I just found out that Bouncing Bear Botanicals is producing a neat looking film/documentary on psychedelics called Manifesting the Mind.
Below is a preview of the clip, featuring notable figures such as Dr. Rick Strassman, author of the brilliant book DMT: The Spirit Molecule, the infamous Terrence McKenna, and my favorite psychedelic writer and 2012 speculator, [...]

This is amazing.
Japanese scientists claim they have developed a technique that visually records ones thoughts and dreams onto a computer monitor.
The technique is done by analyzing changes in blood flow in the region of the brain where vision is processed, called the visual cortex.
A spokesman for Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, says that [...]

It’s rare that a book comes out these days that advances the discussion and understanding of Lucid Dreaming, but this is what Robert Waggoner has accomplished with his new book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self.
The official description reads…
Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self is the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreamer [...]

New Scientist published an interesting article today titled Swapping Your Body Becomes a Virtual Reality.
It wasn’t too long ago that researchers published results suggesting how capable the brains is at projecting an Out of Body experience, using similar techniques with camera goggles attached to a person’s face giving them a view originating elsewhere. (Read the [...]

Whoa – this is interesting.
The International Association for the Study of Dreams has put together an INTERNET CONFERENCE on dreaming. It takes place Sept 21` through Oct 5.
Here’s a snippet from the site:
Between September 21 – October 5, 2008 join some of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of Psi dreaming for two weeks [...]

Er, I meant to post this last month – it’s pretty neat, check it out:
Alive Mind Media is releasing 3 films this summer, dubbing the release “The Trippy Trilogy – Alive Mind’s Altered Consciousness Collection”.

Flicker
DVD release Date: July 15
Documentary on the 1961 invention of Brion Gysin’s “Dreammachine”, described as “a hypnotic light device with the [...]

In an effort to complete the transition from anti-hippie punk rock straight edge kid  to an intellectual hippie adult, I gotta say:
Damn, I really wish I could make it to this “Coalessence” festival in October:

In my defense (here the anti-hippie in me again), I don’t want to go so much for the music as for [...]