Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews John Lash on Gaia Praxis

UPCOMING BROADCASTS:
http://www.futureprimitive.org/NIHI.html

June 13 (pre-solstice) - The Healing Myth. A summary of Gnostic teachings on the Sophia, with emphasis on the healing effect of Her Story, the divine power of the Organic Light, and the quest for a new image of humanity.

NOT IN HIS IMAGE

Not in His Image was published in November 2006 by Chelsea Green, a publisher dedicated to the practice and politics of sustainability. Some of you may know of Chelsea Green through their books on solar heating, earth and straw bale houses, organic gardening, and other topics relating to ecology and alternative living, going back over more than 20 years. With John Lash's book, CGS is challenging the ideology and beliefs that threaten survival on this precious planet and presenting John's careful recovery and restoration of the Gnostic myth of the earth goddess, Sophia, who we today call Gaia.

I will be broadcasting a series of ten talks to be posted on Future Primitive twice a month, beginning February 8, 2007. I will be interviewing my collaborator and longtime friend, John Lash, about his book.
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith

LATEST BROADCAST - May 30, 2007
The ninth interview is about Gaia and Sophia. A discussion of the parallels and correlations between the Sophianic vision of the Mysteries and modern Gaia theory. Combines scientific and mystical viewpoints on evolution.

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Ralph Abraham talk with RU Sirius Amazing!

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Show #80: Chaos in Theory & Practice

Chaos Mathematician Ralph Abraham talks about chaos, gaia, eros, psychedelics, skepticism, Terence McKenna…

btw, we’re off for two weeks. See you in June!

MP3

Sponsor: Life Enhancement Products | Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp

Ralph Abraham

http://mondoglobo.net/neofiles/

reBoot9! this week in Denmark

http://www.reboot.dk/listpublish-1912-en.html

Sam Harris vs. Chris Hedges

Sam Harris vs. Chris Hedges debate at UCLA

Event Information

Religion and Politics: The End of the World? A Truthdig Debate
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
8 p.m.
Royce Hall, UCLA

Parking instructions: Enter Royce Drive off Sunset Boulevard.



An Atheist Manifesto
A Dig led by Sam Harris

Sam Harris argues against irrational faith and its adherents

Update: (2/08/2006 1:35 p.m. EST) Read Sam Harris’ additional arguments about The Reality of Islam

sample from sam harris
The entirety of atheism is contained in this response. Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. The obvious must be observed and re-observed and argued for. This is a thankless job. It carries with it an aura of petulance and insensitivity. It is, moreover, a job that the atheist does not want.
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_an_atheist_manifesto/

Fingerprints Can Reveal Drug Use & Disease, Study Says

Fingerprints Can Reveal Drug Use & Disease, Study Says

On May 17, 2007 @ 12:46 am In Health News | No Comments

Medical advances could be right at your fingertips. Drug test results and disease diagnose to be exact. That’s the promise of a new scientific study on antibodies.

British scientists working with David A. Russell report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, that they have now been able to use specific antibodies to differentiate between the fingerprints of smokers and nonsmokers.

Hitchens Bests Hannity in God Debate

Sean Hannity

McKenzie Wark's new "book" & OnLine Site GAM3R 7H3ORY

McKenzie Wark says

Welcome

This was Version 1.1 of Gamer Theory, which I created together with the Institute for the Future of the Book. Many people were kind enough to stop by and offer comments on all aspects of the book and the website. I made many changes to the book as a result of their contributions. I included an edited selection of comments in the print edition (Version 2.1) published by Harvard University Press. The comments feature of Version 1.1 is now closed, but you are welcome to stop by the Version 2.0 site where comments are open again. more...

Read the original Welcome

—McKenzie Wark

http://web.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory/

Bob Dobbs & Eban Ray on Roy Tuckman's Dreamland radio show

bo
Bob Dobbs interview here

http://64.27.15.184/parchive/pls.php?mp3fil=4902
put in your audio reader

Kpfk.org radio archives

bob in Paranoia magazine

Alan Watts on now!

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
WOMEN'S NIGHT! (and men whose names begin with 'W')


12-1 Alan Watts, "Reality, Art, and Illusion" part 3 of 4
"A discussion of the Indian philosophy of the world as maya - under its
several meanings as illusion, art, magic, creative power, measure, etc.
Various techniques in the arts are used to illustrate the diaphanous and
vibrational character of the material world and to suggest a new
approach to the old philosophy that the universe is 'mind' only." (AW)
>From MEA, Box 303, Olema, CA 94950.  1 (800) 75-watts,
www.wattstapes.com 

go to KPFK archives for Now Time....Human Mind is Space!

http://www.fivebodied.com/index.php?sid=c8f036a4e061d143f2f9c5f8e06f32a0
bob's site

notes on Teilhard de Chardin by Charles Henderson; Science is Faith in Universe & Gaia

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Toward a Science Charged with Faith

Chapter 5 of God and Science
by Charles P. Henderson




It was at the height of his career in paleontology while he was studying bones and fossils in northern China (in 1927) that Teilhard wrote what he called "a little book on piety" designed to convey both the sincerity and the orthodoxy of his faith to his superiors in Rome. In this book Teilhard speaks of The Divine Milieu and by its very title suggests his theme: the whole material world as the setting for a profound, mystical vision of God. It is in the world itself, as it is seen through the eyes of science, that the workings of God are most apparent. Teilhard's writing is graphic and unrestrained:
All around us, to right and left, in front and behind, above and below, we have only to go a little beyond the frontier of sensible appearances in order to see the divine welling up and showing through. But it is not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine presence has revealed itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find ourselves so surrounded and transfixed by it, that there is no room left to fall down and adore it, even within ourselves.

