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About David Jay Brown
David Jay Brown is the author of Over
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Quantum Sociology and Neuropolitics David Jay Brown Interviews Robert Anton Wilson
Amazon.com WidgetsRobert Anton Wilson is a writer and philosopher with a huge cult following. He is the author of over 35 popular fiction and nonfiction books, dealing with such themes as quantum mechanics, the future evolution of the human species, weird unexplained phenomena, conspiracy theories, synchronicity, the occult, altered states of consciousness, and the nature of belief systems. His books explore the relationship between the brain and consciousness, and the link between science and mysticism, with wit, wisdom, and personal insights. Comedian George Carlin
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Firing the Cosmic Trigger
“…information is the source of all wealth”
with Robert Anton Wilson
Amazon.com WidgetsRobertAnton Wilson earned his doctorate in psychology from Hawthorn University. From 1966-1971 he was Associate Editor of Playboy, and since then he has written over 26 popular books. He is perhaps best known for Illuminatus! a classic science fiction
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trilogy which he co-authored with Robert Shea. His Schroedinger’s Cat trilogy was called “the most scientific of all science-fiction novels ” by New Scientist, and has been reprinted in many languages. In the area of
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I love my town of Santa Cruz, California.
Thank you for voting me “best writer” last year (2011) in The Good Times and
“Best Writer Local” and this year (2012) too! Here is what they wrote: Brown’s allure continues to grow. His diverse literary works include: “Brainchild,” “Virus: The Alien Strain,” the bestseller “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” (A great interview collection, by the way), “Mavericks of Medicine,” “Mavericks of the Mind” and “Voices from the Edge.” Dubbed “the most compelling interviewer on the planet,” Brown has lured precious manna out of the likes of Timothy Leary, Terence
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Psychedelic Art
by David Jay Brown
Every creative person who has ever taken a psychedelic substance yearns to express the experience. Among other things, psychedelics have a most extraordinary effect on the imagination and the optical cortex of the brain. Visual art that is reminiscent of the kinds of hallucinatory visions– intricate, brightly colored, unusual, complex, imbued with meaning, and often geometrically organized– that one sees with closed eyes during this hyperdimensional brain state has been dubbed “psychedelic art”.
Psychedelic art is not always inspired by a drug-induced experience, but often
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Altered Statesman
Local psychedelic visionary David Jay Brown has peered deeply into the nature of human awareness, bonded with the greatest thinkers of our time and explored the outer limits of philosophy, science, spirituality and parapsychology. In this mind-expanding interview with GT, he shares tales from his journeys to the fringes of consciousness.
Consciousness: What is it? Are your thoughts and emotions nothing more than neural static? Will your physical death extinguish your awareness? Is your individual consciousness just one of innumerable facets of a universal consciousness?
In search of answers to questions like these, local writer/neuroscience researcher
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Introduction to Voices from the Edge
We are currently witnessing an extraordinary shift in the evolutionary winds of history. Poised on a bridge between worlds, our species swings between crisis and renaissance. Never before in the human adventure have there been so many reasons to rejoice and celebrate, yet also, paradoxically, so many reasons to re-evaluate and re-navigate. Wonderful advances in science and the interface between high technology and the creative imagination have spawned forms of artistic expression with a sensory richness inconceivable to previous generations. The imagination has never been more tangible. And yet, sad to say, never before
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Preface - Voices From the Edge
“You’re going to have to explain what these people are doing in a book together,” said a close friend, looking at me with loving sternness. “What do they have in common, anyway?” On the surface, there does seem to be the need to justify why an ex-porn star and a Catholic priest are rubbing shoulders (or anything else, for that matter) in a collection of interviews, not to mention a chemist, a musician, and an archaeologist. But it seems to me that in this world of on-going cultural meiosis, it is far more necessary to justify similarity than to
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Acknowledgments - Voices from the Edge
Putting this collection together was a great deal of fun and a wonderful learning experience, with more than a few epiphanies along the way. It was also a lot of work, taking about two years to complete. Many people helped make it possible. We would like to extend extra special thanks to Nina Graboi and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld for their endless support and belief in our work over the years. For their essential help with the book, we are also extremely grateful to Randy Baker, Marie Devlin, Denise Dufault, Patricia Gaul, Alex Grey, Laura
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Mavericks of Medicine – Acknowlegments
As with most books, many people played valuable roles in its creation.
This book resulted from conversations that I had with my friend and colleague John Morgenthaleller. John is responsible for coining the term “smart drugs,” for writing the first books on the subject, and for much of the public’s awareness about how certain drugs and nutrients can enhance cognitive performance. I met John backstage on the set for the Montel Williams Show in 1990, right after his book Smart Drugs and Nutrients was first published, and a large portion of what I know about
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Introduction to Mavericks of Medicine
By David Jay Brown
As with science, the history of medicine reveals that knowledge often advances through the ideas of maverick thinkers–ideas that were initially greeted with disbelief or even mockery. For example, in 1847, when the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis started making the claim that puerperal fever was contagious, and that poor sanitation was responsible for spreading the illness from one new mother to another, his fellow physicians thought that he was crazy. “Wash your hands!” he shouted in the hospital maternity wards of Vienna, while the other doctors laughed.
Likewise, in 1628, when
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Introduction to Mavericks of the Mind
The term “paradigm shift” was coined by Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1961. It was an attempt to describe the changes that occur in the Belief Systems (BS for short) of scientists, concerning how they interpret their data, and how scientific models evolve. Paradigms are the glasses that one sees through which color how and what we see. When they shift, so does the world. Today it’s almost a cliché to speak about new paradigm shifts occurring. Paradigms are shifting kaleidoscopically these days. This makes sense in light of
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The four “isms” of the apocalypse: chauvinism, sexism, racism and fundamentalism are riding roughshod over the gardens of civilization. When we take a long look around at the effects of the modern world, it’s not a pretty sight. Blackened stumps of ancient forests smolder in the mid-day sun, young children stare from (and at) television sets, stunned with hunger and lack of love; torture and cruelty are the trademark of governments throughout the world; and wars are raging all over the face of our planet. For all the shimmering beauty of life, for all the exquisite potential waiting in the
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Mavericks of the Mind – print edition
An important lesson that we learned from doing this book is that cooperation, patience, tolerance, and communication are the keys to solving most of the world’s problems. We really worked as a team to put this book together, and it was a balancing act that required much delicate coordination. It took about four years to complete, and although there was a great deal of work involved we did have a lot of fun. The collaboration of many others made it possible. We would like to extend special thanks to Carolyn Kleefeld and Nina
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Interview with Dr. Motoji Ikeya By David Jay Brown
Dr. Motoji Ikeya is a Japanese interdisciplinary researcher, using electron spin resonance (ESR) in geosciences and radiation dopsimetry, with a research interest in the cause of unusual animal behavior prior to earthquakes. His laboratory experiments at Osaka University have shed an enormous amount of light on the possible mechanisms that may be operating during this unexplained phenomenon.
Dr. Ikeya majored in Electronics and then Nuclear Engineering at Osaka University. He worked at Nagoya and Yamaguchi Universities, was a research associate at The University of North Carolina
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Interview with Marsha Adams By David Jay Brown
Marsha Adams, at the Time Research Institute in San Francisco, developed sensors that measure low-frequency electromagnetic signals, which, she says, allow her to predict earthquakes with over 90% accuracy. Adams set up a network of electromagnetic sensors along some of the major faultlines in California, and from the input she receives–which Is analyzed by specialized computer software–she issues weekly earthquake forecasts. Adams suspects that low-frequency electromagnetic signals-created by the fracturing of crystalline rock deep In the earth along fault lines can have biological consequences, and that her instruments are picking
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Interview with James Berkland by David Jay Brown
James Berkland is a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) from 1973 to 1994. He is well-known for his controversial earthquake prediction methods that include calculating the number of missing pets ads in the newspapers of earthquake-prone areas.
