I found this quite profound, maybe I was too inebriated. The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC...

... Music + Ideas + Infinite Possibilities in Space Explosive soundscapes immersed in...

They call it the "mandelbulb". It's the first true 3D representation of the famous...

There are two things which have deeply terrified me in recent science news. The first, as you may have heard, is that a bumper crop of some 32 "new" planets was discovered by a team of European researchers armed with a spectrograph called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher. The second is that Israeli scientists...

Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or "spooky action at a distance", could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that the electrical activity of neurons in...

Throughout human history, people have been asking the same questions about the nature of the...

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Started as a comment and evolved into a response to Keen's Terrance McKenna and DMT I used to...

The skinny: To determine whether physiologic responses to a drug could be changed by...

NotMarie: “I have a question for you 3V” 3V:” I am, as always at your service.. please ask” NotMarie: "Since I am struggling to understand you, it came to me that one of the main riddles I carry with me in your regard, concerns the manner you treat history and for that matter, memory as well.. I have this nagging feeling that...

The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions...

An Endless becoming whistles at us, to investigate the skyline of our emotions, challenging our...

Last week I was enjoying the more interesting speech in months, for me, a person who is...

7 am, sunset blvd.

Mind inhabits body, body inhabits space, space inhabits time, time inhabits memory, memory inhabits mind.

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Wired: January 5, 2010 By pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as...

According to Wikipedia, Crank is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief...

In Part 2 of the HFD series, I pointed out the main differences between monopticism, panopticism,...

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caught @ the American hotel, Amsterdam. 1997

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

Contemporary human being exists inherently in several environments simultaneously; one’s...

Sometimes when we perceive the world we perceive without language. We perceive spontaneously. But...

"We may be on the edge... ...of nothing particularly important."   - Bruce...

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Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization “The radical of one century is the...

au from Vicent Gisbert Soler on Vimeo.

This is a study that explores the notion of direct, participative and processual democracy. ...

Virtual technology has allowed the creation of new social and commercial worlds existing in...

Happy new year everyone! This is the edition of the First Ten Percent of the New Millennium. Its continuously the time for Millennium bridge, Millennium tower, Millennium biosphere... you name it! Never stop believing. Today is the full moon, blue moon and partial eclipse of the moon. "Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years). Blue...

I realised the other day that taking seemingly harmless ideas to their logical conclusion is a...

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In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of...

I found this marvelous clip of Carl Sagan explaining science, set to music. Enjoy!

I recently spoke at a conference where I introduced a broad futures concept that I have been developing: Holoptic Foresight Dynamics. HFD (as I will refer to the concept hereafter) is a strategic model that can help organizations, governmental entities, cultural institutions, and societies to become foresight competent – and even develop...

i stumbled upon altered states last night via netflix and would recommend it to anyone who...

Remember Be Here Now is the title of a 1971 book on spirituality and meditation by Ram Dass.

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources...