Island: Aldous Huxley’s Mahayana Buddhist Utopia Pt. 1 Island: Aldous Huxley’s Mahayana Buddhist Utopia Pt. 2 Although I usually try to avoid religion, instead preferring philosophy as my personal method, the concept of “open source” Buddhism seems a bit more appealing than the institutional and tradition-bound versions of the religion. The idea of unpacking a religion and extracting the wisdom from the dogma appeals to me. Of course, people love to find works that resonate with their own work, and I enjoyed these videos they contained some of the same notions found in an essay I wrote a decade ago, For those Read more »
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The Problem with Beliefs by Jim Walker
In doing research on my in-process book , Memes for the Creation of a New Culture, by doing some Googling, I found longish but well worth it essay, The problems with beliefs by Jim Walker on his website, nobeliefs.com. Walker explores the concept of beliefs all the way from their origins to their implications. The essence of his conclusions about beliefs is, don’t have them. I am going to discuss this more in the section of my book, Believing in Your Beliefs which I have enhanced and extended recently. After putting the book online, I found that this section really Read more »
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The problem of believing in belief on Mind Hacks
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What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith Time Magazine
The pictures above are from a study by Sam Harris that examined neurophysiological correlates of belief statements by a number of psychology expermement subjects.
Who is Sam Harris. Here is what Mind Hacks has to say about him.
Sam Harris is better known as a leading atheist, but he’s also completing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and a forthcoming study by Harris is a flawed but important contribution to how we understand the neuropsychology of belief. Read more »
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Magnetism and Hallucinated Great Balls of Lightening
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Magnetism and Hallucinations on Sean Kearney's blog Bionic Brain
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists on the Technology Review blog
Sean Kearny sites a post in a blog post which suggests that magnetism may be responsible for people seeing ball lightening in storms. The basis of the speculation is a paper by a physicist on the effects of transcranial stimulation Transcranial stimulation in plain English means that someone's brain is a repeated series of magmatic pulses.
Transcranial stimulation is something I have read a bit about but would certainly not be up for Read more »
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- Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open LibraryLink for this Post: Read the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary at the Open Library In April 1995, I moderated a panel at an event called the Whole Life Expo in San Fransisco, California called "The Future of Consciousness." Among the panel members was Timothy Leary. There was quite a bit of attention on Dr. Leary that afternoon. Earlier in […]
- Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle DaySixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the […]
