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You Can't Make This Up - Mark Halperin on the Presidential Race in Time Magazine

Link for This Post: You Can't Make This Up -- Time Magazine Saturday May 3, 2008 by Mark Halperin The last couple of months of the long grueling polical race has gotten me a bit down. This short little piece...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Leaves Lasting Albeit Controversial Legacy - CBC Sunday News Online Video

Links for this Post: Psychedelic Pioneer Albert Hofmann Video on Canadian Broadcasting Company Sunday News Watch Video with Windows Media (click here) I taped a short statement here in Vegas whch was included as part of a collage of people...

Rest in Peace Old Friend -- Albert Hofmann the Father of LSD Dies at 102

Links for this Post: Albert Hofmann Dies at 102 New York Tmes I had some dental work done today and my dentist does not believe much in giving pain killers. Usually I concur but tonight I wish he had give...

Obama Favored 10% over Hillary Nationally -- Bush Breaks Record Highest Negative Ever -- Gallup Polls

Links for this Post: Disapproval Of Bush Breaks Record -- USA Today Obama Maintains National Lead -- Gallup Daily Two stories about the ratings of three polticians in the Gallup Poll caught my eye today. The stories might seem somewhat...

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger

Link for this post:Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger. I have been hearing about the new Millennial Generation but did not know that much about it until I found this post on a weblog called FutureBlogger. Complete...

Remembering Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy

Links for this Post: In the text My memory of what I was doing on the day Martin Luther King was murdered forty years ago today is vivid. I was going to college at California State University Northridge, back then...

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...

Now is the Time for Al Gore!

Links for this Post: Could Gore Be The Nominee? By Taegan Goddard in Political Insider DraftGore.Com: Over 200,000 people have signed a this petition If you are an Obama supporter like me, these days are not the best of times....

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton CNN Poltical Ticker "I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera," Limbaugh told fellow conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham on Fox News Friday. He reiterated the comments...

The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - New York Times

Link for this post: The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - by Frank Rich in the New York Times. This op-ed in today's New York Times draws some amusing caricatures of the two white candidates left in this year's...

Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s - Jake Tapper ABC News

Link for This Post: Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s by Jake Tapper ABC News Senior National Correspondent. It looks like Bill Clinton is back on Barack Obama's case. Tapper reports:...

New York Times Reports Advisers Ready To Take "Potentially Incendiary Steps To Build Up Mrs. Clinton’s Count"

Links for This Post: Obama’s Lead in Delegates Shifts Focus of Campaign By Adam Nagourney - New York Times Out for Themselves by Ezra Klein - American Prospect Ezra Klein pulled this quote from today's New York Times article: With...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

We Want an End to this War: Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad Video

Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad embeded below As I watch the early returns roll in, I found this ad spot that Obama's camapign ran in local markets duriing last Sunday's Superbowl.

Yes We Can Barack Obama Music Video on YouTube

Link for the Post: YouTube Video embedded below My friend Will Penna sent me this Youtube Video by email.. I was surprised to get it from him since he was for Hillary last week. He says with the email: I...

Caroline and Teddy Kennedy Endorse Barak Obama on YouTube

I watched this live today on CNN and it found it inspirational. I hope you enjoy it If you are planning to Vote for Hillary -- Think Again!

A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times

Link for this Post: A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times Caroline Kennedy's op-ed in the Sunday New York Times is heartfultly stated. She says: OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people...

Sixties Philosopher Alan Watts Talks About Aldous Huxley's Island -- Pacifica Radio Audio

Links for this Post: These links are playlist files which when either opened with a streaming audio player like the free Winamp or clicked on if a playlist file player is already configured in windows. Each of them are KPFK...

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner

The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Link for this Post: The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine The tile of the article "The Case Against Hillary Clinton Why on earth would we choose to put the Clinton family drama at the...

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

Obama up by 13 points in New Hampshire Primary According to Just Released USA Gallup Poll

Link for this Post; Obama up by 13 points, McCain up by 4 in USAT/Gallup Poll in N.H. USA Today By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence Here is an excerpt from the report from USA today Sen. Barack Obama has...

Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World - in The Moderate Voice

Link for this Post: Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World i by William Kern in the Moderate Voice Obama: 'A Man Who Will Restore America's Image in the World' full article referred to by first...

Futures Market and Book Makers Both see Barak Obama Win in New Hampshire

Link for this Post: Futures markets see McCain, Obama wins If the futures markets are as good a predictors of events in New Hampshire as they were in Iowa, the winners of he New Hampshire will be Barak Obama on...

Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Link for this Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater - Politics on The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from Joeseph A. Palermo's article: Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for...

Iowa Caucuses 2008 Betting Odds BARACK OBAMA -180!

Link for this Post: Iowa Caucuses 2008 Betting Odds BARACK OBAMA -180!. If the oddsmakers are right, Barak Obama will win the Iowa Caucus tonight. According to this story: Prediction markets for elections have proven quite accurate in recent years...

The Six Wives of Timothy Leary

Links for this Post: The Six Wives of Timothy Leary reviewed in The Stage The Six Wives of Timothy Leary - reviewed by John Higgs MySpace profile of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary Here is an interesting take on...

The Trips Festival Film Provides a Time Tunnel into the Sixites

Links for this Post Listen to Panel Discussion on the Trips Festival MP3 Download (this comes via KPFA's Dead To The World Radio Program broadcast Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 which also streams on the KPFA website) Trips Festival Movie Website...

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...

Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post

Link: Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post. Regular readers of Vision Thing know that I'm a big fan of Barak Obama. For months now, people such as myself have been trying...

Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads

Links for this Post: Are 7% of the best science books about drugs? -- Blogging Heads The Stevens Seventy Greatest Science Books Combining video blogging with traditional posts, this amusing exchange between 'blogging heads" is worth a view. The list...

Surfer Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything - Telegraph UK and YouTube Video

Link for this Post: See YouTube Video Embedded Below Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything -- Telegraph UK by By Roger Highfield, Science Editor An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything on Blogger: Useful links regarding Garrett Lisi's 'An...

You Need to get Irrelgion

Link for this Post: Irreelgion.Org "Your Last Stop Before Eternal Enlightenment" Ever since the fundamentalist movement which hit the planet sometime in the Seventies, the acts and ideas of fundamentalists of various religions and creeds have become increasingly absurd Now...

Newsweek Flashes Back to 1968

Link for this Post: 1968: The Year That Changed Everything -- Newsweek Magazine The year 1968 is the favorite year among the 59 years in my life. Maybe it had something to do with young (I was 20 for most...

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...

RealityStudio » RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community

Link for this post : RealityStudio » RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community. Its about time we had a William S. Burroughs Community on the web. Here is what they say about themselves. RealityStudio.org is dedicated to William S. Burroughs...

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 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,...

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...

Joi Ito's Web: "My Timothy Leary"

Link: Joi Ito's Web: My Timothy Leary. The picture to the left is from Joi Ito's website. For thos who don't know who Joi Ito is, his Wikipedia entry is instructive. I met Joi in the early Nineties at Timothy...

URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network

Link for this post: URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network. I discovered Urth.TV last week and joined immediately. I used to speak at the Whole Life Expo in the 1980s, both myself and with Timothy Leary. I'm already a member of...