Monthly Archives: September 2004

Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality by Terence McKenna

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Shall we talk about language? (yeah) First of all lets talk about ordinary language which is probably the closest thing to a miracle in the natural world. Its the major neurological manifestation of difference between ourselves and other animals and primates and its not a physiological difference its a difference in behavior. Language represents the most complex behavior ever observed in any animal and certainly its the most complex thing any of us ever learns to do.

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Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs

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Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name just a few.

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Hemp Industry on Fire

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Few Americans typically give much thought to the $200 million hemp industry: a $200 million market that includes such wide-ranging products as bread, clothing and soap. But this week hemp producers are getting a powerful marketing boost from an unlikely source?the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

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Antero Alli In Conversation With R.U. Sirius

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At 51, Antero Alli is a cherubic and intense technician of ecstasis and personal transformations. Operating primarily under the rubric of experimental theater, Alli specializes in personal/interpersonal/group dynamics within a ritualistic context. Influenced by ?paratheatrical? ideas introduced to the world by Jerzy Growtowski, Alli?s theatrical groupings are ?asocial? laboratories ? experiments in human and group consciousness.

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While-You-Wait Genetic Screening

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TAGCTAAGTCGGATT ? the readout tells the story of your genetic makeup, and it will soon tell you what genes you carry, what mutations there are and whether you should be worried. Right now, you?re worried.

Each letter represents one of the genetic bases -? adenine (A), thymine (T) cytosine© and guanine (G). Add the letters together and, eventually, you get the story of your genetic life. You can?t skip to the last chapter to find out how it ends, but this test will give you a peek at some of the characters—the genes—that may play a role.

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