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Consciousness, Qualia, Power and Self
from Technoccult on 2008-07-20 05:21:00 Intergral Praxis has an interesting post up with videos from Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD, who discusses consciousness, qualia, and self. An interview with David Chalmers discussing his theory of consciousness, the hard problem, and the explanatory gap, and part two of a BBC documentary called “The [...]
The Gspot #36: Press Access
from Alterati on 2008-07-20 04:32:10 So the shipment came in, and Wes Unruh has a grip of press access credentials free for the asking; you can get into events for free by becoming an Alterati field agent and Wes explains how in this episode of the Gspot. The show includes a previously unreleased segment from RIPPLE of the Reverend [...]
FDA Whistleblower Site: Thoreau-FDA.com
from Technoccult on 2008-07-19 20:51:33 “Welcome to Thoreau-FDA.com, a website launched and operated by current and former US Food and Drug Administration staff who believe public health is being put at unnecessary risk. These concerned civil servants and ex-civil servants have either experienced or are aware of wrongful directives by US FDA upper management – directives that put public health [...]
Sex Therapy: The Return of Free Love
from Technoccult on 2008-07-19 20:46:15 “Picture the scene: you are in a room with more than a hundred adults. Sitting at one end, with a microphone in his hand, is a man with long white hair who is encouraging everybody to introduce themselves to each other. “Go up to somebody,” he says, “and say one honest, true thing about them [...]
Quick Update
from Douglas Rushkoff on 2008-07-19 20:38:23 Wife and child at the town pool. I’ve got time for a brief update. I just finished the first draft of my next book, now tentatively called “Life Incorporated” (and before that called “Corporatized.”) Now I’m working full time and hard on an overdue graphic novel for Vertigo, to be announced shortly. The fourth [...]
Kurtz in Birkenstocks
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-18 22:08:43
This essay is part five in a five-part series accounting the author's stay in a monastery in Thailand. Click here for parts one, two, three , and four. An abridged version previously appeared in The Sun.
Erik Davis: Lachman on Ouspensky
from Technoccult on 2008-07-18 21:49:47 There are three obvious category of the sort of spiritual seekers who are drawn to esoteric schools: the student, the teacher, and the disenchanted. After fruitful or at least interesting years as a student, Ouspensky gets hung somewhere between teacher and disenchanted—a limbo hardly clarified by his teacher’s insistence that man is entirely asleep, a [...]
Researchers have controlled the position of a single electron in a silicon circuit
from Technoccult on 2008-07-18 21:19:28 An international team of researchers has shown that it can control the quantum state of a single electron in a silicon transistor–even putting the electron in two places at once. Their discovery could help pave the way toward a practical quantum computer. Quantum computers take advantage of the strange properties of subatomic particles to perform certain [...]
The Ethics of Hate Mail: Should Bloggers Post Email Correspondence Without Permission?
from Technoccult on 2008-07-18 19:44:12 “Melanie Kroll probably doesn’t appreciate the irony of her situation. She was fired this week from her job at 1-800-Flowers.com, a floral delivery service, after a death threat was sent to popular science blogger PZ Myers from her work email address. The irony stems from the fact that she most likely heard about Myers only [...]
Lawsuit Against County and Sheriff Pat Hedges Claims Pot Shop Closure After Raid Violates Constitutional Rights
from Technoccult on 2008-07-18 19:42:58 “An Atascadero woman has sued the county and Sheriff Pat Hedges, claiming a raid last year that led to the closure of a Morro Bay marijuana dispensary violated her constitutional right to medicinal cannabis. The case filed June 20 by Elaine McKellips, 56, illustrates an ongoing legal battle between conflicting state and federal laws surrounding [...]
The Coming Water Wars
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-18 13:56:27 Accelerating urbanization, pollution, and an exploding global population are leading UN experts to believe that within two decades, Earth will be in the midst of a serious, dangerous water crisis. There simply will not be enough water reserves to sustain a world population of the predicted size if we maintain the current paradigm. A resource crisis of this level could certainly lead to military conflict .
Bound Up With Books: The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
from Alterati on 2008-07-18 13:06:48 Bound Up With Books The Riddle of the Traveling Skull Psuke Since there’s more than enough heavy shit going on in the world just now, this edition of Bound Up With Books is just for fun. I’m reviewing Harry Stephen Keeler’s “The Riddle of the Traveling Skull.” I first heard about Keeler [...]
Souldish NYC: July 17-24
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-17 22:23:04
====Thursday, July 17th===== DJ Spooky Presents Soul Power "From Gospel to the Godfather"
First trailer for Watchmen
from Technoccult on 2008-07-17 21:11:33 Snyder better not bung this up. Enjoy. [Edit: Relinked to a working page, they keep killing them all day.]
