Tagged with Media

Our Reality Sandwich column of book, video and music reviews. In this edition: American Cyclopath, Supernatural, Downton Abbey, Leviathan, Push the Sky Away, The Psychedelic Future of the Mind, The Next Day, and WSIS +10.  (more)

The Matrix, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Stalker, Au Hasard Balthazar – some of the films famous for evoking the evasive nature of the mystical encounter. We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out their favorites. Here is the first installment of their recommendations.  (more)

Introducing our new column of book, video and music reviews. In this edition: Cloud Atlas, Two Fingers Stunt Rhythms, The Moneyless Manifesto, Dreams and Guided Imagery, Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, The Secrets of Alchemy, Video Game Play and Consciousness, and Terence McKenna Omnibus 2012.    (more)

Erik Davis's new collection of essays, Nomad Codes, covers a vast, rhizomatic net of high weirdness. There are plenty of folks out there following their inner weirdo, which should lead them straight to Erik's work. Reality Sandwich checks in to see what it's about. (more)

Jaycee Dugard's abduction story is part of a larger media myth and the story of civilization. Is there a link between mass mediated madness and kidnapping? (more)

Are we evolving an ecologically oriented global consciousness, or just a technologically efficient corporate brain? It depends on whether or not we can decolonize the future. (more)

After an impressive run of 20 and 30 years, the venerable Conscious Choice publications close their doors, the victims of corporate greed and incompetant management. The inside story from the company's former Editorial Director. (more)

Can media tap into a kind of liminal space like shamanism? By leveraging the collective intelligence and participatory components of the contemporary pop commons, Battlestar Galactica illuminated the historical tension between humans and their technological tools. (more)

Over 50 percent of those who took our survey said they wanted to tell their friends about us. Join our digital street marketing team and spread the word about Reality Sandwich. (more)

We have a real, innate desire to see our dreams come to life. Video games can help us understand our potential to become the gods and myths of our imagination. (more)

It's an odd case of life imitating art. The McCain campaign released an ad which lampoons Obama for behaving like the second coming of Jesus Christ. It shares many themes and images with my web miniseries, The Grand Inquisitor. (more)