The DMTrmx project

The DMTrmx project aims to enrich the dialogue of entheogens specifically, and consciousness in general. Comprised of artists, thinkers, filmmakers, musicians, curious travelers, and anyone willing to facilitate positive change through hacking the endo-matrix, the project’s participants seek to do just that. The sophisticated storytelling voices guide us as we disperse the memes generated from DMT: The Spirit Molecule into culture. Furthermore, these change agents seed the DMTrmx project via other individuals, organizations, universities, and media outlets, creating an innovative and coherent entheogenic narrative.

DMTrmx utilizes DMT: The Spirit Molecule’s media library (100+ hours of interviews from over 50 brilliant minds, 30+ hours from the Peruvian Amazon, and over one hour of original visual effects, music, and sound files) as its foundation, and the base for discussion for the evolving MNTTKA Manifesto. The manifesto defines new possibilities for humanity’s connection to Spirit through consciousness, physicality, celebration, and representation/communication. Breathing life into the project, DMTrmx offers The Spirit Molecule’s content through a non-commercial Creative Commons license, making it available for viewing and reuse on a variety of online platforms.

The DMTrmx media covers entheogenic ecology, cultural history of entheogens, shamanism, ayahuasca, entheogenic research, entheogenic effects, spirituality, consciousness, quantum mechanics, and much more. What forms of communication can we develop? How do we map the entheogenic state? What does a picture-puzzled-pattern door look like? What does the common molecular language entail? How do we increase diversity in the community? How do we shift the current culture to openly embrace, or at least decriminalize the exploration of consciousness? By blurring the lines between science and spirituality, the project intends to alter our perception of consciousness, and raise questions about the nature of truth. What is truth? And how does a version of any story affect identity, perception, and ultimately response? The community answers these questions through their interaction with the thoughts, images, and sounds from the DMTrmx database. Additionally, the entheogenic population not only passively views the resulting work; they become an important aspect of the transmedia mythology.

Community engagement plays a key role in the DMTrmx experience, and the project encourages the world to study and assemble new juxtapositions from the anthology. By generating films, music, installations, paintings, eBooks, or anything else imaginable through exploration, the user experience influences all aspects of knowledge (artistic, philosophical, political, spiritual, scientific, technological, and so on). Humanity will be able to view new films and general content via mobile apps (iPhone/iPad, Android phones/tablets), cable/satellite VOD, digital downloads (iTunes, YouTube, Amazon), Internet enabled TV/Blu-ray, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, and physical environments (festivals, conferences, etc). The remixes in the online and physical magnify the cross-referenced collection of knowledge pushing it to the tipping point, and shifting the paradigm of consciousness.

http://www.dmtrmx.com/

Mon, Dec 5, 2011  Permanent link

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Han Kloosterman, the Dutch Catastrophist

Han Kloosterman lived in Brazil for more than 20 years, has been a diamond seeker in Africa, scout prospector in Amazon, lived with natives and survived many accidents, including a terminal disease. He spent his early childhood in a country occupied by Nazis and just understood what it meant years later. Today he lives in Amsterdam, the city he choose to keep up with his unusual and inspiring scientific research...

The Overturning of The Earth is a short Brazilian movie about this humble and adorable scientist.
A brief history of a crazy dutch's elder life and his amazing and eccentric researches.

Thu, Jul 7, 2011  Permanent link
Categories: dutch, science, earth, magnetic pole

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Alejandro Jodorowsky and Daniel Pinchbeck

I just want to share an inspiring video I found this week...

Some of you probably knows Daniel Pinchbeck, a interesting crack-pot writer from NY that publish books about shamanism, aliens from other-dimensions, crop-circles and subjects like that - he's not there yet, but the guy clearly has some Terrence McKenna's aspirations.

He goes to Paris to interview the living legend Alejandro Jodorowsky for a German/French television channel, and they just hang out and talk in a very relaxed way.

It's really a master/apprentice kind of encounter and it's amazing to watch.
Daniel acts like a fanboy sometimes and Jodorowsky reactions to his proposed topics are nothing less than Epic. While the apprentice is eager to hear what the master have to say about cosmic and spiritual questions, Jodorowsky seems even more interested in trivia and down-to-earth details. At some point, he asks "Why do you smoke? Don't you want to also live for 80 years?"



You can see the entire video on youtube...
I highly recommend you to relax and enjoy this gem, it's an instant classic ^_^

Fri, May 27, 2011  Permanent link

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Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain?

Today, Reallity Sandwish published a nice article on the millennial question about consciousness outside our brains. It advocates the hypotheses I came to found the most plausible, after years of study and some empirical evidence - I understand that, without some degree of personal experience, it's difficult for a thinker to go this way on the extremely-materialistic society we live in...

what are your views on this subject?
do you think consciousness is produced inside the brain, or the organ acts like some kind of antenna or receiver, and so, what we call "mind" is beyond matter?


http://www.realitysandwich.com/does_consciousness_depend_brain

The argument in its essence is that the transmission and production hypotheses are equally compatible with the facts materialism tries to explain — such as the effects of senility, drugs, and brain damage on consciousness — but that the hypothesis of transmission has the advantage of providing a framework for understanding other phenomena that must remain utterly inexplicable by the hypothesis of materialism.

