A fairly stupid lead-in by Alex Jones for what’s an interesting speech by Aldous Huxley about Brave New World and 1984. Obviously, Huxley thought the scenario in Brave New World was possible or he wouldn’t have written it.  Doesn’t mean he was writing a literal blueprint for the future.

Huxley, after all, was a drug advocate [...]

Check out the long discussion on Reality Sandwich about its withdrawal from a Peru retreat scheduled for spring.  Gist is that Daniel Pinchbeck was going to lead a group to take Ayahuasca.  I entertained the thought of signing up for half a second because Pinchbeck’s writing has seriously opened my mind up, but I think [...]

Recently on Daily Kos I got into a long discussion (argument) with an atheist about the possibility of God. Think it pretty well distills my point of view (as well as the point of view of the hardened skeptic) so I’m posting it here. The discussion began in a post about 2012 – [...]