Consciousness Cafe - Entheogens and Psychedelic Cultural Transmissions

> Hello,
>
> I have finally received the go ahead to call for
> participants for my
> dissertation research. If you have experienced a
> religious apparition
> as a
> child, please go to the website below (also on the
> flier). If you know
> of
> anyone who has or might know someone, please forward
> the flier and web
> address to him or her.
>
>
> https://www.apparition-research.com
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and
> consideration.
>
>
> Irene Blinston, M.A.
>
> P.O. Box 61103
>
> Palo Alto, CA 94306
>
> 650-387-2294
>
> www.blinston.com



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// posted by ustaath @ 6/30/2004 01:20:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Interesting item from slashdot:

>----- Forwarded message from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org -----
>
>From: brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org
>Date: 28 Jun 2004 07:26:01 -0000
>To: slashdotnews@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Do Music and Language Obey the Same Rules?
>User-Agent: SlashdotNewsScooper/0.0.3
>
>Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/0046201
>Posted by: michael, on 2004-06-28 06:01:00
>Topic: music, 77 comments
>
> from the i-before-e-except-after-middle-c dept.
> [1]Emre Sevinc writes "Ever felt as though a piece of music is
> speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together
> in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to
> an Argentinian physicist. [2]This article in Nature states that Damián
> H. Zanette's [3]analysis also reveals a key difference between tonal
> compositions, which are written in a particular key, and atonal ones,
> which are not. This sheds light on why many people find it so hard to
> make sense of atonal works. In both written text and speech, the
> frequency with which different words are used follows a striking
> pattern. In the 1930s, American social scientist [4]George Kingsley
> Zipf discovered that if he ranked words in literary texts according to
> the number of times they appeared, a word's rank was roughly
> proportional to the inverse of the its frequency squared. [5]Herbert
> Simon later offered an explanation for this mathematical relationship.
> He argued that as a text progresses, it creates a meaningful context
> within which words that have been used already are more likely to
> appear than other, random words. For example, it is more likely that
> the rest of this article will contain the word 'music' than the word
> 'sausage'. Physicist Damian Zanette of the Balseiro Institute in
> Bariloche, Argentina, used this idea to test whether different types
> of music create a semantic context in a similar fashion."
>
>References
>
> 1. mailto:emres@bilgi.edu.tr
> 2. http://www.nature.com/nsu/040614/040614-11.html
> 3. http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0406015
> 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law
> 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Simon
>
>----- End forwarded message -----

Look at the photographs in this newspaper article.

Is the universe just extremely intricate origami art?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/science/22orig.html?ex=1089191452&ei=1&en=11df3feb4219df92

