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Under the Influence -- YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

Link for this Post: YouTube Video above Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for...

Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness New Book by

Link for this Post: New Book Undergrowth # 8: The Journeybook: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness Back in February of 2006, after returning from the LSD Conference in Basel Switzerland, I posted REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of...

Video: Storm NLP with Brainwave Entrainment on YouTube (Plus How To)

Links for this Post and embedded YouTube Video Storm NLP Plus Brain Wave Entrainment, How To Information on the Healing MindN Power Circle Blog Mind Stereo Mind Media Player for Windows Version 1.0 I resonate with the YouTube video by...

I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

Adam Cheyer and the Intelligent Software Assistant

Links for this Post: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide" By Erica Naone in the Technology Review Published by MIT Adam Cheyer Home Page Information overload is...

Recession Over by the End by 2009 -- Another Opinon Based on NY Fed Model

Link for this Post: NY Fed's Model Predicts End of Recession in 2009 by Mark J. Perry on his Carpe Diem blog In my last post, I wrote about the opinion of "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini that the current ecomomic...

Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini Says Recession May Continue Until End of 2010

Links for This Post: Dr. Doom by Stephen Mihm, New York Times August 15, 2008 Roubini Says Recession May Continue Until End of 2010 By Cherian Thomas Bloomberg March 6,2009 NY Economist Nouriel Roubini predicts that the current economic crisis...

What Type Is My Blog? Find Out With Typealyzer!

Links for this Post: Typealyzer Blog Personality Analysis 'What Am I Like?' personality test Are you a regular Vision Thing reader and have been wondering about what I am really like? With Typealyzer you can find out almost instantly. Typealyzer...

Put Out the Word

Link for this Post: Bruce Eisner's Poetry on the Web Today is my birthday so I thought I'd share a poem. I wrote it on my text software while working on the web. Put Out the Word put the word...

Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars by Paul Hughes --- Updated Link

Link for this Post Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars My friend and fellow psychedelic blogger Paul Hughes, founder of the pioneering FutureHi weblog has written another of his extensive essays. This one is about us humans...

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

OBAMA Anatomy of a World Leader by Visionary Artist Alex Grey

Link for this Post:Obama Anatomy of a World Leader -- the making of a portrait by psychedelic artist extraordinaire Alex Grey My long-time friend Will Penna sent me a link to a portion of artist Alex Grey's site which is...

Spaced Out Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties--- Book and Blog

Links for this Post: Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties by by Alastair Gordon. The Spaced Out Blog Spaced Out Media: A Short Film about the Spaced Out book While talking with a friend about Ramon Sender, who...

Tell 5 Friends -- Don't Vote!! (Uncensored Version)

My friend Ramon Sender sent me this YouTube Video which is part of a series of non-partisan spots created by DiCaprios Appian Way production group. Here is what is written about it on YouTube: Whitaker have created public service announcements...

The 3 A.M. Call

Link for this Post: The 3 A.M. Call By Paul Krugman Op-Ed in the New York Times This article was written BEFORE THE BAILOUT FAILED but still has some good stuff worth thinking about. It begins: It’s 3 a.m., a...

John you like to pretend like the War started in 2007 -- Obama in Presidential Debate YouTube Video

Link for this Post: Obama to McCain: "You We're Wrong" YouTube Video also embedded below This first debate was a strange one, but so is this election. Because its hard to express complex ideas in soundbytes (and because comlex ideas...

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

David Letterman On McCain’s Campaign Suspension And The Political And Cultural Conventional Wisdom by Joe Gandelman on the Moderate Voice David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign on YouTube also embedded below I've been scanning the blogs and news...

Some Images from Burning Man 2008

I got an email tonight with this: Hi Bruce, Here's a link (to some photos) of the art installation I did at Burning Man last week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/actualcontact/ Includes photos of Sasha & Ann, and Erik Davis speaking in the dome....

Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1 from the other side of the Eschaton.

Link for this Post:Ideas, notes, findings and musings of EROCx1. From the other side of the Eschaton. Its been over six years since I moved to Las Vegas. I spent most of my adult life my Natural Bridges home near...

Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards

Link for this Post: Mind Hacks: Five minutes with psychedelics researcher Bill Richards. Here is a link to a short interview with one of the researchers at John Hopkins doing research with psilocin. Mindhacks describes him and his work. I've...

Exploring Life Extension a video documentary from the Immortality Insitute on Google Video

A full feature movie from the Immortality Institute, intruducing the vision and prospects of life extension. I found this vidio by way of K21st - 21st Century Must Have Knowledge a transhumanist blog.

