| LSD and Dying Blog Essay |
| LSD and DYING, essay on Eye of the Cyblone blog. An excerpt:
Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories to arise as well as induce and mimic an ecstatic, mystical state-a common and widespread phenomenon for many Americans, and especially for the baby boom generation. Now, some are beginning to regard these drug experiences as a way to prepare for the shift in consciousness that may occur in dying. (<>) |
| Cosmos Magaine |
| Cosmos Magazine is an Australian Magazine with the tagline "The Science of Eveything." Includes gadgets, fiction, reviews, and media. (<>) |
| What Is Chaos? |
| introduction to chaos physics and chaotic motion in classical and quantum mechanics at Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in (<>) |
| Church of Virus |
| A collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion.
Virus was originally created to compete with the traditional (irrational) religions in the human ideosphere with the idea that it would introduce and propagate memes which would ensure the survival and evolution of our species. The main advantage conferred upon adherents is Virus provides a conceptual framework for leading a truly meaningful life and attaining immortality without resorting to mystical delusions. (<>) |
| The Digital Freedom Network |
| international nonpartisan partnership that works to protect free speech and human rights. DFN publishes censored material on its Web site
DFN supports classically liberal ideas in both the economic and the political realm. We seek to eliminate human rights violations through the implementation of the principles of freedom; robust property rights, free markets, rule of law, and legitimate democracy. We use foundational texts as well as report on current events to explain and promote the basic principles of freedom and underscore how modern situations relate to core philosophies of freedom. We attempt to spread our message, in a variety of languages when relevant and possible, through individuals, organizations, and media, regardless of viewpoint. (<>) |
| Plausible Futures Newsletter |
| The Plausible Futures Newsletter is a news service for the future studies community edited by independent researcher Ole Peter Galaasen based in Norway. The initial idea behind Plausible Futures was to use the internet to collect and present news and analysis on different management topics. Throughout the years the site has grown in complexity and the coverage today spans diverse science and humanistic topics. The objective of this website is to help organizations and individuals discern the news and background information available on the internet related to the future. The key topics of this site is new technology, management theory and long term large scale change.
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| The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence |
| While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities. (<>) |
| Terence McKenna on Widipedia, the Free Enclopedia |
| Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and the novelty theory. (<>) |
| MindPapers: A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and Science of Consciouness |
| Mind Paper is a bibliography of work in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness. It consists of 18344 entries, and is divided into 8 parts, each of which is further divided by topic and subtopic. Both online and offline material is included, with links wherever possible (<>) |
| Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics |
| According to site author Michael Hofmann:
This research defines and outlines the ego death theory, as a new systematic research framework and paradigm. The ego death theory holds that the essence and origin of religion is the use of visionary plants to routinely trigger the intense mystic altered state, producing loose cognitive-association binding, which then produces an experience of being controlled by frozen block-universe determinism with a single, pre-existing, ever-existing future.
Experiencing this model of control and time initially destabilizes self-control power, and amounts to the death of the self that was conceived of as an autonomous control-agent. Self-control stability is restored upon transforming one's mental model to take into account the dependence of personal control on a hidden, separate thought-source, such as Necessity or a divine level that transcends Necessity.
Myth describes this mystic-state experiential insight and transformation. Religious initiation teaches and causes this transformation of the self considered as a control-agent, through a series of visionary-plant sessions, interspersed with study of perennial philosophy. Most modern-era religion has been a distortion of this standard initiation system, reducing these concepts to a weak interpretation that is based in the ordinary state of consciousness. The ego death theory is, specifically, the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence, and it incorporates the entheogen theory of religion.
