http://in-a-perfect-world.podomatic.com/entry/2012-04-19T21_05_29-07_00

In this continuation of In a Perfect World 33, experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews author and academic Robert Forte about the origins of the Psychedelic Movement and manipulation by the power elites as a social engineering tool for control of the dominant paradigm. This far-ranging discussion covers Huxley, Wasson, Hofmann et.al and the social milieu and the role of the CIA and elite steering of the dissemination of psychedelics in the West and the vested interests behind them that have culminated in the global police state that confronts us in the West today. The medical, spiritual and religious arms of the movement are dissected in light of the political agendas that control civilization, as Forte and Razam examine the revolution of the 60s and the revolutionary times we now live through. They ask the critical question: is the commodification of the modern psychedelic movement a prelude to global Soma, and can individuals awaken to their own cosmic sovereignty before it's too late? Forte's seminal book, Entheogens and the Future of Religion , with contributions by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jack Kornfield, Terence McKenna, the Shulgins, Rick Strassman, and others is now back in print, with all proceeds going to support the Council on Spiritual Relations work with psilocybin research.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7C7C99A3E5FC148

"Don't know how many of you know about 'The Terence Mckenna OmniBus 2012' series which we lauched in January with the first 12:12:12 clip, "Who am I?"
There are now 3 clips posted representing the first 3 months of the year with April coming up. The acronym for the series is TMOM2012 and the playlist is here;
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7C7C99A3E5FC148
 
Like us on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/TMOM2012
Please tweet @webtrance to show pleasure"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
or you can have the long one; or both:) rewrite if you want...Mx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'The Terence Mckenna OmniBus 2012' series launched in January 2012 with the first 12:12:12 clip, "Who am I?"
There are now 3 clips posted representing the first 3 months of the year with April coming up. The acronym for the series is TMOM2012 and the playlist is here;
 
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7C7C99A3E5FC148
 
In December Terence will utter his 2012 predictions.
Yes, this (Lost tapes) footage really exists, as does other unseen stuff that will provoke and astound you.
 
Each 'episode' or 'chapter', will deal with a specific subject.
 
In Chapter One: "Who Am I?" The unfolding of the Mckenna Mojo begins..12 minutes, 12 seconds and 12 frames closer to the Singularity, 'The Eschaton', the 26,000 year Mayan Long Count, The Apocalypse, (Nostradamus), or the end of Kali Yuga. Meantime, social networking continues to be the glue which binds global consciousness to the Arab Uprising, Nuclear Safety issues, ecological devastation, Earth changing natural events, or whatever you think is of the utmost importance. Back in the moment, whatever happens next, the future isn't written, at least not on any kind of a personal level, but just in case, catchup on some headspace from the Bard;
 
Disclaimer:
 
We've given away the first 3 parts of the series. You're welcome to view and share but unfortunately
no further permissions can be given for rehosting on
YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or other video hosting sites. Just link to the original YouTube file, or download the HQ .mp4 file/s (208MB) from our server and all will be well!
 
Please support independent moviemakers by respecting this.
 
We recommend you join the forum on the link below to stay up to date with releases; http://www.cognitionfactor.net/forum/
 
Question: Who are We?
Answer: We are Anonymous!
 
Thanks for logging in and Enjoy the show!
 
Admin
Headspace Studios
http://cognitionfactor.net
Tweet us your pleasure: @webtrance
Like us on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/TMOM2012
 

art: Tim Parish, The Journeybook anthology

The Digital McKenna, Terence (DMTi) Initiative


I, Terence is an experiment to bring alive the spirit of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000)  by harnessing existing content in the public domain, his talks, ideas, videos, photos, geo-mapping, etc, with the Lifenaut system of AI intelligence into a functioning Avatar interface.

The platform is designed for multi-users to submit content that will eventually aggregate into a personality matrix ("mind file"). It's all experimental but the foundations are there: Lifenaut is a not-for-profit company with good intentions to explore this new AI modality, and all content is retained for ownership by the original makers.  The platform will hold the content and resynthesize with an AI interface, it will learn and grow in useability to enable an interface with the public and the spirit of Terence's ideas, perhaps eventually synthesizing new contours.

Tuesday April 3, 2012 is the 12th anniversary of Terence's passing and the launch of the beta-version of the iTerence project, aka the Digital McKenna, Terence Initiative (DMTi)... We ask the global psychedelic community to  crowdsource any bootleg talks, podcasts, images, text, etc. from Terence. This is a non-commercial, open-community project that in essence aggregates existing content Terence has left us into a new, more useable form.

The Lifenaut system is still in early development in that they are not pulling data or metadata from video, audio or text yet – but this is something they are working on,  trying to develop algorithms to extract ideas and voice synthesis from video and audio. We reinterate that they are not capable of doing this presently, although by aggregating this content now we will be positioned to work with it when their system is able in the near future. People with relevant skillbases  wishing to donate time and expertise or money to Lifenaut may help speed this process to fruition.

