July 11, 2009

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...

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July 01, 2009

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...

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June 17, 2009

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...

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April 18, 2009

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...

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April 07, 2009

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...

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February 26, 2009

Put Out the Word

Link for this Post: Bruce Eisner's Poetry on the Web Today is my birthday so I thought I'd share a poem. I wrote it on my text software while working on the web. Put Out the Word put the word...

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February 16, 2009

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...

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November 28, 2008

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...

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November 11, 2008

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...

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November 07, 2008

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...

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October 16, 2008

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...

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September 16, 2008

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...

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August 28, 2008

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...

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August 14, 2008

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...

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August 09, 2008

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...

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August 02, 2008

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...

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July 16, 2008

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...

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June 01, 2008

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...

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May 18, 2008

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...

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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...

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May 14, 2008

FutureHi Founder Paul Hughes New Site on the Web

Link: Paul Hughes' Site on the Web. Paul Huges who started the lively FutureHi blog back in 2003, which was a MUST READ for those of us interested in psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and the future of humans, our...

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May 11, 2008

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...

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April 03, 2008

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...

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January 26, 2008

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...

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January 19, 2008

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner Steven Pritzker Filmography Ruth Richards Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature Jeane Achterberg Rituals of Healing Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agent I'm in San Fransisco again at my school, Saybrook Graduate School and...

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January 13, 2008

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 This fun adventure has some fascinating features. Richard Albert (Ram Dass) is having a featured workshop: Be Here Now with...

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January 05, 2008

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...

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January 02, 2008

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...

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December 22, 2007

Return of the Light

Happy Solstice. Today in the Northern Hemisphere where I live, it is the shortest day of the year in terms of sunflight and in the Southern Hemisphere it is their longest day. In this way, the Solstice marks a day...

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December 17, 2007

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...

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November 26, 2007

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

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November 03, 2007

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...

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November 01, 2007

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

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October 22, 2007

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,...

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September 04, 2007

Remembering Jack Kerouac on the Smithsonian Magazine

Link: Remembering Jack Kerouac. by Joyce Johnson on the Smithsonian.Com Magazine According to the tagline on the story, "A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters." Here...

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August 19, 2007

Bruce On the Borscht Belt

Links for this Post: Added August 23: Havens Ellenville, N.Y. "Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival" in the New York Times Borscht Belt on Wikipedia If you wonder where I have been lately, the answer is,...

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August 07, 2007

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...

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July 16, 2007

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...

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July 14, 2007

Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30

Link for this Post: Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30. This is part two of the update to my March post about the Summer of Love Celebration. This post is about the 40th Anniversary of...

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July 03, 2007

Apocalypse - Maya - Armageddon - Rapture - End of Days -- New York Times Magazine

Link for this Post: Apocalypse - Maya - Armageddon - Rapture - End of Days - New York Times. I'm not sure how to characterize this New York Times. It's theme is apocalyptic predictions in general and ones around 2012...

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June 28, 2007

Secrets, Cubes and Corporations: An MP3 Interview With Douglas Rushkoff by Jason Lubyk

Link for this Post: Secrets, Cubes and Corporations: An Interview With Douglas Rushkoff by Jason Lubyk on Alterati (visit this link for MP3) I found this interview by way of Boing Boing. Its an MP3 interview with Doug Rushkoff by...

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June 13, 2007

Poem: The Story of the Smarter Monkies

Links: None This is the poem I mentioned in my last post, It is about studying the psychology of writers The Story Of The Smarter Monkeys Sometime way back when Before we had a history A new and smarter monkey...

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June 12, 2007

Staying in San Fransisco by the Bay

Link for this Post: See in text I'm back by the San Fransisco Bay but not on vacation. I've a Ph.D. student in psychology at the Saybrook Graduate School. The school does not have a campus proper, studies are all...

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June 01, 2007

It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated

Links for this Post Updated: 'Sgt. Pepper' at 40 Summer of Love saw release of Beatles' landmark album By Jim Harrington, InsideBayArea.Com "A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40" by Jon Wiener, Nation "Musical Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

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May 30, 2007

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...

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May 17, 2007

Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson by Joe Bageant

Link for this Post:Death By Digitalized Celebrity: Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson" by Joe Bageant. Note: the image to the left is from Joe's post. I have to thank my friend Will Penna for sending me this amusing...

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May 16, 2007

Updated: Want a Byte of Daniel Pinchbeck's Reality Sandwich?

Updated: I got an email from Daniel Penchbeck asking me to post some addtional material so I'm putting in in an update here. Hi Bruce, Thanks! We are blown away with the quality of the material we are receiving so...

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May 14, 2007

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal, an excerpt

Links for this Post:: “Totally on Fire” The Experience of Founding Esalen" Excerpt from New Book Essen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal (this excerpt is also republished on this post in accordance with the...

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May 08, 2007

Invisible College PDF Magazine

Link for this Post : Invisible College PDF Magazine. There is a new edition out of the colorful but a bit cumbersome Invisible College Magazine out. If you remember, I posted about issue Invisible College Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download...

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May 06, 2007

The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis

Link: The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis Erik Davis has recently redesigned his excellent Techgnosis website and added a bunch of new content. This essay by Davis, which has seen publication as an introduction...

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