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last updated 10/06/08
August 24, 2008
David Jay Brown is one of my favorite authors, right up there with Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary and some of the people he interviews.
I can't recall whether I read Brainchild first, or if it was Mavericks of the Mind, but both were incredible. Since then, I've read all but his most recent title, and they've all been engaging.
His interview style and choice of topics and people really inspire. He's interviewed some of my favorite people in the world, and opened my eyes to many new and interesting personalities and viewpoints.
His science fiction blows my mind with plot-twisting psychedelic visions described in detail. His fiction engages all my senses.
Keep up the great writing, David! I'm especially drooling for a new work of fiction!
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Unexplained Phenomena & Morphic Field Science: Exploring the Research and Theories of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm
October 12 -- November 23
Instructor: David Jay Brown
Can people sense when they’re being stared at?
Do pets know when their owner’s are returning home?
Do you know who’s calling before you pick up the phone?
This six-week course will explore these fascinating questions and many more, in light of the groundbreaking research and theo...
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My article "Psychedelic Healing?"--which appeared in the December/January issue of Scientific American Mind magazine--is currently up on RealitySandwich.com, with new artwork by Sara Huntley. My article summarizes how new research into psychedelic drugs offers hope for treating certain psychiatric disorders. I welcome your comments and questions, and I invite you to join in on the discussion about the future of psychedelic drug research.
www. real...
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New Book by David Jay Brown!
Detox with Oral Chelation: Protecting Yourself from Lead, Mercury, & Other Environmental Toxins
By David Jay Brown and Garry Gordon, M.D.
Smart Publications, softcover, 288 pages, illustrated by Sara Huntley, $17.95.
www.smart-publications.com/books/...ion.php
EDTA chelation therapy is the safest and most effective way to cleanse our bodies of pervasive heavy metal toxins and remove age-accelerating calcium deposits from our cardiovascu...
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Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
By Wendy Chapkis & Richard J. Webb
New York University Press, 2008.
Softbound, photographs, 257 pages, $22.
Review by David Jay Brown
Noted University of Southern Maine sociologist Wendy Chapkis, Ph.D., and Richard J. Webb, a lecturer in Communications Studies at San Jose University, have written an extraordinarily well-researched volume about the sociological history of America's most highly praised and politically successful medical marijuan...
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Spending the last week of August in Black Rock City was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. The environment at the Burning Man Festival was certainly a huge challenge for me, but it was also unusually rewarding and truly spectacular in so many ways. I had a very profound experience there--that renewed my sense of hope in the future evolution of the human species.
The weather conditions in the Black Rock desert were pretty much the worst that I've ever experienced in my lif...
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about me
Author, science writer, researcher, speaker, interviewer, mind explorer. I'm the author of four volumes of interviews with leading-edge thinkers--Mavericks of the Mind, Voices from the Edge, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, and Mavericks of Medicine. I'm also the author of two science fiction novels, Brainchild and Virus. I earned my master's degree in psychobiology at New York University, and I was responsible for the California-based research in two of British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s books on unexplained phenomena in science: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At. My work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Scientific American Mind and Wired, and I'm periodically the Guest Editor of the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Bulletin.
Check out my Web sites:
www.mavericksofthemind.com
www.sexanddrugs.info
www.animalsandearthquakes.com
"A brilliant writer. David Jay Brown writes like Walt Whitman on acid. He remembers his psychedelic experiences better than any other writer." --Robert Anton Wilson, author of Cosmic Trigger.
"I love David Jay Brown's writing." --Timothy Leary, author of Flashbacks.
"David Jay Brown is an ECCO agent. His writing is fantastic." --John C. Lilly, author of The Center of the Cyclone.
"That our perfected selves whisper to us from the future is but one of David Jay Brown's fertile insights." --Terence McKenna, author of Food of the Gods.
"David Jay Brown is the most compelling interviewer on this planet." --Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves.
Some of the many incredible people that I've interviewed over the course of my career include: Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Andrew Weil, Jack Kevorkian, Jerry Garcia, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, Annie Sprinkle, Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson, Candace Pert, Edgar Mitchell, Kary Mullis, Marija Gimbutas, Alexander Shulgin, Bernie Siegel, Albert Hofmann, Rupert Sheldrake, Julia Butterfly Hill, Douglas Rushkoff, Matthew Fox, Riane Eisler, Laura Huxley, Jean Houston, Larry Dossey, John Mack, Stanislav Grof, Jaron Lanier, Peter McWillians, Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, Clifford Pickover, Colin Wilson, Penny Slinger, Deepak Chopra, Dean Radin, and Paul Krassner.
Alex Grey,
Burning Man,
Cognitive Liberty,
dmt,
I just finished reading...,
Mac OS X,
psy-candy,
psychedelphia,
Psychonauts,
Salvia divinorum,
SFBay Burners,
Sustainable Practices and Technology,
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