Berkland’s interest in geology began as a child, as he says his dad was a “rock-hound”. After earning his BA in Geology at U.C. Berkeley in 1958 he went directly to work for six years with the U.S. Geological Survey, involving laboratory and fieldwork throughout
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Interview with William Kautz by David Jay Brown
William Kautz, Sc.D. was one of the principal research coordinators for ”Project Earthquake Watch”– a four Year USGS-funded SRI study into whether unusual animal behavior can be used to help predict earthquakes, which ran from 1978 through 1982. (The Final Report was published in August, 1985, and is available at the USGS Menlo Park library as an open file report.) He earned his doctorate in electrical engineering at MIT, and got involved in computer science soon after that. In 1977 Kautz founded the Center for Applied Intuition, a research organization dedicated to studying the
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Unusual Animal Behavior Prior to Earthquakes: A Survey in North-West California by: David Jay Brown & Rupert Sheldrake
Abstract
During November of 1996 a telephone survey of 200 Santa Cruz County households was carried out in North-West California to find out how many people have observed unusual animal behavior prior to an earthquake. 15% (N=30) of those surveyed reported that they have witnessed at least one occurrence of an animal acting unusual before an earthquake. Common observations included reports that the animals appeared frightened, agitated, excited, disoriented, or were missing. 66% (N=132) of households surveyed
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Etho-Geological Forecasting: Unusual Animal Behavior & Earthquake Prediction by David Jay Brown
I began researching the strange and mysterious behaviors of animals that are often reported prior to earthquakes in 1996 as part of a collaboration with British biologist Rupert Sheldrake. The initial research that I did became the backbone for the section on this subject in Dr. Sheldrake’s bestselling book on the unexplained powers of animals, Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home. (This information was updated, with a summary of the earthquake data that
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David Jay Brown Interviews: John Morgenthaler
John Morgenthaler is responsible for coining the term “smart drugs”, for writing the first books on the subject, and for much of the public’s awareness about how certain drugs and nutrients can enhance cognitive performance.
Morgenthaler co-authored the books Smart Drugs and Nutrients, Smart Drugs II: The Next Generation (both with Ward Dean, M.D), and he edited the book Stop the FDA: Save Your Health Freedom. He has appeared on many popular radio and television shows over the years–such as Larry King Live, 20/20, and The Today Show–talking about how people can enhance their mental performance
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Sex and Salvia By David Jay Brown
Salvia divinorum is a rare species of sage that is native to a remote region of Oaxaca, Mexico, where it has been used for hundreds of years in shamanic healing rituals by the Mazatec Indians. When the leaves of the plant are chewed or smoked, a relatively short-acting psychedelic or visionary experience generally follows. In large enough doses, salvia divinorum is one of the most powerful psychedelic substances known, similar to ayahausca in its effects.
In smaller doses, however, salvia divinorum is said to have aphrodisiac effects, to increase sensual awareness, and to dramatically enhance one’s tactile sensitivity during
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Sex and Cabergoline by David Jay Brown
Cabergoline is a fairly new pharmaceutical that has enormous potential to aid male stamina. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of carbergoline is that it has been found to substantially raise a man’s chances of sustaining multiple orgasms during sex. Some men on cabergoline are able to have numerous multiple orgasms in rapid succession.
Cabergoline, which is marketed under the trade name of Dostinex, is used to treat Parkinson’s disease, to prevent women producing milk when they want to stop breast feeding, and to lower prolactin levels in patients with a pituitary
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Sex and Uprima by David Jay Brown
Uprima (Apomorphine Hydrochloride) is a prescription drug that enhances a man’s ability to achieve and maintain an erection about as reliably as Viagra, yet most men in America don’t know about it because it’s used primarily in Europe.
Uprima is a chemical relative of morphine, although it has no morphine-like effects, and is, in fact, a stimulant. It was developed as a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease, but, early on, it became clear that it might have other uses after many of the Parkinson’s patients began getting erections when they received
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Sex and Tribulus by David Jay Brown
Tribulus terrestris is a shrub with a spiny burr fruit, and a long European folk history, where it has been used as a treatment for hormone deficiencies, and many other conditions. It can be found growing in moderate and tropical climates, throughout much of Australia, South East Asia, and Africa. It grows abundantly on roadsides and in vacant lots, and is actually considered by many people to be a weed, with sharp seeds that are painful to step on.
Tribulus terrestris has a long tradition of being used medicinally in China,
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Sex and Damiana by David Jay Brown
Damiana (turnera diffusa) is a small shrub that is native to parts of North and Central America. It grows in Texas and Mexico, and has been used for centuries as an aphrodisiac in Central America–primarily by women, who drank damiana tea prior to lovemaking. The Damiana shrub can grow up to six and a half feet tall, and the entire plant has a characteristic aroma that most people describe as pleasant–and similar to chamomile–due to an essential oil present in the plant. The dried leaves of the damiana plant, or damiana
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Sex and Deprenyl by David Jay Brown
Deprenyl (selegiline hydrochloride) is a moderate-level stimulant and antidepressant that has been shown to improve memory, protect the brain against cell damage, alleviate depression, extend the life span of laboratory animals, and heighten sexual desire in both men and women. This impressive substance is available by prescription in the U.S., and it is primarily prescribed to help people with Parkinson’s disease, memory disorder problems, and sometimes depression.
However, a lot of healthy people also use deprenyl to improve their mental performance. It is considered by many people to be a “cognitive
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Sex and Pheramones by David Jay Brown
Pheromones are airborne chemical messengers that travel between animals of the same species, including humans. Each of these invisible, odorless messenger molecules is packed with a whole range of detailed information about you–such as your level of sexual desire, your level of aggression, and the attributes of your immune system.
Pheromones can cause us to have very powerful emotional reactions, without our being conscious of where the feelings are coming from–and often those feelings are of a sexual nature. Some pheromones have even been shown to alter hormone levels and fertility.
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Sex and DHEA by David Jay Brown
DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) is a steroid, a type of hormone that is produced by the adrenal glands, aswell as by the brain and skin. It is the most abundant steroid in the human body, and it is therecursor to all adrenal hormones, which start to decline in both men and women ataround the age of 25.
DHEA production declines with age in such a consistent linear fashion that one’s blood level of the hormone is often used as a bio-marker for aging. Since the body converts DHEA into all the other adrenal hormones, when DHEA
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Sex and Yohimbe by David Jay Brown
Yohimbe is an herb that is available in most health food stores, which is derived from the inner bark of a tree that is indigenous to West Africa. Brews distilled from yohimbe bark have been used for centuries by natives in this region in order to fuel their unusually impressive tribal sex ceremonies, which are reported to sometimes last as long as two weeks.1
Yohimbine, the most active chemical compound in the yohimbe bark, is actually available as a prescription drug in the United States for treating impotence. It
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Sex and L-arginine by David Jay Brown
L-arginine is an essential amino acid found in many common foods (such as nuts, turkey, and dairy products), and it is readily available in most health food stores as a nutritional supplement.
In addition to being one of the building blocks of proteins in the body, L-arginine has been shown to increase the ability to obtain erections and maintain stamina in men. It has also been reported to increase libido, as well as the intensity of sexual sensations in both men and women.
This effect is due, at least in part,
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Sex and Cialis by David Jay Brown
Cialis (tadalafil) is a pharmaceutical in the same class of drugs as Viagra, and like Viagra, is also prescribed for erectile dysfunction. Cialis is often hailed as a kind of “super-Viagra” because it has a similar success rate to Viagra, but it generally lasts around nine times longer.
Cialis can help men with erectile difficulties achieve erections for up to 36 hours, which allows couples to be much more spontaneous with their sexual intimacy than they can be with Viagra, which only lasts around 4 hours. Also, unlike Viagra, Cialis does
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Sex and Viagra By David Jay Brown
Some people claim that Viagra has made more people happy than any other drug in human history.
Before Viagra, men with erectile difficulties had to endure some pretty extreme pharmacological measures in order to obtain erections. For example, some men with erectile dysfunction used to inject a drug called Paperverine directly into their penis in order to obtain erections. Perhaps equally unattractive was a method of depositing suppositories of a drug called alprostadil directly into the urethra of the penis. Although both of these
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Hydergine ® Developer Albert Hofmann Turns A Hundred by David Jay Brown
The celebrated Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann turned a hundred last January. Thousands of people from around the world gathered in Basel, Switzerland to celebrate his centennial birthday and honor him for his numerous discoveries and contributions to the fields of chemistry and psychopharmacology.
When Dr. Hofmann addressed the large crowds that gathered in his honor, he spoke eloquently. He was unusually articulate and clear-headed for a man that was over a century old. Many people remarked how sharp his mind was and later, when I had
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Skin Improvement Pregnenolone and Psoriasisecently, I discovered a way to dramatically improve a chronic problem I’ve had ever since I was a teenager: psoriasis. This skin problem dissipated after I began using a combination of pregnenolone with a synthetic form of Vitamin D, called Dovonex (a topological ointment distributed by Squibb Pharmaceuticals).1 Prior to taking these two substances in combination, I tried them both alone. Each showed a mild to moderate improvement when I used them separately, but in combination the effect was nothing short of extraordinary!
I’m currently 37 years old. My problem with psoriasis began when I was 12 years old.
