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I Left at Dawn for the Eternal City; It Seems that I Have Misplaced Several Days

Brian George
brianpicTotemic Eyethumb.jpgFear spreads its hypnotic field across the architecture of the vacuum, disrupting any sense of how the 2 halves of a symbol interlock. We must stare into the sun. We must share our wealth -- as tiny as it may seem to us -- with the birds that terrorize the back-side of the mirror. We must dare to celebrate their feats of reptilian camouflage. (more)
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Being in Brooklyn

Remi Gurak
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Being in the World, a film by Tao Ruspoil that celebrates philosophy and the search for meaning in the world, will have its NYC premeire at the Brooklyn International film Festival (June 8th and June 12th). [Video] (more)

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The World After Abundance

John Michael Greer
archthumb.jpgIn a contracting economy, it becomes easier to notice that the less you need, the less vulnerable you are, and the more you can get done of whatever it is that you want to do. Not many people learn this lesson during times of material abundance, but in the world after abundance, it's hard to think of a lesson that deserves more careful attention. (more)
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Universal Feedback and Reality as Remix

Jennifer Palmer
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I saw the same pattern of interchange in everything, a fundamental quantum mechanism that we had not yet learned how to measure.  Either I was crazy or I was a pioneer — a philosopher in the truest sense, a lover of wisdom who follows the goddess wherever she goes, simultaneously creating and discovering concepts along the way.  (more)

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The Psychedelic Transhumanists

Michael Garfield
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Visionaries like Tim Leary and Terence McKenna remind us of the stubborn persistence of the unconscious, the body, and the other.  In their own words, presented as a “virtual conversation,” here are the core messages of a transhumanist vision informed by the psychedelic experience.

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What is Reality?

Richard Smoley
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What is accounted as real must, among other things, accord with our preconceptions. Nonetheless, the content of our preconceptions may differ wildly according to time and place. Many cultures give far more credence than we do to ghosts, spirits, good and evil, possession, and witchcraft. So did Western civilization five hundred years ago. (more)

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The Devil Made You Do It. Again

Lisa Kirchner
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As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

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The Future is Immanent: Speculations On a Possible World

jf.martel
meditationre.jpgSpirituality does not require a transcendent God -- an abstract Other -- against which the spiritual experience must take place. On the contrary, spirituality is the intuition of the immanent possibilities, infinite and magical, of our reality. (more)
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