The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual. In that case such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance would be merely instances in which some of the limitations were removed - Cyril Burt, 1975

Fri, Mar 11, 2011  Permanent link

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Believe Nothing, understand as much as you can

Reality is ever changing, and so too should our notions of reality be ever-changing...

Sat, Jan 8, 2011  Permanent link

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Write ZEITGEIST on your Money

you probably know about the Zeitgeist movement. If not, you should.
that's a kind of open-source anti-establishment organization initiated after Zeitgeist: Addendum, the very awesome followup to the controversial internet hit Zeitgeist: the Movie. even if you think it's too radical, even if you don't agree entirely (I don't myself) you have to admit it puts you thinking.

in a nutshell, it's about the monetary system and how life on earth would be better in every aspect if we just haven't invented it... and also how it's so on top of our minds that we can't ever imagine life without it. as Jonh Carpenter would have put it: Money is our God now...

so, I was surfing the couch-surfing communities and found this post from a mexican girl. after watching dozen of Ted Talks, finally I found and idea really worth spreading... if you can see the genious of it, please help her and forward it to as many people as you can.
why not? ^_^

Mon, Oct 25, 2010  Permanent link

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What’s Mine Is Yours

Collaborative Consumption: Reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume.

A couple of years ago I started to notice instead of friends bragging about their new Prius, they boasted how they had given up their cars altogether by becoming “Zipsters” (members of the car-sharing service Zipcar). More and more people were selling stuff on craigslist and eBay, swapping books, DVDs, and games on sites such as Swaptree, and giving unwanted items away on Freecycle. Local sharing platforms such as NeighborGoods and Share Some Sugar started popping up alongside a whole range of peer-to-peer rental services such as RelayRides and Zilok. On a trip to Denver, I saw cyclists pedaling around on bright red bikes with the word B-Cycle on their crossbars. A friend in London told me about her new favorite Channel 4 TV program called Landshare (a garden ‘dating agency’ connecting growers to people with land to share). I kept hearing about people joining some kind of collective or co-op, from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs to Etsy Labs. Magazines, blogs and journals brimmed with popular articles from the self-organizing behavior of ants to “Coworking: Solo But Not Alone”. Whether it was ‘peer-to-peer,’ to the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to ‘smart mobs’ to ‘flashmobs’ to ‘prosumption’ to ‘crowdsourcing’, numerous sticky ideas were emerging on how easy it is to form groups, pods, packs, hubs or whatever you want to call them, and the might of communities. From the election of President Obama to Elinor Ostrom winning the Nobel Prize for Economics to the infamous Wikipedia; all highlighted what the old adage “power in numbers” can achieve. And of course everyday I was bombarded with stats and stories about the growth of the online social revolution. Co-everything was everywhere.

The more I examined these different cultural, social and economic threads, the more convinced I was that all of these behaviors, personal stories, social theories, and business examples pointed to a powerful paradigm shift and an emerging groundswell, Collaborative Consumption. Old market behaviors, including sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping, are being reinvented through social technologies and peer communities. The social networks, GPS and real-time technologies, peer payment systems and so on have created the efficiency and trust glue for us to mimic exchanges that used to take place face-to-face on a scale and in ways that have never been possible before. We have literally wired our world to share.

So why is Collaborative Consumption emerging so fast and right now?
Pressing environmental concerns and the global financial crisis has led to a questioning of the health (in all dimensions of the word) of consumerism on a scale we have never seen before. We are feeling a sense of emptiness, a distrust with ‘big’, and turning once again to each other. The phenomenal growth of Facebook and farmers markets may not seem connected but they are. We are seeking to be a part of a community of people with a shared interest (both in the physical and virtual worlds); to feed the part of us that seeks connection and belonging. It’s a perfect storm of drivers fusing together to create “The Big Shift”; away from the 20th Century defined by hyper-consumption, towards the 21st century, the age of Collaborative Consumption. It’s a new era marked by trust between strangers, access over ownership and the primacy of experience over “more stuff.”



The Three Systems
Collaborative Consumption is thriving across sectors as diverse as finance and travel, agriculture and technology, education and retail. When researching What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption with my co-author Roo Rogers, we saw that the vast array of examples from around the world, could be organized into three clear systems:


PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS:
Pay for the benefit of using a product without needing to own the product outright. Disrupting traditional industries based on models of individual private ownership (e.g. car sharing & peer-to-peer rental)





REDISTRIBUTION MARKETS:
Redistribute used or pre-owned goods from where they are not needed to somewhere or someone where they are. (e.g. swap trading & reuse marketplaces)





COLLABORATIVE LIFESTYLES:
It’s not just physical goods that can be shared, swapped, and bartered. People with similar interests are banding together to share and exchange less tangible assets such as time, space, skills, and money. (e.g. social lending & person to person travel)




Together the three systems of Collaborative Consumption are creating a dotted line between ‘what’s mine,’ ‘what’s yours,’ and ‘what’s ours’ (hence the name of the book!)

