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Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

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...

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...

alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic

Link for this Post: alterati » The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore. by Wes Unruh. This alerati post is interesting from a variety of perspectives. I actually own one of the Neurocomics. Timothy gave it...

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...

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...

Find The Best Mind Expanding News, Articles, Media And People -- MindSearch on Second Attention'

Link for this Post: MindSearch on Second Attention. The tech behind the site is mainly Google but it is fun to search the assortments of websites, blogs, social networks and social bookmark sites including a couple of niche assortments that...

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...

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...

/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...

Web Consciousness Video Collection

Link for this Post: Web Consciousness Video Collection. I found this collection of "consciousness videos" via the Enthogenic Reformation blog. There are over a hundred videos including some I have not seen before by an assortment of consciousness personalities including...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary

Link for this Post: See 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. It is the best in a series...

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the...

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...

"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...

Plausible Futures Newsletter Offers Wide Ranging Coverage of Future Studies News

Link: Plausible Futures Newsletter. Plausible Futures Newsletters covers a wide-ranging set of topics withing the scope of future studies from a diverse set of sources as well as with original articles. For example from recent posts: 2020 - Future of...

Neurologic by Timothy and Johanna Leary

Link for this post: Neurologic by Timothy and Johanna Leary This site features a reproduction of the original printing of Neurologic authored by Timothy Leary and his then wife Johanna Leary. The book was one of the early publications (but...

High History of Buddhism By Rick Field from Tricycle Magazine

Link for this post: High History of Buddhism.by Rick field from special "Pxychedelics and Buddhism" issue of Tricycle Magazine, 1996 This piece is the famous best-selling issue of Tricycle Magazine, an eclectic buddhist magazine The controversial issue was from 1996...

Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game

Links for this post: Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game. by: Willard Van De Bogart Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society by Timothy Leary Part 2 The Glass Bead Game : (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Book by Herman Hesse...

Updated Version of My Basel Presentation: LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country

Links for this Post: My Basel presentation: "LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country" published at Bruce Eisner's Writing Weblog Google Video of LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island Basel Lecture Updated: I spent the last couple...

Updated: Sunrisedancer.Com: A Free Online Counterculture Library

Link For This Post: Sunrisedancer.Com: An Free Online Counterculture Library Updated: the links all changed on Sunrisedancer because he put all his books in PDF format. I made the changes in this post. When you get to the pages that...

Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines"

Link for this post: Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines" Dr. Susan Blackmore is an endlessly fascinating person. Everything about her from her background in parapsychology to her multicolored hair and including her series of books on topics including...

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...

James Kent's Psychedelic Information Theory

Link for this post: "Psychedelic Information Theory" on Tripzine.com James Kent, formerly editor of Psychedelic Illuminations and publisher of Trip Magazine (which is no longer print but online) has placed online some of his new work, "Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism...

Matrix Masters Psychedelic Salon Podcasts from PalenqueNorte.org

Link: Matrix Masters Psychedelic Salon Podcasts from PalenqueNorte.org Matrix Masters presents a variety of free podcasts including the following titles,"Natural vs. Synthetic Psychedelic Chemicals" with Alexander T. (Sasha) Shulgin, "Visionary Art/Visionary Design" with Erik Davis, Treating Childhood Schizophrenia With LSD...

"Meditation builds up the brain": New Scientist

Link for this post: "Meditation builds up the brain" by Alison Motluk from NewScientist.com news service Psychology has known for a long time that the practice of meditation alters brain functions as measured by brain waves as well as a...

Laughing Buddha: Techno-Shamanism And The Democratization Of Bliss by Michael Hutchison on the Mind Machine Page

Link: The Laughing Buddha. "Laughing Buddha: Techno-Shamanism And The Democratization Of Bliss" by Michael Hutchison is an interesting read, part of a collection of the Mind Machine Page with has not been kept up well but still houses a collection...

Much Food for Thought: Greylodge Occult Review and GPOD

Links for this post: GPOD the Greylodge Occult Review Index. and The Antiquities of the Illuminati. While checking out some backlinks from Vision Thing on Technorati, I found a link coming from the Discordian Research Technology (DRT). I clicked on...

Wild Divine Project Publishes Part Two of Their Hit Biofeedback Game: "Wisdom Quest"

I'm a fan of Wild Divine Project. The long awaited Part two of their hit Biofeedback Adventure Game Journey to Wild Divine, titled "Wisdom Quest" is now out. You can get more information on this new software as well as...