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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

You Need to get Irrelgion

Link for this Post: Irreelgion.Org "Your Last Stop Before Eternal Enlightenment" Ever since the fundamentalist movement which hit the planet sometime in the Seventies, the acts and ideas of fundamentalists of various religions and creeds have become increasingly absurd Now...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

"Mushrooms and mysticism" by Mark Kleiman in the Huffington Post

Link for this Post: "Mushrooms and mysticism" by Mark Kleiman in the Huffington Post According to this post with many comments by Mark Kleiman. Professor of Policy Studies at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Kleiman teaches...

Alex Grey - World Spirit - Live Performance -- Google Video

Link for this Post embedded below Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanuka! This time of year when the days stop growing shorter and begin growing long put us in state receptive to the transcendent in many forms. I was fortunate...

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...

RU Sirius Podcast -- Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson

Link for this Post: RU Sirius Podcast "Tribute To The Still-Very-Much Alive Writer Philosopher Prankster Robert Anton Wilson" My podcasting pal, RU Sirius emailed me with a heads-up about a show he is doing this week as tribute to the...

New Book: The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death by Stan Grof MD from MAPS

Link for this Post: New Book: The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death by Stanislav Grof published by MAPS Back in the early 1980s. I took a month long workshop from Stan Grof at Esalen Insitute. The title...

"Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event"- Associated Press - CNN.com --Updated PDF Download

Link:s for this post: CNN.com - Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event - Jul 11, 2006. Updated: Download a PDF Download Original Scientific Paper on Study: "Good Friday Experiment Replicated!" Neuroscientists Probe Psychedelic Psilocybin Note: Image "psychedelic Mushrooms" from Carol Muse...

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...

Updated Posters Did Not Sell on ebay -- You Can Still Celebrate the Sixty-Third Anniversary of The Discovery of LSD with a Psychedelic Poster Personally Autographed by Albert Hofmann

Updated for Bicycle Day: the auction of the two poster did not successfully sell them on eBay (the same thing happened last year). I'm not sure why as one of the posters Island Foundation sold resold on eBay last week...

Sidney Blumenthal -- Bush Has Not Heard About the Apocalypse But Followers Ready -- in the Guardian

Links for this post: Sidney Blumenthal | Apocalyptic President.in the Guardian American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury The article opens by mentioning a new book American Theocracy by conservative...

Conference "100 Years of Transpersonal Psychology" To Be Held in Palo Alto Sept. 7-9th

Link for this post: "100 Years of Transpersonal Psychology" Conference The Association for Transpersonal Psychology is teaming up with The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology to put on an annual Transpersonal Psychology Conference on "100 Years of Transpersonal Psychology" to be...

High History of Buddhism By Rick Field from Tricycle Magazine

Link for this post: High History of Buddhism.by Rick field from special "Pxychedelics and Buddhism" issue of Tricycle Magazine, 1996 This piece is the famous best-selling issue of Tricycle Magazine, an eclectic buddhist magazine The controversial issue was from 1996...

Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea - New York Times

Link for this post: Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea Linda Greenhouse in the New York Times. I have to admit that I was surprised by this decision as the Supreme Court in the past has been generally unfriendly...

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...

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...

Gaudi Cathedrals in Barcelona

Link for this post: Antoni Gaudí i Cornet on CyberSpain Gaudi is the featured artist here in Barcelona, Spain. I wonder if that's where the English word gaudy comes from. The following an excerpt from CyberSpain One of the most...

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...

Wayne Dyer on Ram Dass: "Be Here For Him Now"

Link for this post: "Ram Dass: Be here for Him Now" on DrWayneDyer.Com I'm not big on gurus whether they are self-improvement gurus or the kind people worship in India. (see The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel...

Sacred Addicts The History of Neoshamanism on the Anthropik Network

Link for this post: Sacred Addicts on the Anthropik Network After the recent Sacred Elixirs Conference, it is probably appropriate that someone bring up Sacred Addicts.. With regard to my own tastes, I could never become an addict of the...