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Lipoic Acid: Rejuvenate Your Antioxidants By David Brownipoic Acid (a.k.a. alpha-lipoic acid, thioctic acid, and referred to in this article as LA) is a fat-soluble enzyme, which operates as a cofactor in the metabolism of glucose and oxygen utilization. Soon after its discovery in 1950 it was shown to provide highly effective protection against toxin and radiation damage.LA is now recognized as a powerful antioxidant. It has a strong ability to disarm oxygen free-radicals and a high affinity for chelating undesirable ionized metals.
In the past 49 years there have been over 800 research papers published on LA, and new discoveries continue to evolve.
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New Evidence for Free Radical Theory of Aging Suggests Antioxidants Extend Life by David Jay Brown
Caenorhabditis elegans is a type of nematode that normally lives for about three weeks. These microscopic roundworms can live for up to twelve weeks, however, when mutations are engineered in certain genes that control a period of slowed-down metabolism in their life cycle, called the dauer state. In this state they can move around and respond to their environment, but they are sealed up (front and back) and cannot eat. This ability to extend their lifespan has been of interest to longevity researchers, but, because
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ROBOT MEDICINE, EXTREMIPHILIC INSIGHT, CRYONIC SUSPENSION, NANOPROTECTANTS, HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS, NAKED DNA …
Life Extension: Looking into the Next Millennium
By David Jay Brown
The quest for eternal life is one of humanity’s oldest dreams, perhaps the ultimate goal of medicine all along. In recent years, life extension research has made great strides toward reaching this lofty goal. If the current trend continues, we can expect that much more radical developments will be along soon, and ultimately it may be possible to extend human life indefinitely.
For this article I interviewed several experts in varying
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Nicotinamide Improves Health and May Extend Life
Applying the Secrets of Caloric Restriction By David Jay BrownMany life-extension seekers have viewed the dramatic results from longevity studies involving caloric restriction as one of life’s cruelest jokes. Calorically restricted animals (that receive all their proper nutrients) develop fewer diseases in general and are known to live significantly longer than animals that are allowed to eat as much as they like. Numerous animal studies – dating all the way back to the 1920s – have shown this to be the case with worms, flies, mice, and monkeys.1
While living longer
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An Overview of the Theories of Aging Why Do We Age? By David Jay Brownlthough many of the factors involved in human aging still remain a mystery, our understanding of the aging process has advanced significantly over the past few decades. This article provides an overview of some of the leading theories of aging, with a particular focus on their implications regarding life extension.
In researching this article, I spoke with Ward Dean, MD, and Arthur Balin, MD – two experts on human aging – to find out what they think the primary causes of aging are and what they
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Doctors Report How Their Patients are Doing on 5-HTPBy David Jay BrownDavid Jay Brown interviewed several physicians and other health practitioners about their patients’ experiences with 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP). Various problems discussed included: sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, migraines, fibromyalgia, and weight management.
MY PERSONAL PERILS WITH SEROTONIN DEFICIENCY have suffered from Serotonin Deficiency Syndrome (SDS) for many years. From 1988 until 1996 I needed to drink – virtually every night – a half-quart of cow’s milk (which has relatively high levels of the amino acid tryptophan) to help me sleep, enhance my mood, and reduce anxiety. Drinking milk was necessary for me because the FDA
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Exploring the Frontiers of Anti-Aging Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Marios Kyriazis
By David Jay Brown
Marios Kyriazis, M.D. is both a clinician and a researcher in the field of anti-aging medicine. He has made significant contributions in the science and application of anti-aging medicine, and he is considered one of Britain’s leading longevity specialists. Dr. Kyriazis is one of the world’s experts on the subject of how carnosine effects the aging process, and his research into the effects of this mighty amino acid dipeptide have revealed how it can offer a number
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The Art of Learning:
Revitalizing the Educational Dinosaur
by David Jay Brown
The word education comes from the Latin educare, which means “to bring out that which is within,” but in our upside down civilization it has come to mean “to put in that which is without.” It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to realize that our present educational system is in trouble. On this point everyone agrees. Not only is our system vastly outdated and under funded, but we seem to have lost touch with the original inspiration for providing an education. Our antiquated
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Visual Addiction
“What it boils down to is we’re manipulated by a priestly elite of cultural directors in the art world, that’s telling us what is and isn’t art.“
with Robert Williams
Robert Williams’ paintings are so wildly psychedelic that Timothy Leary had several of his paintings hanging in his living room. Williams told me that his work was “tremendously” influenced by psychedelics, and it certainly shows. Prior to his psychedelic transformation Williams was hot rod illustrator who worked with Ed Big Daddy “Ratfink” Roth. He became well known for the contributions that he made
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Etho-Geological Forecasting:
Unusual Animal Behavior & Earthquake Prediction
by David Jay Brown
There is much anecdotal evidence suggesting that some animals have the ability to detect sensory stimuli which humans can not– even with our most sensitive technological instruments. That many animals have access to a perceptual range exceeding those of humans is scientifically well-established, but it also appears that many animals have sensory abilities not currently explained by traditional science.
For example, British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has documented on videotape how some dogs appear to anticipate the arrival of their owner. Regardless of the time of day that the owner begins their journey
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Chemo-Eroticism:
Exploring the New Prosexual Drugs & the Art of Feeling Really Good
by David Jay Brown
Like immortality and the fountain of eternal youth, every culture since the beginning of time has sought out aphrodisiacs and methods for enhancing the sexual experience. Biological organisms like us seem to find sex and drug ingestion fairly irresistible because these activities activate ancient pleasure centers in our brains. Our ancestors discovered long ago that by combining these two biochemical art forms new dimensions in the realm of “feeling really good” can be achieved. For example, although alcohol intoxication actually
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by David Jay Brown
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —HL Mencken
The desire to recreationally ingest psychoactive drugs is deeply rooted in our biological nature. The hunger to get high is as natural as the desire to eat, sleep, and procreate.
Young children have an instinctive drive to change their ordinary state of awareness, as evidenced by the delight that they take in spinning around and around in circles to produce a state
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Exploring the Near-Death Experience: An Interview with Charles Tart, Ph.D.
By David Jay Brown
Charles Tart, Ph.D. is a psychologist and parapsychological researcher. He is best known as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness–particularly altered states of consciousness–and for his scientific research into psychic phenomena.
Tart earned his Ph. D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. His books Altered States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychologies have been widely used as academic texts, and they
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Psilocybin Studies and the Religious Experience: An Interview with Roland Griffiths, Ph.D.
By David Jay Brown Roland Griffiths, Ph.D is a psychopharmachologist and professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Although Dr. Griffiths’ psychopharmacology research has been at the cutting-edge of neuroscience for over thirty-five years, he is probably best known for having led the landmark study with psilocybin, published in the August, 2006 issue of Psychopharmacology, under the title, “Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.”
This study confirmed
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Reprogramming your Biochemistry for Immortality: An Interview with Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil is a computer scientist, software developer, inventor, entrepreneur, philosopher, and a leading proponent of radical life extension. He is the coauthor (with Terry Grossman, M.D.) of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, which is one of the most intriguing and exciting books on life extension around. Kurzweil and Grossman’s approach to health and longevity combines the most current and practical medical knowledge with a soundly-based, yet awe-inspiring visionary perspective of what’s to come.
Kurzweil’s philosophy is built
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Elation Over Chelation: An Interview with Dr. Garry Gordon
By David Jay Brown
Garry Gordon, M.D. and I coauthored the book Detox with Oral Chelation (Smart Publications, 2007). Dr. Gordon is one of the world’s experts in chelation therapy, nutrition, and mineral metabolism. He is the founder and current president of the International College of Advanced Longevity Medicine (ICALM), and is one of the cofounders of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). Dr. Gordon wrote the original protocol for the safe and effective use of EDTA oral chelation therapy, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on
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Understanding and Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Interview with Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum
By David Jay Brown
Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is a board-certified internist and a leading researcher in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). He has a specialized practice for CFS/FM and pain patients in Annapolis, Maryland, and is director of the Annapolis Research Center for Effective CFS/FM therapies. Dr. Teitelbaum is also the author of several books, includingFrom Fatigued to Fantastic, Pain Free 1-2-3!: A Proven Program to Get You Pain Free Now!, and Three Steps to Happiness: Healing Through
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Shamanic Medicines & Eco-Consciousness: A Conversation with Dennis McKenna, Ph.D. By David Jay Brown
Ethnopharmacologist Dennis Mckenna, Ph.D. is one of the world’s experts in tryptamine hallucinogens. He received his doctorate in Botanical Science in 1984 from the University of British Columbia, and was a primary organizer and key scientific collaborator for the Hoasca Project, an international biomedical study of ayahuasca. McKenna has conducted extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork in the Peruvian, Colombian, and Brazilian Amazon, has helped to develop natural products into medicines, and is the author of more than 35 scientific papers. McKenna also coauthored The Invisible Landscape with
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Truth, Freedom, and the FDA: An Interview with Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
By David Jay Brown
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw co-authored two of the first and most widely read books on the subject of human longevity–Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach and The Life Extension Companion–which triggered a large amount of popular interest in the subject (including my own), and their many television talk show appearances have reached a large number of people over the years.
