“I think Brave New World is the best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient. Huxley was writing in the early 1930’s with Stalin and Hitler around, but what he was envisioning was our present.
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Brave New World: Beware the Philosopher
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags 1984, Aldous Huxley, Artificial intelligence, Brave New World, George Orwell, Yuval Noah Harari on December 26, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
Ayahuasca: A Memorable Fancy
Posted in Ayahuasca with tags Aldous Huxley, Ayahuasca, black widow spider, Dr Gabor Mate, Estacion Kapitari, James Fadiman, Living dangerously: Ordinary Enlightenment for Extraordinary Times, malocca, Michael Pollan, Osho, Tim Ferriss, William Blake on September 8, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
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The malocca was transformed into a throne room and the courtiers partied in the room below us. I sat on my throne, a giant black widow spider at either hand, remote in the shadows. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 