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The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

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,...

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...

I Upgraded to Englightenment 2.0 -- Beyond Belief

Link for this Post: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 It looks like some people are thinking the same thoughts I am. The above link is to a conference focusing on the recent trends in our society away from science and reason...

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,...

Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom Says We May be Living in a Simulation -- NY Times

Link for this Post: Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch By John Tierney in the New York Times Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom, founder of Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies believe that we are living in someone else's computer...

Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Link for this Post: Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. I lived in politically correct Santa Cruz for much of my life so I have learned to tread lightly on the feelings and notions of correct people....

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...

Richard Dawkins Best Selling The God Delusion NPR Fresh Air with Terrie Gross

Link RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website. Podcast Reposted from the NPR Fresh Air Story and Podcast Audio requires QuickTime Player 7. Download the free player here. 38:46 : 20.7 MB This file is available for download here. Ctrl-Click...

Invisible College Entheogen Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download

Linkfor this Post: Invisible College Entheogen Enthusiast PDF Magazine Website. Download the first issue of Invisible College in PDF format by clicking here! (requires Acrobat Reader or other PDF program By way of the editor Gwyllm Llwydd's email this evening,I...

Apocalypse's Eternal Return Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world! -- Reason Magazine

Link for this Post: Reason Magazine - "Apocalypse's Eternal Return.Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world!" by Brian Doherty Reason Magazine reviews Danial 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, by Daniel Pinchbeck, Bere is a taste from the beginning of...

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...

Web Consciousness Video Collection

Link for this Post: Web Consciousness Video Collection. I found this collection of "consciousness videos" via the Enthogenic Reformation blog. There are over a hundred videos including some I have not seen before by an assortment of consciousness personalities including...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Roberts on Psychedelic Education

Links for this Post: 'Psychedelic Horizons', by Tom Roberts -- Reviewed by Bruce Sewick, LCPC on TripZine Buy Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas Roberts on Amazon I got to know Tomas Roberts over 30 years ago when I joined a group...

Douglas Rushkoff - Daniel Pinchbeck New York City Debate -- Videos

Links for this Post: Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 1 Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 2 Rushkoff Pinchbeck Part 3 Timothy Leary once said, "Reality is an opinion." This observation was never more true than in the debate/discussion between authors Douglass Rushkoff and Daniel...

If Your looking for Somting to have Faith In, There's Always Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Link for this Post: Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster Evolution has finally been put in its place by a new faith that his risen on the web. Here is how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster describes its...

"RU Sirius interviews author of new Timothy Leary biography" Boing Boing

Links for this post: Download the RU Sirius interviews Robert Greenfield, author of the new Leary biography (MP3) Boing Boing Post about the Interview I've posted about the Mirimax Leary biopic starting back in April of last year. Everything I'd...

"10 years since Timothy Leary's death" on Joi Ito's Weblog

Note: Picture above is from Joi Ito's post cited below Link for this post: "10 years since Timothy Leary's death" I've heard from some of Timothy Leary's friends the past couple of days, remembering that it has been an entire...

Have You Heard?

Links for this post: "Four Gerald Heard Audio Clips from the The Official Gerald Heard Website" (Note: the site uses some "cleaver" frames thing so I can't link directly to the page with the audios) Go to the bottom of...

Minds Are Simply What Brains Do --Marvin Minsky

Link: Minds Are Simply What Brains Do --Marvin Minsky . Cognitive Scientist Marvin Minsky of MIT's prestigious Media Lab says that "human personality is not controlled by a centralized "conductor" in the brain, but rather emerges from seemingly unintelligent and...

Four Free Online Mind Videos By Way of The Hyperaware Consciousness Blog

Links for this post (the videos): Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Science and Consciousness - Session 3 The Science Network 2 hr 42 min 8 sec - May 14, 2005 2005 Skeptics Society Cal Tech, Pasadena, California A Glorious Piece 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...

Future Positive : The Geometrization Of Thought by F. David Peat

Link: Future Positive : The Geometrization Of Thought This post has a bit of a lineage since it came by way of Bird on the Moon and is an essay re-posted from its author F.David Peat's website on Future Positive....

That's Brilliant -- the state of genius on Samsung's DigitAll Magazine

Link for this post: "That's Brilliant!" by Scott Lyle Cohen in Samsung's DigitAll Magazine, Here is the blurb that begins this piece. "Who’s brilliant and why? DigitAll went to five of the smartest people we know—Clifford Pickover, Esther Dyson, Jean-Paul...

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....

Updated Version of My Basel Presentation: LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country

Links for this Post: My Basel presentation: "LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country" published at Bruce Eisner's Writing Weblog Google Video of LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island Basel Lecture Updated: I spent the last couple...

I Believe in Standpoint .... Or Do I?

Link for this post: Standpoint: a social software community about beliefs If you really want to get discover Standpoint, it is probably better that I not tell you everthing about it on this post. So you can visit Standpoint and...

Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library

Link: Tim Leary, Starfleet Commander, by Charles Carreon at American Buddha Online Library. I have written about the "open source" American Buddha library with relationship to Timothy Leary in a previous post. This post is about a short piece by...

Church of Virus Turns Memetics Into Religion

Link for this post: About the Church of Virus Church of Virus Links Page Want to turn memes into a religion? The Church of Virus has taken the first steps. Here is an excerpt from their about page: Virus is...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

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...

James Kent's Psychedelic Information Theory

Link for this post: "Psychedelic Information Theory" on Tripzine.com James Kent, formerly editor of Psychedelic Illuminations and publisher of Trip Magazine (which is no longer print but online) has placed online some of his new work, "Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism...

Give Me Cognitive Liberty

Link: "Give Me Cognitive Liberty" by Salim Muwakkil in In These Times "Give Me Cognitive Liberty is a piece by In These Times's Senior editor about the work of Richard Glen Boire (in picture on the right) and the work...