Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...
I am in Tokyo and it is a little past 5am. It's a little past 1pm in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles -8GMT
Tokyo +9GMT
5am in Tokyo is one hour brighter than 5am in Los Angeles at this time of the year. Regardless, we all more or less know what 5am and 1pm feel like, and 1pm in Tokyo can be as miserable as 1pm in Los Angeles. 5pm rush hour looks...
I am feeling a disconnect. Despite the belief that we all connect.
Is this the plight?
I understand that it is you and I. It is we. Connected by energy. Thought and matter. By the bang, all of us came.
Right?
Born into a world populated by hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, one. All born to the SAME destiny. All to...
I've been thinking a lot about this polytopia without offering any of the thoughts, so here, for whatever they're worth, are some of them.
Mind work in the old world:
Scenario One:
Each mind walks into a room on two legs, they chose a seat and take out a pad and a pencil. Everytime someone offers an idea it's written down on a white...
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is the name of a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter. It is executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom...
Zeitgeist is an absolutely mind blowing experience. They are having a remastered version of it showing in Los Angeles sometime in early November. Check their official website for details.
space is cold and dark
and this orbit's getting boring
nobody near to talk to
hello
is there anyone out there?
save our souls
cure this cosmic loneliness
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A poem I wrote a while back. Inspired by a handout from a Physics class entitled "Physics & Astronomy For Pedestrians" ... yeah my uni has the funniest classes!...
So I was browsing through the gallery on this site, trying as best I could to avoid studying for exams and whatnot, when I came across the Hydrozoa Picture Gallery. I started scrolling down the page looking at all of the stunning images when I realized, wow, there are a lot of hydrozoa out there...
If there are this many different types of,...
Enter: The Transbeing
Frank Herbert wrote that: “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” And of course who in his true and integrated mind will not agree to this statement?
So let us start or begin our knowledge of the coming singularity by observing the prediction wall that is in front of us, the...