>Cones, Curves, Shells, Towers: He Made Paper Jump to Life
>
>June 22, 2004
> By MARGARET WERTHEIM
>
>Correction Appended
>
>SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - On the mantel of a quiet suburban home
>here stands a curious object resembling a small set of
>organ pipes nestled into a neat, white case. At first
>glance it does not seem possible that such a complex,
>curving form could have been folded from a single sheet of
>paper, and yet it was.
>
>The construction is one of an astonishing collection of
>paper objects folded by Dr. David Huffman, a former
>professor of computer science at the University of
>California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in computational
>origami, an emerging field with an improbable name but
>surprisingly practical applications.
>
>Dr. Huffman died in 1999, but on a recent afternoon his
>daughter Elise Huffman showed a visitor a sampling of her
>father's enigmatic models. In contrast to traditional
>origami, where all folds are straight, Dr. Huffman
>developed structures based around curved folds, many
>calling to mind seedpods and seashells. It is as if paper
>has been imbued with life.
>
>In another innovative approach, Dr. Huffman explored
>structures composed of repeating three-dimensional units -
>chains of cubes and rhomboids, and complex tesselations of
>triangular, pentagonal and star-shaped blocks. From the
>outside, one model appears to be just a rolled-up sheet of
>paper, but looking down the tube reveals a miniature spiral
>staircase. All this has been achieved with no cuts or glue,
>the one classic origami rule that Dr. Huffman seemed
>inclined to obey.
>
>Derived from the Japanese ori, to fold, and gami, paper,
>origami has come a long way from cute little birds and
>decorative boxes. Mathematicians and scientists like Dr.
>Huffman have begun mapping the laws that underlie folding,
>converting words and concepts into algebraic rules.
>Computational origami, also known as technical folding, or
>origami sekkei, draws on fields that include computational
>geometry, number theory, coding theory and linear algebra.
>This weekend, paper folders from around the nation will
>gather at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York
>for the annual convention of Origami USA. At an adjacent
>conference on origami and education, Dr. Robert Lang, a
>leading computational origamist, will give a talk on
>mathematics and its application to origami design,
>including such real-world problems as folding airbags and
>space-based telescopes.
>
>Dr. Lang, a laser physicist in Alamo, Calif., who trained
>at the California Institute of Technology, gave up that
>career 18 months ago to become a full-time folder. "Some
>people are peculiarly susceptible to the charms of
>origami," he said, "and somewhere along the way the ranks
>of the infected were joined by mathematicians." Dr. Lang is
>the author of a recent book on technical folding, "Origami
>Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art."
>
>Most computational origamists are driven by sheer curiosity
>and the aesthetic pleasure of these structures, but their
>work is also finding application in fields like astronomy
>and protein folding, and even automobile safety. These days
>when Dr. Lang is not inventing new models using a
>specialized origami software package he has developed, he
>acts as an origami consultant. He has helped a German
>manufacturer design folding patterns for airbags and
>advised astronomers on how to fold up a huge flat-screen
>lens for a telescope based in space.
>
>Dr. Lang has been studying Dr. Huffman's models and
>research notes, and is amazed at what he has found.
>Although Dr. Huffman is a legend in the tiny world of
>origami sekkei, few people have seen his work. During his
>life he published only one paper on the subject. Dr.
>Huffman worked on his foldings from the early 1970's, and
>over the years, said Dr. Lang, "he anticipated a great deal
>of what other people have since rediscovered or are only
>now discovering. At least half of what he did is unlike
>anything I've seen."
>
>One of Dr. Huffman's main interests was to calculate
>precisely what structures could be folded to avoid putting
>strain on the paper. Through his mathematics, he was trying
>to understand "when you have multiple folds coming into a
>point, what is the relationship of the angles so the paper
>won't stretch or tear,'' said Dr. Michael Tanner, a former
>computer science colleague of Dr. Huffman who is now
>provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
>University of Illinois in Chicago.
>
>What fascinated him above all else, Dr. Tanner said, "was
>how the mathematics could become manifest in the paper.
>You'd think paper can't do that, but he'd say you just
>don't know paper well enough."
>
>One of Dr. Huffman's discoveries was the critical "pi
>condition." This says that if you have a point, or vertex,
>surrounded by four creases and you want the form to fold
>flat, then opposite angles around the vertex must sum to
>180 degrees - or using the measure that mathematicians
>prefer, to pi radians. Others have rediscovered that
>condition, Dr. Lang said, and it has now generalized for
>more than four creases. In this case, whatever the number
>of creases, all alternate angles must sum to pi. How and
>under what conditions things can fold flat is a major
>concern in computational origami.
>
>Dr. Huffman's folding was a private activity.
>Professionally he worked in the field of coding and
>information theory. As a student at M.I.T. in the 1950's,
>he discovered a minimal way of encoding information known
>as Huffman Codes, which are now used to help compress MP3
>music files and JPEG images. Dr. Peter Newman of the
>Computer Science Laboratory at the Stanford Research
>Institute said that in everything Dr. Huffman did, he was
>obsessed with elegance and simplicity. "He had an ability
>to visualize problems and to see things that nobody had
>seen before," Dr. Newman said.
>
>Like Mr. Resch, Dr. Huffman seemed innately attracted to
>elegant forms. Before he took up paper folding, he was
>interested in what are called "minimal surfaces," the
>shapes that soap bubbles make. He carried this theme into
>origami, experimenting with ways that pleated patterns of
>straight folds can give rise to curving three-dimensional
>surfaces. Dr. Erik Demaine of M.I.T.'s Laboratory for
>Computer Science, who is now pursuing similar research,
>described Dr. Huffman's work in this area as "awesome."
>
>Finally, Dr. Huffman moved into studying models in which
>the folds themselves were curved. "We know almost nothing
>about curved creases," said Dr. Demaine, who is using
>computer software to simulate the behavior of paper under
>the influence of curving folds. Much of Dr. Huffman's
>research was based on curves derived from conic sections,
>such as the hyperbola and the ellipse.
>
>His marriage of aesthetics and science has grown into a
>field that goes well beyond paper. Dr. Tanner noted that
>his research is relevant to real-world problems where you
>want to know how sheets of material will behave under
>stress. Pressing sheet metal for car bodies is one example.
>"Understanding what's going to happen to the metal,'' which
>will stretch, "is related to the question of how far it is
>from the case of paper," which will not, Dr. Tanner said.
>
>The mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote that "there is no
>permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." Dr.
>Huffman, who gave concrete form to beautiful mathematical
>relations, would no doubt have agreed. In a talk he gave at
>U.C. Santa Cruz in 1979 to an audience of artists and
>scientists, he noted that it was rare for the two groups to
>communicate with one another.
>
>"I don't claim to be an artist. I'm not even sure how to
>define art," he said. "But I find it natural that the
>elegant mathematical theorems associated with paper
>surfaces should lead to visual elegance as well."
>
>An article in Science Times on Tuesday about Dr. David
>Huffman, a pioneer in the application of math to origami,
>misspelled the surname of a computer scientist who praised
>Dr. Huffman's ability to visualize problems. He is Dr.
>Peter G. Neumann, not Newman. The article also used an
>outdated name for the institution where Dr. Neumann conducts research. It
>is SRI International, no longer the Stanford Research Institute.

