Posts Tagged ‘perception’
Psychedelic Technologies

Imagine… you are strolling along the Esplanade at Burning Man, and something catches your eye. Bands of lights are rapidly moving up and down a 30 foot high pyramid, from Red at the bottom, through Orange, Green, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet, and finally White light at the top. Nothing too unusual,...
July 26th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
The Anti-Psychic’s Challenge

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
July 20th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
A Ladies’ Man and Shameless

Das ewig weibliche zieht uns hinan.
The eternally feminine leads us forward.
– Goethe
He who binds himself to a joy does the winged life destroy,
But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
– William Blake
Only connect.
– E. M. Forster
I‘m finally...
July 13th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
BIG BANG BIG BOOM

BLU’s new wall painted animation is an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU
blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
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sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the...
July 6th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
(A Brief History and) Motivation of an Entheogenic Chemist

Abstract:
Casey Hardison was arrested spring 2004 for the production of psychedelic-type drugs, i.e., LSD, 2C- B and DMT. In the three years since, not one person from ‘authority’ had bothered to ask him what motivated him to synthesise psychedelic drugs. It was as if the a priori assumption that...
July 5th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
DMT and the Pineal: Fact or Fiction?

A well-known factoid bandied about by psychedelic drug geeks is the idea that DMT, or some other psychoactive tryptamine, is produced by the pineal gland. When did this idea originate? And is it actually true?
By John Hanna for Erowid.org
During his talk “Psychoactive Drugs Throughout Human History”...
June 8th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More
Noam Chomsky and Latin America

Noam Chomsky speaks about the future and predicts difficult situations for China and India. On the other hand he analyzes the appearance of progressiveness in Latin America as very important. For the first time in 500 years, LA is moving towards a degree of independence and a kind of integration and...
June 7th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Botticelli’s love drug

A new discovery suggests that Botticelli’s masterpiece Venus and Mars shows the effects of a hallucinogenic plant – but is the real drug the painting itself?
From the Guardian by Jonathan Jones
The Florentine Renaissance weaver of floral fantasies Sandro Botticelli is a magical artist. Just to...
June 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture

The following is adapted from the Foreword to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary Bravo, from Synergetic Press.
LSD is a drug that produces fear in people who don’t take it. –Timothy...
May 17th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
The Future of Brain Imaging

Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time
The wetted silk can apply a thin silicon layer directly to the brain’s contours, shrink-wrap style, and monitor brain activity
By Jeremy Hsu
Silk-Silicon Let me get inside your head John Rogers
Implanting...
May 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More