Although, perhaps, the ultimate goal of medicine all along, the idea of extending human life in otherwise healthy individuals was
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Salvia divinorum and Ecological Awareness
An Interview with Daniel Siebert By David Jay Brown
Ethnobotanist Daniel Siebert discovered the psychoactive effects of salvinorin A, the primary psychoactive component of the Mexican hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum, which is currently being studied for a variety of medical applications. Salvinorin A is considered by a number of researchers to be an attractive compound for pharmacological development because it is a selective and potent kappa-opioid receptor agonist with unique structural properties, strong effects on human mood, and low toxicity. There has been increasing scientific evidence that the pharmacological properties of salvinorin
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Psychedelic Warfare? Exploring the Potential of Psychoactive Weapons An Interview with James Ketchum, M.D. By David Jay Brown
James Ketchum, M.D. is a retired Army colonel, a Board Certified psychiatrist, and an Assistant Clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA. He received his M.D. from Cornell Medical School, and is the author of the book Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten.
During the 1960s, Ketchum was a research director for the Army’s Chemical Center at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, where thousands of U.S. soldiers served as volunteers for the secret testing of psychedelic and deliriant drugs as incapacitating
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Decoding the Cosmic Serpent: An with Jeremy Narby Interview
By David Jay Brown
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. is the author of The Cosmic Serpent, Intelligence in Nature, and is the coeditor of Shamans Through Time. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University, and spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon, cataloging indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction. Narby sponsored an expedition to the rainforest for biologists and other scientists to examine indigenous knowledge systems, and the utility of (the hallucinogenic jungle brew) ayahuasca in gaining knowledge. Narby has said that the
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Learning from Ageless Animals: An Interview with John Guerin
By David Jay Brown
John Guerin is the founder and director of the AgelessAnimals Project–also known as the Centenarian Species and Rockfish Project. This long-range research project involves investigators at fourteen universities around the world who study animals that don’t seem to age.
There are certain species of rockfish, whales, turtles, and other animals that are known to live for over two hundred years without showing any signs of aging–a phenomenon known to biogerontologists as “negligible senescence.” No one knows for sure how long these
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The Frontiers of Natural Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Jonathan Wright
By David Jay Brown
Jonathan Wright, M.D. is one of world’s leading experts on natural medicine, nutritional supplements, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. He is the medical director of the Tahoma Clinic in Kent, Washington, and he has treated over 2,000 patients with natural hormone replacement since 1982.
Dr. Wright graduated from Harvard University, and he received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School. He later specialized in family practice and nutritional medicine. Dr. Wright was a monthly
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Shattering the Barriers of Maximum Life Span: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Knoll
By David Jay Brown Joseph Knoll, M.D., is a Hungarian nuerochemist and pharmacologist. He is probably best known for developing the drug deprenyl (also known as Selegiline), the first selective MAO-B inhibitor, and he has researched the properties of deprenyl for over half a century.
Dr. Knoll is also the author of the recently published book The Brain and Its Self: A Neurochemical Concept of Innate and Acquired Drives (Springer, 2005), which summarizes his life’s research and his fascinating speculations about the relationship between brain activity and
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Unlocking the Secrets of Mind-Body Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Bernie Siegel
By David Jay Brown
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., helped to create a revolution in modern medicine. He is the author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles, the groundbreaking best-selling book that sold more than two million copies and went to number one on the New York Timesbestseller list.
In his practice as a general and pediatric surgeon, Dr. Siegel began recognizing common personality characteristics in those patients who did well and those who didn’t. Studying these personality patterns helped Dr. Siegel to understand the
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Dining in the Zone: An Interview with Dr. Barry Sears
By David Jay Brown Barry Sears, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading medical researchers on the hormonal effects of food. He is best known as the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Zone, which outlines his strategy for controlling insulin levels in the body through diet.
Dr. Sears developed the Zone diet as a way to keep the body from producing excess insulin. The Zone diet does this by providing a proper balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats at each meal, and
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David Jay Brown Interviews
Albert Hofmann
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Albert Hofmann, Ph.D., is the world-renown Swiss chemist who discovered LSD. The impact that LSD has had on the world is certainly immense, and although largely incalculable, I think, it’s fair to say that this super-potent, mind-morphing molecule has deeply effected the foundation of every aspect of human culture–from art and science, to politics, medicine, and spirituality. Dr. Hofmann also discovered and first synthesized psilocybin and psilocin, the primary psychoactive components of the magic mushroom, as well as the psychoactive lysergic acid alkaloids in Morning
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Redirecting the Immune System: An Interview with Dr. Kary Mullis
By David Jay Brown
Kary Mullis, Ph.D., won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which revolutionized the study of genetics. The journal Science listed Dr. Mullis’ invention of PCR as one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in human history.
PCR is a technique that allows chemists to easily, and inexpensively, replicate as much precise DNA as they need. This solved a core problem in genetics. Before PCR, the existing methods for making copies of those
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Pushing the Limit: An Interview with Dr. Leonard Hayflick
By David Jay Brown Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D., is a microbiologist whose research revolutionized cell biology, and helped to provide a scientific foundation for the field of cellular gerontology (or cytogerontology)–the study of aging at the cellular level. Dr. Hayflick discovered that cultured normal human cells can only divide a finite number of times, after which they become senescent. This limited capacity for cell division is now known as the ‘Hayflick limit’, and this discovery has enabled other researchers to make significant progress towards understanding the molecular
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Countdown to Telomerase Therapy: An Interview with Dr. Michael Fossel
By David Jay Brown
Michael Fossel, Ph.D., M.D. is a clinical physician and neurobiologist with a strong interest in the human aging process. He is currently the Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University, and Attending Physician at St. Mary’s Hospital Emergency Department in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Fossel is the author of Reversing Human Aging, and the recently published Cells Aging, and Human Disease. He believes that we are only around a decade away from a truly remarkable form of anti-aging therapy
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The Technology of Immortality: An Interview with Dr. Michael West
By David Jay Brown
Michael D. West, Ph.D., is a geneticist, stem cell pioneer, and entrepreneur. He has extensive academic and business experience in age-related degenerative diseases, telomerase molecular biology, and human embryonic stem (ES) cell research. Dr. West founded the first biotechnology company focused on controlling the aging process in human cells, and he has spent the last twenty years researching the cellular and molecular mechanisms of human aging. He is the founder of Geron Corporation, a biotechnology firm in Menlo Park, California,
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Noam Chomsky
Although Noam Chomsky revolutionized the study of linguistics, he is best known as one of the leading critics of U.S. foreign policy. The book Chomsky for Beginners begins with David Cogswell’s statement “Noam Chomsky is one of the ten most-quoted writers of all time,” and one encounters this assertion in many essays about Chomsky’s work. However, when Chomsky read the draft for this introduction, he told me that, “this is probably nonsense invented by some PR office. It can’t possibly be true…inconceivable.”
Yet, according to The Chicago Tribune, “a
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An Interview with Dr. Rick Strassman By David Jay Brown
Rick Strassman, M.D. is a medical researcher who conducted the first U.S.-government-approved-and-funded clinical research with psychedelic drugs in over twenty years. These studies, which took place between 1990 and 1995, investigated the effects of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), a powerful naturally-occurring hallucinogen. During the project’s five years, Dr. Strassman administered approximately four hundred doses of DMT to 60 human volunteers. This research took place at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine in Albuquerque, where he was tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry.
Dr. Strassman holds degrees from
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Challenging the Viral Theory of AIDS: An Interview with Dr. Peter Duesberg
By David Jay Brown
Peter Duesberg, Ph.D. is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a pioneer in retrovirus research, and he was the first scientist to isolate a cancer gene. More recently, Dr. Duesberg has gained recognition for his theory that abnormal chromosome numbers are the causes of cancer, which challenges the conventional mutation theory. However, he is probably best known for challenging the widely-held theory that HIV is the cause of
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Exploring the Nonordinary Mind: An Interview with Stanislav Grof. M.D., Ph.D.
