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The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

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...

Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Link for this Post: Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. I lived in politically correct Santa Cruz for much of my life so I have learned to tread lightly on the feelings and notions of correct people....

Was Timothy Leary Right? TIME Magazine

Link for this Post:: Was Timothy Leary Right? by John Cloud in TIME Magazine . Nothing really new in this article except for the strange headline and that it is in the venerable Time Magazine. Are psychedelics good for you?...

"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...

CBS News, & Time Magazine Partner For Brain Series

Link for this Post: "CBS News, TIME Partner For Brain Series Five-Part Series: Explores The Complicated, Mesmerizing World Of The Brain" Time Magazine and CBS News launched an interresting today called "A User’s Guide to the Brain" Can new brain...

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...

Mind "Gyms" May Be the "Cognitive" Fountain of Youth -- New York Times

Link for the Post: As Minds Age, What’s Next? Brain Calisthenics - By Pam Belluck in the New York Times. Here is a bit from the beginning of this article in the "Health" section of today's New York Times:

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...

Forbes.com Is Sex Necessary? -

Link: Is Sex Necessary? - Forbes.com. Yesterday I posted about the hot new aphrodisiac heading for market. Today we look at sex from a different perspective. Forbes.Com asks "Is Sex Necessary/"

Will The Soon-To-Hit-The-Market Uber-Aphrodisiac PT-141 Become the Biggest 'Club-Drug' Ever?

Links for this Post: "Sniff The Greatest Sex Drug... Ever " on the Culture Blog "Is the World Ready for Libido in a Nasal Spray?" By Julian Dibbell in New York Magazine (Google cached copy) New York Magazine in a...

Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com

Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com This interesting post addresses the question of whether kissing is instinctual or a learned behavior. The answer is surprising. According to the this article: A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual....

"Drug may quickly lift depression, study says " --Boston Globe

Link for this Post: "Drug may quickly lift depression, study say"s By Carey Goldberg in the Boston Globe It seems that Federally funded researchers have learned something that candy kids have know for a long time.

Mind Hacks: Treating cluster headaches with LSD and psilocybin

Link:for this Post: Mind Hacks: Treating cluster headaches with LSD and psilocybin. Mind Hacks is a often interesting blog by a fellow who signs his name Vaughn and is one of the contributors to the popular O'Reilly book Mind Hacks....

"Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event"- Associated Press - CNN.com --Updated PDF Download

Link:s for this post: CNN.com - Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event - Jul 11, 2006. Updated: Download a PDF Download Original Scientific Paper on Study: "Good Friday Experiment Replicated!" Neuroscientists Probe Psychedelic Psilocybin Note: Image "psychedelic Mushrooms" from Carol Muse...

Popular Science: Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?

Link for this Post: Popular Science: Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier? by James Vlahos In a special Issue that Popular Science I found this speculative article about potential futures for cognitive-enhancement drugs. Here is an excerpt: The prospect...

LiveScience.com - Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip ... And Can Communicate!

Link for this post: LiveScience.com - Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip. Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip By Ker Than reports: The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed...

Tripping the light fantasmic - In Depth - theage.com.au

Link for this post: Tripping the light fantasmic - In Depth - theage.com.au. My friend Will Penna emailed me today with links for this article (and the one in the next post) which he describes as the "... most extensive...

BBC NEWS 'We will be able to live to 1,000'

Link: BBC NEWS | UK | 'We will be able to live to 1,000' .By Dr Aubrey de Grey University of Cambridge. Here is an excerpt: "Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de...

"Meditation builds up the brain": New Scientist

Link for this post: "Meditation builds up the brain" by Alison Motluk from NewScientist.com news service Psychology has known for a long time that the practice of meditation alters brain functions as measured by brain waves as well as a...

Reason: Tea Break: Should drug laws make exceptions for spiritual highs?

Link:In Reason: "Tea Break: Should drug laws make exceptions for spiritual highs?".by Senior Editor Jacob Sullum Here is a well-reasoned (no pun intended) short discussion of why it should be legal to barf and get high on ayahuasca. which I...

