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The Buzz from Burning Man 2008 The "American Dream"

Link for this Post: Burning Man 2008 -- "The American Dream" Offical Site The theme of this year's Burning Man is the American Dream, which is appropriate since many at the Democratic convention noted that the American Dream seems to...

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...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

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...

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...

Bruce On the Borscht Belt

Links for this Post: Added August 23: Havens Ellenville, N.Y. "Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival" in the New York Times Borscht Belt on Wikipedia If you wonder where I have been lately, the answer 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...

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...

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...

Back from Sonoma

Link for this Post: Sonoma California in Wikipedia I'm back in Las Vegas after nine days in California. The last two were in Sonoma, a beautiful town in the wine country where my friend from Santa Cruz Will Penna has...

Staying in San Fransisco by the Bay

Link for this Post: See in text I'm back by the San Fransisco Bay but not on vacation. I've a Ph.D. student in psychology at the Saybrook Graduate School. The school does not have a campus proper, studies are all...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally at Tate Liverpool - Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY

Link for this Post:: Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Orig Tate Liverpool) Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY. Back in May 2005, I posted about Tate Museum Liverpool's Summer of Love exhibit. The Whitney Museum of...

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...

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...

Google & Cisco Planning Digital Billboards & Subliminal Advertising

Links for this Post: LiveScience.com - "The Next Really Big Thing: Digital Billboards" By Bill Christensen. technovelgy.com: Subliminal Billboards technovelgy.com: Digital Billboards Worth Billions According to these stories, the old fashioned American billboards we are used to may be replaced...

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...

Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick - New York Times

Link for this Post "Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick" by Sam Knight - New York Times. Why keep your "glow stick? According to this NY Times article, the good old fashioned rave has been resurrected in London. I was...

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...

Hitch50 - Hitchhiking To 50 State Capitals In 50 Days Or Less -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: Hitch50 - Hitchhiking to 50 state capitals in 50 days or less. Hitch50 Video on YouTube Although these two guys, Scotty and Fiddy are engaged in the low-tech, retro activity of hitchhiking, they have turned it...

Google Earth Maps Burning Man

Links for this Post Burning Man Earth: Mapping the Cultural Genome Burning Man in 3D -- CNET Google Earth maps Burning Man Lifehacker. I got these links via a nice post by Lifehacker which I reference above. 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...

Back from the Burn

Links for this Post Are "Best Of" News Stories About Burning Man "20th Burning Man more unique than ever" United Press International "Burning Man festival leads to cool idea" San Fransisco Chronicle "Burning Man Art Festival Draws 30,000 Into Nevada...

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...

Hitching a Ride!

"Encyclopedia of Road Culture" on DigiHitch According to the website "Digihitch is a hitchhiking and road culture portal for all who are drawn to the road. Hitchhiking is not recommended for minors and should be carefully considered by all travelers...

"Deadhead" Summer Festivals -- Rex Foundation

Link for this post Rex Foundation" Summer Festivals 2006 . The non-profit Rex Foundation lists three Summer Festivals in the tradition of the "Deadhad." The three are Grateful Fest June 30 – July 4 Nelson Lodges Quarry Park, Nelson, Ohio...

Skim Boards in Laguna Beach, Calif. - New York Times

Link for this post: Skim Boards in Laguna Beach, Calif. - New York Times. I posted this because of the psychedelic skimboards remind me of my youth in Laguana Beach. Here is an excerpt from the article: Victoria's 2,400-square-foot space...

Damn Interesting

Link for this post: Damn Interesting. Damn Interesting is ... well damned interesting. Here is how the site describes itself: About DamnInteresting.com: Welcome to our collection of damn interesting things. We few writers have been at it since September of...

I thought Googe Earth Was Cool! Wow Google Mars

Link for this post: Google Mars If Google Mars weren't a well rendered topographic map of what we know so far about our neighboring red planet, it could make a good art project. The colors and textures are awesome. By...

