The Inventor of LSD Asked Steve Jobs for PR Help by Rebecca Greenfield on The Atlantic Wire In life, there are some people that disappoint you, and others who exceed your expectations. Albert Hofmann and Steve Jobs are of the latter category. Here is an excerpt from this article that appeared late last year. That Steve Jobs both did LSD and was also a well respected inventor, made him a good spokesman for a drug that more often gets associated with burnt out Dead Heads. That’s why the drug’s creator Albert Hofmann reached out to Jobs for comment on how Read more »
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Haight-Asbury Psychedelic Art and History Museum Video
Link for this Post: Haight-Asbury Psychedelic Art and History Museum Project Page I’m just about ready to be stuffed and put into psychedelic museum named for the historic location in San Fransisco, California, the Haight Asbury. The organizers sent me an email today with a link to this video and website. Here is a snip from what the museum is about The Haight-Ashbury movement left an undeniable impact upon the world and the reverberations of the psychedelic sixties are still being felt today. Strangely there is no museum dedicated to keeping the history alive and relevant for the millions of Read more »
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The End of the Cyberculture
Is the trip really over? on Cyborg Democracy This is an old article from my files. I’m working on Memes for the Creation of a New Culture today and referred to it. The article which appeared in a publication called the Cyberdem is a clip from public manuscript by Arno Ruthofer dated 1997. Its worth a look Here is an exempt from the beginning of the piece: The techno-euphoria that prevails in the cyberdelic counterculture seems to be slowly wearing off. More and more cyberians are realizing that the PC, the Internet, and other new technologies did not really bring the Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
Mysticism and Physics Revisited
In my research and web browsing today I can upon this interesting new book and audio book called How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
The book has some interesting reviews and has a Blackstone audio version as well as print and Kindle. The book has good reviews so it might be good to take a look at later.
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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 […]
