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Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars by Paul Hughes --- Updated Link

Link for this Post Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars My friend and fellow psychedelic blogger Paul Hughes, founder of the pioneering FutureHi weblog has written another of his extensive essays. This one is about us humans...

OBAMA Anatomy of a World Leader by Visionary Artist Alex Grey

Link for this Post:Obama Anatomy of a World Leader -- the making of a portrait by psychedelic artist extraordinaire Alex Grey My long-time friend Will Penna sent me a link to a portion of artist Alex Grey's site which is...

John McCain's Temper Arizonans recall run-ins with McCain -- Las Vegas Review Journal

Link for this Post: Arizonans recall run-ins with McCain Opinions about temper depend on who's talking By ALAN MAIMON Review-Journal Everyone has heard stories about current Presidential Candidate John McCain's temper. This article in my hometown newspaper adds more fodder...

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...

Ramon Sender and Memories of the Sixties

Links for this Post: Ramon Sender Homepage Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes: I first met Ramon Sender in 1969 at a hippie commune called Wheeler's Ranch in Northern California. Wheeler's Ranch was one of two...

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition -- Business Week

Link for this Post: Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace by Olga Kharif When Google first...

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....

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...

The Personality Forge: Welcome to the Future Filled With AI Chat Bots

Link for this Post: The Personality Forge AI- Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots. The sign at the door to Personality Forge says "Welcome to the Future." According to this site, its a future filled with Artifical Intelligence (AI) Chatbots. Here is...

Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick - New York Times

Link for this Post "Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick" by Sam Knight - New York Times. Why keep your "glow stick? According to this NY Times article, the good old fashioned rave has been resurrected in London. I was...

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...

Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys

Link: Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine). Paal McCartney who has had more than a few troubles recently is given another shove by RU Siriuses "tell-all" about McCartney sloppy housekeeping and penchent to keep drugs out...

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...

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 A fun story Associated Press story published in the New York Times about a couple promoting a world-wide "synchronized"...

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/" Well the bottom line of the article is that...

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...

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....

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...

"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...

Check Into the Habbo Hotel -- Updated with TechCrunch Info

Links For This Updated Post: TechCrunch: Habbo Hotel Microtransacts itself to $30m in Revenue Visit the Habbo Hotel USA The post below this update was done almost exactly two years ago. I was intrigued with the idea of a virtual...

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...

We're All a Bunch of Dancing Monkeys

Link for this post:Dancing Monkeys by Ernest Cline When I was younger, I thought the humans were pretty impressive creatures and capable of knowing a lot of things. I devoured book, studied philosophy and had learned discussions. As I gained...

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...

Welcome to Hive7 -- The Web Goes 3D with Ajax

Welcome to Hive7 Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World by Om Malik Thanks to Om Malik's column, I found my way to Hive7 tonight. I even brought back a picture. Here is a bit from Om's bit on Hive 7:...

Newsweek Cover Story:Putting the 'We' in Web"

Link for this post: Putting the Web In the Web Special Newsweek Issue Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time,...

Zaadz Good?

Link for this post: Zaadz Updated: Zaadz didn't send me an invite but perhaps that is for the best. Will anwered my meant-to-be-humerous question, "Zaadz good?" this morning. He wrote: "No Zaadz bad, as in (omitted the names to spare...

In California, New Kind of Commune for Elderly - New York Times

Link: In California, New Kind of Commune for Elderly - New York Times. This article by Patricia Leigh Brown is about some innovative developments in geriatric living. Begun naturally in California, here is how the piece begins: DAVIS, Calif., Feb....

I Believe in Standpoint .... Or Do I?

Link for this post: Standpoint: a social software community about beliefs If you really want to get discover Standpoint, it is probably better that I not tell you everthing about it on this post. So you can visit Standpoint and...

I'm an Amazon Connect Author!

Links for this post: Bruce Eisner's Profile on Amazon.Com's Author Connect Bruce Eisner's Author Blog on Amazon . My publisher Ronin invited me to be part of the Amazon Connect author program. Its a bit like Friendster or MySpace, you...

