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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Study Tests Magic Mushrooms -- CNN Video

Link for this Post: Study tests magic mushrooms CNN Video -- John Hopkins Psiilocybin Study with Terminal Cancer Patients I'm decompressing from my PhD candidacy orals which I passed on Monday. I got up early this morning and on CNN's...

YouTube Video: My LSD Lecture at an Orange Coast Community College Rondondo Beach California May 14, 2008

Above is an embed from part 1 of LSD -- A College Class Lecture. The video was made at a few weeks ago at a drug science class at Orange Coast Community College where my friend Kelli who you see...

Will Harvard drop acid again?

Link for this Post: Will Harvard drop acid again?. by Peter Bebergal in the Boston Phoenix A long article about the MAPS funded research using LSD to treat cluster headaches currently being conducted by Dr. John Halpren. The article does...

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...

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...

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...

Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video - Topics LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson

Link embedded below: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher 1996 TV Show on Google Video. Topics include LSD and Timothy Leary with guest Robert Anton Wilson As readers of Vision Thing know, I'm a big fan of Bill Maher and LSD...

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...

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...

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...

World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube

Links for this post: Series of World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube As I mentioned, I wanted to go to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel but I guess two visits to Basel in one lifetime is probably enough. The...

Horizon: Psychedelic science by Bill Eagles Google Video

Video Embedded Below A short excerpt from the Google Video introduction to this film: Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again. In the USA. My...

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...

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific American

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old friend David Jay Brown is made available by the...

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...

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...

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...

COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue

Link for this Post: COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue. Those of you who read this blog know that besides blogging, I am finishing my psychology doctorate. I've always been interested in all things to do with the mind and...

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...

LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog

Link for this Post: LSD and DYING on eye of the cyclone. This is a three part post. The first part cited above begins: Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories...

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,...

Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics October 27 New York City

Link for this Post: Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics. A one-day event in New York City features Rick Doblin, Ph.D.of MAPS, Judy Holland MD, author of Ecstasy: the Complete Guide, Artists Alex and Allyson Grey, Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D,...

In a Circle Remembering Peter: Celebration of the Litfe of Peter Stafford Santa Cruz CA August 26 Updated

Peter Stafford 1939-2007 Update: I am sitting in a circle of about 200 people as they pass a "talking stick" around, remembering Peter's life. In the room are people I have met through the years when I lived in Santa...

World Psychedelic Forum Basel Switzerland March 21-24 2008

Link for this Post: World Psychedelic Forum Basel Switzerland March 21-24 2008 The folks who brought you the International Symposium on Occasion of Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday are back with another psychedelicly oriented conference in Basel. Modestly titled the "World...

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...

Orange Sunshine -- YouTube Video Trailer from Upcoming Documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

Link for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video Below According to the blurb on this You Tube video, this is a "ten minute Trailer for the upcoming documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love." I found this video by way of...

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...

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...

Litmus: Feature - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Gell Well?

Link for this Post:Link: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Get Well? by Jaime McCutcheon on Litmus: Science Blog. The author "flashes back" to the Basel LSD conference of last year and then discusses the use of LSD as...

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...

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...

When the Elite Loved LSD -- John Cloud -- Our Minister of Truth from TIME Magazine

Link for this Post: When the Elite Loved LSD -- John Cloud -- TIME. John Cloud is at it again. Having heaped his oddly reasoned form of ridicule on Timothy Leary in his last TIME magazine op/ed, he is now...

Was Timothy Leary Right? TIME Magazine

Link for this Post:: Was Timothy Leary Right? by John Cloud in TIME Magazine . Nothing really new in this article except for the strange headline and that it is in the venerable Time Magazine. Are psychedelics good for you?...

The Bicycle Ride by David Normal -- Video

Link for this Post is embedded video. Today is a Bicycle Day so I am reposting David Normal's animation, The Bicycle Ride, which was made in conjunction with the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann last year. Here is the description...

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies The Final Frontier San Fransisco April 28th

Links for this Post: Event info on Psychonauts: Tribe.Net Tickets and More Info at MAPS MAPS is having a fund-raiser in SF that looks interesting. Guests include Rick Doblin, David Jay Brown, Erik Davis, Stan Grof, Ralph Metzner and others....

Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner

Link for this Post: Edge: Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture By Fred Turner. While continuing my research for Island Web's Voyages Elsewhere pages, I found this article by Fred Turner in Edge. I have posted about Professor Turner previously,...