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Wisdom 2.0 Summit Mt. View, CA April 30 - May1st -- Where the Wise Guys (and Gals) of Silcon Valley Gather

Link for this Post: Wisdom 2.0 Summit, Mt. View, CA

We knew that search engine advertising and Social Software sales could make you rich. But until now, we did not know that those revenues could equal wisdom.

After all the name Google is pretty close to God in the English Lexicon and you can play the Zen Enlightenment game on Facebook  . . . but I thought that was a scam. Until I got an email from Mallika Chopra telling me about Wisdom 2.0 to be held in Mountain View California at the Computer History Museum April 30 to May 1st.

Who is Maillika Chopra? Deepak Chopra’s daughter it turns out. We know what an enlightened guy he is, after all he is on the Larry King Show at least once a month. She is also a friend of the late Michael Jackson, someone who was practically synonymous with wisdom.

Memes for Making A New Culture -- A Work in Progress Part 1

In my post in November about my mother’s passing Remembering My Mother, I related about how a dream at age four provided as way of thinking about those early years of my life, the ones that hardly anyone remembers anything about.

I am going to be 62 in February and so I have gone through a lot of my life, much of which seemed like endless mid-life crises and reached maturity. In terms of The 12 Stages of Life by Bruce Carnahan, I have arrived at Stage 9 called which he calls Reflection.

I was at a New Years party last night put by my DJ friend EROCx1. He’s 34 and most of his friends are in their mid-thirties. Shortly after the clock hit 12, I talked one one of those friend who I had met a another of Eric’s parties exactly a year before, “That year sure went by fast. “ He replied, “yeah they seem to go by faster and faster every year.”

This is the secret that all of those of us who have reached “maturity” share. We experience each day we live now as somehow feeling the equivalent of an hour when we were in our mid-twenties. The days fall off the calendar the way that they do in a film montage that shows the days and years passing by ever faster.

Google Fast Flip Shows You the News

a Link for this Post: Google Fast Flip at Google Labs

As most of my readers know, Google plans to run the world by 2012. On their way to that goal, they have created Fast Flip, a visual front end  for news sources. As I write this, Fast Flip lives in Google Labs only

According to their Steve's Rubel's Lifestream in his post Google Fast Flip Nearing Launch , Fast Flip will be integrated with the popular  Google News feature. 

Heere is how my current Google Fast Flip page for my personal recommendations looks.

Timothy Leary Documentary on BBC (2000) -- Timothy Leary Video Archive

Links for this Post: Timothy Leary Video Archive and the video embedded above.

I discovered an collection of Timothy Leary themed videos available for online viewing or no cost download as part of the Internet Archive. I have seen a good chunk of them before but most are new. You have to dig a bit to get the entire list of videos which you can view here.

Embedded at the top of the post is the first one I watch, a BBC Documentary made about Leary in 2000. The video does not begin in a flattering fashion but is one of the best produced in the collection. If anyone sees another video that they think is worthy posting about, please add your comment on this post.

R.I.P. hipster homeowners (in Vegas) on Rebecca's World

Link for this Post: Rebecca's World on vegas-times.com

A UNLV student in a Public Relations class was assigned to do a press release and media kit for a local non-profit. She picked Island Foundation and so we have been talking about blogs and social media and relaunching Island.

This is Rebbecca's blog, a post about the blight on Las Vegas Neighborhoods during this current recession. In my neighborhood as in the ones she describes, almost half the houses are vacant with foreclosure stickers.

Rembering My Mother

Regular readers may have noticed that I have not been posting much the past few months and even less the past few weeks. Three weeks ago, my mother whose name was Irene passed away at age 82. Irene was a remarkable woman whose full story cannot be told in one blog post.

I went to a memorial for my mother last night and wrote down some memories that I shared with her close friends and relatives. Here is what I wrote:

When I was four and a half, the summer before I started school and the summer before my sister was born, I got the then common childhood disease, the measles. I had a fever of a hundred and four for several days and I was sad that on the nicest days of the year, I had to stay inside sick.

My Uncle Murray Sloan, my mother's brother was a doctor and whenever I was sick, he would pay a house call on me with a black leather doctor's bag. I usually would get a shot of antibiotics and then he would entertain me with magic tricks while the pain from the injection faded.

One night while I was sweating through a high fever, I had one of those long vivid dreams that many people experience while sick. In the dream I traveled back in time to shortly after I was born. I was starting to develop my own identity.

Barack Obama Becomes the First Sitting President Since Woodrow Wilson to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

Link for this Post: Breaking News on CNN --  President Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace

In an amazing endorsement of the innovative efforts of President Barrack Obama to bring a new vision of a world free of Nuclear Weapons to the Global Stage --  the Nobel Prize Committee awarded him their highest honer, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

I think it also should be a signal for some of the rabidly negative Republicans who have given our young President such a hard time lately to take stock of themselves and begin to have some  realization and some pride in having this extraordinary and great man for the leader of their country.

Film has Fun with Fungi -- Know Your Mushrooms -- YouTube Clips

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Know Your Mushrooms DVD on Amazon

Know Your Mushrooms Showing October 4th on the Sundance Channel

Embedded YouTube Video Clips Below

I just finished watching a documentary called Know Your Mushrooms which I recorded from a showing yesterday on the Sundance Channel. The documentary was made by director Ron Mann who is best known for his film Comic Book Confidential.

Much of the film was shot at the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival which is a Mecca for psychedelic fungiphiles. It explores many of the elaborate urban myths and theoretical speculations which have popped up like multiple fruiting bodies from the subcultural sod.

Brainz: Greymatter at Its Best Lives Up to Its Name

Link for this Post: Brainz: Greymatter at Its Best

It strains creadabity to read such a ... brain bulging title. The webmaster must have swelled head as well, you think to yourself.

when you read the title but the site delivers and keeps on delivering."What does it deliver?" you ask, almost afraid to hear the answer.

"Well, I answer succinctly, "Its got top lists -- lots and lots of top lists."

Psychedelic Transhumanists in RU Sirius's Online H+ Magazine

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H+ Magazine as PDF (opens in new browser and needs PDF viewer installed)

H+ Magazine Website

RU Sirius, editor of famed cyberculture magazine of the late Th Century has released issue 3 of his new oon-line magazine +H (stands for humanity plus).

The H+ website developed by Infoswell Media makes available free two versions of magazine including a flash and an optimized PDF  which I prefer and link to above so you can look at the article which is the subject of this post.

This issue has a lot of short but nevertheless interesting articles and essays on on a spectrum of topics related to psychedelic futurism.

. One that caught my attention is "The Psychedelic Transhumanists" by Michael Garfield. The four featured members of Garfield's newly coined world view are two recently diseased counterculture luminaries Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna and two current idea makers Eric Davis (who I posted about recently) and Mark Pease.