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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 Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger

Link for this post:Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger. I have been hearing about the new Millennial Generation but did not know that much about it until I found this post on a weblog called FutureBlogger. Complete...

Remembering Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy

Links for this Post: In the text My memory of what I was doing on the day Martin Luther King was murdered forty years ago today is vivid. I was going to college at California State University Northridge, back then...

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...

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...

Ramon Sender and Memories of the Sixties

Links for this Post: Ramon Sender Homepage Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes: I first met Ramon Sender in 1969 at a hippie commune called Wheeler's Ranch in Northern California. Wheeler's Ranch was one of two...

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...

Newsweek Flashes Back to 1968

Link for this Post: 1968: The Year That Changed Everything -- Newsweek Magazine The year 1968 is the favorite year among the 59 years in my life. Maybe it had something to do with young (I was 20 for most...

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,...

Joi Ito's Web: "My Timothy Leary"

Link: Joi Ito's Web: My Timothy Leary. The picture to the left is from Joi Ito's website. For thos who don't know who Joi Ito is, his Wikipedia entry is instructive. I met Joi in the early Nineties at Timothy...

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...

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Golden Gate Park 9/2/07 YouTube Video Updated with Stream Information

Links for this Post: Summer of Love Home Page YouTube Video embedded below I'm posting this as part one of two updates of my post about the Summer of Love celebrations this March.

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...

Andy Warhols TV -- FREE Vidio Via Alterati.net Torrent

Link for this Post: Alterati.net: Torrent Details for: Andy Warhols TV. This video torrent comes by way way of a post on GPod and so I am publishing great background they wrote for the video: At the start of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007

Link: World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007. Here is an excerpt from the gathering website: WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 - All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide - Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops - Time...

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...

The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That

Link for this Post: The Hippies Were Right All Along -- We Knew That. by Mark Mitford in the May 2 San Fransisco Chronicle This essay in last week's SF Chronicle says that the group with "values" in our culture...

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...

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...

John Lennon: The US VS John Lennon -- Full Movie Google Video

Links for this Post: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) on the IMDb I had been wanting to see this documentary since hearing that it was listed in a Venice Film Festival. I found the entire video via a link...

Sixties Themed - Film Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe Trailer (Release Date Sept 28th)

The Link for this Post is the trailer below. Also thanks to eblips blog for the heads up about what looks to be an interesting film (or do I just think that its interesting because it remind me of my...

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...

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...

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies

What Ever Happened to Viritual Reality: RU Sirius in 10 Zen Monkies The Eighties and Nineties were a tech trip the same way that the Sixties and some of the Seventies were a head trip. Both fueled by counterculture grandmaster...

Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco

Links for this post Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco - A+E Interactive Your Gonna Miss Me (1983 version of current documentary) on You Tube: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Who were the 13th Floor Elevators? There...

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...

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...

Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick - New York Times

Link for this Post "Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick" by Sam Knight - New York Times. Why keep your "glow stick? According to this NY Times article, the good old fashioned rave has been resurrected in London. I was...

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...

LSD & Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country -- Basel Switzerland on Google Video

Regular readers of Vision Thing will remember that I went to Switzerland in January for the International Symposium the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann. I posted the essay I wrote for the conference magazine Gaia News titled...

Counterculture and the Tech Revolution -- RU Sirius + MP3 Download

Links for this Post Counterculture and the Tech Revolution By RU Sirius on 10 Zen Monkeys RU Sirius Interviews Fred Turner on Neofiles (MP3 Download) RU Sirius former editor of Mondo 2000 has a review of Fred Turner’s From Counterculture...

WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles Partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas

Link for this Post: WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas Two of the Beatles may be dead but their business enterprises live on. I wrote in a previous post about the lavish Beatles tribute production:...

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder Paintings Featured at the Retrorama Exhibit, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle Nov 10th

Links for this Post: Mark Fraeunfelder's Paintings at Retrorama Exhibit Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle WA Note: Click on image on the rigth to see full size. I've known Mark Fraunfelder since the late 1980's, when Boing Boing was a...

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog -- Stanford U Nov 9th

Links for This Post: "From Counterculture to Subculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog" -- Stanford University Nov 9th I'm going to link the shrunken image of the event poster at the top of my blog post to the...

Get a New Brain for Cheap at the Brain Warehouse -- Video

Link for this Post: Brain Warehouse: Watch Brain TV I found this amusing UK anti-drug site by way of the Mind Hacks blogs. Here is an excerpt of what they say about this site: The UK government have launched a...

"Stop The Madness" (1985, 1986) Nancy Reagan Anti-Drug Music Video YouTube

"Stop The Madness" 1986 Nancy Reagan Anti-Drug Music Video YouTube This is the weekend clip from Rolling Stone Magazine Rock&Roll Daily. Here is what they say about this retro music video: We were extra-stoked to hear about Jimmy Buffett’s recent...

Revealed: Dentist Who Introduced The Beatles To LSD

Link for this Post: "Revealed: Dentist who introduced Beatles to LSD" by Ian Herbert in The Independent Here is a bit from the beginning of the article:

While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon -- New York Times

Link for this Post: While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon By Adam Cohen - New York Times. The harassment of John Lennon in the recently released film “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” is spotlighted in this NY Times...

Ralph Metzner & Paul Krassner Speak Out About the Greenfield Timothy Leary Biography

Link for this Post: "The Legacy OF Timothy Leary: Comment and Reactions on Greenfield' s Biograph" by Ralph Metzner & Paul Krassner on GiaMedia Robert Greenfiled's Biography of Timothy Leary and a few reviews of the book in the mainstream...

Updated with Torrent Video Download --Sundance Channel Premiers Documentary "The Drug Years" -- Also on VH1

August Update: You can download the entire program as a torrent by visiting Mininova here. Let me know the status of the link. Updated: I just got finished watching the entire 3 hour documentary. The author Martin Targoff reflects at...