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Bewilderness
John Moore: In an important article, Jay Vest convincingly demonstrates that the words "will" and "wild" derive from a common etymological root. For primal Europeans, nature was pervaded by a will force that remained beyond their power...
Posted 09 February 2008 09:08 AM 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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The Otherworld as the Unknown
Snip: "As with all anomalous entities, the very act of observing the particles disturbs them. Observer and observed, subject and object, cannot finally be distinguished. Particles whose existence is predicted obligingly turn up. If we didn't...
Posted 28 November 2007 12:35 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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Viruses of the Mind
"Think about the two qualities that a virus, or any sort of parasitic replicator, demands of a friendly medium,. the two qualities that make cellular machinery so friendly towards parasitic DNA, and that make computers so friendly towards computer...
Posted 22 September 2007 10:51 PM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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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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Absolutely Hilarious!
Was the first moon landing faked? I don't know. Is this video proof that it was or is this video a fake? I don't know. Is this an exceptionally funny video ? Yew betcha!
Posted 12 August 2007 12:50 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Hobohemians
On the rails with the new freedom riders by Ben Ehrenreich Catching Out I WON'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE, LEST UNION PACIFIC get wise and throw up another security camera, a few more reels of razor wire or some of those infrared sensors I keep...
Posted 18 July 2007 07:29 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Bored? Frustrated? Confused? GET MAD!!
"Alienation, technoboredom, neurosis, and frustration are not diseases of an unlucky few, nor even of the many. They are built into the structure of this society, twisting beggar and businessman alike, spitting them out like shards from a flawed...
Posted 13 June 2007 08:41 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
If you are a Philip K. *** fan or if you enjoy films like Minority Report, Bladerunner, the Matrix, or the Truman show, if you are familiar with the state of the nation's counterculture and you enjoy movies about a psychotic police state being implemented...
Posted 28 May 2007 11:07 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Towards a Feral Revolution!
"In a very general way, we know what we want. We want to live as wild, free beings in a world of wild, free beings. The humiliation of having to follow rules, of having to sell our lives away to buy survival, of seeing our usurped desires transformed...
Posted 16 May 2007 09:06 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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...AND YOU'RE BUYING ASPIRIN?
Those headaches you've been having aren't symptoms of fatigue, they're labor pains. Your dreams and ideas have been boiling for years, just below the surface, and now your mind is ready to give birth. But they are watching. They know how your...
Posted 01 May 2007 03:54 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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The Information War by Hakim Bey
Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape from the body. And why not? Material reality is such a mess. Some of the earliest "religious" artefacts, such as Neanderthal ochre burials, already suggest a belief in immortality...
Posted 29 March 2007 08:03 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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A Commentary on Socio-Cultural Programming and Todays Planetary Situation
Social programming in todays society functions primarily around the following concepts and ideas: 1. Body Identification: Members of society are conditioned from birth to identify with the physical body, and this concept is continually reinforced from...
Posted 25 March 2007 12:01 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Optimism of Uncertainty
"To be trully radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." ~ Raymond Williams "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today...
Posted 02 January 2007 11:04 AM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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