beatles producer Martin mixes it up for "Love" Love has come to Las Vegas. Love is a Vegas...

Summer Solstice

Today is the Summer Solstice. I found this bit about the day while Googling: Summer Solstice: Midsummer, or Litha as Pagans call it, refers to the time centered upon the summer solstice and the accompanying religious celebrations. The longest day...

"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...