At the moment we believe the power in the project is in training the virtual Avatar. After 1000 lines of conversation that digital Terence Avatar starts to become coherent. We  have been spending time training the iTerence Avatar by feeding it interview question and answers and quotes from existing talks. The Avatar is still relatively incoherent, but it is getting there. Every day we work with it, it is increasingly more responsive. At the moment only a generic male voice is possible, but we hope that a closer simulation of Terence's voice will eventually be possible from learning from the audio samples.

The Joelistics ‘HEART REMAINS OPEN’ Video Project

 on SLAMTV.ORG

Australian hip hop artist JOELISTICS (Elefant Traks) is teaming up with Word Travels, Verb Studios and YOU to make an ‘open source’ video for his song ‘Heart Remains‘ – a sprawling spoken word journey into the Australian landscape and culture.

Watch the video call-out below:

HEART REMAINS OPEN PROJECT > video callout from Verb Studios on Vimeo.

SLAM TV is a site dedicated to the oldest art form on the planet,  spoken word, and the newest , video art. The combination of these two forms of expression is about to spark the imagination of the broadband generation who share consciousness through the digital bandwidth. With social media, online video and blogs the web has opened the door for a new global culture dedicated to the word. SLAM TV will showcase this breaking wave as it crashes on the silicon shores of our present.

"Sacred Economics" with Charles Eisenstein

Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and produced three non-commercial, self-produced and freely-distributed documentary films: Zeitgeist: The Movie, Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. He is also the founder of "The Zeitgeist Movement", which is a social sustainability organization with members now in nearly every country. His work with The Movement is now a large part of his daily activities -- giving lectures and helping to produce relevant media/materials to spread the interest for a new social system.

In this talk, Peter Joseph examines todays economy and reflects our environmental misalignment and the value war.

Watch: Japanese Punk Band Becomes Voice of 'Generation Fukushima'

March 12th, 2012 by Michael McAteer

From AsiaSociety.org

RAP NEWS episode 10: The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Sumerian planet smash into our solar system, plunging us into serfdom under the iron fist of a race of gold-hungry aliens? Or are the aliens already here? Or are all these merely humanity's collective projections of itself as it careens towards an ever-accelerating super-connected cyber-reality - whatever that means... One thing's sure, if 2011 was a prelude of things to come, 2012 is going to be one hell of a year. Now that it has arrived, are we ready? Join your host Robert Foster and his guests, Terrence Moonseed and General Baxter, as they conduct an in-depth rap analysis into the future, and humanity's place in it. Happy New YERA!
____________________________________________
**RE-UPLOADERS: please wait until after Christmas!**

____________________________________________
** Free MP3 download & LYRICS: http://www.reverbnation.com/rapnews
** WEBSITE, full of info on juicy stuffs: http://www.thejuicemedia.com
____________________________________________
** SUPPORT Rap News to keep broadcasting rhyme and reason on the only remaining free frequency: http://thejuicemedia.com/donate - thanks!
____________________________________________
** CONNECT with us on Farcebook: https://www.facebook.com/rapnews
And Twitter: http://twitter.com/juicerapnews

____________________________________________
**** CREDITS ****

** BEAT: "Tancz Glupia" by Mateusz Schmidt "Matheo"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFC9PmPcZ4
www.facebook.com/MatheoProductions
from LP "Sobotaz" by MC SOBOTA
Uploaded with permission

** We are hugely grateful to all of our collaborators for their time and patience: Our awesomely reliable and talented artist/designer, Zoe Tame from http://visualtonic.com.au for creating all the original artwork; Dave Abbot for syncing and chromakey. Ben Erwin for awesome on-location filming at Liberty Plaza, with the help of John Sidorovich and #Occupy protesters: Tim Pool, Radagast Istari Brown, Jessica, Darrell, Jake, Dan and others who shall remain 'anonymous'. Thanks to Lucy, Paula, Daniel, Adso and Taegan for Protester voiceovers; and Cepstral Dave for Anonymous voiceover. Trav and Nick for lights and tech assistance. Gilles Gundermann & Mily Langworth for props. Lucy & Caitlin for ongoing patience and support. Koolfy & Siltaar for creating English caption file. Above all we are indebted to the Herculean efforts of Melissa McCollough and Professor Stuart Reese at the Sydney Peace Foundation (http://www.sydneypeacefoundation.org.au) who made our trip to Sydney possible and thus our special interview with Noam Chomsky. A very special thanks to Clinton Fernandes who gave us time and space in his hotel room to consult the great Oracle, to whom we are also very grateful for being such an inspiration; and a sport. :)

Hugo & Giordano