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Under the Influence -- YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

Link for this Post: YouTube Video above Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for...

The Psychedelic Conspiracy

Links for this Post: The Aquarian Conspiracy Sex Drugs and Rock 'N Roll by Lyndon LaRusche; (first published in The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction on Bible Believers Psychedelic Alchemy on the Occult of Personality Blog Unlike my now departed...

He Has Ridden -- Celebrating Bicycle Day 66

Links for this Post: Editorial: He Has Ridden by Bruce Eisner first published in published Island Views in the Winter of 1993. Today is the 66th Bicycle Day, April 19, 2009 so I thought it would be appropriate to excerpt...

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...

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

Might the Gods Be Alkaloids?

Link for this post: Entheology.org - Preserving Ancient Knowledge According to author Alex Polari de Alevega The question related in the title of our presentation addresses the role and use of psychoactive plants, throughout the process of human evolution, as...

Nick Herbert - Psychedelics & Consciousness on YouTube -- Updated with Quantum Tantra: Nick's New blog

Links for this Post: YouTube Video embedded above Quantum Tantra: Nick Herbert's New Blog Nick Herbert's Long-Standing Webpage I first mentioned my long-time friend Dr. Nick Herbert in a post Quantum-Tantric Sage Nick Herbert's Home Page three years ago although...

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...

Spaced Out Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties--- Book and Blog

Links for this Post: Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties by by Alastair Gordon. The Spaced Out Blog Spaced Out Media: A Short Film about the Spaced Out book While talking with a friend about Ramon Sender, who...

A Lazy Man's Guide to Thaddeus Golas at the Cyberspace "Café " Named for Him

Link for this PostL THADDEUS GOLAS -- The Official Thaddeus Golas Café In Cyberspace: I've posted about Thaddeus Golas previously in two posts. One post was called The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment is a link to a book which...

The Buzz from Burning Man 2008 The "American Dream"

Link for this Post: Burning Man 2008 -- "The American Dream" Offical Site The theme of this year's Burning Man is the American Dream, which is appropriate since many at the Democratic convention noted that the American Dream seems to...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 3

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America The Huntington Botanical Gardens One of the panel members at the Laura Huxley Tribute said that if Laura Huxley were here, she would...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 2

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway on Amazon Sorry for the delay in giving you the rest of the story of my...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 1

Link for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America I'm writing this post from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks California. Many of a diverse International group of Aldous Huxley scholars attending this...

Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2

Link for this Post : Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2 -- Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies Note: The poster on the right is clickable and opens up to a larger size As regular readers...

Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Note: Clicking on the picture does not start a video, it takes you to the University of Texas at Austin Page where you can watch the video. Links for this Post: Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview. Transcript of...

Links By George: A Biweekly Blog Of Links To Articles And Websites Alternative Lifestyles, Culture, Shamanism, Spirituality, Politics And The Environment

Link for this Post: Links by George: An Eclectic Biweekly Collection of Links From time to time, you have seen posts on my blog with the source of the link attributed to my friend George Douvris. I first connected with...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary Updated Now on YouTube

Link for this Post: See You Tube 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 and the other folks at...

YouTube Video: My LSD Lecture at an Orange Coast Community College Rondondo Beach California May 14, 2008

Above is an embed from part 1 of LSD -- A College Class Lecture. The video was made at a few weeks ago at a drug science class at Orange Coast Community College where my friend Kelli who you see...

VOA News - Michael Murphy Helped Launch Human Potential Movement More Than 40 Years Ago

Link for this Post: VOA News - Michael Murphy Helped Launch Human Potential Movement More Than 40 Years Ago. Michael Murphy is featured in this post on VOA News. Murphy was co-founder of Esalen Institute, the crucible of the human...

Albert Hofmann - LSD - A Psychedelic 'Problem Child' Comes Full Circle - New York Times

Link for this Post: A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle By Benedict Carey in the New York Times My mother read this article about Albert Hofmann and his legacy, LSD. Here is a snip from the piece: Dr. Hofmann’s...

Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - Features, Music - The Independent

Link for this Post: Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - - The Independent. According to this article in The Independent from the UK: It's the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped...

Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video - Topics LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson

Link embedded below: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video. Topics include LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson As readers of Vision Thing know, I'm a big fan of Bill Maher and LSD...

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...