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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By Bruce Eisner
Who is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? RAW and Reality Tunnels
Link for this Post is the above YouTube Video
I found this video while working on the book Memes for a New Culture which is happening on the main Vision Thing Blog. I have been struggling this afternoon to to make a transition from my rap about Lao Tsu’s “The Tao That Can Be Named is Not the Eternal Tao” to belief systems, while avoiding talking about memes or consciousness which are coming up later in the book. What I am attempting to get at is a more precise way of describing what my old friend, the late Robert Anton Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
What Happens When You Start Believing in Your Beliefs? — Less Wrong
Link for this Post:Belief in Belief on Less Wrong
Each of us believes in a variety of ideas, concepts and credos. Taken together, some social scientists describe constellations of these beliefs as our "belief system."
Having belief systems works well in navigating the uncertain time-space we call reality. The belief system provide a mental map or model with which we use to chart a course and make decisions.
Until of course it does not work. (more of this on Vision Thing).
This somewhat murky discussion of this subject on the Less Wrong community takes a swing and discussing this 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 […]