"DMT in the pineal glands of Biblical prophets gave God to humanity and let ordinary humans perceive parallel universes."

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/dmt.html

This is a fascinating piece. I would like to hear what others have to say about it.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=531952

Vatican summit aims to combat threat of 'alternative' religions
By Peter Popham in Rome
16 June 2004

Catholics from more than 25 countries are in Rome this week to hammer out a strategy for combating the threat posed to Christianity by "New Age" religions and fads.

"Astrologers believe that the Age of Pisces - known to them as the Christian age - is drawing to a close," explained an exhaustive report on the New Age produced by the Catholic church last year. And as priests around the world watch their congregations dwindle through boredom or plain disbelief, the Church believes that the moment has come to fight back.

Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, one of the authors of the report, said those at the closed-door conference include priests and lay people from Latin America "worried that they can be pushed out by something that has come from abroad", and from Asia where "a lot of traditional religions are reviving".

But for Fleetwood the greatest challenge may be in England and North America, "where the New Age began ... and where it has become such a part of everyday life that we don't notice it". That makes it harder to attack, he says: "Where one sees a threat, it's easier to battle it."

This is an enemy with dozens of heads: the version of the Jewish kabbalah espoused by Madonna, the Enneagram personality-reading cult, ancient Egyptian occult practices, Sufism, the lore of the Druids, Celtic Christianity, medieval alchemy, Renaissance hermeticism, Yoga, Zen Buddhism, and many more.

The report acknowledges the strength of the Enemy Within: "In Western culture in particular, the appeal of 'alternative' approaches to spirituality is very strong .... New forms of psychological affirmation of the individual have become very popular among Catholics."

Under the liberal dispensation of Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council, Catholic missionaries explored the religious traditions of lands where in the past their task would have been restricted to converting the heathen.

