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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...

Neuromancer (the novel) at 25 - PC World Author Looks at What It Got Right and Not

Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong by Mark Sullivan on PC World I remeber spending time with Timothy Leary back in 1985 shortly after Neuromancer had been published in paperback. Tim pulled it off his...

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...

Obama as Superhero -- Video

Link is video below After having a President who launched the careers of more comedians than any other in history, at the beginning of his Presidency, Barack Obama appeared to be a bit harder as satiric muse. However, now that...

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...

Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness New Book by

Link for this Post: New Book Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness Back in February of 2006, after returning from the LSD Conference in Basel Switzerland, I posted REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of...

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...

Song Jack Kerouac Mexico City Blues CHORUS 16 on YouTube

Links for this Post include the embedded video below and in my comments. I'm the first to admit that I don't have a clue about who is who in contemporary music. I suppose that goes with the territory of being...

Video: Storm NLP with Brainwave Entrainment on YouTube (Plus How To)

Links for this Post and embedded YouTube Video Storm NLP Plus Brain Wave Entrainment, How To Information on the Healing MindN Power Circle Blog Mind Stereo Mind Media Player for Windows Version 1.0 I resonate with the YouTube video by...

I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

Adam Cheyer and the Intelligent Software Assistant

Links for this Post: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide" By Erica Naone in the Technology Review Published by MIT Adam Cheyer Home Page Information overload is...

Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini Says Recession May Continue Until End of 2010

Links for This Post: Dr. Doom by Stephen Mihm, New York Times August 15, 2008 Roubini Says Recession May Continue Until End of 2010 By Cherian Thomas Bloomberg March 6,2009 NY Economist Nouriel Roubini predicts that the current economic crisis...

Digitizing Timothy Leary YouTube Video

Link for this Post: YouTube Video on the Project to Digitize Timothy Leary I posted several weeks ago The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com about an event which occured on February...

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...

Rush Limbaugh: Cheerleader for Failure -- Video

Link for this Post: Media Matters: Rush Limbaugh: Who's Calling the Shots (see embedded video below) Back in the early Nineties, the first harbingers of what was to come in the form of George W. Bush and his eight years...

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...

Let's Party Like Its 1999!

Barack H. Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States Links for this Post: BarackObama.Com Cable Network News I have not posted in several weeks. I've been having problems with the computer network in my home and decided to...

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...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

The Sarah Palin National Anthem (Armageddon Annie)

Links for this Post: Ralph Buckley Website Sarah Palin National Anthem embedded below Among the many comments on his website comes one from a woman named Quetzie MacDonald. She says: A breath of fresh air is Ralph Buckley...an excellent musician...

Read the Online Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius

Link for this Post: Read the Free Online PDF Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius Many of you remember Mondo 2000, the Berkeley based magazine published by Alison Kennedy...

Three crashes mark John McCain's record as navel aviator led Navy officals to question or fault his judgment -- LA Times

Link for this Post: Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator Three crashes early in his career led Navy officials to question or fault his judgment By Ralph Vartabedian and Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times According to the...

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 Roots of the Current Economic Crisis Can Be Found with John McCain and the Keating Five -- Free Mini-Documentary

Links for this Post: KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis Website Additional Information Download the Keating Economics Documentary as a high quality .mov file (playing time 17 minutes) Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial...

When John McCain Wins -- Palin to Do Fireside Chats

Link for this Post: John McCain's Fireside Chat (By Sara Palin) Back in the last Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt comforted the country with his radio fireside chats. When John McCain wins the Election, he is said to be planning the...

Tell 5 Friends -- Don't Vote!! (Uncensored Version)

My friend Ramon Sender sent me this YouTube Video which is part of a series of non-partisan spots created by DiCaprios Appian Way production group. Here is what is written about it on YouTube: Whitaker have created public service announcements...

The 3 A.M. Call

Link for this Post: The 3 A.M. Call By Paul Krugman Op-Ed in the New York Times This article was written BEFORE THE BAILOUT FAILED but still has some good stuff worth thinking about. It begins: It’s 3 a.m., a...

Zakaria: McCain's VP decision is fundamentally irresponsible

Link fot this Post: Zakaria: McCain's VP decision is 'fundamentally irresponsible' on CNN I've been watching Fareed Zakaria's Sunday show on CNN almost every week and am glad to see that he has made a decision to take a strong...

John you like to pretend like the War started in 2007 -- Obama in Presidential Debate YouTube Video

Link for this Post: Obama to McCain: "You We're Wrong" YouTube Video also embedded below This first debate was a strange one, but so is this election. Because its hard to express complex ideas in soundbytes (and because comlex ideas...

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

David Letterman On McCain’s Campaign Suspension And The Political And Cultural Conventional Wisdom by Joe Gandelman on the Moderate Voice David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign on YouTube also embedded below I've been scanning the blogs and news...

McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac -- New York Times

McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac By Jackie Calmes and David D. Kirkpatrick Here is an excerpt from this breaking story in the New York Times One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit...

Even Conservative Commentator George Will Now Says That John McCain is Not Ready for the Presidency

Link for this Post: McCain Loses His Head by George F. Will in the Washington Post (requires free registration) George Will is the consummate conservative newspaper commentator. I remember reading the many George Will articles defending Richard Nixon until the...

Some Images from Burning Man 2008

I got an email tonight with this: Hi Bruce, Here's a link (to some photos) of the art installation I did at Burning Man last week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/actualcontact/ Includes photos of Sasha & Ann, and Erik Davis speaking in the dome....

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...

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow -- Bill Clinton on Why America Needs President Barack Obama

Link for this post: The embedded YouTube of former President Bill Clinton addressing the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorodo. The last two or three weeks of the summer have been nasty experience. Living in the swing state of...

Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1 from the other side of the Eschaton.

Link for this Post:Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1. From the other side of the Eschaton. Its been over six years since I moved to Las Vegas. I spent most of my adult life my Natural Bridges home near...

Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards

Link for this Post: Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards. Here is a link to a short interview with one of the researchers at John Hopkins doing research with psilocin. Mindhacks describes him and his work. I've...

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...

Who Shall Speak for Us

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna...

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...

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore Published in Skeptical Inquirer I've posted about Susan Blackmore previously. I had the pleasure being introduced to her the Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference in January 2006 by Stanley Krippner. I found this...

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...

Create Instant Mindmaps From Wikipedia with WikiMindMap

Links for this Post: Bruce Eisner Wikipedia WikiMindMap WikiMindMap home page (make your own WikiMindMaps) Here's a site that combines a couple of cool technologies, wiks and in this case specifically Wikipedia plus mind maps .You can generates a mind...