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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...

Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger

Link for this post:Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger. I have been hearing about the new Millennial Generation but did not know that much about it until I found this post on a weblog called FutureBlogger. Complete...

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...

Horizon: Psychedelic science by Bill Eagles Google Video

Video Embedded Below A short excerpt from the Google Video introduction to this film: Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again. In the USA. My...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

We Want an End to this War: Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad Video

Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad embeded below As I watch the early returns roll in, I found this ad spot that Obama's camapign ran in local markets duriing last Sunday's Superbowl.

Yes We Can Barack Obama Music Video on YouTube

Link for the Post: YouTube Video embedded below My friend Will Penna sent me this Youtube Video by email.. I was surprised to get it from him since he was for Hillary last week. He says with the email: I...

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!

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Link for this Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater - Politics on The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from Joeseph A. Palermo's article: Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for...

Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads

Links for this Post: Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads The Stevens Seventy Greatest Science Books Combining video blogging with traditional posts, this amusing exchange between 'blogging heads" is worth a view. The list...

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...

Connect Your Brain to the Game Using an Emotiv Systems EEG Neurofeedback Cap -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: YouTube Video "Stonehenge Demo' embedded below Connecting Your Brain to the Game Using an EEG cap, a startup hopes to change the way people interact with video games by Kate Greene in the MIT Technology Review...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at the Whitney Museum -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video below Back in May 2005, I posted Tate Liverpool Features Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era and later followed it up with Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally...

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...

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...

Orange Sunshine -- YouTube Video Trailer from Upcoming Documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

Link for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video Below According to the blurb on this You Tube video, this is a "ten minute Trailer for the upcoming documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love." I found this video by way of...

Andy Warhols TV -- FREE Vidio Via Alterati.net Torrent

Link for this Post: Alterati.net: Torrent Details for: Andy Warhols TV. This video torrent comes by way way of a post on GPod and so I am publishing great background they wrote for the video: At the start of the...

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker Is Back Up

Link for this Post: Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker. Podtropolis is a torrent tracking and search site dedicated to downloadable movies and other content for the iPod. according to Digg where I found the site, " The popular torrent site...

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...

Incarcerex the Cure for Political Impotency YouTube Video

Link for this post Embedded Youtube Video Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line by the Drug Policy Foundation This video came my way via the Entheogenic Reformation blog

Prometeus - The Media Revolution on YouTube

Link for this post: YouTube Inbed: Prometheus - The Media Revolution This video is a bit like Epic 215 about Googlezon but takes things a bit further and introduces "the prosumer." That's you hopefully.

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...

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...

The Bicycle Ride by David Normal -- Video

Link for this Post is embedded video. Today is a Bicycle Day so I am reposting David Normal's animation, The Bicycle Ride, which was made in conjunction with the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann last year. Here is the description...

John Lennon: The US VS John Lennon -- Full Movie Google Video

Links for this Post: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) on the IMDb I had been wanting to see this documentary since hearing that it was listed in a Venice Film Festival. I found the entire video via a link...

Sixties Themed - Film Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe Trailer (Release Date Sept 28th)

The Link for this Post is the trailer below. Also thanks to eblips blog for the heads up about what looks to be an interesting film (or do I just think that its interesting because it remind me of my...

Yahoo! Underground April Fool Joke Outdoes Google This Year

Link for this Post: Yahoo! Underground Several readerw wrote to tell me that my post Welcome to Google TiSP (BETA) Free In-Home Wireless Broadband Service was an April Fool Joke. I have to confess that I knew it was when...

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...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us -- YouTube Video

Links for this post: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube Video below InfoWorld: "Tech tops the pop charts" by By David L. Margulius I first heard about this video in the InfoWorld article "Tech tops the pop...

Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner

Link for this Post: Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner. While continuing my research for Island Web's Voyages Elsewhere pages, I found this article by Fred Turner in Edge. I have posted about Professor Turner previously,...

The 1960s "single, precise climax" -- New York Times -- Video

Links for this Post: "Folk-Rock Memories, Psychedelic but Clear" By Ben Sisario - New York Times. (Also accompanying video embedded below) This combo article and video feature from the NY Times is about remembrances of music producer Joe Boyd whose...

Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdam Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube

Link for this Post: Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdamn Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube Note: Photo to the left -- Luc Sala Back in the 1980s when I was hanging out with Timothy Leary, he introduced me to...

Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco

Links for this post Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco - A+E Interactive Your Gonna Miss Me (1983 version of current documentary) on You Tube: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Who were the 13th Floor Elevators? There...

Happy Birthday Albert Hofmann

Link for this Post: LSD the Beyond Within Google Video below Today (January 11th, 2007) is the 101st. birthday of LSD's discover, Dr. Albert Hofmann. Last year a large International Conference was held in honor of his 100th birthday. I...

Attack of the Happy People -- Israeli Ecstasy (MDMA) Documentary -- Google Video

Link for this Post: Attack of the Happy People Google Video below: I found this video by way of DrugNerd.Com. This is what they say about this video: MDMA - Attack Of The Happy People This documentary, surprising to some...

Web Consciousness Video Collection

Link for this Post: Web Consciousness Video Collection. I found this collection of "consciousness videos" via the Enthogenic Reformation blog. There are over a hundred videos including some I have not seen before by an assortment of consciousness personalities including...

Mindball is Pong on Steroids!

Links for this Post: Slate Magazine: "Bowling With Brain Waves Mindball, the new game where you move a ball with your mind" By Daniel Engber MindBall Tournament Video on YouTube The Mindball Challenge on The New Scientist Blog Regis &...

Alex Grey - World Spirit - Live Performance -- Google Video

Link for this Post embedded below Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanuka! This time of year when the days stop growing shorter and begin growing long put us in state receptive to the transcendent in many forms. I was fortunate...

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...

The Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex -- Video Documentary

Links for this Post: Why We Fight on Google Video see image below (full version) "Why We Fight" DVD on Amazon We We Fight is a documentary by Eugene Jarecki starts with the Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address address in which...

U B U W E B Advent-Garde Poetry Website

Link for this post: U B U W E B. According to the people at U B U W E B: UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over...