In Japan, one Jesuit missionary became a Zen Buddhist roshi ("master"). He in fact became a reverse missionary, implanting Zen Buddhist ideas and practice in Catholic groups in Germany and elsewhere, where they continue to thrive.

But Pope John Paul II's church is far less tolerant about practices that the Pope's "enforcer of the faith", Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dismissed as "spiritual auto-eroticism".

New Age is getting a grip on Christians because many are failing to find authentic spirituality in the Church. They are failing to find, as the report put it, "the importance of man's spiritual dimension and its integration with the whole of life, the search for life's meaning, the link between human beings and the rest of creation, the desire for personal and social transformation, and the rejection of a rationalistic and materialistic view of humanity."

While one of the two "pontifical councils" involved in taking up the challenge is that for "inter-religious dialogue", suggesting that the New Agers be dealt with on a similar footing to Muslims, Jews, and indeed Anglicans, the Pope himself appears to see the issue as a simple matter of right and wrong.

"We cannot delude ourselves," he says, that "this return of ancient Gnostic ideas" "will lead toward a renewal of religion." It is, he said, "a way of distorting His Word ... in distinct, if not declared, conflict with all that is essentially Christian".

The time for a decisive battle is clearly fast approaching. And the message to faithful in the report is plain: quit "shopping around in the world's fair of religious proposals."

The 2003 Vatican report:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html

http://www.infinityfoundation.org/cgi-bin/index.asp?main=http://www.infinityfoundation.org/info.html

The cost of her two hour lecture is $30, which
considering it's Jean Houston is pretty reasonable.

More info: http://www.jeanhouston.org

A post on another list alerted me to this 1996 MAPS study: http://www.ukcia.org/research/pipes.htm

This study found that, per quantity of THC, vaporizers (especially the hot plate variety) did the best of delivering the best ratio of THC to tar. Second to that was the unfiltered joint. Finally, water pipes and bongs performed the worst.

Some good quotes:

In the meantime, the easiest way for most smokers to avoid harmful smoke toxins may be simply to smoke stronger marijuana.

AND

Joints and Waterpipes

Surprisingly, the unfiltered joint outperformed all devices except the vaporizers, with a ratio of about 1 part cannabinoids to 13 parts tar. This disturbingly poor ratio may be explained by the low potency of the NIDA-supplied marijuana used in the study, which was around 2.3%.

Disappointingly, waterpipes performed uniformly worse than the unfiltered joint. The least bad waterpipe, the bong, produced 30% more tar per cannabinoids than the unfiltered joint. Ironically, the pipe with the electric mixer scored by far the worst of any device. This suggests that water filtration is actually counterproductive, apparently because water tends to absorb THC more readily than noxious tars. Like the waterpipes, the cigarette filter also performed worse than the unfiltered joint, by about 30%. Researchers speculate this is because cannabinoids are exceptionally sticky and adhere to other solids. Hence, any filtration system that picks up particulates is likely also to screen out cannabinoids.

Many astrologers have spoken about how the Venus transit event on June 6th, 2004 may herald an extraordinary change in the human condition. Venus transits in history have been linked by some writers to the first circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan, the development of the first national mail services, the first transatlantic cable, and the invention of the telephone. These past developments suggest that the current Venus transit of 2004-2012 may be related in some way to communication or globalization.

We find it interesting that the first commercial spaceflight, planned for June 21st, 2004, comes shortly after the opening of the Venus transit period.

It is also intriguing that a major breakthrough in quantum teleportation of atoms has occurred, and was reported by the reputable science journal Nature on June 17, 2004.

Amazingly, quantum teleportation transfers states instantaneously, or at infinite speed (much faster than the speed of light!). This may one day lead to the development of interstellar radios (an idea known as the ansible, first proposed by Ursula K. LeGuin in 1966) which allow us to communicate in real time with other civilizations, or across any area of space with zero delays.

Is that enough Venus transit energy for ya?

