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Darwin's Pharmacy: Plants as Superpower

In responding to global climatic change we must evolve, and this evolution begins with the recognition of plants, and the Earth itself, as a super power whose weaponry is temperature change, rising ocean levels, and emergent and proliferating diseases. (more)

Pushing the Envelope, Boundary Expansion into Novelty in Personal and Evolutionary Contexts

To push a larger envelope you need panoramic vision. You need to be able to look all around you to make sure that you are pushing the largest envelope possible. If you commit yourself to pushing the envelope into a narrow tunnel, significant parts of you get stripped off so that you can fit into that space. (more)

An Open Letter to My Tribe

Dani Katz

Our fear of looking stupid, foolish and ugly keeps us from evolving as quickly as the moment now requires. Our self-consciousness is our current Permian event, our pride, our potential extinction. Now, more than ever, we must do our work -- the grueling, messy, scary kind that's anything but the fluff of New Age magical mind-stuff. (more)

Concerning Terence McKenna's "Stoned Apes"

In 1992, a new book, Food of the Gods, opened my eyes to TM's theorizing from his experiences tripping, including "stoned apes," his now famous -- or infamous -- "theory" of how psilocybin mushrooms, eaten by ancestral hominids in Africa, catalyzed the evolution of Homo sapiens.

Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, A Testimony

José Argüelles

The presentiment of the Noosphere awakened in me in 1969, upon seeing the Earth from space on TV. Soon after, I organized the First Whole Earth Festival. Buckminster Fuller suggested to me the presence of a psychic field or thought belt around the planet. It was by this means, Bucky wrote me, that he could converse with the pre-Socratics. (more)

Vampire Squid Economics: A Case Study in Full-Blown Wetiko Disease

Paul Levy

A psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that I call malignant egophrenia and indigenous people call wetiko is undermining the evolutionary development of our species. The global financial system is the revelation of wetiko disease. (more)

Playing the Infinite Game

Kevin Kelly

Evolution, life, mind, and the technium are infinite games. Their game is to keep the game going. To keep all participants playing as long as possible. They do that, as all infinite games do, by playing around with the rules of play. The evolution of evolution is just that kind of play. (more)

Entangled: Chapter Four

Still, surely she must summon help? While there was even the faintest hope, surely she couldn’t just let her meat body expire? Could she? And what would happen to her aerial body if she did? Perhaps she would just go pop! and disappear?--From the novel, Entangled. (more)

11-1-10
Graham Hancock's blog
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Standing At The Threshold Of The Spiritual World

The social activism and consciousness revolution of the 1960s and '70s moved toward social change through individual spiritual transformation. This new sensibility is growing; we can perceive that a genuine evolutionary transformation of human personality is already well under way. (more)

Entangled: Chapter Three

She found herself feeling sorry for the Uglies, and realizing again that they couldn’t possibly just be dumb mindless animals. They walk on two legs, just like we do. They have hands with five fingers, feet with five toes. They have ears like ours, eyes like ours. Just like ours. -- From the novel, Entagled. (more)

10-25-10
Graham Hancock's blog
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Entangled: Chapter Two

Fumbling for her ID, Leoni spilled the contents of her purse all over the passenger seat and burst into tears to create a distraction when she saw, under the unforgiving glare of the street lights, not only her driving license, credit cards, money, tampons, condoms and lipstick but also a dozen bulging wraps of cocaine. -- From the novel, Entangled (more)

10-17-10
Graham Hancock's blog
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Entangled: Chapter One

The Uglies were supposed to be mindless animals, like aurochs or rhinos, lacking in smarts and incapable of any of the finer emotions. But the eyes of this youth, staring at her with such urgency, were entirely human and filled with sensibilities she had no difficulty recognizing. -- From the novel, Entangled. (more)

Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff

We tend to think of our technologies in terms of the applications they offer right out of the box instead of how we might change them. We are content to learn what our computers already do instead of what we can make them do. This isn't even the way a kid naturally approaches a video game. (more)

Co-Evolution with Cannabis

We have this idea of nature and culture and mind and body standing on opposite sides of the big divide. Plant mood-changing substances refute this idea. If things out in the natural world could change the content of your thoughts, what would it mean that you have viewed matter on one the hand and this thing called spirit on the other? -- An interview with Michael Pollan. (more)

The Weird World gets Wider

Astrobiologists are theorizing about the existence of a "shadow biosphere" populated with various forms of "weird life"governed by the "hierarchy of increasing weirdness". (more)

2-25-10
Morgan Maher's blog
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Left in the Dark: The Origins of our Species-Wide Insanity

Tony Wright

When our ancient ancestors were ejected from the forest's womb-like protection that had hot housed our evolution, the neural system it nurtured was exposed to the kinds of hostile ecological and biochemical environments it had not encountered for millions of years. Since that time our brain has suffered a progressive and catastrophic failure in its development. (more)

Let A Hundred Futures Bloom: A "Both/And" Survey Of Transhumanist Speculation

Michael Garfield

When I am in the mood for some armchair futurism, I like to remember the old Chinese adage: “Let a hundred flowers bloom.” Why do we think it will be one way or the other? The future arrives by many roads. Courtesy of some of science fiction’s finest speculative minds, here are a few of my favorites. (more)