I am not sure this is what they meant when they were talking about “flower power” in the sixties, but this clip, titled “psychedelic warfare” on YouTube has already reached more than 3 million views. So this is what happens when guns go psychedelic…
(Link: Morning Glory. Thanks!)
This is a video of a complete walkthrough for a little game called “feed the head“. In the game all you do is experimenting with the psychedelic logic of the possible interactions. And it is fun to do so!
If you think about playing the game, do it before you watch this video. It’s free and very calm and played right in the browser window.
now, do as the dormouse said..
There is something in common between looking at abstract art and the psychedelic experience: they both present to you a phenomena that can not be articulated. a beauty that can not be named, an image unmediated by culture. Abstract art at it’s best may depict not more nor less than what Aldous Huxley referred to as “Suchness”
The first episode of Mr. Freeman, one of the more original and refreshing internet phenomena to have emerged in the last years, is a dark pitched appeal to consumers of mass-reality to start questioning their existence as part of the big machine.
This primitivistically drawn and ingeniously dubbed video which became an huge internet hit on the russian web, is a like concentrated mind-shattering medicine to hyper-mediated brains fettered by mass-media and a call to go out of your mind, out of the constraints of culture (Remember Terence Mckenna who said: Culture is not your friend) and find the path to true existence.
(If you don’t speak Russian, it would be a good idea to turn on the captions “CC” button)
Obviously, no need to talk about mandelbrot’s fractals…
here we present the mandelbulb 3D !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xFmAN8le78
Two renegade cops embark on a spiritual journey.
To my mind, Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably the best, most mind blowing television series ever created and probably the most mind shattering material ever recorded on video. It changed my life when I first watched it around 2003 and I will forever be grateful to it.
This episode, from episode 26, the final episdoe of the original series (1995) is part of the ultra-psychedelic trip Shinji is going through is mind right around the end of the world. It deals with very fundamental truths about who we are and draws from Freud , among others, but reminds me of a the death-rebirth experiences which one might undergo during a psychedelic experience. (“Death-Rebirth” is incidentally the name of one of the two Evangelion films which were produced in 1997).
(Link: Morning Glory. Thanks for reminding me!)
This is almost like a tiny ode to this blog: the pink elephants from Dumbo in sync with the Sun Ra version of the song. Both the Dumbo scene and Sun Ra have been featured on this blog last year.
And as a special bonus: the mind warp trap door to childhood memories of long winter evenings. Uncanny and curiously those guys seem to be moving with the uplift of boredom and the glamour of a little temperature (if you have not made all of your childhood memories yet.. don’t wait another year).
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