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Psyche

Shifting to a Psychedelic World Culture

Diana Reed Slattery

This year's World Psychedelic Forum was a massive, beautifully organized affair attended by more than 1,900 people from 37 countries. Topics ranged from cognitive enhancement to aesthetics and art, with speakers including Rick Doblin, Kathleen Harrison, and Dennis McKenna. [videos] (more)

5-23-08

Psyche

Xenolinguistics I: Aspects of Alien Art

Diana Reed Slattery

Our natural language is simply too slow a software to carry the complexity, the simultaneity of multiple meanings, and the speed and quantity of cognitive connections among ideas and images that define the psychedelic state. Hence Xenolinguistics: the search for, creation and study of alien languages. (more)

3-5-08

Tech

Virtual Reality and Hallucination

Diana Reed Slattery

Our understanding of what is or isn't "real" is being challenged, thanks to hyper-connectivity, hyper-conductivity, and processor speed. How is our personal sense of "reality" being transformed by new technological highs? (more)

2-13-08

Psyche

Rising Researchers on the Psychedelic Horizon

Diana Reed Slattery

After nearly four decades, the aboveground study of psychedelics is opening up again. At next year's World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, Switzerland, a new crop of “Rising Researchers” will present their work, spanning a wide range of disclipines. Founded by Tom Roberts, this program will bring these diverse, international researchers together – to share their findings, to offer mutual support, and to meet the psychedelic pioneers who paved the way. (more)

11-5-07