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Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open Library

Link 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 the day, at his own workshop at the annual expo, Leary had announced to the world that he had untreatable, and most likely terminal Prostate Cancer. I wanted to give Tim a good introduction, so when it was my turn to Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle Day

Sixty-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 city probably best associated with the sixties counterculture, Bicycle Day is being celebrated by Alex Grey and his Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors crew with a special event which looks like it will be a lot of fun. Presenters at the event include Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

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Brain Computer Interface Moves into the Mainstream

In the year and a half since I posted Control Your Computer With Your Brainwaves — TED Conference Video which highlighted a presentation at the Ted Conference by Tan Lee,  from the EEG biofeedback device developer Emotive Systems the development of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has accelerated at an amazing rate. In fact the acronym BCI is used so widely that when I saw it the first few times on some of the sites I am going to mention in this post, I was not sure what it represented. For example, there is a UK blog called thinktech with the tagline Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Memes Book Plan Moving Forward

As I mentioned in a post a couple of days ago on the Bruce Eisner Journal I am getting ready put Memes for the Creation of a New Culture, a book I began writing online on this blog, in its new format, as a separate Wordpress weblog on bruceeisner.com. at the directory http://bruceeisner.com/new_memes/. Of course I have been talking about doing this for a long time. If you visited any of the sites the new bruceeisner.com you have looked at that black bar at the top of the page and have seen New Memes Book Coming Soon. You have to Read more »

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