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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A definition of consciousness
Consciousness is one of those words. You know what I mean, words like love and god. Words that have different meanings to different people and a wide variety of shared and public definitions as well. Another of those kind of words is consciousness. I admit that its not used nearly as much as the words I gave as examples but it is one of those words that everyone who hears it have a different notion of what it means. Indeed consciousness is so lacking in a definition that it has been the subject of a growing number of books, each Read more »
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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 […]
