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Avatar: The Psychedelic Worldview and the 3D Experience

Ido Hartogsohn
avatar eyethumb2.jpgCould Avatar be the first messenger of a new psychedelic wave ushered in by a new medium with psychedelic tendencies? Could it bring psychedelic values and ideas into mainstream thinking? (more)
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Psychedelics and Nutrition: Carnivorous Cultures vs. Fungal Cultures

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The great excitement one gets when biting into lettuce or carrots after a psychedelic experience -- sensing their rich sweetness -- is tantamount, for me, to eating for the first time after six days of fasting. Suddenly, each fruit and vegetable regains its original heavenly taste, as though we are experiencing, for the first time, the real taste of food. (more)

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Psychedelic Israel

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The Geula party transmits a radically different message to the Israeli people on the eve of the Israeli elections that take place Tuesday, February 10. Is it politics, art, or a spiritual manifesto? [video] (more)

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How spam is driving us towards Artificial Intelligence

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captcha1.jpgAn interesting story by Dora Kishinevsky made me think about the way spam might be part of an evolutionary path pulling us towards artificial intelligence. (more)

A Psychonaut License: The Psychedelic University

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Society has mechanisms for the handling of objects which it deems helpful but dangerous. In order to drive a car, for example, you need a license. What if there was a license for exploring your mind? (more)

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The Olympic Feeling: A Countercultural Response to the Games

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Behind this polluting, manipulative and sometimes mind-controlling business lies something sublime and true, a primal and intimate feeling that stems from the experience of the body. (more)

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No Consensus to Consciousness

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There is no consensus to consciousness. It is constantly drifting between the drugs consume, the food we eat, the countries we visit, the books we read, the media we expose ourselves to, sex, hunger, fatherhood and more. What a psychedelic visit to the Amsterdam Zoo taught me about consciousness. (more)

Commericals 2.0: Advertising the Divine

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How commercials could transform from media poison to media cure for a new age of enlightenment. (more)

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