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| Entheogenic Reformation |
| A web-log about psychedelic topics
such as intelligence & science, humor & healing,
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| Alternative medicine on Wikipedia |
| Alternative medicine is a term covering practices which differ from current medical methods (such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, and herbal medicine). It has been defined as "every available approach to healing that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine".[1]
Alternative medicine practices may be based on non-traditional belief systems or philosophies, and some may not follow the scientific method. They may incorporate spiritual, metaphysical, or religious underpinnings, untested practices, pre-modern medical traditions, or newly developed approaches to healing. If an initially untested alternative medical approach is subsequently shown to be safe and effective, it may then be adopted by conventional practitioners and no longer considered "alternative".
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| Global Futures Network |
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Global Futures Network is a free, community-edited, nonprofit initiative to find and help connect our planet's 1) professional futurists, 2) futures studies educators, and 3) future-oriented thinkers, and to help them use and improve the most useful online social networks and Web 2.0 tools for advancing our emerging global foresight culture. (<>) |
| The Methuselah Foundation |
| The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit 501c(3) organization committed to the acceleration of progress toward a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death.
Aging is a thief that robs the world of its most precious resource, the wisdom and experience embodied in each human life, while placing increasing burdens on already strained healthcare systems. The application of technology to the diseases of the young has resulted in many more individuals surviving to enjoy life at ages rarely achieved in human history. It is now time to develop a new generation of medical therapies to cure the diseases emerging with longer life as a result of the biological aging process.
The ultimate goal of the Foundation is nothing less than the defeat of age-related disease and the indefinite extension of the healthy human lifespan. Supported through the private donations of individuals and organizations who share this common vision, the Foundation has become an agent of change, replacing traditionally resigned attitudes towards the suffering caused by aging with a new sense of purpose.
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| The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives |
| From About the Longeviity Meme: Aging is an enemy. It saps our strength, cripples and eventually kills us. The lack of information, advocacy and awareness of anti-aging and healthy life extension research is a terrible thing. Much of the general public thinks of aging as inevitable and natural, rather than as a medical condition that may one day be curable. Comparatively few people know that the effects of aging can be slowed with diet and lifestyle choices, just as for many other medical conditions. Presently ongoing research aimed at repairing known types of age-related cellular damage - aimed at true rejuvenation, in other words - does not receive the widespread publicity and support it deserves.
The Longevity Meme is a non-profit organisation, founded in mid-2001. Our goal is to encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality. We aim to ensure that the means and potentials of healthy life extension become commonly accepted throughout the world.
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| InnerSpace Foundation |
| The InnerSpace Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting neuroengineering approaches for the enhancement of memory and learning--biomedical goals that have the potential to greatly improve the lives of all people, not just a small fraction suffering from a specific malady. People are experiencing an unprecedented information explosion and the naturally evolved mind is drowning in a sea of information. This extreme and debilitating imbalance will only worsen with time. The founders of the InnerSpace Foundation do not believe there is a scientific basis for arbitrary distinctions between ability, inability, and disability; obvious and serious memory and cognitive inabilities plague people across the board, irrespective of education or best efforts at self-improvement, and these inabilities worsen as we age. If the information explosion in the world at large has exceeded the abilities of even extremely intelligent and capable people, the situation within biomedicine is even more daunting, and the costs to all are enormous.
A founding philosophy of The InnerSpace Foundation is that the shortest and most efficient path to solving humanity's most serious problems--including providing complete and lasting cures for the most diseased and disabled--is through widespread improvement of memory and mind, rather than through the best efforts of people who are well-meaning but of naturally limited abilities.
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| Hippie on Wikipedia |
| Accoriding to Wikipedia, The Hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world, The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the countercultural values of the Beat generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.
In 1967, the Human Be-In in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast
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| Counterculture of the 1960s on Wikipedia |
| The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a period between 1960 and 1973[1] that began in the United States as a reaction against the conservative government, social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold War period, and the US government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam.[2][3]
As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, experimentation with psychedelic drugs and a predominantly materialist interpretation of the American Dream. New cultural forms emerged, including the pop music of English band the Beatles, which rapidly evolved to shape and reflect the youth culture's emphasis on change and experimentation.
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