Tag Archives: Richard Alpert

merry pranksters: Joke on who?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

“TO AWAKE. TO DIE. TO BE BORN”

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dave

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in about 1872 in the Caucasus region of what is now Russia. The so called “rascal sage” heralded the coming of ancient and esoteric Eastern teachings to the West. Neither a modernist nor a purveyor … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged A.R. Orage, Aldous Huxley, Avi Solomon, Carl Jung, Dennis Leri, Emma Kunz, Franz Wurm, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Ida Rolf, Ilya Koltz, isadora Duncan, J.B. Priestley, J.Walter Driscoll, Jacob Needleman, Katherine Mansfield, Kimberly Brooks, Malcolm Lowry, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Milton Erickson, Moshe Feldenkrais, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rudolf Steiner, Terry Wilson Isadora Duncan, Timothy Hull, Timothy Leary, Timothy Marvel Hull | Leave a comment

TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged A.R. Orage, Aleister Crowley, Art Kleps, C.S. Nott, Carlos Castaneda, Corey Donovan, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, James Boswell, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Kathy Hurley, Kenneth Cavandar, Kenneth Walker, Michel de Salzmann, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Rasputin, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rom landau, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, Sufism, Terry Winter Owens, Theodorre Donson, Timothy Leary, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dave

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune | Leave a comment

TIE DYE REVOLUTIONISTS: BAD CHEMICAL REACTION

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Dave

Yesterday’s radicalism fades in unaccountable ways into today’s reaction, and what the revolutionaries intended to build may turn out the precise reverse. ( Hannah Arendt ) What was new with the 60′s counter-culture was the sheer mass character of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Arnold Toynbee, Baudelaire, Beatles, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Byron, Cabaret Voltaire, Dada, Dope Inc. Dave McGowan, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Hannah Arendt, Heinz Edelmann, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Milton Glaser, Picabia, Picasso, Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Sam Huntington, Schwitters, Stillman, Timothy Leary, Yellow Submarine | 4 Comments

FOOLS ON THE HILL WITH THE KARMA MEN

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Dave

Tea for two with the Maharishi. The drift along hippie life purported to be inherently religious, but even among the hippies there were always a few who tried harder. These are the various sages of the movement, who appointed themselves … Continue reading →