Much Food for Thought: Greylodge Occult Review and GPOD

Links for this post: GPOD the Greylodge Occult Review Index. and The Antiquities of the Illuminati. While checking out some backlinks from Vision Thing on Technorati, I found a link coming from the Discordian Research Technology (DRT). I clicked on...

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' -- Times (UK) Online

In the UK news from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online comes this story "Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'" By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent. Here is an excerpt: Religious belief can cause...

Reason: Tea Break: Should drug laws make exceptions for spiritual highs?

Link:In Reason: "Tea Break: Should drug laws make exceptions for spiritual highs?".by Senior Editor Jacob Sullum Here is a well-reasoned (no pun intended) short discussion of why it should be legal to barf and get high on ayahuasca. which I...

BBC NEWS Americas White House denies Bush God claim

Link: BBC NEWS | Americas | White House denies Bush God claim. Today the BBC news reported: The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade...

Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics -- New Book Edited by Charles S. Grob & Roger Walsh

Link for this post While doing a Google search, I came by chance upon this new book from SUNY Press, "Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore The Continuing Impact of Psychedelics ." The book's editors are Charles S. Grob and Roger...

Just When You Thought You Would Never Get the Answer -- Along Comes MeaningofLife.tv

Link for this post -- "Meaning of Live TV". Have you been wandering in a virtual desert for years, looking for real answers to life's bigger questions? Not satisfied with those supplied by your local house of worship or college...

Timothy Leary Proclaimed Saint By Yo -- The World's First Open Source Religion

Link for this post, "Saint Timothy: A Brilliant, Misguided Visionary While reading the Wikipedia entry on Timothy Leary this afternoon, I found a this line under "Influences on Others": Leary is regarded as and referred to as Saint Timothy in...

The End of Death? Conscious Life in Global Cyberspace by Michael Purdy in J. of Conscious Evolution

"The End of Death? Conscious Life in Global Cyberspace" By Michael Purdy is an interesting article in the first issue of The Journal of Conscious Evolution.(just when you started questioning evolution I give you a new intellectual rush). This piece...

Updated: My Apple is a Lemon -- How My 23" Cinema Display Turns White Into Pink

Updated: Below is the saga of how I got a sick Apple 23" Display. Here is the latest: I got tired of waiting for Century 23, the Apple Authorized shop that I had hauled my monitor to, so that it...

Peter Russell and the Spirit of Now

Peter Russell's Spirit of Now is the author's website plus a bit more. Russel is a physicist who "got god." Not in the "born-again" sense but as someone who has attempted to integrate science and mysticism. His most recent book,...

Realization: Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta is a Vedic Hindu school of thought which teaches that each of us is inseparable from the entire universe. Because of this, they say that speaking or thinking of ourselves as separate from the universe is the beginning...

Ten Best Aldous Huxley's Island Foundation Related Links Year-To-Date

On an occational basis, I have written the Island Views ElectroZine for the past eleven years, one of the earliest Internet EZines. Here is the latest in its entirity. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Island Views ElectroZine No.34 July 2005 Edited by Bruce Eisner...

Basel, Switzerland Based Gaia Media Present International Symposium on Occasion of Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday

Gaia Media -- headed by Dieter Hagenbach -- is the group organizing the International Symposium to be Held on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann" to be held in Basel, Switzerland on January 13-15th, 2006. According...

Altered Mindstates By John Mecklin In SF Weekly

In SF Weekly current issue "Altered Mindstates Dog Bites trips out over the Mindstates global psychedelic convention." by John Mecklin. Here is an excerpt: ...this gathering is geared toward cybershamans, technology-worshipping transhumanists, devotees of Burning Man, herbalists, fans of visionary...

Future Hi: Mind States VI & States of Mind

I haven't been to Mindstates since I got some bad vibes from the organizeres at Mindstates 1. Since then, I have left it to others to contribute reviews of the event to my publication. I find many of the speakers...

The hypnotic, intellectual, satirical, spiritual, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley.

SomaWeb is a collection of resources about "The hypnotic, intellectual, satirical, spiritual, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley." It has been maintained on the web by Mathew A. of Los Angeles since the mid-Nineties. Those of you who read Vision...