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E r i k
D a v i s


The Crazy Wisdom of Philip K. Dick
Outline


8 Week Course
Sept 17 to Nov 11

Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis and The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape. Erik consulted on the script for A Scanner Darkly, and was recognized by the New Yorker for his expertise in PKD’s work. He has taught courses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is working on a book about PKD.


http://www.maybelogic.org/erikcrs.htm

Megalithic legacy Neolithic conf. in Malta 3-11 November 2007

what?
Conference, tour, and workshops:
On approaches to understanding the origins of our megalithic legacy
The Caraffa Stores, Birgu, Island of Malta
3rd - 11th November 2007
http://www.metageum.org/



Metageum '07: This week-long event comprises three threads centred on the theme of understanding the consciousness of the people who built the megalithic temples::

* Conference: An international, inter-disciplinary conference on different ways of approaching the thinking and imagination of the Neolithic people who built the megalithic temples in Malta and elsewhere in the world.
* Workshops: A series of experiential workshops enabling us to make the imaginative leap into the Neolithic worldview.
* Tour: A tour of Malta's megalithic heritage.

It takes place on the Vittoriosa Waterfront on the Mediterranean island of Malta, an island noted for its exceptional legacy of prehistoric temples.

Presenters

Paul Devereux

Erik Davis

Benny Shanon

Prospective webcast: Glastonbury Radio is hoping to broadcast the event live on the internet, and is currently seeking commercial sponsors to make this happen. Glastonbury Radio's live webcast of the Megalithomania conference in Glastonbury (19th-20th May) proved to be very popular with the online radio audience.

erik davis reports on Bardo Theory: Costa Rica "Mind" conf. PKDick

what?
Erik Davis Reports
It seems as if all those Philip K. Dick novels were coming home to roost, and if the rest of the journey was more of your typical commercial airline hell, it remained permeated with the woozy disorientation caused by mistaken identity and the arbitrariness of the archons who rule these transit zones.

It may also be one of the most useful. Early in Waking Life, the Ethan Hawke character quotes Timothy Leary to the effect that, even if nothing of us survives death, the last few minutes of the brain's electrical activity may be experienced by the dying person as an entire life racing in time-lapse—or, as the film itself suggests, a nearly infinite labyrinth of dreams. From this perspective, the traditional teachings of bardo navigation may come in handy despite the basic reality of brain-death: even if we are only riding that last wave to flatline, it pays to know how to surf.
http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2007-06-29-1929-0.txt

See also film on the Bardo Process during the Dying Process...how long does Dying last anyway? the extreme DMT probably kicks in. Maybe the homicidal Aztecs were getting off on the DMT squirt when one's beating heart was cut out and they drank the living blood?

Tim Leary wrote some on the Time Dilation Time manipulation during simulated Dying or very
high dose psychedelic trips ....in
neurologic now online here
page 40

http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books/neurologic/40.html