Detail from Nite Lite by Dodie.

Erowid: an exhaustive source of information on psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related subjects. A lot to peruse including the vault, a gallery of hundreds of examples of “psychedelic art” many of which even manage to rise above what you might expect from that categorization. Similarly see: the Lycaeum.

Enjoy this fine flash presentation on Imagining the tenth dimension.

goods has helped to discover a large primordial ‘blob’, more than 10 billion light-years away. With a diameter of 200 000 light-years, the blob is twice as big as our Milky Way and the total energy emitted is equivalent to that of about 2 billion suns. Despite this, the object is largely invisible.

“The cow says: moo.” Shamanistic resource on working with animal guides.

Enjoyable essay: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine.

Long list of international equivalents to John Doe, Richard Roe, etc.

Derived from the jungle Quichua verb ikaray, “to blow smoke” for healing, the Spanish word icaros designates the magical lyrics, incantations, either whistled or spoken, by Amazonian shamans in a variety of ritual contests, especially during healing sessions and during ayahuasca ceremonies, to establish contact with the spirit world. Listen for yourself: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

07.04. filed under: link dump.


Already familiar with Erowid and Lyceum; very good sites.

I know one John Doe already: Joao Ninguem, in Portuguese, means Joe Nobody (that’s from an Os Mutantes lyric).

The shamanism links remiond me the other night I saw a show on PBS, episode one of How Art Made the World. Fascinating; explains prehistoric cave paintings as attempts to ‘nail down’ what’s seen in trance states!!! Awesome.

posted on 07.06 at 02:58 AM.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


BTW: Beware of The Blob!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/

although Green Slime had a better theme song.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/

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Just read the Feynman piece. Bravo! Incidentally, one of my fave sites is Kevin Kelly’s page, Wired cofounder and Long Now member. His site has sections on documentary films and Cool Tools:

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.php

it’s all good.

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