January 2009
21 posts
Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within Film... →
Friday, January 30th, 2009 The Wild Project 195 East 3rd St.; 212.228.1195 (Doors 7p, screening 8p sharp, $10)
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are...”
– Barack Obama
Scientists Develop Software That Can Map Dreams →
A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.
While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery paves the way for the ability to unlock people’s dreams and other brain processes.
A spokesman at...
WatchThanks Bryan! Amazing..
Russian DNA Discoveries →
First in a series of mp3s of lengthy text articles that I’m converting to mp3s for easier digestion while on the go. Thanks Derek for sharing the application which can be found here: Apple’s Text to Audio File. It’s a rather robotic voice, but still better than reading long articles on screen. Download mp3 Intro Text: Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that ...
“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Will Artificial Organism with Advanced Group... →
Remember Michael Crichton’s science-fiction novel, “Prey”? Well, researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects...
“Autonomy and Freedom of choice are critical to our well being, and choice is...”
– Barry Schwartz, “The Paradox of Choice”
“If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take,...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Robert Forte: Cultural Healing Lecture →
Excerpt from the 4th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference
Robert Forte studied the history of religion with Mircea Eliade at the University of Chicago, and the psychedelic experience with Stanislav Grof at Esalen. He has worked for two decades to help western society understand and benefit from the fruits of psychedelic mysticism. A former lecturer on psychology and religion at the...
Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico... →
Folkways Records FR 8975, this is a US pressing of the impossible to find “Mushroom Ceremony Of the Mazatec Indians Of Mexico” This recording, made by Gordon Wasson in 1956, attempts to chronicle a religious ceremony involving the ingestation of psychedelic mushrooms by Indians who are attempting to communicate with the Divine Spirit.
“HERE IS A SHAMANIC PERFORMANCE COMPLETE. DR...