Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by. This lecture shines a light on his Stoned Ape Theory among many other things.
The remastered sound quality makes it even more enjoyable.
The Door of Perception
Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by. This lecture shines a light on his Stoned Ape Theory among many other things.
The remastered sound quality makes it even more enjoyable.
If the human being is the only animal that knows it lives in time, the movie is about that knowledge, a modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive.
The mere fact that you exist is quite awesome. The way you came into this existence is a unsurpassable miracle hard to believe.
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Today I spent my first hour inside a floatation tank. If you never heard of it I recommend this article for a start: Sensory Deprivation Tanks. I just started to read a book by John C. Lilly the inventor of the tank. He also combined the lack of external stimuli with large doses of LSD.
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
This account from lalaland is beautifully bridging the gap between science and spirituality to open up our perception of the world.
Critical thinking in regard to technology isn’t overworked these days and it can’t hurt to reconsider our current course and if it is leading us towards a prosperous future.
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.
Tomorrow November 12 the space probe Rosetta will deploy a lander to the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The Adventurous Spark aka TAS is an Austrian 3D artist specialized in live visuals and mapping for psytrance festivals.
Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Dennis McKenna shared a life’s devotion to psychedelics with his better known brother. And he wrote a book about it.