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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Link for this post: URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network. I discovered Urth.TV last week and joined immediately. I used to speak at the Whole Life Expo in the 1980s, both myself and with Timothy Leary. I'm already a member of...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Link for this post : Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia - Brisbane Times. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of this Brisbane Times article: Teepees, dope, nudity and lashings of idealism. These were the essential...
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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...
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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...
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Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...
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Link for this Post: Digital Be-In 15: BIOMIMICRY My friend Michael Gosney's Digital Be-In is happening again. For the second consecutive year its on Earthday and as always in San Fransisco: Here is some excerpts from the event information:
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Link for this Post: Women's Visionary Congress. I found out about this interesting gathering from posts on the eBlips and Autopoiesis and Cognition blogs. Here is how eBlips describes it: Kat Harrison, Mountain Girl, Amanda Fielding, Earth&Fire Erowid, Cindy Palmer,...
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Link for this Post: Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdamn Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube Note: Photo to the left -- Luc Sala Back in the 1980s when I was hanging out with Timothy Leary, he introduced me to...
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Link for this Post: Change.org.Activist Social Network Software I discovered change.org a couple of days ago and have spent some time there. I am a long time activist in the psychedelic community. 17 years ago, I started Island Group. In...
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Updated Links: Cheerful "Reflections on Death and Dying" by RAW Robert Anton Wilson, RIP" by Jesse Walker on Reason A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays Jeff Diehl on Ten Zen Monkey's via Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007...
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Dubai is fuxxing nuts! The picture above is: The Palm Islands in Dubai. New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Link for this Post: The History and Future of LSD on Google Video or use video player below I've been working with my video library recently and uploaded almost 2 hours of a talk I gave at the 2001 International...
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Updated Link: Message from RA Wilson on Boing Boing Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help on Douglas Rushkoff's Blog Bob Wilson's Daughter sent Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder a letter along with a note from Bob Wislon. Here is the...
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Link for this Post: Online Intentional Communities Web Directory The Online Communities Directory is part of the Intentional Communities website. This website is the homepage of the Fellowship for Intentional Community a 501(3)(C) Non-Profit which tracks over 1500 intentional communities...
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Links for this Post: Burning Man 2006 Entheon Village This is the first Internet connection I have had in several days. I arrieved at Burning Man almost three days ago. I spent a lot of time the first two days...
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Link for This Post: Burning Man 2006 Theme -- 'Hope and Fear The Pavilion of the Future'
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Links for this Post: Email Me If Your Interested in A Ride and RV Space from Las Vegas to Burning Man The Burning Man Project
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Links for this Post : Remembering Leary by Zach Leary in the New York Times Book Reviews Luc Sante "The Nutty Professor" Review of Greenfield Bio in New York Times Books Some people hold the New York Times and its...
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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...
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Links for this Post: The I have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary Website Buy the UK Edition I have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary by John Higgs at Amazon for Immediate Delivery Pre-Order the US Edition...
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Links for this post: From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardcover) by Fred Turner (Reserve Your Copy at Amazon) Video of Fred Turner's 2003 Stanford Lecture: "From Counterculture to...
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"LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Paul Goodman" The following excerpt from this tribute blog post to Paul Goodman echoes my feelings about him perfectly: Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the...
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Link for this post: "Digital Be-In 14: Planet Code: The Earth Day Be-In" Updated: email from Michael Gosensy Digital Be-In NetCast & Live Bloggingf or the many people who can't make it in person, we will be uploading video and...
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