By David Jay Brown Few people on this planet know more about nonordinary states of consciousness than Czech-American psychiatric researcher Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, the co-developer with his wife Christina of Holotropic Breathwork therapy, and has been a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of healing, personal growth, and spiritual transformation for over fifty years. He is also one of the world’s experts on LSD psychotherapy,
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Hans Moravec
By David Jay Brown
Hans Moravec is one of the world’s leading experts in robotics. He is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Mobile Robot Laboratory, and directs the world’s largest robotics research program.
Dr. Moravec is the author of two of the most popular books on the subject of robots, and the implications of evolving robot intelligence, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 1988) andRobot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind (Oxford University Press, 1998), which renown science
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The Seven Lively SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence):
An Interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey
By David Jay Brown
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. is on a search for the Holy Grail of medicine–the ability to stop and reverse the human aging process. Although this ambitious biogerontologist at the University of Cambridge in England was trained as a computer scientist, he is also a self-taught biologist with a strong interest in why organisms age. After marrying a geneticist in 1991, Dr. de Grey became so interested in biology that he began
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David Jay Brown
Interviews
Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which revolutionized the study of genetics. The journal Science listed Dr. Mullis’ invention of PCR as one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in human history.
PCR is a technique that allows chemists to easily, and inexpensively, replicate as much precise DNA as they need. This solved a core problem in genetics. Before PCR, the existing methods for making copies of those particular strands of DNA that one was
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David Jay Brown Interviews Candace B. Pert
Candace B. Pert is a neuroscientist who conducted groundbreaking research that changed the way scientists view the relationship between mind and body. While still a graduate student in her mid-twenties at Johns Hopkins University in 1972, she discovered the opiate receptor, the molecular-docking site where drugs like opium and morphine bind to nerve cells in the human brain. This breakthrough finding lead to the discovery of endorphins–natural, painkilling opiate-like chemicals in the brain, which Dr. Pert refers to as “the underlying mechanism for bliss and bonding.”
These findings dramatically
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David Jay Brown Interviews Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist who’s research strongly challenges the paradigms of conventional science. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, and six popular books, which develop his controversial hypothesis regarding how forms occur in nature, and document his groundbreaking research into mysterious phenomena that traditional science has great difficulty explaining. His ideas and research strike a strong cord in many people, and he has written some of the bestselling science books in the world, including A New Science of Life, The Presence of the Past, The Rebirth
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Dean Radin
Dean Radin is a psychologist and engineer who has specialized in the study of anomalies associated with human consciousness, principally so-called psychic (psi) phenomena. He has investigated telepathy, psychokinesis, and precognition at Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, Bell Laboratories, and SRI International, the latter as part of a classified program for the US government. Dr. Radin was elected President of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) affiliated Parapsychological Association in 1988, 1993, and 1998, and he is currently Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic
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David Jay Brown
Interviews John E. Mack
John E. Mack, M.D. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the founder of the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, and the founding director of the Center for Psychology & Social Change. He is also the author or co-author of eleven books, and more than one hundred and fifty scholarly articles, that explore how our perceptions shape our relationship with each other and with the world. In 1977 Dr. Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is a computer scientist, software developer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philosopher. He is a leading expert in speech and pattern recognition, and he invented a vast array of computer marvels. He was the principal developer of some of the first optical character and speech recognition systems, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, and the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments.
Kurzweil has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in speech recognition, reading
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Sacred Reflections and Transfigurations
David Jay Brown Interviews Alex Grey
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Alex Grey is a visionary artist recognized the world over for his astonishing paintings. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the globe, including the New Museum and Stux Gallery in New York City, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil, and the ARK exhibition space in Tokyo. His paintings have been used in extremely diverse venues–from Newsweek magazine and the Discovery Channel, to Rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid. Grey’s art has been featured
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Jeff McBride
by David Jay Brown
Jeff McBride is recognized as one of the most talented and respected stage magicians in the world, as well as a foremost innovator in contemporary magic. He was awarded the title “Magician of the Year” by Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle for his remarkable sleight-of-hand abilities, and he was voted critics’ choice as “Best Magician in Las Vegas” in the Review-Journal annual poll at Caesars Magical Empire in Las Vegas. McBride performs regularly to standing ovations at some of the world’s most spectacular theaters–including Caesar’s Palace in Las
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Valerie Corral
David Jay Brown Interviews
Valerie Leveroni Corral is the cofounder and director of the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM), the most highly praised medical marijuana collective in California. Corral was the first person in California to challenge the marijuana laws in court, based on the necessity defense, common law doctrine dating to the Magna Carta, and win. She also helped lead the 1996 battle to pass Proposition 215, the state’s medical marijuana law. An article in The New York Times referred to Corral as “the Florence Nightingale and Johnny Appleseed of medical marijuana
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Ram Dass
David Jay Brown Interviews
Ram Dass is one of the most respected and best loved spiritual teachers in the world. His books and lectures are responsible for exposing many Westerners to Eastern philosophy, and he has been an inspiration to many people. He is the author of twelve books about topics such as personal transformation and compassionate social action–including the classic book on Hindu Philosophy Be Here Now.
Ram Dass was born with the name Richard Alpert in 1931. He earned an M.A. from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University,
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, M.D. is a physician, inspirational speaker, and a prolific writer. Dr. Chopra combines conventional Western medical approaches with traditional Ayurvedic medicine from India, and has been one of the leading figures in mind/body medicine for around twenty years. His work has had a significant influence on many Western physicians, and he helped to bring the notion of holistic medicine to many people’s attention with his innovative combination of Eastern and Western healing. Dr. Chopra has written over thirty books (both fiction and nonfiction) on the topics
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Paul Krassner
by David Jay Brown
Paul Krassner is a rare blend of satirist, comedian, prankster and political activist. Many comedians and writers–such as George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Matt Groening, Robert Anton Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut–have attributed some of their comedic inspiration to Krassner.
Krassner is perhaps most well-known for publishing the satirical political magazine The Realist, which was the first adult satire magazine.The Realist blurred the distinction between actual news and fictitious humor, and it was often very difficult to tell the difference–which was precisely why the magazine was so much fun. The
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Bruce Sterling
by David Jay Brown
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer and social satirist who helped to create the “cyberpunk” genre, and has had a large influence on computer culture in general. He has written more than ten bestselling science fiction novels, and three short story collections, but, more importantly, he helped to establish a cultural movement that has a deep and lasting effect on how people interact with technology. Sterling appeared on the cover of the very first issue of Wired magazine–an indication of the essential role that he has played in
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Clifford Pickover David Jay brown
Clifford Pickover is one of the most popular and prolific science writers in America. He is the author of over thirty popular science books, and science fiction novels, which investigate a diverse range of mind-expanding topics–such as time travel, black holes, extraterrestrial biology, mathematics, creativity and computers. Some of Dr. Pickover’s more popular books include Chaos in Wonderland, Surfing Through Hyperspace, Time: A Traveler’s Guide, The Science of Aliens, and The Paradox of God. What all of his books share in common is a transcendence of the ordinary world, and a fascination with the beyond. “My
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Shpongle & Psychedelics: An Interview with Simon Posford
By David Jay Brown
Simon Posford (a.k.a. Hallucinogen) is a British musician and producer, specializing in psychedelic electronic music, spanning many genres from psychedelic trance (psytrance), to rock, to electronica.
Posford’s first studio album, Twisted, was released in 1995 under the artist name “Hallucinogen.” Twisted is considered one of the most influential albums in the genre of psytrance, and Posford’s connection with psychedelics was evident from the title of the very first track–“LSD,” which, to this day, remains the defining sound of a form of electronic music
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David Jay Brown Interviews Peter Russell
Peter Russell is a bestselling author, filmmaker, and management consultant. He is considered one of the leading thinkers on the nature and evolution of consciousness. Russell is probably best known for his pioneering book The Global Brain, which builds upon James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, by exploring the notion that the human species might be playing the role of a giant evolving brain in our planetary biosphere. Some of Russell’s other popular books include Waking Up in Time, The Consciousness Revolution, and From Science to God. Common themes in
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and social commentator. His books, articles, newspaper columns, talks, and NPR commentaries thoughtfully explore the psychological and sociological consequences of technology, mass media, advertising and youth culture. He is one of the most widely-read media critics in America, and although he is considered one of the world’s experts on youth culture and advertising, his ideas are not without controversy.
