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Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

Future Organic Technology -- The Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley

Link for this Post: Intro to Paul Laffoley and Future Organic Technology A couple of days ago, I found a site called Miquel.Com "Your Favorite Source of Random Information." Actually the information is not a "random" as advertised but along...

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...

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...

Song Jack Kerouac Mexico City Blues CHORUS 16 on YouTube

Links for this Post include the embedded video below and in my comments. I'm the first to admit that I don't have a clue about who is who in contemporary music. I suppose that goes with the territory of being...

Digitizing Timothy Leary YouTube Video

Link for this Post: YouTube Video on the Project to Digitize Timothy Leary I posted several weeks ago The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com about an event which occured on February...

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...

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...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

The Sarah Palin National Anthem (Armageddon Annie)

Links for this Post: Ralph Buckley Website Sarah Palin National Anthem embedded below Among the many comments on his website comes one from a woman named Quetzie MacDonald. She says: A breath of fresh air is Ralph Buckley...an excellent musician...

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...

Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2

Link for this Post : Aldous Huxley in America International Symposium Los Angeles July 31-August 2 -- Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies Note: The poster on the right is clickable and opens up to a larger size As regular readers...

Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Note: Clicking on the picture does not start a video, it takes you to the University of Texas at Austin Page where you can watch the video. Links for this Post: Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview. Transcript of...

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...

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...

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. Here is the latest info about 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...

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...