One Bag -- The Art and Science of Traveling Light

Link: One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and traveling light). Here is a site I should have found out about before my recent trip to Europe. Here are some of the publications that reviewed this site and what they said:...

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...

Wired News: "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?" and TripZine Hofmann Conference Wrap-Up

Links for this post: Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?.By Ann Harrison TripZine: LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug I'm back from Spain, fresh from the LSD conference dedicated to Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday. My friend Will Penna tells...

Gaudi Cathedrals in Barcelona

Link for this post: Antoni Gaudí i Cornet on CyberSpain Gaudi is the featured artist here in Barcelona, Spain. I wonder if that's where the English word gaudy comes from. The following an excerpt from CyberSpain One of the most...

Basel Conference Report from Luc Sala of Amsterdam

Link for this post Report on LSD Conference from Luc Sala to Brother David Steindl-Rast I am still in Barcelona. Today I recieved an email from my friend Luc Sala of Amsterdam. He sent an email carbon copy to me...

Albert Hofmann in Barcolana Spain January 21

Link for this post. Hofmann in Basel I am in sunny Barcelona Spain where Albert Hofmann, fresh from his hundredth birthday party in hometown Basel will lecture in Basel along with several other of the speakers from International Symposium. It...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

Free Event at LA MOCA January 14th : How the Psychedelic Revolution Marked Our Culture

Link for this post: Ecstasy In And About Altered States In September, I posted about the Ecstasy: In and About Altered States art exhibit which is now going on at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) until February 20th...

Updated: Sacred Elixirs Confernce to Be Held in San Jose California October 22 to 23 (Timothy Leary's Birthday)

"Sacred Elixirs" looks like a lot of fun! More formally the event is called "Sacred Elixirs: A conference on he role of drug plants in the history of religion," to be held at The Mongomery Theater, San Jose, CA on...

New Book about Liverpool Art Exhibit: Summer of Love : Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s

Link for the post: Summer of Love : Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s Last May I posted about an art exhibit in England: "Tate Liverpool Features Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era" Now, a...

Synergenesis 2 - October 8, 2005 - San Francisco, CA

Link for this post: Synergenesis 2 - October 8, 2005 - San Francisco, CA. My LA pal Michael Shields sent me this announcement for the second annual Syntergenesis which was a successful event last year. It takes place (naturally) in...

Art Exhibit:" Ecstasy: In and About Altered States" Opens October 9th, Los Angeles

Link for this post My friend from LA, Michael Shields gave me a heads up about "Ecstasy: In and About Altered States" which opens October 9th at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) . I posted the New York...

Man In Box Protests Burning Man "Forced Fun"

The picture above is from a San Fransisco Chronicle article, "BURNING MAN AT 20 Thinking inside the box Plexiglas cage lets S.F. man be part of the crowd, but isolated" by Meredith May. Here is a man after my own...

I Need An Air-Conditioned Ride to Burning Man

Burning Man, that annual event in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada is about the last vestige of the Sixties counterculture. Here is some of the early press on the event. Time Magazine features "Desert Storm: In its 19th year, the...

Upadated: Is Society Playing a Game of Chicken with Bird Flu?

Updated: With Summer in its last month and the Fall approaching, I am contemplating the possibility of a global pandemic which has been given the name Bird Flu. A good friend of mine believes that such an event is almost...

The Official String Theory Web Site

I've been talking about String Theory with my friend Clay tonight. I don't know too much about it so I found the The Official String Theory Web Site to find out. I'm writing this from a motel room in Cedar...

The Farm, Intentional Community and Memories of a Monday Night Class

The picture above is a composite I made from the website of The Farm. Few intentional communities from the sixties counterculture's "communal" experiments survive until the present day. The Farm.in Summerland, Tennessee is a notable exception. My first real girlfriend...

San Clemente California -- Love It!

I'm in San Clemente, California for my friend Clay's wedding. As I exited the July 4Th Holiday traffic snarl and entered the once-sleepy beach town, tourist banners welcomed me with a simple message, "San Clemente -- Love It.? Once home...