Updated: Join Orcut -- Google's answer to social networks is (NOT) growing fast

Link: Join Orcut -- Google's answer to social networks is growing fast Updated: This update is because this is one of the most visited posts on my blog. It has been two years since I joined Orcut after joining Friendster...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

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...

"Star Light" Song Performed by Doctors Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary

Links for this post: Fiorella Terenzi Website Download "Star Light" MP3 by Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary by clicking this link On several different occasions I watched my friend Timothy Leary perform with an Italian physicist turned musician Fiorella Terenzi...

Wayne Dyer on Ram Dass: "Be Here For Him Now"

Link for this post: "Ram Dass: Be here for Him Now" on DrWayneDyer.Com I'm not big on gurus whether they are self-improvement gurus or the kind people worship in India. (see The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel...

Updated: Dubyah and the Four Queens

Updated: The original link to the Drudge Report got taken out by someone at Drudge. But one of our commentators noted that the Drudge Flash was removed. The new link is here. The commentator's post: The Drudge link has expired,...

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...

Synergenesis 2 - October 8, 2005 - San Francisco, CA

Link for this post: Synergenesis 2 - October 8, 2005 - San Francisco, CA. My LA pal Michael Shields sent me this announcement for the second annual Syntergenesis which was a successful event last year. It takes place (naturally) in...

Man In Box Protests Burning Man "Forced Fun"

The picture above is from a San Fransisco Chronicle article, "BURNING MAN AT 20 Thinking inside the box Plexiglas cage lets S.F. man be part of the crowd, but isolated" by Meredith May. Here is a man after my own...

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...

Scientific American.com: Psyching Out Evolutionary Psychology: Interview with David J. Buller -- This philosopher of science rejects claims of a universal human nature

At ScientificAmerican.Com (via MetaFilter) there is an interesting interview --Scientific American: Psyching Out Evolutionary Psychology: Interview with David J. Buller:T his philosopher of science rejects claims of a universal human nature. Intereing in that he does a poor job of...

Cary Grant's Thoughts About LSD

Chapter Fourteen - Cary Grant Autobiography on the Ultimate Grant Pages tells the story of how he benefited from therapy with a then unknown experimental drug -- LSD. Here is an excerpt: "Now, I believe in caring for my health;...

10 Annual Gathering of the Vibes Music Festival Aug 12-13 Upstate New York

Here is what the folks putting on 10th edition of the Gathering of the Vibes -- a retro rock festival held round the time when Woodstock happened and in the same vicinity: It's with great pride & excitement that we...

Interview with The Magacian's Daughter: Rosemary Leary with Mavricks of the Mind

Wise and beautiful Rosemary Leary, I got to know her mostly in her last three years on earth, when her secret life fleeing from the FBI for years to escape being busted for role in the 1971 escape from Prison...

Life With Alacrity: Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections

I read "Life With Alacrity: Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections" a couple of days ago and then today, someone who I had asked to be a friend on MySpace emailed me and asked me how I was doing. My instant...

Make Way Kinsey -- It's The Global Sex Survey!

The Durex Global Sex Survey continues the tradition of Kinsey. One thing that the poll makes clear to me is that almost everyone is having sex more than I am. One blogger has conducted their own poll they call the...

her own eyes: Sexiness, thy name is Mac

Link: her own eyes: Sexiness, thy name is Mac. Posted by: almeda! 23.09.04 19:50

Micronations.Net Features News and Information on "Experimental" Countries

Micronations.Net. features news and information on those tiniest of countries. This is what the site says about itself: Apart from a few serious secessionist movements, most micronations are essentially nation-state simulations, with varying degrees of seriousness. Unlike role-playing games, micronations...

A Kind of Sim City For Grownups: Virtual Sex Finds New Meaning on the Web

Updated: I received an email tonight titled Sim City for Grownups. Somehow the headliine got me and so I opened it. I found myself looking at a new website what allows its members to download special software for virtual sex....