My Photo

Bruce Eisner on the Blogcritics Blog

Mind Media Guide Topics

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...

Continue reading "Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising FREE eBook Download" »

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...

Continue reading "The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art" »

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...

Continue reading "Sixties Philosopher Alan Watts Talks About Aldous Huxley's Island -- Pacifica Radio Audio" »

January 19, 2008

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner

Continue reading "A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco" »

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

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

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...

Continue reading "Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater" »

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...

Continue reading "The Six Wives of Timothy Leary" »

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...

Continue reading "Return of the Light" »

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...

Continue reading "The World Has Lost One of Its Greats -- Laura Archera Huxley 1911-2007 Updated" »

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...

Continue reading "Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine" »

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...

Continue reading "RealityStudio » RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community" »

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...

Continue reading "Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?" »

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,...

Continue reading "Remembering Timothy Leary On His Birthday YouTube Videos" »

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

Continue reading "Remembering Jack Kerouac on the Smithsonian Magazine" »

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,...

Continue reading "Bruce On the Borscht Belt" »

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...

Continue reading "Peter Stafford Author and Psychedelic Investigator Dies -- Memorial to Be Held August 26 in Santa Cruz" »

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...

Continue reading "alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic" »

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...

Continue reading "Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30" »

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...

Continue reading "Apocalypse - Maya - Armageddon - Rapture - End of Days -- New York Times Magazine" »

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...

Continue reading "Secrets, Cubes and Corporations: An MP3 Interview With Douglas Rushkoff by Jason Lubyk" »

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...

Continue reading "Poem: The Story of the Smarter Monkies" »

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...

Continue reading "Staying in San Fransisco by the Bay" »

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...

Continue reading "It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated" »

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...

Continue reading "Aldous Huxley Documentery: Gravity of Light on Google Video" »

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...

Continue reading "Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson by Joe Bageant" »

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...

Continue reading "Updated: Want a Byte of Daniel Pinchbeck's Reality Sandwich?" »

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...

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

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...

Continue reading "Invisible College PDF Magazine" »

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...

Continue reading "The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis " »

May 05, 2007

Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine

Link for this Post: Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine. Paul Krassner who some consider the father of Underground Journalism describes author Kurt Vonnegut as " his favorite Luddite." Here is a short excerpt from his remembrances...

Continue reading "Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine" »

April 23, 2007

Nick Herbert and RU Sirius on Rudy Rucker's Flurb

Link for this Post: FLURB, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales No. 3 I just got an email from my Santa Cruz friend Nick Herbert was happy to report: "Four Milestones of Quantum Tantra just published in Rudy Rucker's FLURB." In...

Continue reading "Nick Herbert and RU Sirius on Rudy Rucker's Flurb" »

April 14, 2007

The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda in Salon Books

Link for this Post: The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda | Salon Books By Robert Marshal When I was 19, I bought a VW Van and spent more than half a year traveling up and down the length of California....

Continue reading "The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda in Salon Books" »

March 28, 2007

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

Continue reading "Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium" »

March 24, 2007

Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour + Festival Info

Links for this Post: Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour. Summer of Love Festival Website I found this information in the process of getting my Island Web Voyages Elsewhere directory cleaned up and online (more about...

Continue reading "Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour + Festival Info" »

March 17, 2007

The 1960s "single, precise climax" -- New York Times -- Video

Links for this Post: "Folk-Rock Memories, Psychedelic but Clear" By Ben Sisario - New York Times. (Also accompanying video embedded below) This combo article and video feature from the NY Times is about remembrances of music producer Joe Boyd whose...

Continue reading "The 1960s "single, precise climax" -- New York Times -- Video" »

March 10, 2007

Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube

I posted "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes" about the noted author and counterculture spokesman Robert Anton Wilson's passing in January. More recently, I have posted about a Robert Anton Wilson memorial...

Continue reading "Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube" »

March 01, 2007

The Journeybook Project Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness

Link for this Post: Journeybook. I found this site by way of eBlips. Here is what they say about the site: "The hyper-rad Aussie media collective Undergrowth is putting together a phat tome of trip reports & related essays–”Travels on...

Continue reading "The Journeybook Project Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness" »

February 18, 2007

Remembering Rachel -- A Poem

Links for this Post: Clay's Ten Cups Blog "Remembering Rachel: A Collaboration" "My All-Time Favorite Movie I Love You Alice B.Toklas" Vision Thing Blog Post Over New Years, my friend Clay and I worked on a collaborative poem. Clay had...

Continue reading "Remembering Rachel -- A Poem" »

February 14, 2007

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...

Continue reading "RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers" »

February 12, 2007

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...

Continue reading "Invisible College Entheogen Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download" »

January 11, 2007

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...

Continue reading "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes -- Updated Information" »

January 07, 2007

/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...

Continue reading "/patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one)" »

December 28, 2006

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...

Continue reading "Star Larvae Addendum: Exo-Psychology Revisited" »

December 26, 2006

“The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine

Link for this Post: “The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine. Here is a soliloquy from Doug Ruskoff on his most recent adventures posted from Germany on Arthur Magazine. I'll supply a...

Continue reading "“The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine" »