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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...

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...

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...

The World Has Lost One of Its Greats -- Laura Archera Huxley 1911-2007 Updated

Links for this Post: Update: I just received an email from Karen Pfeiffer, the president of Laura's Children: Our Ultimate Investment. She sent an obituary which you will find in the extended portion of this post after what I had...

The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stan Grof on Reality Sandwitch

Link for this Post: The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity by Stan Grof on Reality Sandwich The essay I am posting about is by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who needs no introduction to most readers. The subject of...

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...

LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog

Link for this Post: LSD and DYING on eye of the cyclone. This is a three part post. The first part cited above begins: Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories...

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,...

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...

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...

Peter Stafford Author and Psychedelic Investigator Dies -- Memorial to Be Held August 26 in Santa Cruz

Updated August 9th: The memorial will be at 1 to 3 pm at the Attic which is located at 931 Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz. Please see this new post for more updates: Updated August 7: The date of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Litmus: Feature - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Gell Well?

Link for this Post:Link: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Get Well? by Jaime McCutcheon on Litmus: Science Blog. The author "flashes back" to the Basel LSD conference of last year and then discusses the use of LSD as...

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...

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...

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...

Changing the World Starts with You at Change.org

Link for this Post: Change.org.Activist Social Network Software I discovered change.org a couple of days ago and have spent some time there. I am a long time activist in the psychedelic community. 17 years ago, I started Island Group. In...

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...

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...

/patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one)

Link for this Post /patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one). I have written about John Higgs biography of Timothy Leary in a pevious post. This is just...

The Artificial Islands of Dubai

Dubai is fuxxing nuts! The picture above is: The Palm Islands in Dubai. New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

John Higgs UK Guardian Leary Bio Author Picks Top 10 Psychedelic Non-Fiction

Link for this Post: "John Higgs' top 10 psychedelic non-fiction" in the UK Guardian John Higgs website In early July n a post The Battling Leary Biographies. , I introduced UK author John Higgs.According to bio in the Guardian, "John...

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...

Online Intentional Communities Guide Adds Live Links to Over 1500 Community Websites

Link for this Post: Online Intentional Communities Web Directory The Online Communities Directory is part of the Intentional Communities website. This website is the homepage of the Fellowship for Intentional Community a 501(3)(C) Non-Profit which tracks over 1500 intentional communities...