Who Shall Speak for Us

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna...

Links By George: A Biweekly Blog Of Links To Articles And Websites Alternative Lifestyles, Culture, Shamanism, Spirituality, Politics And The Environment

Link for this Post: Links by George: An Eclectic Biweekly Collection of Links From time to time, you have seen posts on my blog with the source of the link attributed to my friend George Douvris. I first connected with...

Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10...

McCain and the Cult of the Warrior -- Is The Coming Election Going to Be a Military Coup?

Links for this Post: The Cult of The Warrior -- Jack Kemp Was Right: McCain Would Be Too Dangerous as President by Frank Schaeffer in the Huffington Post Also The Militarist by Matthew Yglesias in the American Prospect When John...

FutureHi Founder Paul Hughes New Site on the Web

Link: Paul Hughes' Site on the Web. Paul Huges who started the lively FutureHi blog back in 2003, which was a MUST READ for those of us interested in psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and the future of humans, our...

You Can't Make This Up - Mark Halperin on the Presidential Race in Time Magazine

Link for This Post: You Can't Make This Up -- Time Magazine Saturday May 3, 2008 by Mark Halperin The last couple of months of the long grueling polical race has gotten me a bit down. This short little piece...

Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger

Link for this post:Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger. I have been hearing about the new Millennial Generation but did not know that much about it until I found this post on a weblog called FutureBlogger. Complete...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube

Links for this post: Series of World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube As I mentioned, I wanted to go to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel but I guess two visits to Basel in one lifetime is probably enough. The...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton CNN Poltical Ticker "I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera," Limbaugh told fellow conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham on Fox News Friday. He reiterated the comments...

Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s - Jake Tapper ABC News

Link for This Post: Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s by Jake Tapper ABC News Senior National Correspondent. It looks like Bill Clinton is back on Barack Obama's case. Tapper reports:...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation This fun adventure has some fascinating features. Richard Albert (Ram Dass) is having a featured workshop: Be Here Now with...

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

Obama up by 13 points in New Hampshire Primary According to Just Released USA Gallup Poll

Link for this Post; Obama up by 13 points, McCain up by 4 in USAT/Gallup Poll in N.H. USA Today By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence Here is an excerpt from the report from USA today Sen. Barack Obama has...

Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World - in The Moderate Voice

Link for this Post: Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World i by William Kern in the Moderate Voice Obama: 'A Man Who Will Restore America's Image in the World' full article referred to by first...

Futures Market and Book Makers Both see Barak Obama Win in New Hampshire

Link for this Post: Futures markets see McCain, Obama wins If the futures markets are as good a predictors of events in New Hampshire as they were in Iowa, the winners of he New Hampshire will be Barak Obama on...

Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Link for this Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater - Politics on The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from Joeseph A. Palermo's article: Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for...

Ramon Sender and Memories of the Sixties

Links for this Post: Ramon Sender Homepage Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes: I first met Ramon Sender in 1969 at a hippie commune called Wheeler's Ranch in Northern California. Wheeler's Ranch was one of two...

I Upgraded to Englightenment 2.0 -- Beyond Belief

Link for this Post: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 It looks like some people are thinking the same thoughts I am. The above link is to a conference focusing on the recent trends in our society away from science and reason...

The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stan Grof on Reality Sandwitch

Link for this Post: The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity by Stan Grof on Reality Sandwich The essay I am posting about is by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who needs no introduction to most readers. The subject of...

COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue

Link for this Post: COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue. Those of you who read this blog know that besides blogging, I am finishing my psychology doctorate. I've always been interested in all things to do with the mind and...

Surfer Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything - Telegraph UK and YouTube Video

Link for this Post: See YouTube Video Embedded Below Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything -- Telegraph UK by By Roger Highfield, Science Editor An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything on Blogger: Useful links regarding Garrett Lisi's 'An...

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Link for this Post Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. I just found this publication and like their slant on the news. truthdig includes these sections: Digs, Reports, Interviews, Arts & Culture, Uncovered, Ear to the Ground, A/V Booth, Cartoons, Bazaar,...

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

You Need to get Irrelgion

Link for this Post: Irreelgion.Org "Your Last Stop Before Eternal Enlightenment" Ever since the fundamentalist movement which hit the planet sometime in the Seventies, the acts and ideas of fundamentalists of various religions and creeds have become increasingly absurd Now...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe

Link for ths Post: Consciousness Cafe. Here is an excerpt from this post: Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress Mariel Hemingway will host a fund-raising dinner November 9th for Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) in N Alex's art is...