New York City says goodbye to Free Speech
Thanks again to Mike.

Consumer Paradise
Thanks to Mike for this one.

"Miguel Alejandro Juarez was always curious about chemically-induced states of mind..."
"(After smoking various crayola crayons including periwinkle and brick-red.) It is amazing that amidst all this maelstrom of the senses, I have not lost my clarity of mind; although I can not find my testicles. There is a creature here that I have never seen before. Perhaps it knows where my testicles are. It is calling me toward it..."
Pop Goes the Culture: On Drugs

Who is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin?

"Our signs were ripped out of our hands and stomped on"
"We were shoved; we didn’t shove back."
"They were chanting ‘Nazi!’, ‘She’s an enemy of the Jewish people!’, ‘She’s not a real Jew!’"
108 rabbinical students attacked for supporting Palestinians

"What happens when we see our dreams as a realm of beings manifesting through our psyches?"
Dream Replicants and the Emergence of Simulacra by Richard Wilkerson (in ElectricDreams)

Do Dreams Have Meaning? by Richard Wilkerson (in ElectricDreams)

Dreams may be meaningful for many reasons:
Existential - The dream has meaning because I give it meaning.
Affective - The dream has meaning because it feels meaningful.
Functional - The dream has meaning because it is useful.
Ephiphonic - I am overwhelmed by the meaning(s) of the dream.
Pragmatic - The dream is as meaningful as the impact it happens to have.
Autonomous - I listen to the dream for the answer about its meaning.
Spiritual - All things have some alignment with the infinite, including dreams.
Relative - Dreams give people more satisfaction than some other approaches.
Testimonial - Dreams are meaningful and valued by many people.

The Buddhist Priest Myoe: A Life of Dreams: a dream diary kept for 40 years in the 13th century
Working and Playing with Dreams
Electric Dreams: a journal about dreams, dreaming, dream analysis, etc... (index)
DreamGate: dreaming related resources
Dream Reader's: more dreaming related resources (unorganized)
Start4All: yet more resources
SelfGrowth: and more resources

iToilet

US sanctions against Iraq constitute genocide.

A Complexity-Based Model of Schizophrenia

Bioweapons loopholes

Censorship in Israel

What happens when philosophy is combined with psychology?

The Bush administration is mounting the most sustained assault on open government since the early Reagan administration or perhaps even since President Gerald Ford vetoed the FOIA amendments in 1974

Politics cripples anthrax investigation.

One billion people in the world live on less than $200 a year.
Fifty thousand people die of starvation every day.
Poverty, starvation, overpopulation: the root of all these evils is in the mind
The Psychology of Human Survival

SovLit

Think Again