Easy enough name - shamans, manta rays (RIP steve), and santa claus. Wiki's are a bit cumbersome sliding into, but with little effort it came to me.

[6/21/07 - Yooooman]

Wait a monk what? No im sayin yo MAN - Today is full of insight and eclipses equinoxes and completions of thought and I feel so renewed and eclipsed today. I hope others meta efforts have been successfully worked around by today and that your midsummer's night dream was grand and fulfilling(that was last night btw). As for your wiki entry mr mobius, that is dreadful but it'll eventually get on there, they cannot deny it for ever. Don't your credentials account for anything? Interesting stuff, I hope there is WiFi in penn's woods. So

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yo shamantaclaus, here the doyle text i was telling you about at the TAZ on sunday: Divining Ayahuasca

-PI

Shamantaclaus, I don't know if you're going to read this, but thanks again for letting me on "your" radio show. That was a great opportunity, so thanks for sharing it with me! -Echan

[5/5/07 - Radio show effort]

Its 8:20am, finally heading to bed with my favorite herbal companion.... but first:

Radio show !

Shall take place 7-9pm tonight, on 90.7fm or alternatively, www.thelion.fm

First of all, anyone and everyone is welcome to come out to the studio (located behind the fish tanks in the HUB) and chill chat input or remix

The show will be free-format mostly, with commercial breaks every half hour (If you would like to make a SoC film fest mp3 just post it up!)

Aside from talk show prattling, the first hour I am considering:

7pm:;:;::;;;;;;;;; -music

-sound board class samples

-book readings

8pm ~~ Erin's poetry

more of the same fills in here - talks of tantra's yoga sex and marijuana - i guess prattling will be more or less incessant throughout messhed and overlaid upon ambient backroom beats which normally make up my show

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between that and peep samples - Tim leary and McKenna tracks are a good ideas

culture jamming and subversion of normal college denizen is the goal here :)

kind of low key, more of a spin off project to the film fest due to lack of prep. But, i can bring Kava kona coffee fusion for those inclined for delightful chit chat tooling while we listen to delicious beats dripping from the main speakers;)

9pm - end

ps: we have a couch and multiple chairs and 4 microphones - and a fake ficas tree! come on - itll no longer be tethered to "90.7 the lion" (besides the commercials im forced with), but rather a TaZ we can all fold into for intertwingling magick and shifting of consciousnessnesses..ness

Hey shamantaclaus- If I wanted to bring in some of my audio, which format would be best for the studio setup? Would a line out from my computer or iPod work, or would it be better to burn a cd? -Arpeggi

[4/26/07 - Different links pulled from digggg]

Pot fights cancerous tumors - duh - but hey check this out its got a little dust on it article find: http://www.mapinc.org/newscc/v01/n572/a11.html

Hyper Space Engines: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200-take-a-leap-into-hyperspace.html

Pot def fights cancer i love how it smooths out my crunchy peanut butter...

[4/25/07 - Leary Biscuits]

In response to Ceridwen's article on Timothy Leary: Is Leary's ethics being reconsidered here, is society really softening to the idea? Interesting read; I always thought of Leary as an explosive polemic railing against the system in favor of psychedelics, when railing against the system was the fad ala the 60's. Slowers approaches like Doblin's through MAPS is eloquent and successful in how it encroaches on societal territory. Society seems to be more open to this passive system of educating about psychedelics - or what I think is a more appropo term - 'entheogen'. There's less threat when looked through the lens of a spiritual, pseudo religious experience and not as some wacky crazy havok causing drug adolescent teens partake in. After studies like the one at John's Hopkins and apparently more that were mentioned like the ecstacy studies on soldiers with PTS disorder, and the Beckley Foundation studing LSD - fascinating! Also, exciting. These mind altering and mind therapy drugs are at long last finally seemingly seeping into our culture, and rightly so - recently a convo with mobius discussing the very very theraputic 'ibogaine' has already taken off in Canada to treat addiction and release negative inhibitory responses tied up in many a people's minds. Entheogens allow for connecting to the self and mostly to help people 'let go' -- or one can concentrate on meditating, but for many with OCD inclinations like myself, entheogens are a nice alternative ∨ addition to meditation. I'm afraid it will be a pain-staking process that Doblin is going through but hopefully it will become easier with time and effort of even more psychedelic pioneers and scholars.

