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University Opening New Integrative Medicine Center
from Technoccult on 2008-08-19 06:28:54 “Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life. “The uniqueness of our program is that we not only embrace Eastern and Western philosophies, but we try to integrate the traditions of [...]
Susan Blackmore: Who Am I?
from Technoccult on 2008-08-18 22:24:10 This article really resonated with me: One might be the misjudgments of probability that lead us to search for explanations where none is required. If so sheep should have a poorer understanding of probability than goats. This prediction had largely held (Blackmore and Troscianko 1985, Blackmore 1992) and, after many years, given me the gratifying sense [...]
Midwifery and Magic in Uganda
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-18 15:12:21
This is Part Three in a series by the director and
co-founder of the International Midwife Association (IMA). Read Part One here,
The New American Dream
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-18 14:44:20 Greetings to the RS community... If you're going to Burning Man this year, please make an effort to come by Entheon Village and take in the DreamRise Lecture & Workshop Series, which I have had the great opportunity to curate these last two years. You'll notice a number of familiar names, and some exciting new ones. See you on the Playa. Charles ######## Entheon Village presents... The DreamRise Lecture and Workshop Series
Collecting Sun
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-18 14:35:39 A recent discovery from MIT researchers sheds light on a problem that has been plaguing solar power for years. Formerly, solar energy was fairly simple to collect and use during the daytime, but due to a highly inefficient and expensive storage process, valuable energy was lost during the night hours.
Stopping for Health
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-18 09:01:01 On Sunday, September 14, The Walk to Prevent Walking aims to put an end to walkathons by starting a holistic "health revolution" in Thompkins Square, NYC. The event will encourage a conscious community to do something pro-active and positive for their health. This will be a day of rest and relaxation, exercise, and eating well, featuring music, yoga, healthy snacks, meditation, dancing and speakers.
Alejandro Jodorowsky interviews Marilyn Manson
from Technoccult on 2008-08-18 02:32:28 J: You, Manson, you are a symbol. You always wear make-up, no-one knows who you are… Christ is a man who became a symbol, you are the opposite. You are a symbol who is in the process of becoming human. When you say ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’, you prove your love for the world. You [...]
Audrey Hepburn - Algorhythms
from Alterati on 2008-08-17 08:20:18 Audrey Hepburn, track 7 from Algorhythms “Self-Titled EP” ( World-Around Records, 2008) **download full EP for free** Share This
Explosions Near Canada, Mormon Sex Slaves, Martial Law in Arkansas, & Bigfoot
from Alterati on 2008-08-16 02:35:05 **Advertisment** Let’s start with the Bigfoot discovery in Georgia and the subsequent bigfoot news conference that was held today and carried live on CNN According to BFRO.NET this is a hoax: Here’s how it got started. Here’s how it ended. And here’s the costume used for [...]
Testament is Complete
from Douglas Rushkoff on 2008-08-16 01:01:22 The complete Testament series, with annotation, is now available in four trade volumes from Vertigo/DC Comics. They’re in stock at most comics shops, and shipping from Amazon or other regular bookstores before the end of the week. Testament 1: Akedah Testament 2: West of Eden Testament 3: Babel Testament 4: Exodus I’m delighted to see them all available at [...]
Unexplained explosions near Canadian border
from Technoccult on 2008-08-15 17:04:17 The mystery surrounding the ‘big bangs’ that shook the Kincardine area July 31 deepened last week, with University of Western Ontario (UWO) scientists ruling out a meteor shower. “Something pretty significant exploded south and west of Goderich and Kincardine,” said Dr. Peter Brown, associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Western and the [...]
Court in Japan halts publication of Yukio Mishima letters
from Technoccult on 2008-08-15 16:56:59 Reviving the controversy that followed the novelist Yukio Mishima throughout his life, a Tokyo court has banned further publication of a memoir by a writer who says he had a homosexual relationship with him. The court ruled on Monday that the use of Mishima’s letters represented copyright infringement. In its decision, which could have far-reaching [...]
Self is a Circle of Friends
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-15 15:04:45
Part One Unlearning the archetypes is prerequisite to uniting with Self - which is prerequisite to manifesting Everlasting Life bodily. Ironically, archetypes are not learned. They are inborn tendencies to experience the world in a certain way. Many socio-cultural types, for example, the head-banger, are really expressions of an archetype. In this case, the head-banger is an expression of the angry man, which is rooted in an archetype I call the “existential Satanist,” or ES.
Spiritual Psychotherapy
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-15 14:41:00 In a world spiraling out of control, it's tempting to think that we should head back to a primitive "garden state," like the one we often imagine ourselves to have come from. Some kind of "Edenic" relationship between man and nature.
Destructive Decibels
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-15 14:21:13 Recent studies across the globe show that noise pollution levels have escalated to all-time highs. We are constantly surrounded and bombarded by noise. While humans have generally become accustomed to tolerating noise, that tolerance does have it limits, and they are being exceeded.
