Psychedelic Shabbat

"The drive out to the Universal Temple of Higher Consciousness (UTHC) from San Diego takes an hour. It’s at the UTHC where for the last year a weekly psychedelic, operatic, cinematic and ecstatic Shabbat has taken place, hosted and performed by three creative, liberal and expressive Jews"

link to article: Jewish News

TV FREE BURNING MAN

Check out lots of videos of this year's Burn (including the unexpected early Addis prank):
link: TV FREE BURNING MAN

Crude Awakening @ Burning Man

The brains behind the tallest structure ever built at Burning Man plan to produce the tallest fire ever seen at the event as well -- a 1,000-foot column of flame, which will be broadcast live on Current TV friday night.

link to article: Wired.com

China govern't to regulate reincarnation

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.

link: msnbc.msn.com

psychosomatic neuroplasticity

"If we got these same improvements with a pill, we'd be counting the money already. We'd have billions in sales. But this isn't a pill--it's much better than that."

link: The Frontal Cortex: Fixing Ourselves

Einstein eating psychedelic sushi

A fun interview with mathematician and science writer, Clifford Pickover, "about creating optimized languages, parallel universes, alien religions, DMT and Carl Jung."
Check it out!
link: alterati.com

Psychedelic calendrics

An article by famed Maya scholar and 2012 expert, John Major Jenkins, about enntheogenic shamanism:

link: Maya Shamanism and 2012: A Psychedelic Cosmology

Stunning views of the human place in nature

In this presentation, photographer Edward Burtynky accepts the 2005 TED prize, and offers an immensely mind-expanding perspective via powerful images of the large-scale human impact on nature (and the quasi-naturalistic aspects of human endeavors). No words to describe it actually, just watch. Be forewarned, though, it's about half an hour.

Entheogens on Colbert report again.

You may have heard the story a couple months ago about a Canadian psychotherapist who was permanentely barred from entering the US when a border guard Googled his name and found he wrote a paper about theraputic use of LSD 30 years ago. Well, Stephen Colbert noticed it too and did this hysterical yet saddening piece about it.
6 minutes:

The Lost War

We've Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting It, but the Drug Trade Keeps Growing

LINK TO ARTICLE>>> Washington Post

The Philosophy of Liberty

This 8-minute flash movie by professor of economics and political science Ken Schoolland is beautifully right on. MUST SEE.
CLICK HERE> > LINK

'We have broken speed of light'

"A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time."

Read the blurb here> > Telegraph.co.uk

Do not vote for Ron Paul...

Book Review: Higher Wisdom

(The reason I'm not posting much these weeks is because I have a little break from school so instead of surfing the web in my free time I've been catching up on my reading list and doing a little much-needed socializing. )

I ordered Higher Wisdom: Emminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics from MAPS and just finished it. A real gem of psychedelic literature, Higher Wisdom is a collection of interviews by Roger Walsh and Charles Grob of 14 legendary luminaries of the 20th century. Every individual interviewed has done so much for humanity and shares immeasurably valuable wisdom here. I particular enjoyed the first interview with James Fadiman who peppers his profound stories with delightful and insightful wit. The interviews with world-renowned religious scholar Huston Smith and psychologists Gary Fisher and Myron Stolaroff were also particularly engaging for me.
This is a great book to give to someone who is just beginning to become interested in psychedelics as well as seasoned veterans of entheogenic history.

The book is only $25, or if you donate $50 to MAPS you will get a year subscription to the Bulletin AND any one of the books they offer.

10 billion year forecast

link: YTMND- The Future of our World

Documentary: 2057

Three episodes of this cool documentary series called 2057 hosted by futurist Michio Kaku.
'The Body' episode is really trippy, especially towards the end where transhumanism and the definition of privacy are discussed.

Watch them on Google Video: 2057