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Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine. This is a wide ranging article about "smart drug's" that covers a set of topics much broader than its...

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...

Nick Herbert - Psychedelics & Consciousness on YouTube -- Updated with Quantum Tantra: Nick's New blog

Links for this Post: YouTube Video embedded above Quantum Tantra: Nick Herbert's New Blog Nick Herbert's Long-Standing Webpage I first mentioned my long-time friend Dr. Nick Herbert in a post Quantum-Tantric Sage Nick Herbert's Home Page three years ago although...

Read the Online Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius

Link for this Post: Read the Free Online PDF Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius Many of you remember Mondo 2000, the Berkeley based magazine published by Alison Kennedy...

Future Internet: Duncan Campbell examines the technology that will one day bring about the “thinking Web”.

Link for this Post: Future Internet - Internet - NetGuide I liked the picture that is featured at the top of this article by Duncan Cambell on the future of the Internet so I republished it at the top of...

Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards

Link for this Post: Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards. Here is a link to a short interview with one of the researchers at John Hopkins doing research with psilocin. Mindhacks describes him and his work. I've...

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...

Exploring Life Extension a video documentary from the Immortality Insitute on Google Video

A full feature movie from the Immortality Institute, intruducing the vision and prospects of life extension. I found this vidio by way of K21st - 21st Century Must Have Knowledge a transhumanist blog.

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore

Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep? Susan Blackmore Published in Skeptical Inquirer I've posted about Susan Blackmore previously. I had the pleasure being introduced to her the Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference in January 2006 by Stanley Krippner. I found this...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary Updated Now on YouTube

Link for this Post: See You Tube Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves and the other folks at...

Will Harvard drop acid again?

Link for this Post: Will Harvard drop acid again?. by Peter Bebergal in the Boston Phoenix A long article about the MAPS funded research using LSD to treat cluster headaches currently being conducted by Dr. John Halpren. The article does...

Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10...

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...

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...

The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific American

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old friend David Jay Brown is made available by the...

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner Steven Pritzker Filmography Ruth Richards Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature Jeane Achterberg Rituals of Healing Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agent I'm in San Fransisco again at my school, Saybrook Graduate School and...

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...

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...

Surfer Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything - Telegraph UK and YouTube Video

Link for this Post: See YouTube Video Embedded Below Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything -- Telegraph UK by By Roger Highfield, Science Editor An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything on Blogger: Useful links regarding Garrett Lisi's 'An...

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...

Connect Your Brain to the Game Using an Emotiv Systems EEG Neurofeedback Cap -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: YouTube Video "Stonehenge Demo' embedded below Connecting Your Brain to the Game Using an EEG cap, a startup hopes to change the way people interact with video games by Kate Greene in the MIT Technology Review...

Singularity Summit 2007 Complete Audio Downloads And Kurzweil Video

Link for this Post: Singularity Summit 2007 | The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Futurists includ Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and Dr. Peter Norvig's head of research at Google were among more than a dozen presenters The Singularity Summit last...

Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom Says We May be Living in a Simulation -- NY Times

Link for this Post: Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch By John Tierney in the New York Times Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom, founder of Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies believe that we are living in someone else's computer...

Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With Clifford Pickover on alterati

Link for this Post: Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With Clifford Pickover by Jason Lubyk on the alterati blog. I've posted about Clifford Pickover several times before. This science fiction writer and noteworthy oddity blogger is...

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...

Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Link for this Post: Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. I lived in politically correct Santa Cruz for much of my life so I have learned to tread lightly on the feelings and notions of correct people....

RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2

Link sfor this Post: RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2. Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology According to the website announcing this event: In his recent book The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and...

Summer Solstice: The First Day of Summer

Links for this Post: Solstice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Today is the Summer Solstice -- the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Now all the days will get a bit shorter. These Solstices happen twice a...

Thomas Szzaz Psychologist and Civil Libertarian Accepts Award in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Rollo May Award Presentation Thomas Szasz, Ph.D. The Conquistador Bringing the Plague: The Medicalization of Malingering, Saybrook Graduate School Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility Thomas Szasz From Wikipedia Saybrook Graduate School and the...

Litmus: Feature - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Gell Well?

