Advocates of psychedelic drugs often claim that psychedelics expand consciousness and stimulate the imagination. To demonstrate this point a few famous examples are often repeated, such as Francis Crick envisioning the spiral shape of DNA while high on LSD; Kerry Mullis coming up with his Nobel Prize winning PCR DNA replication method while high on […]
“Cyberpunk” original and personal friend John Shirley co-directed this interesting movie about Sufism — the hippest expression of the Muslim meme. Check it out! The Spiritual Journey a film by: Charles Ted Oliphant and John Shirley from In The Can Productions on Vimeo.
I recently began a series of experiments with the sensory deprivation tank as developed by John C. Lilly, M.D., a device that most have heard of but few have tried. (Yes, that’s the one from the 1980 movie Altered States.) It took me a decade and a half of self-directed experimentation on consciousness to finally […]
By now, everybody knows that there’s a big crowd of folks who think something really big is going to happen this year because the Mayan Calendar allegedly ended in 2012 — specifically December 21, 2012 Less well known amongst the masses that are vaguely familiar with the meme is the fact that psychedelic/cyberdelic philosopher Terence […]
“Such lenses — when coupled with a next generation smartphone — will enable us to simultaneously exist in both the “Real” and the “Mirror,” with a plethora of “superpowers” at our disposal, all enabled by augmented reality apps as well as real time mapping to virtual space…” Welcome to the Mirror. You are probably […]
Joel Garreau’s Prevail Project (joined by advocate Jamais Cascio) declares as its slogan a William Faulkner quote: “I decline to accept the end of man†— which, as our many transhumanly-inclined readers will note — now has at least two possible meanings. And yes, they do mean it in both ways. But I’ll let them […]
Here’s a little treat for the Christmas season. In the process of organizing the MONDO 2000 History Project, I’m gathering up some rich media to post on the website version when it’s all complete. Â What you have here is a fragment of a conversation between Timothy Leary and William Gibson. Â Warning: You may need to […]
In the 1850’s Auguste Comte (famous now as the father of sociology) worked out an elaborate system of religious observance based on humanism, positivism, and rational scientific progress. If it was just a phase, it would be Comte’s last.  He died in 1857 — but his influential ideas about the application of reason to cultural […]
What are the critical disciplines by which 21st century humanity will initiate itself? How will those who wish to move from reality’s spectator seats to the middle of the ring do so? How has humanity done so in the past? The ancients represented the hall of initiation into the Mysteries as being flanked by two […]
He sees you when you’re sleeping/He knows when you’re awake. Zuckerberg is Santa Claus!
