Robert Tindall, Lou Dematteis, Ralph Metzner and Dale Pendell on the endangered practices of entheogenic plant shamanism and the Amazonian ecosystem at City Lights, the literary mecca of San Francisco.
View the rest here: Robert Tindall Playlist
Ayahuasca, Vegetalismo & Cultural Survival
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Categories : anthropology, ayahuasca, ecology, entheogens, rainforest, shamanism, video
Christian Ratsch at the 2008 WPF
9 07 2009Enjoy this ten minute video of Ratsch at the 2008 World Psychedelic Forum discussing the psychedelic movement in general and sacred mushrooms in particular. You should automatically see subtitles but if not select for them on the lower right.
(For more about Ratsch see my previous post.)
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Categories : anthropology, entheogens, psilocybin, psychedelic medicine, shamanism, spiritual healing, video
Christian Ratsch interview on Psychonautica Radio
9 07 2009Max at Psychonautica has uploaded an interview he conducted with the one of the world’s foremost researchers of shamanism and psychoactive plants, Christian Ratsch. While Max didn’t ask many questions pertaining to Ratch’s expertise concerning psychoactives and their preperations and folklore, they do nonetheless discuss some interesting topics (and besides, any interview with this esteemed luminary is a rare treat).
Listen HERE.
Chistian Ratch has publish approximately 40 books (mostly in German) on ethnopharmacology, shamanism, psychedelics and anthropology, including the epic tome: The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.
View his bio on Erowid here.
View his bio on Lorenzo’s Matrix Masters here (also links to more talks by him).
For more about Christian Ratsch read the article, The Psychedelic Sorcerer by popular science writer, John Horgan, here.
I also highly recommend a lecture he gave at the original Psychoactivity conference which can be viewed here, as well as a talk he gave at Boom festival called 50 years of Mushroom Experience, the video of which can be viewed here.
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Categories : anthropology, ayahuasca, botany, entheogens, psychedelic medicine, science, shamanism
Letter from Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs
9 07 2009Check out this wonderful little article from Huffington Post about the link between LSD and the development of information technology. Also includes a letter Albert wrote after his 101st birthday to Steve Jobs requesting he donate to MAPS to help fund LSD research.
DIGG the article here.
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Categories : business, entheogens, infotech, lsd, psychedelic medicine, science, society
Tax & Regulate TV campaign launched in Cali.
8 07 2009Marijuana Policy Project is starting to air TV spots reminding the California gvm’t that legalizing and taxing cannabis would help the state economy.
Here’s the first ad being aired:
and here’s the ad discussed on Fox. (Includes another debate between a rational, educated pro-pot person and pitifully ignorant drug-war crusader)
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Categories : cannabis, drug-laws / drug-politics, economy
Magnetic cap improves thinking.
8 07 2009A thinking cap that can enhance the mind’s ability to learn has moved a step closer, scientists claim, after tests showed magnets can boost brain power.
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Categories : cognition, science, technology
Synthetic Nature Sounds
8 07 2009
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Categories : electronic music, infotech, science, technology, video
Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia
5 07 2009Vice Magazine TV launched a new drug journalism series called Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. The first insallment is about a trek into the amazon to locate and experiemnt with the Sapo frog, a frog whose secretions are used to improve hunting skills (not 5-meo or bufotenine).
It’s broken up into three 20 minute episodes and hosted by a weird and funny psychonaut named Hamilton.
LINK: The Sapo Diaries. (parts 2 & 3 linked at bottom of page)
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Categories : anthropology, ayahuasca, botany, documentary, entheogens, fun/funny, rainforest, research chems, video
Dance Dance Immolation!
5 07 2009
I saw their set-up at Burning Man 2005 and thought the people trying to keep-up with the dance steps in those bulky suits was adorable. (Watching them get blasted with giant flames when they made mistakes is also entertaining, to say the least.)
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Categories : art, burning man, dance, fun/funny, video
Holy Rollin’ Beatz!
5 07 2009
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Categories : electronic music, fun/funny, music, religion, video
The evolving human diet.
5 07 2009Obviously, maintaining a vegan diet can be a challenge in the modern marketplace of highly processed foodstuffs and our many inherrited traditions, and some might argue that we have evolved a ‘need’ for small amounts of animal products. With that in mind, I recommend to all this informative lecture which covers scientific and medical facts concerning diet and is delivered with humor and in a very accesable and understandble manner.
In addition, here is a 2 minute video about getting protein in vegan diet:
Also, here is a recent piece at Alternet by Michael Pollan:
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Categories : biology, evolution, health, science, video
BBC: Decriminalizing ALL drugs is success
5 07 2009BBC on Portugal’s drug-policy success:
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Categories : addiction, drug-laws / drug-politics
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