1 Min Short Film - Research - Contemerory Practitioners

Pfadfinderei & Modeselektor - Coffein



Pfadfinderei [ fɑ:d'fɪndɜ:raɪ ] is an internationally renowned design collective. From the development of motion design productions to the conceptualization of events, Pfadfinderei offers a broad spectrum of solutions that crosses borders between required function and contemporary design, all through the lens of advanced visual art & multimedia.

Finding and visualizing paths was the approach that led to the name Pfadfinderei (i.e. pathfinders / boyscouts). Starting off in 1999 as a Berlin-based vector orientated design bureau, Pfadfinderei soon expanded to what might be characterized as a cluster of advanced media alchemists given their aggressive passion for Live music visualization. Back in the day, they VJ'd in clubs in Berlin and around the region... nowadays they are planning, creating, and performing full-scale visual installations, in and beyond the club scene, expanding far and wide onto the world's cultural stage.

From 1999, the Pfadfinderei team went forward with seven expert members, all with diverse backgrounds, ranging from typography and art direction, to strategic visual planning and design production. That group is still moving forth strong, and no doubt will spice-up your interests with a unique, cutting-edge style. Pfadfinderei creations germinate from these individual characters who are united by a symbiotic approach to aesthetics, an attention to the beautiful detail of everyday life.

Instead of showing off their fast-paced studio facilities here in Berlin-Mitte, please feel free to discover the world-class work and growing list of beloved clients by browsing through this site.

Ronald Jenkees - Musical Wizard

This first one is my favorite. After he stops the first time that section of music is bliss.

1 min Short Film - John Cage - Research - Sound + Compositional Ideas

So humble, spiritual, enriched, fulfilled, brilliant, happy, man.
Im in love!

Mondrian animation

ReacTogon - Self Explanitory

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Transhumanism / virtual reality / Psychedelics

The original -- and much more colorful -- version of this article can be found at H+ Magazine.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/psychedelic_transhumanists

Disconnect

Western Mystery Tradition
Part of the magic and mystery of western earth-based traditions is a belief in the inner temples and teachings of Spirit and evolved humanity that exist within and beyond all time and space. Some of the western traditions include mystic Christianity, Druidism, Egyptian mystery, western magic, Qabala, Sufism, alchemy and the Knights Templar, etc. Shamanism Vs. Religion

Over the last three hundred years, westerners have become disconnected from nature, community, family and spirituality with the advents of the Age of Reason (thinking disconnected from being) and the Industrial Revolution. Religion, for most people, has become a mechanical and external process, a passive process, like television in which the seeker watches a priest, a ritual, and waits for something to be done to or for him or her. This dysfunction is a relatively new phenomenon, only about three hundred years old.



Western mystery traditions tend to value visualization over words. Our current model for culture and education is limited and biased to modes of talk and intellect. Up to 90% of our consciousness, such as body awareness, intuitive awareness and emotional intelligence is not being fully exercised under the regime.

Methods for participating.... meditations, guided journeys, shamanic journeying, breathing work, chanting, psycho-drama, spiritual theatre, ritual, dream work (including acting-out dreams), creative processes such as drumming, art, crafts, literature, music and poetry, dance and movement.

One must develop all three - mind, body and spirit and exist in all three - ultimately, they are one.

Hofemann (Inventor of LSD) Letter - Steve Jobs of apple!

Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he'd be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been.

Hofmann penned a never-before-disclosed letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of his friend Rick Doblin, who runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, died in April 2008 at the age of 102.

He specifically asks Jobs to fund research being proposed by Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser and directs Jobs to Doblin's Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Doblin and Hofmann were close; Doblin gave the doctor his first tab of ecstasy in the '80s when it was still legal, he says, and Hofmann loved it, saying that finally he'd found a drug he could enjoy with his wife, no fan of LSD.

That Jobs used LSD and values the contribution it made to his thinking is far from unusual in the world of computer technology. Psychedelic drugs have influenced some of America's foremost computer scientists. The history of this connection is well documented in a number of books, the best probably being "What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Pers..., by New York Times technology reporter John Markoff.