Secrets of The Occult
from Technoccult on 2008-07-17 18:23:23 “Secrets of the Occult explores the world of the occult from the ancient and modern magicians who practice it to the cutting edge scientists attempting to explain its mysterious claims.” (via Dedroidify. See also: Pt 2:The Scientists, pt. 3: What is the Occult?)
The new Mozart: Blind girl, 5, Can Play Any Song on Piano ‘After Just One Listen’
from Technoccult on 2008-07-17 18:21:41 “A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world after a video of her performance received more than 27million hits. Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can play any song after just one listen. And now her remarkable talent is set [...]‘’
The Miracle of Self-Creation
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-17 18:01:56
What should I do? What must I do? What can I do? We all sense the possibility of a more beautiful state of being, a more joyful state of being for ourselves and the world. Indeed, we have all heard about or met its exemplars: saints and heroes, people of such courage and compassion and integrity that we could hardly believe it possible, were it not for their living example. We want to be enlightened too. But how?
Cosmic Serpents and the Dark Side of Shamanism: Interview with Jeremy Narby
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-17 17:05:28 In 1984, Jeremy Narby travelled to the Amazon to study with the Ashanica. There, he met shamans who claimed they received their plant knowledge and healing power from drinking ayahuasca. This began an adventure that lasted over ten years and
Vanity Fair editor arrested for infiltrating Bohemian Grove
from Technoccult on 2008-07-17 15:54:43 Vanity Fair writer Alex Shoumatoff got himself arrested for crashing Bohemian Grove, a private men’s club in northern California for the upper echelon of the rich and powerful. He was there to spy on the three-week camp they hold every July, where said rich and powerful relax while living in tents in their private woods. [...]
Meta-End
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-17 13:43:35 Foolish People, a group of over thirty artists and visionaries, have manifested Terra: Extremitas, an apocalyptic “meta-event” actively stimulating end times mythology. Combining narrative, Gnostic philosophy, and transformative ritual, the event promises to tease the senses, featuring live performances and interactive art installations.
America, what will you do when you go to Walmart and the doors are closed?
from Alterati on 2008-07-17 07:03:09 Modern myth: America, what will you do when you go to Walmart and the doors are closed? James Curcio Let us start this piece of wild conjecture with a supposition: you, like myself and many of those I know, have been aware for some time now that some kind of storm has been [...]
Phase ii #7: Propaganda
from Alterati on 2008-07-17 05:56:42 With Thanks to: Orbital Space City Ketheres & Orbital Control Wes Unruh Mystery X The Negalord Fenris23 Operator 2 of Machine-Man-Drum A Grain of Universe Share This
Technoccult TV: Antero Alli pt. 2
from Technoccult on 2008-07-16 18:04:47 Technoccult TV: Antero Alli pt. 2 Antero Alli returns to talk about Christopher Hyatt’s legacy, and how he met Robert Anton Wilson. Download from archive.org (high quality MPEG or iPod ready MP4)
Modern myth- mythology and business.
from Alterati on 2008-07-16 08:38:32 Modern myth: mythology and business. James Curcio As many of you have picked up- especially if you’ve been with us since the beginning- is that the idea of myth and how it relates to our “modern” lives is especially important to me. I think it should be to you as well, but unfortunately [...]
The art of Ryohei Hase
from Technoccult on 2008-07-16 05:14:31 The art of Ryohei Hase (via Pink Tentacle)
Indian Snake-Worship Cult Takes On World Bank
from Technoccult on 2008-07-16 05:10:21 A strange new war has broken out in the remote Himalayan statelet of Nagapur, pitting ancient Serpent Deities against the global bureaucrats of the World Bank. Not to be confused with Nagaland, Nagapur is a small “princely state” in the Himalayan foothills between Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. Its highest peaks get winter snow, its lowest [...]
Things They Didn’t Tell You
from Alterati on 2008-07-16 04:01:07 “…this here guide is full of top-secret information to give you an edge in life (and prevent some unpleasant surprises…”- Things They Don’t Tell You (But Should) - Virus Comix Share This
Superstruct: a futurist ARG for building the future
from Technoccult on 2008-07-16 03:58:03 This fall, The Institute for the Future invites you to play Superstruct, the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. It’s not just about envisioning the future—it’s about inventing the future. Everyone is welcome to join the game. Watch for the opening volley of threats and survival stories, September 2008. […] This is a game of survival, and [...]
