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BEMUSHROOMED
From Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico by Robert Gordon Wasson hypertexture = dimitri - audio©redits Translate from English to French English to German English to Italian English to Portuguese English to Spanish I do not recall which of us, my wife or I...
Posted 10 March 2008 06:14 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Hybrid Car is Still a Death Machine: An Eco-Anarchist Manifesto
by Kalanu Buffalo - Save Feral Human Habitat I’m happy to see that ‘environmentalism’ has become trendy, and that there is a growing movement in our society to reduce the impacts of our civilized lifestyle. Yet, those of us who have long considered ourselves...
Posted 10 March 2008 06:03 PM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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Toward a Cultural Ecology of Anarchy
John Moore: From an antipolitical perspective, the implications are clear. On the one hand, anarchy must be rejuvenated and become conscious and vigilant. Liberation from all forms of coercion and hierarchy, including its formulation in the cuneal paradigm...
Posted 09 February 2008 08:53 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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[VIDEO] Sun of God
The strongest case is made that only the unlearned take the Bible literally. The text is, actually, filled from end to end with astrological symbolism. Just as Romans kidnapped Hermes and turned him into Mercury, so too did early Roman Christians capture...
Posted 22 January 2008 12:03 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Creativity and What Blocks It
Snip: "...the setting and goals and patterns of behavior, which are imposed mechanically or externally, and without understanding, produces a rigid structure in consciousness that blocks the free play of thought and the free movement of awareness...
Posted 03 November 2007 12:03 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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[VIDEO] Trialogues
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake & Ralph Abraham discuss the evolutionary mind and what is responsible for the great leaps of consciousness that are taking place now and in the past. They discuss whether an extraterrestrial intervention, psychedelic...
Posted 17 September 2007 11:45 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest
by James Randerson, science correspondent Saturday July 14, 2007 The Guardian Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that...
Posted 23 July 2007 06:23 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Ancient Chimp Stone Age
Chimps have never been known to flake rocks intentionally to fashion tools, but Mercader believes that way back during a “chimpanzee Stone Age,” they did crack nuts with the stones found close to the Noulo site. The cavity-pocked, cantaloupe-size rocks...
Posted 10 June 2007 02:09 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Terence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" Theory of Human Evolution
When a person takes small amounts of psilocybin visual acuity improves. They can actually see slightly better, and this means that animals allowing psilocybin into their food chain would have increased hunting success, which means increased food supply...
Posted 27 April 2007 04:47 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought
Freud, Marcuse and others saw that civilization demands the sublimation or repression of the pleasures of the proximity senses so that the individual can be thus converted to an instrument of labor. Social control, via the network of the symbolic, very...
Posted 22 April 2007 11:12 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Maize in Pre-Columbian India
Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, "Maize Ears Sculptured in 12th and 13th Century A.D. India as Indicators of Pre-Columbian Diffusion," Economic Botany 43 , 1989, 164-80, argue that stone carvings of maize ears exist in at least three...
Posted 06 April 2007 01:34 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The O'Odham: Native-Americans With Ancestors From India?
By Gene D. Matlock , BA, M.A. Hindu scholars have always claimed that in remotest times, their ancestors visited every part of the globe, mapping it accurately, and mining gold and copper in such places as Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, England, Ireland...
Posted 04 April 2007 03:54 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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