Brief yet informative article:
Animal tests, however, have shown the drug’s medicinal promise. “Rats addicted to morphine will quit for weeks after receiving ibogaine,”
Fighting Drugs With Drugs: An Obscure Hallucinogen Gains Legitimacy as a Solution for Addictions
This video shows nerve cells reaching out and forming new connections which happens millions of times per second:
This was a very thought-provoking and lively talk given by the founder of the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil. Since he’s been out of the psychedelic loop for a while he made some presumptuous statements about researchers not looking enough at the physiological healing psychedelics can engender (citing his experience that LSD cured his cat allergies). Perhaps he’s not aware of the work being done with cluster-headaches, opiate withdrawl & CRPS, or the challenges of designing research into the dynamics of psycho-somatism. Nonetheless, he is an esteemed authority and in this talk he offers much food for thought for healers & scientists alike.
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David Pearce is an independent researcher and vegan animal activist based in Brighton UK.
In 1995, he wrote an online manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative, advocating the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world. David predicts that our descendants will be animated by gradients of cerebral bliss orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today.
[In his BLTC (Better Living Through Chemistry) Research websites, most recently The Abolitionist Project] David has also written on the philosophy of mind and perception; utilitarian ethics; psychopharmacology; life extension; cognitive enhancement technologies; mood enrichment; genetic recalibration of the hedonic treadmill; ecosystem redesign; reprogramming predators; and more speculatively on a posthuman future based on paradise engineering.
In 1998, David and Nick Bostrom set up the World Transhumanist Association (now rebranded as Humanity +. Transhumanists promote the responsible use of advanced technology to overcome our biological limitations.
This lecture was recorded on 24th April 2010 at the UKH+ meeting. For information on further meetings please see:
http://extrobritannia.blogspot.com/
Software composes beautiful and haunting melodies. Conceptions of reality challenged.
Over 100 unusual Earth instruments with pictures & samples.
30 documented little known facts about America everyone should know.
3D Islamic architectural geometry? Or lucid DMT flash? (skip to 2:04)
Björk and Michel Gondry working on 3D IMAX project!
Reflecting reality, Mexico’s Museum of Drugs outgrows it’s space.
20 Subversive Works of Urban Guerrilla Street Art.
Reason.TV interviews Amy Alkon about clever Libertarian approaches to a rude society.
Scientists can turn off brain’s ‘morality center‘ with magnets. Does this mean it’s possible to turn it on as well? Mushroom tea anyone?
Also, a mysterious genetic anomaly leads to lack of racial bias and stereotyping.
This same gene appears to a play pivotal role in human intelligence.
The Mash-Up and the music industry are investigated in RIP: A Remix Manifesto.
Fascism in the USA: The Utah Rave Incident (with Video)
Wade Davis on paradigms, aboriginal dreaming, and ritual gestures.
Preview of The Mindscape of Alan Moore.
During first contact, Paul Davies will bear responsibility of being the human ambassador.
H+ reports on the neuroaesthetic research of Semir Zeki:
Entoptic phenomena involve phosphenes (or entoptics) generated in the neural system and anyone can see them under the right conditions. These visions can be enhanced by hallucinogenic drugs, and such drugs may have been used in early shamanistic rituals, with the images then drawn by the visionary. [P]sychoactive drugs and shamanistic ritual may well have played a part in the early creation of art — as they have did for the Romantic poets and the Beat poets of the ’50s and ’60s[.]
Art, Neurobiology, and Mescaline: The Neuroaesthetics of Semir Zeki
Just last night someone asked me about a certain date in time and I noticed how I visualized a curved surface in relation to my self to recall the date. I thought it strange at the time but apparently it is not uncommon, as described in this New Scientist report on the validation of temporo-spatial synesthesia, a condition in which one perceives time as a spatial geography. This has also been experienced by people under the influence of DMT and other tryptamines (sometimes described as ‘time-space’ as opposed to the generally referenced ‘space-time’). The strange intimation felt by those who perceive time in this multidimensional fashion is that not only is time non-linear and spatial but also somehow navigable by consciousness.
Anyone ever perceive the ‘contours of time’ during a psilocybic voyage, dream or other altered state?
Interesting clip from The Spirit Molecule doc:
(PhysOrg.com) — Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two can adapt to each other quickly, and possibly to the brain’s benefit.
This means that as this technology becomes incorporated into our daily lives our brain power will begin to increase dramatically and continuously as the technology develops over time, and especially for children who start using it early.
Article: PhysOrg.com
Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn State and Berkely and author of On Beyond Living, Wetwares and soon to be published The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere.
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