Self-Assembling Tissues
from Technoccult on 2008-07-16 03:48:31 Tissue engineers are ambitious. If they had their way, a dialysis patient could receive a new kidney made in the lab from his own cells, instead of waiting for a donor organ that his immune system might reject. Likewise, a diabetic could, with grafts of lab-made pancreatic tissue, be given the ability to make insulin [...]
Susan Blackmore on lucid dreaming
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 20:27:39 Lucid dreams used to be a topic within psychical research and parapsychology. Perhaps their incomprehensibility made them good candidates for being thought paranormal. More recently, however, they have begun to appear in psychology journals and have dropped out of parapsychology—a good example of how the field of parapsychology shrinks when any of its subject matter [...]
Racist Rejection Letter Stirs Controversy in SF Community
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 18:42:25 In the aftermath of the Violet Blue episode and in the midst of the PZ Myers controversy, racism reared it’s ugly head in the SF community. Aspiring SF writer Luke Jackson published a rejection letter written by an editor for Helix, William Sanders, in which was said : “I’m impressed by your knowledge of the Q’uran [...]
Interview With Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 18:37:05 “Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and Jungian spirituality. Vaughan-Lee was born in London in the year 1953. He began following the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi path since the age of 19, after meeting Irina [...]
The Roswell Rock
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-15 15:15:20 The Roswell Daily Record reports that a strange rock recently discovered outside Roswell, New Mexico may be an alien artifact. The small brownish rock, measuring less than two inches across, was found in September 2004 by a local businessman named Robert Ridge who discovered it while deer hunting in Cedar Hill, 17 miles away
RIPPLE #23: Steve Blaze (1 of 2)
from Alterati on 2008-07-15 15:02:31 Today on RIPPLE: Ray and the Rev interview Steve Blaze of Lillian Axe, Near Life Experience, and Angel on his many projects and the upcoming Lillian Axe album and tour. (Part 1 of 2) Share This
GlobeSonic on the Hudson
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-15 08:42:51 Reality Sandwich is proud to be a media sponsor of GlobeSonic Sound System's fourth annual free outdoor dance parties on the Hudson River. For each of these nights, hundreds of partygoers will descend upon the western shores of Manhattan to dance to some of the best modern world music out there today. These top global djs will be accompanied by a percussion ensemble dishing out some tasty tribal rhythms.
Freeman to appear on Alex Jones show July 16th
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 03:28:11 Freeman writes: It was bound to happen and the time has come. I have been invited to be a guest in the studio with Alex Jones. The show airs at 1pm CST (check infowars.com for local listing) Wednesday July 16th. This will be a show you do not want to miss. This is when the occult [...]
The Cassette Tape Skeleton
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 00:30:24 “Cassette tapes are near extinction, considering CDs, DVDs, Blue Ray and other innovative disk coming along. And the following skeleton is one wacky creation for this statement. The creation belongs to Brian Dettmer, I guy famous for altering common media such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes and transforming them into works [...]
Musicology
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 00:23:07 “Over the last two months, Nature has published a series of essays about the latest scientific research into music, and now that the series is complete, it has been made available as a free PDF. Among the authors of the essays are Aniruddh D. Patel, a theoretical neurobiologist at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, who [...]
Secondhand Wonderland: The World of the Used Book
from Technoccult on 2008-07-15 00:21:47 “I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading pages someone long gone has called my attention to.” So wrote Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, the definitive novel about the lure and grip of used books. Hanff knew the [...]
Antidote to Coal
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-14 15:29:58 Residents in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia are proposing an innovative alternative to the mountain-top removal and strip-mining that threatens 10 square miles of the Appalachian Mountains. The Coal River Wind Project, a community-based movement, would stop the proposed coal extraction and create a wind farm instead. While the economy depends heavily
Art With Corpses: The Plastinated World of Gunther von Hagens
from Alterati on 2008-07-13 04:03:53 Art With Corpses: The Plastinated World of Gunther von Hagens thePuck Its a question I know we have all had to deal with at one time or another: What do I do with the body? Most of us opt for a combination of practicality and frugality, but how many of us answer: Make [...]
Averse Sefira Coming to L.A.
from Alterati on 2008-07-13 03:22:49 Candlelight Records is putting on a big show with a lot of bands on Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 in Los Angeles. Averse Sefira is headlining and other bands include Blashyrkh, Necrite, and Ancient Grave. Rumors say to expect other Candlelight bands, and while there are many to choose from, I am voting for Gorgoroth, [...]
2008: The Return of Chicken Little
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-07-11 19:25:51
This article originally appeared in Conscious Choice magazine.
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