Links:

Venus transit: http://www.experiencefestival.com/i/topic/articles/article/3362

Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne: www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/

Teleportation breakthrough:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811785.stm

http://www.nature.com/nature/links/040617/040617-1.html

Please forward this news:

The Chicago Cultural center is sponsoring an event to
have live music in Grant Park this summer. Some of
Chicago's finest DJs will be spinning every Wednesday
6:30-9:30 pm starting June 23rd for 10 weeks. There
has not been a FREE outdoor display of Electronic
music here in Chicago for at least 4 years. The
legendary Derrick Carter will be spinning a house set
next Wednesday. Here's the link:

http://tinyurl.com/2q4rw

From a shamanic/tribal/trance perspective here are some Wednesdays (and
one Thursday!!) in Grant Park
that sound especially good:

Wednesday, June 23 (Opening night of new DJ series, no dance classes)
6:30pm-9:30pm: DJ Derrick Carter and DJ Diz (Chicago House)

Wednesday, June 30
6:30pm-9:30pm: DJ Ralphi Rosario and DJ Michael
Serafini (Vocal Tribal House)

Wednesday, July 7
6:30pm-9:30pm: Superjane Collective featuring DJ
Colette, DJ Heather, and DJ Lady D (Deep House)

Wednesday, July 21
6:30pm-9:30pm: DJ Miles Maeda and DJ Arkin Allen
(Chicago House and Tribal Sufi )

!!!Thursday, July 22!!!
7:30pm: Mercan Dede and Secret Tribe (Turkish Sufi
Electronica)

Wednesday, August 11
6pm-9:30pm: DJ Teri Bristol and DJ Psycho-Bitch
(Techno-House)

Wednesday, August 18
6:00pm-9:30pm: DJ Green Velvet and DJ Traxx (Chicago
Electronic Sound)

We try not to forward too much stuff from other lists,
but this is a significant victory.

I donate to Erowid, and have decided that Drug Policy
Alliance will be the other main recipient of my
donations in the future.

I have edited this doc somewhat to remove personal
references.

> > From: Ethan Nadelmann
>
> > Date: June 9, 2004 10:33:31 AM CDT
> > Subject: An Exciting Victory for the Drug Policy
> Alliance
> > An Exciting Victory for the Drug Policy Alliance
> >