Souldish NYC: August 15-20
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-15 14:17:14 Email your events to salma(at)souldish.com. For more in-depth listings, subscribe to the Souldish newsletter. )))))Souldish Sponsored Event(((( ====Saturday, August 16th===== Fire Flower - Psytrance party
A New State of Mind
from Technoccult on 2008-08-15 01:07:27 “Read Montague is getting frustrated. He’s trying to show me his newest brain scanner, a gleaming white fMRI machine that looks like a gargantuan tanning bed. The door, however, can be unlocked only by a fingerprint scan, which isn’t recognizing Montague’s fingers. Again and again, he inserts his palm under the infrared light, only to [...]
Not at My Local Library
from Technoccult on 2008-08-15 01:01:35 “Of all the places that should have comic books, I think libraries should be at the top of the list. Sadly some still haven’t caught on and I’m left not getting to read the stuff I want. So much for finding everything I want at my local library. As a general rule of economics and pop [...]
Shamanism, Anarchy, and the End of the World
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-14 17:35:12
This article originally appeared in Fifth Estate.
After twenty years of teaching shamanic practices to small groups in several circles in Washington and California, I found the results to be mixed. In the groups in which I participated, there were many moving visionary experiences, but the flabby jargon of the human potential movement left important messages missed amid incessant psychobabble.
Should Mein Kampf Be Un-Banned in Germany?
from Technoccult on 2008-08-14 16:31:05 Adolf Hitler’s notorious Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a manifesto posing as autobiography, has long been banned from German bookshelves “out of a responsibility and respect for the victims of the Holocaust.” But 83 years after it was first published, some Germans argue it should be made available again in order to drain it of whatever [...]
Emerging Evolution
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-14 16:22:47 Reality Sandwich is proud to be a media sponsor of the EVOLVE Music and Arts Festival, a three day extravaganza featuring live music, yoga, visionary art, environmental educators, and community celebrating "a lively exchange of ideas."
Life on Mars?
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-14 15:34:40 Chandra Wickramasinghe, perhaps best known for his work with astronomer Fred Hoyle, surmises that Mars likely hosts living organisms. He bases his conviction on a diverse set of data ranging from the discovery of water ice to the early work of NASA scientist Gil Levin.
Peru Protects Ayahuasca
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-14 15:08:21
This past week marks the end of a year-long debate and a major victory regarding ayahuasca shamanism and ayahuasca medicine practices in Peru. For the past year the Peruvian government was deciding whether or not to regulate the medicinal use of Ayahuasca and the practices of the curanderos and Ayahuasqueros.
David Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky
from Technoccult on 2008-08-13 20:26:36 Hot on the heels of a different announcement about Werner Herzog’s collaboration with Nic Cage comes words of an even stranger paring. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film co-written by Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder will be produced by David Lynch and his Absurda production company. My Son, My Son [...]
Berkeley Scientists: World In ‘Mass Extinction Spasm’
from Technoccult on 2008-08-13 18:26:26 Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just the deaths of frogs and salamanders, University of California, Berkeley scientists said Tuesday. Researchers said substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet, the scientists said [...]‘’
Birth control pill may interfere with mating instincts
from Technoccult on 2008-08-13 18:22:44 Taking the contraceptive pill can lead a woman to choose the “wrong” partner, the findings of a study published today suggest. The pill is thought to disrupt an instinctive mechanism that brings people with complementary genes and immune systems together. By passing on a wide-ranging set of immune system genes, they increase their chances of having a [...]
Travels With My Aunt: Part I
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-13 16:13:58
You will think, perhaps, that I am too confidential and communicative of my own private history. It may be so. The fact is, I place myself at a distance of fifteen or twenty years ahead of this time, and suppose myself writing to those who will be interested about me hereafter; and wishing to have some record of a time, the entire history of which no one can know but myself, I do it as fully as I am able with the efforts I am now capable of making. -- Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822).
A 350 Degree Turn
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-13 13:54:50 Finally, we may have a straight answer to the carbon problem: "Solution 350." Descibed as the red line for human beings, it could very well be the most important number of our time. 350.org, an organization founded by Bill McKibben, aims to create awareness about the carbon content in our atmosphere, based on NASA researcher Jim Hansen's assertion that life will stay similar to what we know now if our carbon levels are under 350 parts per million.
Njoying Eleven
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-13 09:01:01 Njoy Toys motto should be “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” Like Kathy Bates in Misery, I am a number one fan, and Njoy Toys has yet to disappoint me. Seriously, I’ve been touting the pleasures of the Pure Wand for as long as I’ve owned mine. Not only do I have great orgasms with the thing, but it makes me squirt almost every time.
With Jealous Colleagues and Wisconsin on His Case, This 8-year-old Guitar Wizard has the Blues
from Technoccult on 2008-08-12 21:46:24 “When Tallan “T-Man” Latz was 5, he saw Joe Satriani playing guitar on TV. “I turned around to my dad and said, ‘That’s exactly what I want to do.’” Three years and countless hours of practicing later, 8-year-old Tallan is a blues guitar prodigy. He’s played in bars and clubs, including the House of Blues [...]