When Ruskkoff’s first book on media theory, Media Virus, was published in 1994, critics initially viewed his upbeat assessments of how teenagers were playfully
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David Jay Brown
Interviews Edgar Dean Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell–the lunar module pilot for NASA’s Apollo 14 space mission in 1971–was the sixth man to walk on the moon. In addition to his historical achievements as an astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot, Dr. Mitchell has also made important contributions as a research scientist, author and lecturer. After retiring from the U.S. Navy and the Astronaut Program in 1972, Dr. Mitchell’s research interests shifted from exploring the far reaches of outer space to the frontiers of inner space. He has spent the last 30 years studying
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David Jay Brown
Interviews George Carlin
George Carlin is a writer, standup comedian, actor and proponent of free speech. His irreverent, controversial, and thought-provoking standup routines have gotten him arrested, earned him four Grammy Awards, and tested the limits of free speech in America.
Carlin grew up in uptown Manhattan, in west Harlem. He began his performance career as a disk jockey in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1956, not long after quitting high school at the age of sixteen. After a few broadcasting jobs, Carlin left for Hollywood, to pursue a career in comedy. There, with
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Medicine and Spirituality: An Interview with Dr. Larry Dossey
By David Jay Brown
Larry Dossey, M.D., is considered one of the world’s experts on mind-body medicine, and is one of the leading spokespeople for integrating spirituality with medicine. He is the author of ten books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in medicine, including Space, Time & Medicine, and the New York Times bestseller Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine.
Dr. Dossey graduated in 1967 from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He then served as a battalion surgeon
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The New Science of Cannabinoid-Based Medicine:
An Interview with Dr. Raphael Mechoulam
By David Jay Brown
Raphael Mechoulam, Ph.D., is the Lionel Jacobson Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been working on cannabinoid chemistry (a term he coined) for over forty years. Throughout this time Dr. Mechoulam and colleagues have made some of the most important contributions to the field of cannabinoid research. His lab was the first to identify and synthesize delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. This discovery in 1964 (with Dr. Yehiel Gaoni)
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The Transformative Power of Integrative Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Andrew Weil
By David Jay Brown
Andrew Weil, M.D., is an internationally recognized expert on Integrative Medicine, which combines the best therapies of conventional and alternative medicine. Dr. Weil’s lifelong study of medicinal herbs, mind-body interactions, and alternative medicine has made him one of the world’s most trusted authorities on unconventional medical treatments. Dr. Weil’s sensible, interdisciplinary medical perspective strikes a strong chord in many people. His recent books are all New York Times bestsellers and he has appeared on
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A Compassionate Ending:
An Interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian By David Jay Brown
Jack Kevorkian, M.D., is one of the most controversial physicians in the world. He attracted a lot of media attention in the early to mid-nineties due to his outspoken ideas about euthanasia, or “a good death,” and is currently in his eighth year of prison for second degree murder because he assisted with the last wish of his patient, Thomas Youk, who was suffering from ALS.
Dr. Kevorkian graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1952 with a specialty
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Pregnenolone Update
with Eugene Roberts Ph.D.
Eugene Roberts, Ph.D., has been a leading figure in neurochemistry for more than half a century. Currently a Distinguished Scientist at the City of Hope, in California, he received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1943. In the intervening years, he worked on the Manhattan Project, determining the safe levels of exposure to uranium dust, performed cancer research a Washington University in St. Louis, where he discovered the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and in 1954, he founded the Department of Biochemistry and the division of Neurosciences at the City of Hope.
For much of
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DHEA Update
with Dr. William Regelson
William Regelson, M.D., a practicing oncologist and research scientist, is an expert on the therapeutic benefits of hormone replacement and has been a leading researcher in the field of aging for over twenty years. He is the co-author of the best-selling books, The Melatonin Miracle and The Super-Hormone Promise, which detail the latest research in hormone supplementation and which provide intelligent guidelines for taking steps to slow and, in some cases, even reverse the aging process.
Dr. Regelson is a professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University and is
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Living Longer, Feeling Better
with Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw co-authored two of the best selling books on human longevity– Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach(Warner Books, 1982), and The Life Extension Companion (Warner Books, 1984)– which triggered a large amount of popular interest in the subject, and their many television talk show appearances reached a large number of people.
Although perhaps the ultimate goal of medicine all along, the idea of extending human life in otherwise healthy individuals was a completely novel concept for most people when Pearson and Shaw published their first book back in 1982. How many people could have predicted back in the early eighties, that in just a few years after the publication of their ground-breaking book, there would be such huge world-wide interest in preventativemedicine?
The scientifically-sophisticated team of Pearson (with a degree in
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A Thousand Windows
“I don’t take anything when I’m painting. When I take psychedelics I get very horny, and I start going out to nightclubs and cruising.“
with Mati Klarwein
Andy Warhol said that Mati Klarwein was his “favorite painter,” and some of Mati’s admirers have included Jimi Hendrix, Salvador Dali, Jackie Kennedy, Brigitte Bardot, and Miles Davis. Yet he told me that he was “the most famous unknown painter in the world.” This is because almost everyone has seen the widely reproduced, visionary piece that
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Visual Addiction
“What it boils down to is we’re manipulated by a priestly elite of cultural directors in the art world, that’s telling us what is and isn’t art.“
with Robert Williams
Robert Williams’ paintings are so wildly psychedelic that Timothy Leary had several of his paintings hanging in his living room. Williams told me that his work was “tremendously” influenced by psychedelics, and it certainly shows. Prior to his psychedelic transformation Williams was hot rod illustrator who worked with Ed Big Daddy “Ratfink” Roth. He became well known for the contributions that he made
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Cyber-Dancer
“…we have to be a little more careful so we don’t miss the real uncanny coincidences, and drown in a pool of mediocre coincidences that everybody throws at you day and night.“
with Brummbaer
Brummbaer was one of the primary computer animators responsible for the mind-bending graphics in the Tristar motion picture Johnny Mnemonic (written by William Gibson, and co-starring my cousin Dina Meyer). He also created a breathtaking opener for SIGGRAPH’s 1995 Electronic Theater, and has long been a pioneer in the world of digital animation, where he has achieved legendary status with his unmistakable hallucinogenic
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Reflections on a Sacred Mirror
“We need transcendent vision to guide us, and the vision of a common good to motivate and drive our creative efforts.”
with Alex Grey
Amazon.com WidgetsAlex Grey is a visual artist with such shamanic power that merely looking at one of his paintings can trigger a mystical state of consciousness. His paintings– which enjoy wide popularity among the psychedelic community– capture semi-transparent people, revealing their complete physical and metaphysical anatomies in exquisite, mind-boggling detail, often while engaging in activities that make the most use of this unique
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David Jay Brown and Sherry Hall Interview Reverend Ivan Stang
Are we controlled by secret alien forces? When will the world end? How can we become more sexually attractive and make more money? These are some of the questions that Reverend Ivan Stang likes to consider. Stang Is one of the principal founders of the Church of the SubGenius, a brilliant and hilarious parody of the world’s organized religions and kooky cults. Actually, defining the church as simply a parody doesn’t quite do It justice, because It Is much more. It’s also a mind-bending art project–involving many extremely
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David Jay Brown Interviews Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec is the founder of the Mobile Robot Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University, and directs the world’s largest robotics program. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is the author of Mind Children and Robot, two of the most mind-stretching books I’ve ever encountered. He predicts that by the middle of the 21st century extremely powerful robots will be built with super-human intelligence. He has also suggested that one day we may be able to transplant our brains into powerful robot bodies, and transfer the contents of our minds into
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Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do
“Almost all spiritual paths remove drugs. Why? Because almost all spiritual paths have to do with control.”
with Peter McWilliams
To self-publish your own books and have them wind up on the New York Times bestseller list Is an almost unheard of phenomenon, yet Peter McWilliams did it six times. Peter had a gift for writing about universal themes–such as love and loss–with great clarity and simplicity, in a way that many people can relate to. His work has inspired millions of people, and his books have personally
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The Magician’s Daughter
“I’d like to do this whole thing all over again on a sunny day with some wine..”
with Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Rosemary Sarah Woodruff Leary was one of the world’s great psychedelic pioneers. She worked throughout her life to educate people about the psychedelic experience, and was instrumental in helping to orchestrate the cultural revolution of the Sixties. This she did at the expense of her personal freedom, which was compromised for a significant portion of her life.
Rosemary was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 26, 1935.
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The Legacy of Luna
“The root word of courage Is cour, which means heart, and that’s where true courage comes from.”