Wild Divine Project Publishes Part Two of Their Hit Biofeedback Game: "Wisdom Quest"

I'm a fan of Wild Divine Project. The long awaited Part two of their hit Biofeedback Adventure Game Journey to Wild Divine, titled "Wisdom Quest" is now out. You can get more information on this new software as well as...

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...

Updated: Ecstasy Rising TV Program with ABC's Peter Jennings Available For Viewing with Real Player Via Pot TV

Updated: Since Peter Jennings recent passing, this post has been getting a lot of hits. I took out links that were not working. Also, I believe this program is a great tribute to the man who made it. I may...

MAPS Spring Newsletter Spotlights Increased Media Coverage of Their LSD and MDMA Studies

The new MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Bulletin features a wide assortment of articles including A Psychedelic Neurochemistry of Time by Kim A. Dawson, PhD , LSD and Psilocybin in the Treatment of Cluster Headaches by R. Andrew Sewell,...

Inventor sets his sights on immortality -- Will nanotechnology spark a breakthrough?

In February I posted a story "Immortality in Twenty Years?" about the author Ray Kurzweil. Today, I found a feature story about Kurweil on MSNBC: "Inventor sets his sights on immortality: Will nanotechnology spark breakthrough in 20 years?" by By...

Immortality in Twenty Years?

Future Hi's post Immortality in 20 Years has sparked a lively debate. It is about a new book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever Future Hi says about the book, "It explains how advances in genomics, biotechnology, and...

"Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving" in The New Scientist

The February 26th (my birthday) issue of the New Scientist features "Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving" by John Hogan. Here is an expert from the beginning of the article: JOHN HALPERN clearly remembers what made him change his mind...

Acid Test At an Indiana lab, better thinking through chemistry" by Geeta Dayal

In the village voice "The Acid Test At an Indiana lab, better thinking through chemistry"by Geeta Dayal by Geeta Dayal.shows the shinning contencences of my two favorite chemists. Of course Albert Hofmann,the shorter of the two was the fellow who...

Talking About Andrew Weil

Yesterday I went to see John Kerry speak for the second time with my friend Shasta who is visiting from San Fransisco. I've been showing her how to blog and we stared taking about Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil's main focus...

Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs on Wired.Com

"Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs" By Kristen Philipkoski is an upbeat look at possible new research into the medical benefits of psychedelic compounds. The story leads with:"Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the...

Body and brain of gamers probed

On the BBC News today, Body and brain of gamers probed" By Jo Twist The story reports that scientists are studying the brains of gamers to find out what kind of changes take place as a result of their fast...

New Research with Fruit Flies Shows Impaired Clock Genes Lead to Longer Sex

A promising bit of research by way of the New Scientist The article: Impaired clock genes boost fly sex times discusses some breakthrough work with fruit flies by which for the first time it has been demonstrated that the "so...

Is Human Immortality Just 30 Years Away?

"Death Be Not Proud" By Glenn Harlan Reynolds is an interview with the influential Cambridge University biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey. The life-extension scientists waxes optimistic. This by way of MetaFilter.

Researchers Work to Crack the Code of Long Life

Researchers Work to Crack Code of Long Life: Supercentenarians May Hold Key to Stopping Hands of Time by Denise Mann is a short but hopeful story on WebMD. In these days when most of the news is focusing on death...

Nature on Ecstasy

Nature Magazine in their May 13th issue published a lengthy article titled the Ups and Downs of Ecstasy which includes an interesting historical account -- and an editorial in the same issue, Think Harder About Ecstasy which urges both sides...

R.U. Sirius Offers to Help You "Make Up Your Own Mind" in New Neofiles

R.U.Sirius has published his latest Nevile's which leads with Make Up Your Own Mind. One of the best of the on line 'Zones, this one features an interview with Zack Lynch who we have talked about on these pages before....

How to Hack Your Head: The Buyers Guide to Recreational Brain Scanning

How to Hack Your Head: The Buyers Guide to Recreational Brain Scanning by By Steven Johnson popped up today on MSN's Slate under "gizmos The latest gadgets and tech toys." Covered are the pros and cons of biofeedback, neurofeedback, Cortisol...

Vacines Against Drug Addictions

Wired News has a facinating article about some new research that might lead to vacines against addiction. Imagine being innoculated against smoking. Science promises that someday we can.