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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...

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine. This is a wide ranging article about "smart drug's" that covers a set of topics much broader than its...

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...

Might the Gods Be Alkaloids?

Link for this post: Entheology.org - Preserving Ancient Knowledge According to author Alex Polari de Alevega The question related in the title of our presentation addresses the role and use of psychoactive plants, throughout the process of human evolution, as...

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...

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....

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...

Exploring Life Extension a video documentary from the Immortality Insitute on Google Video

A full feature movie from the Immortality Institute, intruducing the vision and prospects of life extension. I found this vidio by way of K21st - 21st Century Must Have Knowledge a transhumanist blog.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at the Whitney Museum -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video below Back in May 2005, I posted Tate Liverpool Features Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era and later followed it up with Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally...

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...

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...

For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area -- San Fransisco Chronicle

Link for this Post: For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area. San Fransisco Chronicle A friend sent me this San Fransisco Chronicle article about a recent visit by Bear Owsley to the Bay...

Incarcerex the Cure for Political Impotency YouTube Video

Link for this post Embedded Youtube Video Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line by the Drug Policy Foundation This video came my way via the Entheogenic Reformation blog

Thomas Szzaz Psychologist and Civil Libertarian Accepts Award in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Rollo May Award Presentation Thomas Szasz, Ph.D. The Conquistador Bringing the Plague: The Medicalization of Malingering, Saybrook Graduate School Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility Thomas Szasz From Wikipedia Saybrook Graduate School and the...

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...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally at Tate Liverpool - Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY

Link for this Post:: Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Orig Tate Liverpool) Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY. Back in May 2005, I posted about Tate Museum Liverpool's Summer of Love exhibit. The Whitney Museum of...

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...

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....

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....

Prescription Ecstasy and Other Pipe Dreams - RU Sirius on 10 Zen Monkeys

Link for this Post: Prescription Ecstasy and Other Pipe Dreams - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine). RU Sirius interviews Jag Davies is the Director of Communications for MAPS on 10 Zen Monkies. He prefaces the interview with these words: Are...