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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...

Gaia - The future of politics -- YouTube Video

Gaia - The future of politics (embedded below) I've been digging through my email bin trying to reach the bottom. It is getting closer or so I believe. I found a video sent to me late last year via this...

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...

OBAMA Anatomy of a World Leader by Visionary Artist Alex Grey

Link for this Post:Obama Anatomy of a World Leader -- the making of a portrait by psychedelic artist extraordinaire Alex Grey My long-time friend Will Penna sent me a link to a portion of artist Alex Grey's site which is...

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....

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 3

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America The Huntington Botanical Gardens One of the panel members at the Laura Huxley Tribute said that if Laura Huxley were here, she would...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 2

Links for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway on Amazon Sorry for the delay in giving you the rest of the story of my...

Notes from Aldous Huxley in America Symposium Part 1

Link for this Post: Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America I'm writing this post from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks California. Many of a diverse International group of Aldous Huxley scholars attending this...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sixties Philosopher Alan Watts Talks About Aldous Huxley's Island -- Pacifica Radio Audio

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...

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...

The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stan Grof on Reality Sandwitch

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...

Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe

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...

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...

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,...

URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network

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...

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...

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...

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...

Communes make a comeback . . . in Australia

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...

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...

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...

Spinning a New Island Web

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...

Digital Be-In 15: BIOMIMICRY San Fransisco April 21

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: Digital...

Women's Visionary Congress 7/27-29 Northern California

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,...

Visionary and Psychedelic Video Interviews by Amsterdam Broadcaster Luc Sala on YouTube

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...

Changing the World Starts with You at Change.org

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...

A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes -- Updated Information

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...

The Artificial Islands of Dubai

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eleusinian & Neo-Eleusinian Mysteries: The History & Future of LSD - Bruce Eisner Video

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...

Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help Updated with a Message from RA Wilson

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...

Online Intentional Communities Guide Adds Live Links to Over 1500 Community Websites

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...

A Slow WiFi Hello from Burning Man 2006

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...

Burning Man 2006 Art Theme -- Hope & Fear: The Future

Link for This Post: Burning Man 2006 Theme -- 'Hope and Fear The Pavilion of the Future' This year's Burning Man Theme fits right along with some of my writings. Below the Burning Man icon is inscribed The Road to...

Headed for Burning Man -- Want to Come Along?

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 I've gone to Burning Man three times but after my visit in 2000, I hesitated...

Zach Leary "Remembering Leary" Letter Replying to New York Times Book Review of Greenfield Bio

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...

"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...

The Battling Leary Biographies -- New UK Book A Different View of the Late "Performing Philoophers'" Life

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...

From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner -- New Book Out Soon

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...