An interview with Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill spent over two years living eighteen stories high, on a tiny wooden platform, In a thousand year old redwood tree In Northern California. She did this because of her deep passion to help save the endangered ancient redwood trees of Northern California., and her concern for the fragile ecosystem of our planet, but especially because of the tremendous love that she felt for that
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The Beltane Celebration
Every minute of every day brings its own insight, its own poetry. There’s no part of life that isn’t wonderful…
with Arlen Riley Wilson
Arlen Riley Wilson is one of the wisest and most magical people that I’ve ever known. In her youth she wrote for several radio dramas, and acted as production assistant on two Broadway plays. She became active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, as well as the early stages of the Feminist movement. Her poetry has been published in several magazines, and she is
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The Conscious Universe
with Dean Radin
Many people believe in the existence of psychic (psi) phenomena from personal experience, yet few people– including most scientists– are aware of the enormous amount of scientific evidence in favor of it’s existence. Prior to reading The Conscious Universe, I considered myself to be fairly well-informed scientifically, yet I was completely ignorant of the massive amount of carefully-conducted research into psi phenomena there has been over the past century. That’s why The Conscious Universe was one of the most eye-opening books that I’ve ever read in my life.
That
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The Power of the Voice
“Enchantment literally means to be made magical through chant. So when people say they’re disenchanted, I say there’s only one solution… and that’s to chant!”
with Jill Purce
Jill Purce– a pioneer in vocal healing techniques– thinks that our world is out-of-tune. She believes that much of the disharmony on the planet today is due to humanity’s lost connection to singing and chanting. This is why she has taken it upon herself to help “re-enchant the world”, to “literally” make it magical through chanting. Ms. Purce teaches
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Mine Enemy
“One mountain can not approach another mountain. But a human being can approach another human being. “
with Aharon & Amalia Barnea
Aharon and Amalia Barnea are the authors of Mine Enemy: The Moving Friendship of Two Couples~ Israeli & Arab. The book chronicles the story of how– against many odds and numerous obstacles– these two brave Israeli journalists befriended PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) commander Salah Ta’mari and his wife, Princess Dina, the former queen of Jordan.
Ta’mari– who inspired a character in John le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl– was being held prisoner in an Israeli
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WAMM
with Valerie Corral By David Jay Brown
Few people in California have done more to help financially-needy patients obtain medical marijuana than Valerie Corral. It is largely Ms. Corral’s community-oriented vision which allows for many indigent patients in Northern California to obtain free marijuana, and for others to legally grow their own without fear of governmental persecution.
Understanding that a lack of financial resources prevented many needy and deserving patients from receiving high-priced medical marijuana, Ms. Corral was instrumental in drafting the provision in California’s Proposition 215 which allows patients and their care-givers to cultivate
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Politics of Failure
with Dan Baum
Dan Baum is the author of Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (Little, Brown and Company, 1996) The book recounts the history of the War on Drugs, beginning with the Nixon administration in 1967. I thought that I was pretty informed about the irrationality and horrors of the drug war, but when I read Baum’s extremely well-researched book I was astonished to discover just how sinister things had gotten. Baum makes it very clear that the War on Drugs actually has very
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Mountain Ecstasy
“Unite the spirit and the flesh. Honor the spirit in all things, and reclaim your birthright, your authentic being.”
with Penny Slinger
Like her artwork, Penny Slinger is a juxtaposition of many things. Photographic collage, poetry, painting, drawing, and video production are some of the mediums that she uses and combines to express her erotic and mystical, poly-cultural visions. Penny is also an expert in the art of Tantra, and her work on the subject is known world-wide.
Penny illustrated and co-authored several extremely popular books about sacred sexuality with her previous
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Alien Enlightenment
“It begins a kind of enlightenment process, which can be very disturbing, but they come to realize that the universe is an intelligent realm, not just a physical fact.“
with John Mack
There is little more fascinating to the human mind than the notion of extraterrestrial beings who are more highly evolved and technologically-advanced than ourselves. Although the majority of biologists that I’ve spoken with suspect that life has probably evolved all over the cosmos, most people roll their eyes when you mention the possibility of
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Stroked by the Guru
“What is your relationship to the mystery? Are you defending yourself from it? Are you making love to it? Are you living in it?.”
An interview with Ram Dass
Ram Dass’ books–”Be Here Now,” “The Only Dance There Is,” and “Journey of Awakening,” among others–and lectures have been an inspiration to many people.He is responsible for turning on many people in the West to Eastern religious ideas. He created the Hanuman Foundation to spread spiritually directed social action in the West, and co-founded the Seva
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Why not indeed?!
“Beautiful… Beautiful… Why? Why? Why? Why not?!”
with Timothy Leary
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It is extremely rare to find a photograph of Timothy Leary in which he isn’t smiling broadly. From the moment that Timothy first turned on to psychedelics– and there was a camera, a microphone, or an audience pointed his way– he consistently and charismatically radiated cheerful messages of hope, optimism, and courage. His beaming intelligence, hyper-insightful mind, and quick wit held the power to make people think, laugh,
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Here and Now
“What is your relationship to the mystery? Are you defending yourself from it? Are you making love to it? Are you living in it?.”
with Ram Dass
When Ram Dass speaks, his voice contains the gentle sanctity of a Gregorian chant. His presence is filled with the warm fuzziness of that favorite stuffed animal you cherished as a child, and he nudges out of you, just by being there, a sense of your own divinity.
As Richard Alpert, he sewed on the psychology faculties at Stanford and the
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Plugging into ElfNet
“…we are separate entities with boundaries that collide…we are entities with boundaries that overlap.”
with Francis Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey is a pioneer and forecaster on the frontier interface between communication technologies and neuroscience. He is a consultant on ethical applications of science and technology co-founder of civic and environmental organizations, and CEO of Alive Systems Inc., which is devoted to the application of biological principles in computer software design.
Francis devised the “Linguini code, ” an intercultural and human-computer communications “language. ” He originated the concept of “communications co-pilot, ” an
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Skin Deep
“Your body belongs to you. Play with it.”
with Fakir Musafar
By the age of four; Poland Laomis was regularly dreaming about his past lives; by six he was experiencing psychedelic visions while riding his bicycle; by twelve he was poking his mother’s sewing needles through his skin. By the age of thirteen he had pierced his foreskin in the coal cellar, by fourteen he was experimenting with his newly found psychokinetic powers; and by seventeen he had a full-blown mystical shake-up of the kind recounted by saints, sages, and madmen.
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The Science of Myth
“The history of the soul is always the history of the voicelss, the opressed, the repressed….”
with William Irwin Thompson
He spends his time contemplating such nuances of thought as the relation ship of birdsong to light changes in a sunset, the mythic levels of meaning in the fairy tale of Rapunzel, the relationship of oral sex to the development of consciousness, and the rain dances of chimpanzees. He is a cultural historian, poet, and mystic, weaving his imagination deep into the fabric of scientific theory.
William Irwin Thompson
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Pilgrimage of Change
“…you get the cosmic badge of honor pinned on you…when you can dance on totally nothing.”
with Elizabeth Gips
Born half-paralyzed in 1922, and dictating poetry four years later Elizabeth Gips had interviewed most of the people in the two volumes of Mavericks of the Mind long before we even got started Her infamous radio show Changes, which has now aired in northern California far over twenty years, has inspired countless individuals to explore new realms of heightened awareness. She is well known for her lively interviews with virtually everyone who
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Forging the Possible Human
“There is a revolution going on! We’re moving towards planetization within one century.”
with Jean Houston
When the search was on to find the girl to play Joan of Arc in the Hollywood movie, she was second in line for the role. It was eventually given to Jean Seberg, but Jean Houston is a mover and shaker with an epicenter of equal mission and purpose. it’s easy to believe that she has well over a million ex-students scattered around the globe, and that her plans and strategies are
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Food for the Soul
“…how can we live so that our participation is for the greatest good and the greatest healing for all beings?”
with John Robbins
As a vegetarian, I thought I had a pretty good knowledge of the inside dirt On animal husbandry. But it is one thing to know, it is quite another to feel. The fact that I can ‘t eat meat didn’t protect me from the onslaught of shame and sadness that crashed through my head when I read Diet for a New America. I found it hard
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Music of the Biospheres
“…it is in our capacity to be ther brain and the conscience of the biosphere, to be its self-reflective point.””
with John Allen
John Polk Allen was a driving force behind the development of the Biosphere 2 project in the Oracle, Arizona desert. Biosphere 2 is the largest self-sustaining ecosystem ever built, a masterpiece of human engineering that has been praised and condemned by a media that, for the most part, misinterpreted what it was all about. Both confusing it with a controlled scientific experiment or an entertainment spectacle missed
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Counting our Original Blessings
“To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there’s only one river.”.”
with Matthew Fox
While for many being a Christian implies generous portions of intolerance, self-righteous proselytizing, and patriarchal zeal, some have dug deeper into the well oft he Western mystical tradition and have drunk from sweeter waters. Instead of embracing the religions of the East, they are finding parallel philosophies and equally enlightened gurus amidst the discarded relies of the Christian church.
