Ever true to his vision, Tim Leary takes LSD in prison with his beloved

This is Joanna Harcourt-Smith’s account of taking acid with “internal freedom” pioneer Tim Leary, while the latter was in Folsom Prison, where he was being held for “crimes” without victims.  She smuggled in two tabs in her belly button and they shared them secretly while she was visiting. http://www.realitysandwich.com/secret_sacred_use_belly_button.

The continuing search for an alternative (to the dollar) global currency

Bankers, economists, financiers and others have for some time been looking to find another kind of currency, besides the dollar, to help stabilize global markets and exchanges. The dollar has been the de facto currency used for most global transactions – but this makes the market vulnerable both to US political instability and to American [...]

Biutiful – A stunning film of dramatic depth and compassion.

This Spanish-language film by Basque-Mexican director Alejandro González Iñarritu (who previously made the fascinatingly complex personal-social dramas Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel), was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the 2011 Academy Awards. It stars Javier Barden in a performance that received the Best Actor award at Cannes and was nominated for Best [...]

A group of compassionate aliens visits retarded Earth

This is a link to a very unusual French YouTube video in nine parts, called La Belle Verte (The Beautiful Green). The story is about a group of very happy, loving people, living a simple pastoral life, on another planet – who decide to send emissaries to Earth, which they do every 100 years or [...]

Street grid found on ocean floor may be remnant of the lost Atlantis

A “grid of streets” on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean. Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth, allows web users to virtually explore the ocean with thousands of images of underwater landscapes. The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles [...]

David Korten on the conflict/choice between Wall Street and Main Street

This is a brilliant and incisive summary of the crucial differences between the current bankrupt capitalist model (as also portrayed in the recent film Inside Job which won Best Documentary) and a viable real-market alternative. In America we are taught from birth that capitalism is synonymous with markets, democracy, and individual liberty. Whatever its flaws, [...]

Visionary Mushroom Art in Ancient Maya Culture

Here is a link to a website with fascinating images of the ancient Maya hallucinogenic mushroom cult. The website is created by Carl de Borhegyi, who writes “The following study was inspired by a theory first proposed by my father, the late Maya archaeologist Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi, that hallucinogenic mushroom rituals were a [...]

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