Lunch With Heather Perry
from Technoccult on 2008-08-12 21:45:13 “Last month, I travelled to Bristol to meet 37-year-old Heather Perry, one of a very small number of people to have voluntarily undergone trepanation for non-medical reasons. As we ate a pub lunch, I asked Heather about her experience. Below is a transcript of our conversation. M: How did you first hear about trepanation, and why [...]
Scientists Stop the Ageing Process
from Technoccult on 2008-08-12 21:44:00 “Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says. Published in today’s online edition of Nature Medicine, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York City also say the older organs function as well as they did when [...]
Update: Pyramid Texts Online
from Technoccult on 2008-08-12 21:42:16 “The Pyramid Texts Online website has had a major update with the addition of the Library. Sit down and relax with an old classic, flick through the pages on-screen thanks to the Internet Archive’s Flip Book. Due to the antique age of most of these books it is best to use something more current for [...]
An American Fascism?
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-12 17:20:10 The following is a slightly edited version of the afterword to my new book, Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen, to be published by Quest in November 2008. Sadly, this will be a tad late to actually profit much from the election fever, but with any luck it's close enough for people to still have an interest in the theme.
Revolutionary Rap
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-12 16:15:43 My new album SunDream offers pioneering psychedelic hip-hop with lyrics by The 7th Sun and appearances by esoteric rappers like Sick Since and B.ILL. The album intends to aid in the period of revelation I believe we are experiencing as we near 2012. The story is told in two parts. Part 1: Material Revolution "Let's go to the streets and make the changes"-The 7th Sun in "Fear"
The Dutch Spore Uprising
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-12 15:35:39 The Dutch government recently announced a ban on 186 species of "magic" mushrooms that grow all over the country. To protest the absurdity of the ban, activists from Legalize! used supersoaker water guns, to spread billions of mushroom spores throughout the gardens of Parliament and of politicians who support the ban.
Boom Bound
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-12 14:57:02 Hippies, trippers and ravers worldwide have been counting down the days until this week's Boom Festival, the largest psytrance festival in the world. Held every two years in a desert near Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, this is Boom's seventh incarnation. Boom Festival is known for being a truly multicultural experience, and this year upward of 40,000 people from 59 different countries have already purchased their tickets, with even more people expected to purchase tickets at the gates.
RIPPLE #25: A Place To Bury Strangers
from Alterati on 2008-08-12 00:36:31 Today on RIPPLE: Ray and the Rev interview Oliver Ackermann from the band A Place To Bury Strangers about touring this year and Death By Audio, the Brooklyn-based effects pedal company he founded.Share This
Healing on Water
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-11 16:35:13 [The Ayahuasca Monologues] • In the first installment of this RS video series, Adam Elenbaas rebels against his father, a liberal Methodist minister, by becoming a hardcore Evangelical Fundamentalist. He falls into a life of drugs and despair before communing with the spirit vine in the Peruvian Rainforest. During his journey, a buff and humorous Jesus walks on water to grant Adam a powerful lesson about love and forgiveness.
Masters of Your Universe
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-11 15:01:17 Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, is redefining the “god game” with Spore, which seeks to establish a mass online community of unlimited worlds and creatures. Players will have the opportunity to guide user-created avatars through six stages of evolution: Cell, Creature, Tribal, Civilization, and Space.
Are You Your Own Bully?
from Reality Sandwich on 2008-08-11 07:39:26 [Gender Evolution] • When I was 14, I decided to get my hair cut. I'd worn it untrimmed, naturally waist-length, for years -- a look much more supported by my conservative hometown than the super-short 'do I yearned for. I dragged my feet, mostly because I couldn't find a good photograph of a woman with the cut I wanted.
New dream machine documentary FLicKeR
from Technoccult on 2008-08-11 02:52:21 FLicKeR iS a new Dream MachHine documentary directed by Nik Sheehan, who is apparently much beloved of rAndOM CapITaL LetTerS. We begin with Sheehan carting a new and beautifully engineered Dream Machine around and testing it out on rock stars, DJs, and old cronies of Gysin, who died in 1986. For the most part, hearing [...]
Pacemakers can be remotely hacked
from Technoccult on 2008-08-11 02:41:57 A collaboration of various medical researchers in the academic field has led to proof that pacemakers can be remotely hacked with simple and accessible equipment. [Kevin Fu], an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, led the team. [Kevin] first tried to get documentation from the manufacturers, believing they would support the effort, [...]
Dire Prognosis for Once-Promising Artificial Blood
from Technoccult on 2008-08-11 02:37:00 It “doesn’t look like something you’d want dripping into your veins,” wrote Wil McCarthy in the August 2002 issue of Wired. At the time, he had no way of knowing just how right he was about Hemopure, the artificial blood that seemed so promising. It was universally compatible and had a three-year shelf life (unrefrigerated). [...]
Web delivers new worry for parents: Digital drugs
from Technoccult on 2008-08-11 01:26:32 Parents, more reason to be afraid: Websites are targeting your children with so-called digital drugs. These are audio files designed to induce drug-like effects. All your child needs is a music player and headphones. […] There are different slang terms for digital drugs. They’re often called “idozers” or “idosers.” All rely on the concept of binaural beats. […] Other [...] |
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