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Dosed by the CIA

Chris Kaplan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:42:13 -0700

It was only a short amount of time after Albert Hofmann's success synthesizing LSD from the grain fungus ergot in 1938, that the drug was sought after as an innovative tool for psychiatric care, and tested by the government for all potential uses on the population, both foreign and domestic. In 1970 LSD was listed as Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act, barring it from the population and further research.

Transformation TV

Daniel Pinchbeck — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:48:06 -0700

Reality Sandwich and Collective Hardware Present:

"Off the Grid": Dialogues with Daniel Pinchbeck
Collective Hardware, 169 Bowery, below Delancey, NYC
Monday, March 15, suggested contribution $15, show starts 7:30 pm

The Iboga Insurrection (Pt.1)

Charles Shaw — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:14:16 -0700

The US-Mexico border in Tijuana with San Diego in the distance (photo by Charles Shaw)

Siberian Methane Melt

Ashley Noack — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:06:47 -0800

Below the Arctic seabed massive stores of methane are destabilizing as punctures form in the permafrost deep beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS). The methane is stored as a gas hydrate, crystalline water structures resembling ice that act as cages around the methane.

Top News on Evolver

Zachary Koval — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:13:50 -0800

Here's some of the top news posted recently by the Evolver.net Community:

LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness

Amanda Feilding — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:47:24 -0800

This essay, which tells the story of the inventor of LSD and his ‘problem child's' turbulent history, is taken from Hofmann's Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis. It first appeared on brainwaving.com

Deep Politics

Jeff Prentky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:03 -0800

This weekend, honor and celebrate the work of Peter Dale Scott, author of the highly-acclaimed books "The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America" and "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". For decades, Scott has studied the hidden patterns and structures behind events and institutions that shape our world. As Scott explains in Road to 9/11:

Exile Nation: Chapter Three, "The Sweet Moline" (Pt.6)

Charles Shaw — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:32:07 -0800

Go here if you missed Chapter One, "Dead Time", Chapter Two, "Hotel Hell" or the beginning of Chapter Three.

Caught In The Web

Chris Kaplan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:32:37 -0800

Timemapping Spiritual Transformation: Shamanism and Evolutionary Astrology

VerDarLuz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:35:08 -0800

The Astral Shaman

Video Editors Needed

Jennifer Palmer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:19:40 -0800

Reality Sandwich is looking for volunteer editors to work on multiple (r)evolutionary video projects.

Letters from Amok: The State of the World in Pen and Ink

Chellis Glendinning — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:10:41 -0800

I stand in the Chimayó, New Mexico, post office, poring over a hand-scrawled note from Oakland immigrant-rights activist Arnoldo Garcia -- and I weep. Not for the stark vision of the fragility of life and the forces ripping into it that he voices, for I am not unfamiliar with the dire state of the world -- but for the fact that he has had the courage to state it with so much heart.

Dear Chellis,

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Evolver Spores: The Future of Psychedelics

Jonathan Talat Phillips — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:36:42 -0800

Evolver.net, MAPS, the Beckley Foundation, and Brainwaving present

Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics

Wed, March 17 (Please look for your specific city as dates are subject to change)
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There's a Fungus among Us

Joe Marshalla Ph.D. — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:46:55 -0800

Several years ago researchers were observing ants in a grassy field. Amongst all the behaviors that were occurring in the midst of the colony, there was one particular ant that was displaying a very peculiar trait. This one ant for some reason kept attempting to scale a tall piece of grass in order to reach the very top. Once there, it would stop moving and just bask in the sun. Eventually the wind would blow and this ant would fall to the ground and immediately pick itself up and begin climbing another piece of grass.
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Media On Ice

Chris Kaplan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:43 -0800

An Icelandic Modern Media Initiative has been proposed to the Icelandic government, and really that of all world governing bodies, attempting to create a haven for freedom of expression. In a world where governing elites cut deals behind closed doors, and with a media market that sells the truth to the highest bidder, this new initiative by Iceland could once again restore the legitimacy of governing bodies, corporations, and that of global information, while providing "strong protection for sources and whistleblowers."

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Thinking Through Windows

Eliott Edge — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:31:14 -0800

The Emotiv Epoc is the latest and most exciting development in computing technology since the Internet. The Australian-based Emotiv Systems commercially available, 300 dollar priced breakthrough “is a high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition and processing wireless neuroheadset. It uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expressions and connects wirelessly to most PCs.”

