Approaching Timewave Zero - by Terence McKenna

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fUSION Anomaly - Timewave Zero

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Linguists, cognitive scientists, behavioral ecologists and theoretical biologists offer disparate views in the emerging field of language evolution.

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An experimental brain-machine interface has allowed a quadriplegic person to control a computer in what could be an early step to new assistive technologies for the disabled.

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An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.

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A storehouse for the brain's "memory molecules" has been located, an advance that could offer clues for diseases characterized by learning and memory degradation.

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Dr. Kenneth Ring's NDE research

This article is reprinted from ReVision, Vol. 11, No. 3, Winter 1989

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In 1990, I began the first new human research with psychedelic, or hallucinogenic, drugs in the United States in over 20 years. These studies investigated the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, an extremely short-acting and powerful psychedelic. During the project's five years, I administered approximately 400 doses of DMT to 60 human volunteers. This research took place at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine in Albuquerque, where I was tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

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A new class of designer molecules has been created that can be "programmed" to self-assemble into nanoscale structures for tiny devices.

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James Hughes In Conversation With R.U. Sirius

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Lux Research just published the third edition of their seminal report on the nanotechnology industry. The Nanotech Report 2004 profiles more than 1,000 companies and features new investment frameworks and strategies, company and academic profiles, patent licensing opportunities and trends, competitive data, interviews with Nobel laureates and industry experts, profiles of the most influential players in nanotechnology, and a technical primer.

Because nanotechnology is a key enabler of neurotechnology, I recommend that anyone involved in neurotech-oriented ventures read the insights contained within this report - click here for a free download of the introduction.

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PDF File

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by Terence McKenna

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To whom it may concern,
If something happens to me and I die suddenly, I want you to know of the extraordinary importance of a novel I just finished reading, POKER WITHOUT CARDS.

Ben Mack is at the bleeding edge of avant-garde fiction. Just amazing! Memetics, Shannon & Fuller woven into a novel. Just add Internet and you've got the major themes of my next book.

Reading POKER WITHOUT CARDS is like reading a young Bucky, world politics are explained in a way not previously visible, but once viewed, cannot be seen any other way. Ben Mack wrote a consciousness thriller, combining natural philosophy with storytelling—the effect is like taking acid, only you never come down.

Sincerely,
Robert Anton Wilson

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A cannabis-like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.

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The intercourse between human beings and intelligent machines has challenged the traditional understanding of what it means to be "human." Technology's pervasive and penetrating presence has resulted in a posthuman condition: a state in which there is a continuous collapsing of man and machine.

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deoxy·news (beta)

A Memetic Lexicon

Psychedelic Yoga

Discovering the Way of the Shaman

Tribes connected to tribes connected to Deoxy tribe (Including the Techno§hamanic Tribe)

meme Recent changes

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In a step towards realizing the promise of quantum communication and computing, researchers have successfully teleported photons underneath the river Danube in Austria.

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"Smart skin" holds promise for morphing wings and wearable computers.

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By Kevin Warwick
Special to Betterhumans.com

While today's implants are pretty basic, several hold promise for linking the brain to a computer

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Demand for increasingly powerful communications technology points to our future as a "techlepathic" species

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Nanoparticles originally developed for industry have an unexpected effect: They triple or even quadruple the life of rat brain cells, suggesting that they could help extend human lifespan and decrease age-related health problems.

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The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation.

Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity - several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.

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If you're like most people, you've fantasized about downloading Spanish 101 directly into your skull. That dream may become reality sooner than you think.

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Scaffold-like structures have been built from RNA in a small but important step for exploiting biology to build nanoscale machines.

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Abstract

This paper outlines the case for believing that we will have superhuman artificial intelligence within the first third of the next century. It looks at different estimates of the processing power of the human brain; how long it will take until computer hardware achieve a similar performance; ways of creating the software through bottom-up approaches like the one used by biological brains; how difficult it will be neuroscience figure out enough about how brains work to make this approach work; and how fast we can expect superintelligence to be developed once there is human-level artificial intelligence

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Howdy Gang.
For those interested, here's a preview of my new novel.

Cheers - valis

"Shackle me not to this devine flesh"

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Greetings gang. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I am presently spending most of my time working on a novel. Updates will return in the future...

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On Saturday night, January 16, 1999, Terence McKenna gave one of his last lectures at the legendary Entheobotany Series by the foot of the pool at the Chan Kha Hotel near the Mayan ruins of Palenque. There were about 100 people sitting in the moonlight, listening to the lowing of cattle in the distance and the occasional chatter of the howler monkeys in the trees nearby. This was Terence doing what he did best, which was to challenge all of us to stretch our minds to their far limits and then expand them once again.

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

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A recently launched company claims to have "a simple, non-surgical technique to remove problem memories." Apparently, "the technique deconstructs memory from its core making a relapse virtually impossible."

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Scientists have created a new form of matter saying it could provide a new way to generate electricity.

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The term "psycho-terrorism" was coined by Russian writer N. Anisimov of the Moscow Anti-Psychotronic Center. According to Anisimov, psychotronic weapons are those that act to "take away a part of the information which is stored in a man's brain.

It is sent to a computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those who need to control the man, and the modified information is then reinserted into the brain."

These weapons are used against the mind to induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, "zombification," or even death. Included in the arsenal are VHF generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves. Russian army Major I. Chernishev, writing in the military journal Orienteer in February 1997, asserted that "psy" weapons are under development all over the globe.

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"We were hired by the government, 'Hey go in that little box over there. There's something in that box we don't have the hair to go into.' So they hired a bunch of college kids to go in there...then they said, 'Don't let them go back in that box!"

-- Ken Kesey on the U.S. government's experimentation with LSD-25

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These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

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Scientists have recruited DNA to manufacture miniscule wires that could be used for nanoscale electronic devices.

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Lecture by Peter Lamborn Wilson held during the "Next Five Minutes" Conference on Tactical Media Amsterdam, January 19, 1996

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Now researchers are on the verge of successfully using holographic techniques to place data in a 3-D format that will exponentially increase the efficiency and accessibility of storage -- up to a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of data on a CD-sized disk. By comparison, DVDs have a storage capacity of less than 20 gigabytes.

Fractal Magnets May Fracture Old Technologies

Plastics with fractal magnetic fields "may provide ways to store a high density of information" in a very small space because of their intensely ordered structure, explained Arthur Epstein, director of the Center for Materials Research at OSU.

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So why did Rudolph have a red nose? Could it have something to do with reindeers' famous passion for the red, spotty fly agaric mushroom?

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Anarchist Meditations on N. Herbert's Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

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Abstracts of scientific research papers investigating the absence or presence of psychedelic tryptamines in psychiatrically labelled and psychiatrically unlabelled populations, including speculations on the significance of findings, emphasizing the usual pathological paradigm.

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"If you have to inoculate yourself against the various memes of closure that are around, psychedelics do that. That's why they are so politically controversial and potent because -- more than any other single act that you may voluntarily undertake -- they pull the plug on the myth of cultural meaning. "

~ Terence McKenna

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2003: The year in technology

2003: The year in biology and medicine

2003: The year in space and astronomy

BBC Novelty Report

Berkely Novelty Report

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by Terence McKenna

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