ShamantaClaus: I think that if you look at Leary's work and the historical record, he was precisely counseling us to treat psychedelics as a religious experience, a framework we now call ëntheogenic. He was, after all, the High Priest..( the latter is a remarkable book, btw)The mistreatment and misinterpretation of Leary's work suggests that his work was indeed too radical for us to digest at the time, but the radicality resided not in any ethical or political transgression, but in merging science with metaphysics. Leary understood LSD to provide a way of inhabiting and studying human consciousness that was previously only describeable in theological terms, but he suggested that we go beyond theology to science fiction, or what he called PSY FI. But the fact is that this unspoken and spoken scapegoating of Leary for the inability of 20th century US to integrate shamanic practices into its culture is precisely that: a scapegoating that covers over the reality through a spectacular focus on demonizing an individual who, first and foremost, pursued scientific questions and followed them, no matter what.

And of course i am wildly supportive of the MAPS mission and Doblin's role in it, I am also skeptical of this idea that we need to somehow "mainstream" ecodelics. They WERE mainstream, and at the very center of a good deal of scientific activity until a war was declared on them ( again). And the only way to stop the war is not through the mainstream, but, if you will forgive the pun, the grassroots. - mobius, a merry prankster in Geneva

[4/18/07 - Visualize biotelemetrica]

I was fiddling or intertwingling with the many eyes program on the IBM website and uploaded everyone's blogs to it in a data set - tho more or less a word doc pasted onto the site - BUT, IBM does a neat thingy by arranging the most popular terms (one word or two words AND you can search for your own data!) from A to Z, then by size individually. See here: Visualize biotelemetrica.

You can download a txt file from the site, but for the complete word doc of blogs (only as of today which is 4/18/07, for ppl shall be expanding upon this (its like 572 pages, dddaaayam)) you can download it from my pass space here : Wiki word doc

[4/5/07 - Burroughs Darkly remix]

Klein bottled black hole octopied neural expansion - Left with 1 2 3 records of being making and then death is exemplified by Burroughs throughout "Electronic Revolution". One is the one two is your shoe, and three is stubbing your toe? It makes it seem like we are or should be self-righteous individuals, what of ethics? Who is to judge - B.man makes it seem like we can but look or PEER at another upon the effect is decimation - or perhaps entropy... Of what shall we observe or not? It makes me seriously re-evalution evaluating the self, for it might entropically spiral into ether. In scanner darkly Keanu lost his sense of identity from lack of ethics of judgement, who is to judge? Keanu may also have lost his identity from being type-cast as a space cadet.... who in their space ventures loose touch with reality or the ground, or the tunnel or the system. Either way he is definitely free-floating in this movie......until he is given a job or one is manifested in which he is given a framework to literally analyze his other mental existence of virtually no framework, drugs, and insanity. How does this reflect on ethics? Ethics of a supposed whole, or ethics of an intrinsic self, where they may meet? Burroughs and Darkly complicate things by allowing there to be what seems to be an infinite klein feedback loop of observing the observing observer which seems to be some sort of intellectual war. Maybe this war is what is defining ethics to trickle down. A new horizon seems to be forming, and information is a trickly subject.

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http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~thedude/bbs/big.html ~ Big Brother State

[3/29/07 - Ubik RemiX]

Ubik Exegesis

[3/07/07 -- Transgenic Involution]

Interesting concept of symbiosis/evolution - or co-evolution. It's like those little birds on hippo's backs, or the mini-aquatic species that follow sharks around. Those species most likely evolve together as well. Another example is mitochondria, they were once a single-celled(?) organism in their own right that migrated into us some how... and the reason is for advanced energy production for complex human processes, thought etc. in the form of ATP (?). I believe at this point our mitochondria are pretty much wholely synthesized by our bodies and are thusly as one with us. Now, if this exchange can take place - perhaps there is more of a connection to marijuana than we imagined. It might be a little far-fetched to say we are 'one' with marijuana - but I believe we are pretty much one with everything with different immediate relevant degrees. We are one with this ancient medicinal plant as much as it becomes a part of the human condition. As it becomes a necessary subject in our existence, how much of it is not us? This makes the entire war on pot seem pretty masochistic... but then again America's aims can be counter-intuitive at times.imho.