> >
> > We won big.
> >
> > Beating the federal government in court is
> something the Drug Policy
> > Alliance does regularly - probably because the
> White House and the
> > Congress seem to have no shame when it comes to
> violating the
> > Constitution in the name of the drug war.
> >
> > Last week we beat them again, winning our lawsuit
> to strike down a
> > recent federal law banning marijuana reform ads in
> public transit
> > systems.
> >
> > You may remember that we filed suit in February to
> have the law
> > declared unconstitutional. The measure, pushed by
> Rep. Ernest Istook
> > (R-Okla.), prohibited federal support for any
> transit system that
> > permits pro-reform advertising. A federal judge in
> Washington last
> > week concluded that the so-called "Istook
> Amendment" does indeed
> > violate the First Amendment.
> >
> > Now that our right to campaign for marijuana
> reform has been restored,
> > we need to exercise it. Together with our allies
> who joined us in the
> > suit -- the ACLU, Marijuana Policy Project and
> Change the Climate --
> > we want to run ads that tell the truth about the
> drug war.
> >
> > Please help us send Ernie Istook a message by
> making a generous
> > donation to our campaign. Your funds will pay not
> just for ads, but
> > for our efforts to stop the government from
> spending your money on
> > drug war propaganda. Donate now via our
> convenient and secure page.
> >
> > Every ad we create sends two messages. First, that
> the "war on drugs"
> > is a disaster for this country that is causing far
> more harm than
> > good. Second, the ads serve notice that we will
> never stand silent in
> > the face of mean-spirited and misguided attacks by
> drug warriors like
> > Ernest Istook or John Ashcroft. They can toss
> taxpayer dollars down
> > the drain on frivolous lawsuits and dishonest
> anti-drug propaganda,
> > but the truth will always win in the end.
> >
> > In declaring the "Istook Amendment"
> unconstitutional, Judge Paul L.
> > Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the
> District of Columbia
> > stated that "there is a clear public interest in
> preventing the
> > chilling of speech on the basis of viewpoint" and
> that "the government
> > articulated no legitimate state interest in the
> suppression of this
> > particular speech other than the fact that it
> disapproves of the
> > message, an illegitimate and constitutionally
> impermissible reason."
> >
> > The Istook ruling is only the latest legal victory
> in our efforts to
> > foster policies based on science and
> compassion. The Alliance won
> > another one for the First Amendment last year in
> the Conant case,
> > which protected the rights of doctors and patients
> to discuss the
> > medicinal benefits of marijuana. We beat the feds
> again in the WAMM
> > case, relying on constitutional limitations on
> what the federal
> > government can tell states to do. There have been
> other wins as well,
> > and there will be more.
> >
> > Meanwhile, Istook and other drug war zealots are
> fighting back,
> > denouncing the ruling and pressing on with their
> crusade against free
> > speech and compassion. John Ashcroft and Drug Czar
> John Walters have
> > more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars
> ear-marked for drug
> > propaganda in the coming year alone.
> >
> > It's amazing how far we've come with the political
> cards stacked
> > against us. I think it speaks to the rightness of
> our cause. It is
> > also why I call on fellow reformers like you to be
> as generous as
> > possible in supporting our efforts.
> >
> > Help us take on Istook and other drug war zealots
> by donating now.
> >
> > Our fight for marijuana and drug reform is
> unfolding in every public
> > forum - the courts, the states, the Congress, and
> thanks to the
> > Constitution, buses and subways. With the
> continued support of folks
> > like you, we'll go all the way.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
>

> > P.S. Also, please join us online for a free live
> audio chat on
> > marijuana with renowned author Eric Schlosser on
> June 15th at 3 PM
> > Eastern/Noon Pacific. Watch your inbox or check
> >
> http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/schlosser_chat.cfm
for
> more details.

> > To Contact or Make a Donation by Mail to the Drug
> Policy Alliance:
> >
> > Drug Policy Alliance
> > 70 West 36th Street, 16th Floor
> > New York, NY 10018
> >
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// posted by ustaath @ 6/09/2004 11:43:00 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/340/badnarik.shtml

More news about the nomination of Michael Badnarik as Libertarian contender
for the 2004 U.S. presidential elections. Badnarik is the only presidential
contender with a firm plank to end drug prohibition. You do have a choice!

Every Sunday at 2pm in Wicker Park, Chicago.

>From: Liz - BopCamp
>
>hey guys,
>our weekly meeting of poi in the park is coming up, this sunday at 2pm in
>wicker park. bring all your spinning toys, your drums and whatever you
>might want to enjoy a nice afternoon in the park.
>usually, SPUNN has been there to help support this event, but this weekend
>we will be in peoria performing at the Summer Camp festival.
>
>I still encourage everyone to be there, despite myself and some others
>being gone.
>
>:):) yeah for summer!
>
>Liz
>
>ps. wicker park is one block south on damen of the milwaukee, damen and
>north ave intersection.
>
>
>www.bopcamp.org
>bopcamp(at)transamoeba.org [bop camp list serve]
>
>GO BOP GO!!!!
>AWWWOOOOOGGGGAAAA

// posted by ustaath @ 6/03/2004 09:50:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

>FutureHi
>http://www.futurehi.net/
>With the tagline, "Celebrating the Rebirth of Psychedelic Futurism," the
>collaborative blog FutureHi seeks to create a "joyous, infinitely
>expanding future" that cruises "the intersections of higher intelligence,
>accelerating technology, anthropological exodus, utopian dreams, trance,
>autonomy, imagination and logic."