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WHO WILL BE ‘BRAVE’ IN HUXLEY’S NEW WORLD?
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: Waking Times “ ‘Science?’….’Yes,’ Mustapha Mond was saying, ‘that’s another item in the cost of stability. It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Battle for the Mind, Brave New World, caste system, CIA, conspiracy, Dr. William Sargant, Dystopia, Eugenics, H.G. Wells, LSD, Psychedelics, psychology, Religion, Soma, spirituality, Tavistock Institute, Technocracy, The New World Order, Thomas Malthus
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Saturday Matinee: How to Operate Your Brain
Source: Open Culture Speaking at the Human Be-In in January 1967, Timothy Leary uttered the famous phrase borrowed from Marshall McLuhan, “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” It was shorthand for saying experiment with psychedelics and achieve new levels of consciousness. Almost 30 years … Continue reading
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Tagged Entheogens, How to Operate Your Brain, Marshall McLuhan, media, Psychedelics, Timothy Leary
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The Political Value of Psychedelics
By Dr. James Cooke Source: Reality Sandwich Psychedelics and Politics Psychedelics are political. Their use in the 1960s had a political impact that is still being felt today, and their widespread banning was driven by political motives. But how can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, collective trauma, Consciousness, Control, culture, Deep Ecology, Entheogens, fear, LSD, Neurology, Philosophy, politics, Progress, Psychedelics, psychology, society, Sociology
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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Saturday Matinee: The Sunshine Makers
A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychadellic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Drug War, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Consciousness, Documentary Film, drug war, Entheogens, LSD, Nicholas Sand, Orange Sunshine, Psychedelics, The Sunshine Makers, Tim Scully
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Zig Zag Zen: An Interview with Author Allan Badiner
The Intersection of Psychedelic Spirituality and Buddhist Practice By Jennifer Bleyer Source: MAPS Buddhism and psychedelic use have been linked since at least the 1950s, when influential thinkers and writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts experimented … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Badiner, Ayahuasca, Buddhism, Consciousness, culture, Entheogens, LSD, MDMA, Mind, Philosophy, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, psychology, Religion, Zig Zag Zen
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