We only started publicly spreading the ideas of Collaborative Consumption a few months ago and have been blown away by the reaction and growing global movement. I think we are at a momentous turning point where society is waking up from an enormous hangover of excess and waste and starting to reinvent the “meaning” of more. In so many parts of our lives, we are crossing the chasm from passive consumers to active participants once again.

I personally have two big goals for this movement: the first, is to empower local change makers to start something in their community connected to Collaborative Consumption; the second is to work with businesses, from start-ups to captains of industry, to prove how smart ‘design thinking,’ ‘We’-based brands and social technologies can recreate a healthier balance between the needs of individuals, companies, and the greater good of society. What’s Mine Is Yours charts how Collaborative Consumption offers a big leap towards getting us there.

Check out the online hub for heck out Collaborative Consumption for cool info-graphics, videos, stories and resources for you to use and share. You can even swap, barter your gift your copy of What’s Mine is Yours and track where it travels!

A guest-post by Rachel Botsman published today on the blog SwisMiss

Wed, Sep 8, 2010  Permanent link

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Carl Sagan Tribute Series

still today, no other thinker inspire and amaze me like Carl Sagan does... his enthusiasm with the beauty and mistery of the universe is contagious, and his arguments yet extremely rational, can't hide the passion behind...

this awesome youtube tribute, comprised of audio lectures and footage from recent documentaries, is an instant favorite, and a must see for everyone... enjoy :)

Thu, Aug 12, 2010  Permanent link

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The Illusion of Gravity

Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, is shaking the giant box of contemporary science, jumbling what we think we know by declaring that gravity is just an illusion.

Gravity, according to Verlinde, is a microcosmic byproduct of a larger entropic force, which is just one refracted face of a larger field of illusion, much like the Hindu Maya. In physics, entropy and entropic force are determined by the overall effect—the entire landscape—and not by one microscopic path. Verlinde references the standard example in physics of a polymer molecule. "a strand of DNA…curling up." A strand is unique because it offers only one possibility out of the whole realm of possibilities. But due to the infinite nature of outside influences in a macrocosmic entirety, the results are far more probable that the force will cause the "object" to curl and accumulate higher entropic force, like an absorbed sponge or coiled spring.

And that is where the effects of "gravity" come in: gravity is not just one direct acting force onto a particular object, an A>B scenario, but rather the notion of "gravity" is an accumulation of macrocosmic influences, where the law of averages create the propensity for acting entropic force.

According to Verlinde, nature likes options. All of its intimate workings thrive on diversity, and all of the microcosmic elements that build the macrocosm, create a harmonious tension that balances with such entropic force. When something wants to act against the spiraling realm of such cyclical energies, it takes a higher force to shape through all of the diversity to one unique object. Verlinde used the example of frizzing hair to explain such a feat. There are more options for strands of hair to curl than to be straight, and it requires a greater number of factors and energy for the hair to be pulled straight.

If true, maybe defying gravity will only be a matter of finding the right frequency of vibrations, the one path that cuts through all the entropic force.

Dr. Verlinde's paper has raised a lot of of criticism, and a lot of support, but it has definitely raised eyebrows. Even if his theories prove to be unfounded, his ideas already helped to reinvigorate the scientific community, proving that conflict does indeed propel the story.

Taken from Reality Sandwish

Fri, Jul 16, 2010  Permanent link

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The Norway Spiral and EISCAT

The Tromsø site did little to attract public attention until December 9th, 2009, the night before Obama accepted his Nobel peace prize in Norway. For three minutes, people in the North of that country and in Northern Sweden saw this in the sky.

Just outside of Tromsø, Norway, is a transmitting facility that is part of EISCAT, (European Incoherent Scatter), a multi-site research institute that studies the Sun’s effect on the Earth’s ionosphere and magnetosphere. The spiral occurred very close to Tromsø and precisely when an experiment was scheduled, part of Project TEQUILAsunrise (Transient Effects Quantification Under Ionospheric Low Angle sunrise).

So, the mesosphere is filled with echoes and the blogosphere is filled with explanations. It is a weather manipulator that can turn a category two into a category five. It is a wormhole. It is a massive mind-control device (timed for the first time in a bazillion years that a US president was in Norway). It is a holographic projector to fake an alien invasion or the second coming of Christ. It could be any of these things. It could be all of these things. The only thing I’m pretty sure it’s not is a Russian missile.

I would not have been alarmed had EISCAT simply said, “that crazy spiral you saw? That was just us messing with the Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes”, but they didn’t. Even if the Norway spiral is, as I’m inclined to believe, a well-intentioned if not entirely safe ionospheric heating experiment, we were still lied to and that’s not okay.

This amazing (although crank) theory was found here.

Sun, Jul 11, 2010  Permanent link
Categories: spiral norway eiscat

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