Matthew Fox, a Dominican priest, theologian,
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Chemophilia
“…Anything that the human is capable of doing through the mind is duplicable pharmacologically..”
with Alexander and Ann Shulgin
Alexander (Sasha) and Ann Shulgin stand on the frontier of designer neurochemistry, developing a plethora of miraculous pharmacological keys that unlock different aspects of the brain is hidden potential. They are known to many as the authors of the underground best-seller PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, the title of which is an acronym for Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved. Alexander is a long-standing, well-respected research chemist and professor of pharmacology at the University of California
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Reality Check
“[Virtual reality] defines our agenda with machines as being primarily cultural and sensual, as opposed to power-oreiented.”
with Jaron Lanier
When virtual reality became a cultural obsession and took the national spotlight, Jaron Lanier stood center stage. The diverse scope of possibilities created through full sensory immersion into computer-generated worlds caught the collective imagination, and Jaron became the hero of cyberspace. He began his journey into virtual reality after quitting high school, when he engineered his own education in computer science by spending time with mentors such as Mantilz Minsky at
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Tales of the Living Dead
“There is a human drive to celebrate, and we provide ritual celebration in a society that doesn’t have much of it.”
with Jerry Garcia
When you’ve had a street named after you, then you can congratulate yourself on a certain notoriety. But when you’ve had an ice cream named after you–well, that is the kind of recognition which dreams are made ~ After thirty years of playing with one of the most successful bands in rock and roll history, Jerry Garcia finds himself at the age of fifty-one, at
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The Pleasure Principle
“Let there be pleasure on earth and let it begin with me.”
with Annie Sprinkle
Annie Sprinkle is mostly known as the porn star/prostitute who became a performance artist/sex guru. She spent many years exploring a multitude of. sexual possibilities in Manhattan’s kinky sex clubs and through her roles in hundreds of hard-core XXX films, where she achieved legendary status and such earned titles as “the queen of Kink, ” “the Mother Teresa of Sex, ” “the Shirley MacLaine of Smut, ” and “the Renaissance Woman of Porn.
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Learning the Language of the Goddess
“Through an understanding of what the Goddess was, we can better understand nature and we can build our ideologies so that it will be easier for us to live.”
With Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas is largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in Goddess-oriented religions. Her discoveries were the foundation for Riane Eisler ’s (whom we interviewed in our first volume) highly influential book, The Chalice and the Blade. For fifteen years, Marija was involved with excavations in southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, which revealed the existence of a prehistoric
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Waking the Dreamer
“In the lucid dream you look around and realize that the whole world… is all something that your mind is creating.”
with Stephen La Berge
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Politics, Poetry and Inspiration
“Language joiins heaven and earth and joins the mind and the body.”
with Allen Ginsberg
Alien Ginsberg’s poem “Howl, ” published in 1956, caused such a controversy that it was the subject of an obscenity trial. Having received the court ‘s “approval, ” it went on to become one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. He is an extraordinarily prolific artist, having had over forty books published and eleven albums produced.
Alien’s friendship and literary experimentation with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs began in
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Bridging Heaven and Earth
“When the body/mind has been attended to, then, as a flower free of weeds, the Higher Self will naturally emerge…”
with Laura Huxley
Laura Archera Huxley has received wide recognition for her humanistic achievements including that of Honorary Doctor of Human Sewices from Sierra University, Honoree of the United Nations, Fellow of the International Academy of Medical Preventics, and Honoree of the World Health Foundation for Development and Peace from which she received the Peace Prize in 1990.
Born November 2, 1911, in Turin, Italy, she expressed a great talent for
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Stepping into the Future
“I think of my body as my spacesuit which I will discard once it has grown threadbare–but I will go on.”
with Nina Graboi
Nina Graboi has had a remarkable life which covers over seven decades of some of the most transformative years in human history. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1918, she fled the Nazi takeover of her country and spent three months in a detention camp in North Africa. Through a mixture of ingenuity and good fortune she managed to escape and
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From here to Alternity and Beyond
“The explanatory principle will save you from the fear of the unknown. I prefer the unknown…”
with John C. Lilly
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Psychiatric Alchemy
“I get more from wht great minds have written about human behavior, than any psychiatric text.”
with Oscar Janiger
Oscar Janiger was born on February 8, 1918, in New York City. He received his MA. in cell physiology from Columbia, and his M.D. from the UC Irvine School of Medicine, where he served on the faculty in their Psychiatry Department for over twenty years. His research interests have been wide, and he describes himself as a “tinkerer. ” He established the relationship between hormonal cycling and pre-menstrual depression in women, and
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Outside the Outsider
“…we possess all kinds of unknown powers, and the science of the future will be an exploration of these powers.”
with Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson was born in Leicester, England, in 1931, the son of a boot and shoe worker. He left school at the age of sixteen, spent some time working in taxes and the Royal Air Force, then became a tramp and did various laboring jobs for several years while writing his first novel Ritual in the Dark and then his first book The Outsider. Living on almost no money, he would sleep
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Singing Songs of Ecstasy
“…when artists are working directly from their emerging consciousness, their art is their most honest mirror.”
with Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
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Few people have devoted their lives to the creative arts as passionately as Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. For over thirty years, Ms. Kleefeld’s inspiring books and mesmerizing art exhibits have helped to guide us out of our mental and emotional cul-de-sacs into sublime states of mystical transcendence. Ms. Kleefeld is the author of ten books, which showcase her award-winning poetry, prose, paintings, and drawings in various complementary combinations.
Fueled by a
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In the Presence of the Past
“The regularities of nature I think of as more like habits, than as things governed by eternal mathermatical laws…”
with Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is best known for his controversial theory of “formative causation ” which implies a non-mechanistic universe, governed by laws which themselves are subject to change. Born in Newark-on-Trent, England, Rupert studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He took a Ph.D in biochemistry at Cambridge in 1967, and in the same year became
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Cybernautics & Neuro-antics
“To me the philosophy of the twenty-first century…is the philosophy of information”
with Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary has been a public icon of extreme controversy for several decades. Because of all the sensationalized publicity he has received from the media, much of this man ‘s real accomplishments have been obscured and his image distorted in many people ‘s minds. Timothy was a highly successful research psychologist long before he had his first encounter with psychedelic drugs. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, was on the distinguished faculty at Harvard,
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Chaos and Erodynamics
“Chaos is very much the same as the steady state; it’s not scary at all.”
with Ralph Abraham
Ralph Abraham is renowned for bringing a fresh perspective to mathematical thought. His study of dynamical systems as the building blocks of reality, has led him to extrapolate fundamental mathematical principles into his philosophical outlook . A professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1960. He taught at UC Berkeley, Columbia and Princeton before moving to Santa Cruz
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Faster than faster than light
“I think that mind is as fundamental to nature as light or electricity.”
with Nick Herbert
Nick Herbert holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Stanford University. He was senior scientist at Memorex, Santa Clara, and other Bay Area hardware companies specializing in magnetic, electrostatic, optical, and thermal methods of information processing and storage. He has taught science at all levels from graduate school to kindergarten including the development, with his wife Betsy, of a hands-on home-schooling science curriculum. Nick was the coordinator (along with Saul-Paul Sirag)
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Replicating Genes
“…will we do away with whole areas of the earth, then face what it’s like to have ten to twelve billion people on this planet?”
with Robert Trivers
Are social behaviors genetically inheritable? Do they evolve through time like physical characteristics? The science of sociobiology has developed in order to study these questions. In the controversial field of sociobiology, there is no one as controversial as Robert Trivers, for he has certainly been the most daring in applying the “selfish gene” theory of sociobiology to human behavior and psychology. Recognized as one of
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Raising the Chalice
“We see a world where the most highly valued work will have the consciousness of caring.”
with Riane Eisler & David Loye
Riane Eisler has been described as a modern renaissance woman due to her far-reaching insights as a cultural historian. She is the author of The Chalice and the Blade, which the eminent anthropologist, Ashley Montague has hailed as “the most important book sinceDarwin ’s Origin of Species. ” Her latest work, The Partnership Way–written with her husband David Loye is a handbook for applying the partnership model for which she has become
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Mushrooms, Elves and Magic
“Drugs are part of the human experience, and we have got to create a more sophisticated way of dealing with them…”
with Terence K. McKenna
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