Psychedelic drugs, Markoff argues, pushed the computer and Internet revolutions forward by showing folks that reality can be profoundly altered through unconventional, highly intuitive thinking. Douglas Engelbart is one example of a psychonaut who did just that: he helped invent the mouse. Apple's Jobs has said that Microsoft's Bill Gates, would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." In a 1994 interview with Playboy, however, Gates coyly didn't deny having dosed as a young man.

Thinking differently -- or learning to Think Different, as a Jobs slogan has it -- is a hallmark of the acid experience. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," Kevin Herbert told Wired magazine at a symposium commemorating Hofmann's one hundredth birthday. Herbert, an early employee of Cisco Systems who successfully banned drug testing of technologists at the company, reportedly "solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead."

"It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain," said Herbert. "Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used.".........................

Gilmore...... doubts, that a strict cause-and-effect relationship between drugs and the Internet can be proved. The type of person who's inspired by the possibility of creating new ways of storing and sharing knowledge, he said, is often the same kind interested in consciousness exploration. At a basic level, both endeavors are a search for something outside of everyday reality--but so are many creative and spiritual undertakings, many of them strictly drug-free. But it's true, Gilmore noted, that people do come to conclusions and experience revelations while tripping. Perhaps some of those revelations have turned up in programming code.

And perhaps in other scientific areas, too. According to Gilmore, the maverick surfer/chemist Kary Mullis, a well-known LSD enthusiast, told him that acid helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, a crucial breakthrough for biochemistry. The advance won him the Nobel Prize in 1993. And according to reporter Alun Reese, Francis Crick, who discovered DNA along with James Watson, told friends that he first saw the double-helix structure while tripping on LSD.

Philosophy - Terence Mckenna

This is a great introduction to an academic thinker that was a scientific rationalist turned spiritualist through the use and investigation of psychedelics. His voice is hypnotic and full of charisma. He practices shamanic principles and interests lay in the east.
Unfortunately the man passed on a few years ago but his lectures and books influenced many people and he pushed the envelope thinking and what it is to be a human, alive, alone in the infinite abyss of mind.
Many of his other lectures are up on youTube, such as
Seeking the stone - a general outlook on His methods and rational in thinking
Psychedelics in the age of intelligent machines
Culture is not your friend
Talks on DMT

A very interesting man and worth any creative minds attention

Philosophy - Daniel Pinchbeck - Author

"One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance."
- Joseph Conrad

"The reader, the thinker, the flaneur, are types of illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic. … Not to mention that most terrible drug - ourselves - which we take in solitude."
- Walter Benjamin


Breaking op the head includes a cultural history of psychedelic use, philosophical and critical perspectives on shamanism, and personal explorations, ranging from transcendent to terrifying.

While researching, he visited shamans in West Africa, Mexico, and the Ecuadorean Amazon - not to mention the fabulous neo-shamanic Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. In Gabon, a small country on the Equator, he goes through a Bwiti initiation, eating iboga, a psychedelic rootbark inducing a trance that lasts for thirty hours. The bark powder temporarily releases the soul from the body, allowing the initiate entry into the African spiritual cosmos, where he is shown the outline of his fate.

Some of the Bwiti call this ceremony, "breaking open the head."



His 2nd book 2012, explores the idea of doomsday prophesied by the Mayans. He closely follows and analysis his journey to piece together a brilliantly convincing meta-physical puzzle that is rooted in shamanism and the prophecies of this super culture that's intelligence and understanding of the cosmos far surpassed that of our scientific approach today.

His style and ideas flow naturally and i find his journey fascinating. He has a blog set up with reality sandwich that is well worth following.

Reality Sandwich

http://www.realitysandwich.com

This is an amazing website. Interesting for philosophy, arts, physics v.s. metaphysics, creativity and progressive ideas about reality.