joined on 04/24/05
last updated 04/07/06
August 7, 2007
I met Kevin at the 2007 Mindstates Conference in Costa Rica. He was a genuine, honest, sharing individual. I hopefully will get to spend more time with Kevin as life moves along. He was as authentic as they come. Great person.
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about me
Studying the mind and human cognition, cosmology (scientific and non), science, mysticism/metaphysics, comparative world religion, comparative world philosophy, especially all of these in relation to psychedelics/entheogens and the psychedelic/entheogenic experience and the implications thereof for all of us regarding the human condition, where we are, where we've been and where we're going. And anything that can help me along those lines. I am particularly interested in audio and visual media as a tool for meme transmission, social and personal influence, and for creating "virtual" spaces where alternative modes of reality can be experienced. (hint: this is going on all the time, all around us, in most of our lives already. It's just a matter of helping to shape the ways we think about what can and cannot be created.) Particularly interested currently, and IMMENSELY, in the ayahuasca and DMT spaces, although my access to both is currently quite disappointing. As far as hobbies, I love to play didgeridoo, travel the psychedelic conference scene, juggle with (devil) sticks, collect music, books, art, and digital media of all sorts, and I love to travel the world and meet new and interesting people.
Re: Hancockisms
(in Year 2012)
(translation: ...)
discussion post on Sun, November 8, 2009 - 7:36 PM
Valum Votan's Vocabulary
(in Year 2012)
I have (unfortunately) been reading and listening to more Jose Arguelles than I would ordinarily prefer and one thing that jumps out at me constantly as I am interacting with his output is the ABSURD number of neologisms (new terms) that he has de...
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discussion post on Sun, November 8, 2009 - 3:33 PM
Re: Hancockisms
(in Year 2012)
Ha! This actually inspires me to make a new thread...(off to do so...)
I'll be on the lookout for Hancockisms to share...
discussion post on Sun, November 8, 2009 - 2:53 PM
Re: History Channel Docu Series - Searching for Expertstopic
(in Year 2012)
Do you know of any source that shows that the Hopi believe this about the year 2012 specifically?
discussion post on Fri, November 6, 2009 - 10:57 PM
Re: History Channel Docu Series - Searching for Expertstopic
(in Year 2012)
"Investigators must also be genuinely curious as to why there are predictions in nearly every culture that the world will end in 2012."
Um....this begs the question: Can you (or anyone) name one culture (other than our own) that believes "the ...
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discussion post on Fri, November 6, 2009 - 4:05 PM
Varieties of Ockham’s Razor
Or
Using Ockham’s Razor to Shave Itself
This paper will explore a variety of formulations of a well-known, and often misunderstood, principle that has arisen within the philosophy of science, called Ockham’s Razor. Thus named, because of its most famous proponent, William of Ockham, the most popular version of the “razor” suggests that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is most likely to be true. In this paper my goal is to explore some of t...
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Sun, May 25, 2008 - 12:18 PM
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Does the Notion of Laws of Nature Imply Application to All Possibilities?
I would like to address an issue raised by A.J. Ayer in his paper called, “What is a Law of Nature?” regarding the notion that generalizations of law necessarily imply application to all possible cases, whereas generalizations of fact apply only to actual cases. The essential point that I would like to question here is an assertion that when we make generalizations about “laws of nature” we are saying that these ge...
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Sun, May 25, 2008 - 12:14 PM
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Some Problems with Kuhn’s Paradigm View
Famously, Thomas Kuhn has explicated a very influential perspective on the philosophy of science, in which new scientific ‘paradigms’ displace previous and incompatible paradigms. While Kuhn’s elaboration of his theory can be viewed as largely descriptive, in the sense that it draws much of its force from merely ‘describing’ what we might consider to be examples within the history of ‘science’, Kuhn makes it quite clear across his writings that th...
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Sun, May 25, 2008 - 11:54 AM
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Is Preference Rational? Is it Deductive? And Does it Relate to Science?
In this paper I intend to explore the critical remarks of Wesley Salmon in response to Karl Popper’s claim of having solved the ‘problem of induction’, supposedly having removed, once and for all, any presumptions that the scientific enterprise involves anything other than deductive reasoning. Salmon’s response is an attempt to show how the account that Popper has given does not apply broadly enough to include the ...
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Sun, May 25, 2008 - 11:52 AM
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Mind as Particular
(Presented at 4th Annual Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference at CSUB)
In this paper I intend to examine the nominalist metaphysical theory known as trope theory as regards its success in addressing the issues raised by the metaphysical realist. I will contend that trope theory does adequately accommodate the challenge of the realist, who requires that any metaphysical theory be able to account for the linguistic phenomena of subject predicate discourse and abst...
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Fri, May 23, 2008 - 2:40 PM
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::transhuman::,
Alex Grey,
Alfred North Whitehead,
Arcata,
Ayahuasca,
bluetech,
Cognitive Science,
Didgeri-Krew,
Didjeridoo,
Discordians,
dmt,
Do what thou wilt...,
Earth Fractals,
General Semantics,
Humboldt Burn Society,
Humboldt Circus,
in didj in us didjeridu Gathering,
James Joyce,
JAPAN PSYTRANCE,
Joseph Campbell,
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