Link for this Post:Link: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ... Get Well? by Jaime McCutcheon on Litmus: Science Blog. The author "flashes back" to the Basel LSD conference of last year and then discusses the use of LSD as...

Was Timothy Leary Right? TIME Magazine

Link for this Post:: Was Timothy Leary Right? by John Cloud in TIME Magazine . Nothing really new in this article except for the strange headline and that it is in the venerable Time Magazine. Are psychedelics good for you?...

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies The Final Frontier San Fransisco April 28th

Links for this Post: Event info on Psychonauts: Tribe.Net Tickets and More Info at MAPS MAPS is having a fund-raiser in SF that looks interesting. Guests include Rick Doblin, David Jay Brown, Erik Davis, Stan Grof, Ralph Metzner and others....

Richard Dawkins Best Selling The God Delusion NPR Fresh Air with Terrie Gross

Link RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website. Podcast Reposted from the NPR Fresh Air Story and Podcast Audio requires QuickTime Player 7. Download the free player here. 38:46 : 20.7 MB This file is available for download here. Ctrl-Click...

Robert Anton Wilson Memorial Video on YouTube

I posted "A Poem in Memory of Robert Anton Wilson -- Hail Eris! The Muse Passes" about the noted author and counterculture spokesman Robert Anton Wilson's passing in January. More recently, I have posted about a Robert Anton Wilson memorial...

RU Sirius's New Book, True Mutations Features Interviews with Leading Cyberculture Idea Makers

Links for this Post: Available on Amazon: True Mutations (Paperback) by R.U. Sirius (Author), Ken Coffman (Editor), Ryder Carroll (Illustrator) Boing Boing: R.U. Sirius True Mutations book I got an email yesterday from Ken Coffman, aka R.U. Sirius that his...

"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...

Hotmail "Guru" Plans Hi-Tech Technology Utopia in India

Links for this Post: Hotmail guru plans Nano City Hindustan Times Silicon Valley clone planned for India By Paul Gordon and Ashok Bhattacharjee Bloomberg News All about Sabeer Bhatia's big India dream Forbes The legendary Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia plans...

CBS News, & Time Magazine Partner For Brain Series

Link for this Post: "CBS News, TIME Partner For Brain Series Five-Part Series: Explores The Complicated, Mesmerizing World Of The Brain" Time Magazine and CBS News launched an interresting today called "A User’s Guide to the Brain" Can new brain...

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...

Happy Birthday Albert Hofmann

Link for this Post: LSD the Beyond Within Google Video below Today (January 11th, 2007) is the 101st. birthday of LSD's discover, Dr. Albert Hofmann. Last year a large International Conference was held in honor of his 100th birthday. I...

Attack of the Happy People -- Israeli Ecstasy (MDMA) Documentary -- Google Video

Link for this Post: Attack of the Happy People Google Video below: I found this video by way of DrugNerd.Com. This is what they say about this video: MDMA - Attack Of The Happy People This documentary, surprising to some...

/patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one)

Link for this Post /patternHunter [/ph]: Interview with John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (part one). I have written about John Higgs biography of Timothy Leary in a pevious post. This is just...

Mindball is Pong on Steroids!

Links for this Post: Slate Magazine: "Bowling With Brain Waves Mindball, the new game where you move a ball with your mind" By Daniel Engber MindBall Tournament Video on YouTube The Mindball Challenge on The New Scientist Blog Regis &...

Mind "Gyms" May Be the "Cognitive" Fountain of Youth -- New York Times

Link for the Post: As Minds Age, What’s Next? Brain Calisthenics - By Pam Belluck in the New York Times. Here is a bit from the beginning of this article in the "Health" section of today's New York Times: Is...

BBC NEWS Psychedelic drug 'hope for OCD'

Link for this Post: BBC NEWS Psychedelic drug 'hope for OCD' This article starts with a question: Could illegal hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and psilocybin ever become credible prescription medicines? The short answer: Now some scientists and psychotherapists think more...

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...

How Mirrors Can Light Up The World Guardian

Link for this Post: "How mirrors can light up the world" Guardian Unlimited Business I have to admit that I am not up-to-date on the latest alternative energy solutions. However that said, I was surprised to find out the latest...

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...