A few things to keep you busy over the weekend…
- Rollingstone profiles psychedelic advocate Daniel Pinchbeck, who has responded here and here. See my review of Pinchbeck’s latest book 2012 here on site.
- Filip Coppens posts reactions to his online book The Stargate Conundrum, from important players such as Uri Geller, Hal Puthoff, and Jack Sarfatti.
- Ian Lawton writes: “Quantum Theory: Spiritual Panacea, or Red Herring?“. There are a couple of other updates on Ian’s Book of the Soul website, click the link and scroll down to see the list.
- Michael Shermer’s latest Skeptic column in Sci-Am tells Christians to accept evolution.
- Art Champous reviews Dwight Connelly’s book, The World’s Best UFO Cases.
- MAPS has Rick Doblin’s dissertation “Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana” online.
- More new articles at the Book of Thoth: “Messages in Celluloid – the Defeat of Isengard“, by Solaris; “The Four Arms of Destiny: Swastikas in the Hopi World“, and also an interview with Mac Tonnies.
- A great gallery from Burning Man 2006.
- Speaking of, the Psychedelic Salon has an mp3/podcast of Erik Davis’s talk at this year’s event, “”Pharmacology and the Posthuman Phuture”.
- Filer’s Files #38 has the latest ufological news from around the globe.
- Andrew Brown is sick of the ranting, according to his review of Richard Dawkins’ new book The God Delusion (Amazon US and UK).
- SurvivalAfterDeath.org has “Apparitions and Survival“, by Hornell Hart.
- The Autumn 2006 MAPS Bulletin is now online (also in PDF format), covering some great issues in psychedelic research.
Enjoy!