Alan Moore on Magic, Poetry and Psychogeography
- Published on Wednesday, 09 November 2011
How to make your environment mean something. From The Amaz!ng Meeting 2010 (London), recorded by Little Atoms podcast.
Occupy ecovillages
- Published on Saturday, 22 October 2011
From the Global Ecovillage Network 'GEN offers inspiring examples of how people and communities can live healthy, cooperative, genuinely happy and meaningful lifestyles --- beacons of hope that help in the transition to a more sustainable future on Earth. We foster a culture of mutual respect, sharing, inclusiveness, positive intent, and fair energy exchange.'
What's the deal with DMT?
- Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
A great introduction to all we know about the powerful psychedelic compound and endogenous human neurotransmitter, DMT.
Vicarious modernity
- Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
There are no longer 'dancers.' the possessed. The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us and whom we punish. If all the radios and televisions were deprived of their sources of power, all books and paintings burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed, all the arts of vicarious existence...
We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
Jim Morrison, from The Lords and the New Creatures.
Worldly pleasure vs the renunciant path
- Published on Sunday, 16 October 2011
Stand-up comics Duncan Trussell and Joe Rogan in conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (#141)
'LSD was one of the best things I've done in my life' - Steve Jobs
- Published on Tuesday, 11 October 2011
From The Fix:
Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, "Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." He was hardly alone among computer scientists in his appreciation of hallucinogenics and their capacity to liberate human thought from the prison of the mind. Jobs even let drop that Microsoft's Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Apple's mantra was"Think different." Jobs did. And he credited his use of LSD as a major reason for his success.
Graphic by Charis Tsevis.
'Does god exist? Not yet.' - Kurzweil on 'the singularity'
- Published on Monday, 03 October 2011
Renowned inventor, futurist and visionary, Ray Kurzweil, speaking on the subjects of nanotechnology, molecular assemblers, transhumanism and creating god, in the documentary about his work, Transcendent Man.
We'll Wheat Again
- Published on Friday, 23 September 2011
Graphic by Nick Buchanan
GM crop makers are helping us again – isn’t science great!
The UK government has agreed SECRET trials of Genetically Modified wheat, which will begin next year (2012). The chosen site is Rothamsted Research farm in Harpenden (a three acre site) which will be guarded by police and protected by a high wire fence. No peeking ‘til they’re finished. I’m sure it will be a great surprise!
At the same time the University of Leeds and the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes centre in Norwich will also be running GM trials (in pest resistant and blight resistant potatoes respectively).
I don't know why SJP does it
- Published on Friday, 16 September 2011
Sarah Jessica Parker has stunned screen audiences with yet another totally different role. In ‘I don’t know how she does it’ she plays a silly little girl pretending to be grown up. Critics are asking if this can really be the same actress who played the asinine and shallow ‘Carrie Bradshaw’ in ‘Sluts and the City.’
In this film she narrates over the action, making witty remarks about the uselessness of men and the resourcefulness of women who like shoes and bags. This is a far cry from ‘Sluts and the City’ where she talked endlessly over the images with her skewed versions of what was actually going on in the real world.
