ooh I just learned an epically usefull new phrase!!! 'error creep', being the movement of errors thru a knowledge-base as people blindly copy things....and oh BOY will that be usefull in the new AI world!

The Art Exhibition entitled 'Visions of the New Earth' opens at the Berkeley Alembic tomorrow, featuring the original paintings from the Visionary Muse Collective, a group of women visionary, psychedelic, and spiritual artists from around the globe. Check it out!

THC+ Clips | Erik Davis Erik Davis | Ideas, Non-human Entities & A Re-enchanted Worldview

NEW THC! Erik Davis Erik Davis | LSD, Drug Portals, Psychedelic Animism, & The Alien Interface
thehighersidechats.com/erik-davis-lsd…

I got a lot out of this one and we covered a ton of interesting stuff. Cheers!

'Mediating the profane as much as the sacred, blotter became the central vehicle of LSD’s own weird drift through the post-hippie era.'

Erik Davis Aeon+Psyche #longreads aeon.co/essays/how-out…

This was a fantastic book to review, I enjoyed it immensely, thanks Erik Davis 🙏

“How was your day, boys?”

“Played some Atari, rode our bikes to the woods, saw a rattlesnake, shot that motherfucker with a rifle, played Wiffle Ball at Tommy’s house, then we went to the drug store for baseball cards.”

“Tommy’s home? I thought the Wilsons were on vacation …”

The Blotter book events went great last week. All manner of characters. The next will take place in Berlin at the Hopscotch Reading Room on Thursday May 23 at 7:30 pm: facebook.com/events/1491329…

Absolutely true. We don't need more intelligences with the same inference biases we already have. If innovation is the goal, let's get weird!

Here's Leonard Cohen on what he called 'the wisdom of no exit.' A perspective of critical importance at times when life's pain, complications, and difficulties seem amplified to the point of intolerable:

'We live in a world that is not perfectible, a world that always presents

Ambient artists beef by dropping increasingly hostile soundscapes

Pop goes the Apocalypse: my old pal Matt Dillon did an extensive interview with me over at his Harvard Div School podcast Pop Apocalypse. A long reflection on career, California, and the cultures of consciousness. pop-apocalypse.simplecast.com/episodes/psych…

I have really been enjoying Jules Evans posts of late. Big props to his work on the dark side of psychedelics: not just critiquing the hypesters and chancers but getting into the murky ambiguities, like demons, entities, and the recent one on brujos: ecstaticintegration.org/p/we-dont-talk…

Rainbow Madona, 2011 👁🌈

#androidjones

'Everything is filled with life, and in a way seething [living, boiling]. There is, in a way, a flowing of all things from one spring, not as from a single breath or heat, but as though there were one quality which contains all qualities in itself, and preserves them, sweetness

Robert Anton Wilson and Chapel Perilous. Terence McKenna and psychedelic mushrooms. The Grail legends. Patrick Harpur and daimonic reality. Sleep paralysis. Cosmic horror.

What do these have in common? They all appear in today's post at The Living Dark,

INITIATION BY NIGHTMARE

Guts you but its realz.

The Psychedelic Assembly is also hosting the Infinite Grid, a great visionary art show in conjunction with the Blotter event. I look forward to meeting all manner of characters...

New Yorkers: tomorrow night I will be at the Psychedelic Assembly presenting Blotter with Mark McCloud. 7pm, 222 E. 46th.