By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and moulds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers. In eo vivimus. As Jacob said, awakening from his dream, the world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.(1)

Needless to say writing like this did not reassure the religious authorities in Rome, for Teilhard affirmed the material world as a source of mystical illumination. Though Teilhard did not directly criticize any specific doctrines of the church in his little book of piety, this work constitutes an assault upon the skeletal supports of traditional theology. Teilhard was just as provocative when he was trying to reassure as when he was trying to stir up debate. Early on, he describes his book in two sentences which were intended to convey the modesty of his position but in reality contained a theological time bomb:

http://www.godweb.org/chardin.htm

U.S. Border Patrol Bars Canadian Psychotherapist with Drug Research Far in

anti cognitive liberty perps use 'Net search to filter out who is defending somatic processing experiments



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The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have

The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have

By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50404/

The following is an excerpt from Daniel A. Farber's forthcoming "Retained by the People: The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have" (Perseus Books, 2007), available April 30.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --The Ninth Amendment

http://www.alternet.org/rights/50404/

The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have

The "Silent" Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have

By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50404/

The following is an excerpt from Daniel A. Farber's forthcoming "Retained by the People: The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have" (Perseus Books, 2007), available April 30.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --The Ninth Amendment

http://www.alternet.org/rights/50404/

The Surprising Antiwar Message of 24

james fallows finally sees first season...trying to stop a war based on lies! too much.



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Wolfowitz = Swaggart, Chap. 1

James Fallows is a national correspondent at The Atlantic.



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DoseNation on top of Shroom book by Andy Letcher

from DoseNation

The Washington Times Review of 'Shroom'

...Times chimes in with a favorable review of 'SHROOM', a text we've covered in some detail on this site. Another interesting bit of wisdom from the review: Some of the facts Mr. Letcher confirms are at least as strange as the legends he debunk... 2007-04-04 15:17:34 jamesk

Interview with Andy Letcher, author of 'Shroom'

...aspects of alternative culture. His first book, SHROOM: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was reviewed by DoseNation earlier this week. Andy was nice enough to take the time to answer our burning questions about the text via e-mail. Please e... by James Kent 2007-03-23 12:15:50 jamesk

Book review: Shroom - Andy Letcher

SHROOM, by Andy Letcher, is that most wondrous of finds; a magic mushroom book that dares to confront modern orthodoxy, and does so in a way that actually advances our knowledge in the field. Billing his text as "A Cultural History of the Magic Mush... by James Kent 2007-03-19 11:35:44 jamesk

Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteer; new book by James S. Ketchum, MD, Author

Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteers

By Richard Willing, USA TODAY

Army doctors gave soldier volunteers synthetic marijuana, LSD and two dozen other psychoactive drugs during experiments aimed at developing chemical weapons that could incapacitate enemy soldiers, a psychiatrist who performed the research says in a new memoir.

The program, which ran at the Army's Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons, psychiatrist James Ketchum said in an interview.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-05-army-experiments_N.htm

http://www.forgottensecrets.net/

Chemical warfare watchers, from scientists to policy advocates, often wonder what went on at the Army Chemical Center during the 1960s.

It was a decade in which thousands of Army enlisted men served as volunteers for the secret testing of chemical agents. The actual historical record, however, has until now remained disturbingly incomplete.

The author spent most of a decade testing over a dozen potential incapacitating agents including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives. His 380-page narrative, loaded with both old and recent photographs, derives from technical reports, memoranda, films, notes and memories.



what?

Ecstacy By Prescription!

The unapologetic hippies at 10 Zen Monkeys talk to a guy from MAPS about legal psychedelic research, and how MDMA has a good chance of becoming a mainstream pharmaceutical. Except that there's really no market for it (not taken in daily doses). Lots of other drugs are covered too, including pot, shrooms, LSD and ibogaine.



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AutoPoietics on the 'Net psybernetics autopoiesis

http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/p00001.html


http://autopoietic.net/

Welcome to Autopoietic.net

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Journal of Autopoietic Theory

Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com

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Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.

Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.

See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997

See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975

See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England

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AutoPoietics on the 'Net psybernetics autopoiesis

http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/p00001.html


http://autopoietic.net/

Welcome to Autopoietic.net

---

Journal of Autopoietic Theory

Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com

---

Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.

Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.

See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997

See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975

See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England

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2+2=4 NYtimes gets a clue on Bush Admin Central Lie

NYTimes ED

March 7, 2007

Editorial

A Libby Verdict

central double-bind of this Admin.

He was charged with those crimes, defended by the best lawyers he could get, tried in an open courtroom and convicted of serious felonies. Mr. Libby walked freely out of the court, had his say in public and will be allowed to appeal.

It was another reminder of how precious the American judicial system is, at a time when it is under serious attack from the same administration Mr. Libby served. That administration is systematically denying the right of counsel, the right to evidence and even the right to be tried to scores of prisoners who may have committed no crimes at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/opinion/07weds1.html