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Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising FREE eBook Download

Link for this Post: Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. Robert Anton Wilson passed on last year but his ideas live on in large number of books, essays and interviews. Prometheus Risingwas one of his most influential books during his life...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

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...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Named No. 1 Among Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph

Link:s for this Post Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph. British brains dominate list of living geniuses By Aislinn Simpson Telegraph I was pleased to see that my dear old friend Albert Hofmann, who turned 100 last year has been...

Remembering Timothy Leary On His Birthday YouTube Videos

Link for this Post: Video Embedded in the Post Below If Timothy Leary were alive, he would be 87 years old today. But Timothy Leary is dead, having passed from our lives in 1996. In remembering Timothy on his birthday,...

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...

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...

alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic

Link for this Post: alterati » The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore. by Wes Unruh. This alerati post is interesting from a variety of perspectives. I actually own one of the Neurocomics. Timothy gave it...

Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google -- Venture Beat and ZDNet

Updated Links for this Post: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform by Dan Farber -- ZDNet Powerset’s search technology scoop, may scare Google By Matt Marshall on VentureBeat Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Venture Beat...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers

Links for this Post: Available on Amazon: True Mutations (Paperback) by R.U. Sirius (Author), Ken Coffman (Editor), Ryder Carroll (Illustrator) Boing Boing: R.U. Sirius True Mutations book I got an email yesterday from Ken Coffman, aka R.U. Sirius that his...

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...

A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes -- Updated Information

Updated Links: Cheerful "Reflections on Death and Dying" by RAW Robert Anton Wilson, RIP" by Jesse Walker on Reason A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays Jeff Diehl on Ten Zen Monkey's via Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007...

Star Larvae Addendum: Exo-Psychology Revisited

Link for this Post: Star Larvae Addendum: Exo-Psychology Revisited. There was a time, a quarter century ago, when the hippest thing you could be doing was reading Timothy Leary essays written like channeled manuscripts, published from behind prison walls. Here...

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...

Is Life All Just a Dream? - Times Online -- Updated with Videos

Updated with New Information and Videos: One of our readers emailed me to tell me that the article I had cited was from November 2004 and that the BBC videos are online at the following links: Three Videos in the...

RU Sirius Podcast -- Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson

Link for this Post: RU Sirius Podcast "Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson" My podcasting pal, RU Sirius emailed me with a heads-up about a show he is doing this week as tribute to the...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary

Link for this Post: See Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves. It is the best in a series...

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...

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...

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...

Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help Updated with a Message from RA Wilson

Updated Link: Message from RA Wilson on Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help on Douglas Rushkoff's Blog Bob Wilson's Daughter sent Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder a letter along with a note from Bob Wislon. Here is the...

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...

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...

Wired News: Japan Rides the Brain Craze

Links: for this post: Wired News: Japan Rides the Brain Craze. On the Mindware Forum: Brain Age for the Nintendo DS: Incredible 'Brain-Training' Craze in Japan Moves Across Ocean Like us baby boomers in the US, the Japanese are sensing...

Plausible Futures Newsletter Offers Wide Ranging Coverage of Future Studies News

Link: Plausible Futures Newsletter. Plausible Futures Newsletters covers a wide-ranging set of topics withing the scope of future studies from a diverse set of sources as well as with original articles. For example from recent posts: 2020 - Future of...

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...

Autopoiesis & Cognition

Link for this post: Autopoiesis & Cognition. An old friend of mine, Mchael S. has apprently gotten into blogging. I found his site by way of a link-back. As usual, Michael has been digging up some good data. Check his...

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....

Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game

Links for this post: Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game. by: Willard Van De Bogart Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society by Timothy Leary Part 2 The Glass Bead Game : (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Book by Herman Hesse...

Albert Hofmann Updated The New York Times: Father of LSD, now 100, and his 'problem child'

Link: Father of LSD, now 100, and his problem child -by Craig S. Smith in the New York Times Update: Some Albert Hofmann Links Albert Hofmann on Wikipedia LSD My Problem Child -- Psychedelic Library The Albert Hofmann Foundation In...

Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines"

Link for this post: Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines" Dr. Susan Blackmore is an endlessly fascinating person. Everything about her from her background in parapsychology to her multicolored hair and including her series of books on topics including...

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...

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...