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Savage Moderns: Avatar-Style Ecocide in the Real World

Niall Fahy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:29:23 -0800

Avatar, the most financially successful movie of all time, takes as its subject matter the plight of an indigenous race who find themselves on the wrong side of our voracious appetite for natural resources. But we don't have to look towards an extraterrestrial future or colonial past for examples of this type of conflict -- the tribal people of West Papua have been living on the knife-edge of modern capitalism for over thirty years.
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Digging Religion

Ginnie Jester — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:36:43 -0800

Archeologists are excavating a site that could prove what we think we know about the development of human civilization to be wrong. In school we're taught that the development of civilization happened in a period of time called the Neolithic Revolution. First came farming and herding, then pottery, villages, specialized labor, kings, writing, art, and, well into the process, organized religion.
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San Francisco Premiere of 2012: Time for Change

Daniel Pinchbeck — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:45:47 -0800

I am pleased to announce that we are holding the premiere screenings of our documentary 2012: Time for Change, in San Francisco during SF Greenfest. I am featured as interviewer and narrator, in dialogues with Sting, David Lynch, Paul Stamets, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ellen Page (star of Juno), Gilberto Gil, and many others. The film is a co-production of Mangusta and Curious Pictures. Joao Amorim directed the film and created wonderful animations for the project.

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Journey Through a Cosmic Portal: A Hypnogogic Experience

Franklin LaVoie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:31:08 -0800

Death and mourning led me to a cosmic portal, and an encounter with a "serpent ladder." Death was the crucial factor. In May, 2005, I was in Tulum, Mexico, for a memorial service to honor the life of Sanna Parker, a cosmic person and a mighty fine friend. Some family and friends gathered in Tulum to celebrate Sanna's life and memory. We participated in the ceremony called Lifting the Shadow.
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Talk to Jeremy Narby

RS Backstage — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:37:24 -0800

This Sunday, Reality Sandwich Backstage members are invited to participate in a one-hour Q & A session with Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature. Ask your most pressing questions about the connection between shamanic healing and DNA, the emergence of ayahuasca into Western culture, maze-solving
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Skin-to-Skin Success

Marc Lazard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:51:22 -0800

Scientists have established that skin-to-skin contact is not only calming and comforting, but is also linked to winning in professional sports, student participation in schools and positive doctor-patient interactions. Touch is being studied as a complex language capable of communicating emotions as diverse as gratitude, disgust and love.
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Earthquake Axis Shift

Marisa Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:20:13 -0800

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Exile Nation: Chapter Three, "The Sweet Moline" (Pt.5)

Charles Shaw — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:37:46 -0800

Go here if you missed Chapter One, "Dead Time", Chapter Two, "Hotel Hell" or the beginning of Chapter Three.
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Measuring Space with Stars

Jeff Prentky — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:08:34 -0800

Using the light of almost 2,000 stars, astronomers measured the density of the gas surrounding our sun to create a new map of interstellar space. Scientists estimate that several million years ago a supernova explosion wiped out a large area of space, leaving an area with no gas and only a handful of hydrogen atoms.
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Kundalini and the Human Laser

Eric Peterson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:08:33 -0800

I will make this disclosure short and sweet and attempt to relate a very long and complex series of events as succinctly as possible. I discovered the power of nitrogen deep under the Monterey Bay. The ecstatic experiences below led me to the somewhat safer utilization of nitrous oxide in the comfort of my own bed. As a rescue diver I was familiar with mixed gas and oxygen use and usually took advantage of the protection of pure oxygen during extended sessions. Over a period of two years of intensive use many esoteric mysteries were revealed.
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A New Look at Love

corinne — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:15:24 -0800

Get intimate with fellow Evolvers as we explore the pleasures that love - in all its forms - has to offer. We invite you to join us for a night of sexy, thought-provoking discussions and workshops on subjects ranging from tantric healing to secrets for loving yourself to the art of loving many. For this Spore, we’ll go beyond the counterproductive rules, prejudices, and politics that our culture perpetuates around love, sex, and sensuality.
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Indra's Net: Alchemy and Chaos Theory as Templates for Transformation

Robin Robertson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:09:05 -0800

The following article is excerpted from Indra's Net: Alchemy and Chaos Theory as Templates for Transformation (available from Quest Books).

The Uroboros
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Surreal Chilean Skies

Jennifer Palmer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:52:47 -0800

A video has emerged of strange lights in the Chilean sky on the day before the massive 8.8 earthquake, causing speculation about whether the apparition was a HAARP projection or UFO warning related to the impending disaster. Others point to similar videos taken in China and Haiti prior to the recent earthquakes in those countries, and the possibility that shifts in the earth's crust have a dramatic effect on the atmosphere.

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High Time for Change

Chris Kaplan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:44:51 -0800

Reason TV has put out a new piece on medical marijuana and the gray area of California law. The video documents how on January 26, 2010, the LA city council passed an ordinance to regulate marijuana dispensaries--effectively mandating that several hundred stores close. Yet without the resources to enforce such changes, close to 800 pot stores remain open for business in LA.
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