[2/22/07 -- Ubik's noosphere[{ So what exactly is the noosphere? And who is Tesla? Is the number 23 tucked away somewhere in here? If one believes in nothing as mister RAW will have you ...uh.. believe? Then how is one to accept or wait not accept anything. Left with stumbling upon notions that 'end up' coming from out output valves published to the world for us to walk upon to yet again leak more information out. It is mostly accidental - I then pose the question where is our freedom in this brewing caldron of uncertainty. I do not believe/believe that what RAW is to have us do is experiment as flamobius suggested. It is from above and below that these uncertainties manifest into what ultimately must be a decisive action. Action of do in the form of goo. It seems more and more that we are floating around in this goo and making of it what we will - literally, will. How does this willing come to create any structure and is all structure bad? Of what of our identities, histories and the casual must-be's of our futures/non-futures. To believe or not to believe in everything nothing and that which is in between. To be anxious, confident or neither. Just keep your options open.

[2/08/07 -- Security of the State] This was a very interesting read on social dynamics. Primitive civilizations respect the power associated to labor. Today's modern society actual labor is delegated, everything is always delegated! Bureacratic muck piles is what I say. More relevantly speaking, these peoples of ancient times truly understood harmony in a community. The bit about technology is interesting, because there is depth to it, and can be considered art when refined over thousands of years by "savages". Our technology is not just an art, but it relies heavily on redundancy just to be constructed. The internet? Internet is allllll about redundancy checks because information is constantly fragmented - loss of connection, alienation from that which is __done__. Lost touch with the on goings of a society, we are pushed around by attention grabbing politicians. Power has shifted from the shovel wielding hand, to the paper pushing hand of stuffy business men (or politicians but really they are the same). Powerless to wield much of anything we turn our attention to what is given to us - our TV. The essence of primitive cultures needs to be understood and incorporated into today's society - a sense of community. Maybe not the pure essence, but definitely an important aspect. We should at least embrace the non-working part, I'm down for that. Can we really not work? Don't we need bureacratic, widespread, delegated work to accomplish the great task of fossil burning information super machine; ie. the USA?[2/06/07 -- Cellular Automata & the like]Friggin' sweet.

Chaotic beauty with PHP? I knew of such things as fractals and this just backs it up. Order is in nature and it can be seen everywhere as interconnection. You can take mathematical algortithms and iterate them to the point of absurdity, and yet still elicit patterns of order. Wolfram discovered something amazing. These images allow one to almost see the glue holding us together - even through math's earnest attempts at disconnection, one still cannot escape the beauty that gives us form. Not form's like Plato, but forms that infinitely and not necessarily come to be - that just are.

[1/24/07 -- Pharmacotherapy/Neurocops?] This is absolute bollox. I have heard of invasive procedures allowing police officers to detect and then charge citizens for "posession" of an illegal substance that is inside the body(ie: heroin, marijuana found in the body after use can still get someone busted...what?!? yea.) This new set of blocking agent drugs that are "prescribed" by the government in the UK to be used in a "vaccination" process for under-priviledged folk, or rather, excuse me, "those whose family or socio-economic circumstances might make them more susceptible to drug addictions". What does this mean exactly? Society forces some into the gutters of cities and now these people can't get high? The drug war is indeed changing to a new despicable low if these types of activities are permitted to go on.Now in regard to the __digital proposal__: I feel Wiki's are great in how it creates a chaotic information system. Chaotic in the uncontrolled sense, but information should be that way - free to dart in the dark by its own will. Information should go where it needs to go. Wiki's help break down the structures that snub us of the little spaces we often miss. I also feel that students are becoming more and more apt at browsing rather than locked-reading. This may have to do with the spastic nature of televisions growing up, but it is also the culture epitomized by it. A culture of information, technology, lights, and computers making sure everyone of our attentions were pulled in gazillion directions during our development periods. Therefore, Wiki's would only be following suit, and perhaps bringing it up a notch - bam!