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Link for this Post: "Mushrooms and mysticism" by Mark Kleiman in the Huffington PostAccording 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 methods of policy analysis, political philosophy, and drug abuse and crime control policy. He comments ...

Links for this Post: Hotmail guru plans Nano City Hindustan TimesSilicon Valley clone planned for IndiaBy Paul Gordon and Ashok Bhattacharjee Bloomberg NewsAll about Sabeer Bhatia's big India dream ForbesThe legendary Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia plans to build what PC Magazine writer John Brandon describes as a "Hi-Tech Shangra-la".According to the Boomberg News story,Project Nano ...

Link for this Post: Wired Gadget Lab: Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011.By Mind Machine Interface, the article is not talking about "mind machines" that evoke changed consciousness. It should actually read mind-machine interface in which you control machines directly with your mind rather than using a keyboard and mouse or buttons or joysticks. Here ...

Link for this Post: Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent Decisions by Briggs & BriggsThis Trouthout article by a psychotherapist tries to make sense of long patience that the American public had with George W. Bush. President George W. Bush prides himself on "making tough decisions." But many are sensing something seriously troubling, ...

Link for this Post: Reason Magazine - "Apocalypse's Eternal Return.Hipster guru predicts: Capitalism will destroy the world!" by Brian DohertyReason Magazine reviews Danial 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, by Daniel Pinchbeck, Bere is a taste from the beginning of the review:Did you know that the ancient Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl—the all-encompassing plumed serpent whose return has ...

Link for this Post: The Personality Forge AI- Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots.The sign at the door to Personality Forge says "Welcome to the Future." According to this site, its a future filled with Artifical Intelligence (AI) Chatbots. Here is how they describe the site:Welcome to the The Personality Forge, the world's first community of living ...

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 into the original "rave scene" when it had lept from London to San Fransisco back in ...

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 cells be created? Can memory loss be reversed? Is it possible that a woman in a vegetative ...

Links for this Post:Robert Anton Wilson Home (RAW) Home PageNick Herbert Home PageI just got an email, a poet written by my friend Nick Herbert who in the hills above Santa Cruz. Back when I lived there, Nick and I were part of the Island Group, a salon of consciousness explorers.  In the poem, I ...

Link for this Post: LSD the Beyond Within Google Video belowToday (January 11th, 2007) is the 101 birthday of LSD's discover, Dr. Albert Hofmann. Last year a large International Conference was held in honor of his 100th birthday. I'm posting this great documentary LSD The Beyond Within, made by the BBC in the late 1980's. ...

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 westerners was shot in Israel. It is a very interesting documentary about MDMA; party Culture, ...

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 portion consisting of just a few exchanges between "Pattern Hunter" Sean Kearney and John Higgs. I ...

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 Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna as well as literary figures such as William ...

Link: Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine).Paal McCartney who has had more than a few troubles recently is given another shove by RU Siriuses "tell-all" about McCartney sloppy housekeeping and penchent to keep drugs out in the open all over his house. This article is in questionable taste but when ...

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 space.  Three of these Palms will be made with the last one being the largest of ...

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 is a bit of vintage Tim quoted on the website which is the subject of ...

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 YouTubeThe Mindball Challenge on The New Scientist BlogRegis & Kelly Play MindballMindball is a game designed by Swedish game designers, a cross between the classic ...

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 there hope for your hippocampus, a new lease for your temporal lobe? Science is not sure yet, ...

Link for this Post: “The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel” by Douglas Rushkoff, from Arthur Magazine.Here is a soliloquy from Doug Ruskoff on his most recent adventures posted from Germany on Arthur Magazine. I'll supply a couple of paragraphs snipped from the beginning to give you a taste of the essay:"This ...

Link for this Post embedded belowHappy 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 to find this fine video of a performance by Alex Grey, who I saw earlier this ...