Hi folks,

I wanted to alert you to some great stories that have appeared recently in Reality Sandwich. The magazine is really humming these days, with audience growing rapidly. We are running 3 -5 new pieces a day, most of them short news items with one or two features.


VISION AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

We just published an acceptance speech by Dr. Stanislav Grof, famed Czech researcher into LSD psychotherapy and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Grof was the recipient of the Vision Award from former Czech president Vaclav Havel. The speech is a great introduction to Grof's extremely essential research. Here is a short excerpt:

"It seems to be my destiny – or karma, if you wish – to be involved in research of areas that are subjects of great controversy in science and society. My unconventional professional career started here in Prague more than fifty years ago when I volunteered as a beginning psychiatrist for a session with LSD-25, diethylamide of lysergic acid. My preceptor, Docent Roubicek, received this fascinating experimental substance from the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. The incredibly powerful psychedelic effects of this ergot alkaloid had been discovered by Dr. Albert Hofmann, who accidentally intoxicated himself while working on its synthesis.

The research project of Docent Roubicek required a combination of the pharmacological effect of LSD with exposure to a powerful stroboscopic light oscillating at various frequencies. This combination evoked in me a powerful mystical experience that has radically changed my personal and professional life. It had such a profound effect on me that research of the heuristic, therapeutic, transformative, and evolutionary potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness has become my profession, vocation, and personal passion for the rest of my life."

read the rest here: realitysandwich.com/node/655

THE BIG LIE: PARSING THE MYTHOLOGY AND ICONOCLASM OF ZEITGEIST, THE MOVIE

Reality Sandwich Charles Shaw's first feature is a fascinating deep dive into the "Zeitgeist" phenomenon. Here's an excerpt:

"We humans are myth-driven creatures. Our mythologies help define us and shape us and provide us with the context of our lives, so that we may navigate through our days and make sense of a world that at times appears so overwhelming, out of control, and full of the unknown. Within our social archetypes we find personalities we can identify with, or demonize, and in our religious and historical myths we find the universal stories and symbols we teach each other to provide a common lineage and purpose, and the basic social ordering principles upon which our culture is based.

This mythic understanding is at the heart of the revelations in the wildly popular “mythumentary,” Zeitgeist: the Movie, a multi-million download phenomenon since its free release on the Internet last spring that examines how American culture is built around a tripartite, or three layered, myth of god, country, and prosperity. This myth structure serves the function of indoctrinating every citizen with the following belief system: they are the favored people of the One True God, Jesus Christ, living in the greatest nation in the world, The United States of America, under the One True, fair and just economic system of market capitalism protected by a legal system based in private property."

Read the rest here:
realitysandwich.com/node/636

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Don't miss this feature on using electronic media to communicate with spirits and ghosts:

realitysandwich.com/node/627

The Ghosts in our Machines
John Topp

Can we use our technology to talk to spirits and send messages back in time?

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Also this piece by "RoseRose" is on Google as the first psychedelic superpower:

realitysandwich.com/node/591

Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness
RoseRose

Let me introduce myself. I am RoseRose, doing business on Google Earth 2007 as an alien paleoanthropologist from another timeframe, studying the heirloom code of Homo Sapiens. I’m focusing on your critical position at the beginning of the psychedelic age, with the emergence of the first psychedelically informed superpower: Google.

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Please read them and let me know what you think.

Yours,
Daniel