Google Search Stories & Youtube Shared Tales

I stumbled upon this new video story creation 'tool' about 45 minutes ago and these three 'stories' are the first that I have made. Maybe this tool can be used across the board for some of our common interests here, stunning results for so little effort, great gift to share... Enjoy, steve fly.

http://www.youtube.com/searchstories

New Edition of "Undoing Yourself..." by Christopher S. Hyatt

It looks like the new edition of "Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices" (Featuring cover artwork by yours truly) is out and available for sale from New Falcon.

"Of course, most people will think this book is only a joke. That's the biggest joke of all!"
– RAW

I've come to really enjoy Dr. Hyatt's style, which seems to me not unlike if Friedrich Nietzsche & Aleister Crowley worked together on Mad Magazine!


I also have a couple drawings in the new edition of Black Book Vol. 5.

Lucifuge Rofocale

King Bael

Duke Agares

Prince Vassago

Howard Campbell interviews Christopher S. Hyatt for goodness sake!

Forums may have gone up in smoke

You may notice that the Feed to the MLA forum doesn't work right now.

The forum had several problems, which discouraged people from actively using it, so a redesign has gone on, which has definitely improved the general appearance of the site, but seems to have lost (temporarily?) all the old posts - and any chance to start new ones, for the time being.

We'll see.

[Update 7th April 2010]:

In case you don't dig into Comments, I should say the new forum looks terrific, and everything I have tried works fine. So good, that this post now almost counts as an April Fool panic joke.

Many thanks to Clyde, as ever.

Acid Spooks En Francais

I saw this story linked to at Facebook the other day. It's being reported by several newspapers, most notably by the Torygraph...er, I mean Telegraph, in the UK. Back in 1951, the residents of a French village started going really loopy. A few critters died and some were confined to institutions. The big mystery over the years has been why the folks of Pont-Saint-Esprit suddenly experienced nightmarish hallucinations and began to behave in highly 'unorthodox' ways.

It was initially thought that the local baker had unwittingly baked some ergot-infected wheat into bread, which was consumed by the locals. The villagers would then have been victims of ergot poisoning, or St. Anthony's Fire--a very not-pleasant combination of hallucinations and convulsions. In extreme cases, gangrene in the limbs develops and death can occur.

New evidence has allegedly come to light now, whereby it's being claimed that there's documentation to show that CIA agents, working in conjunction with some scientists at the Sandoz Laboratories (where LSD was first synthesized), conspired with a few French 'plants' to essentially dose the population with LSD and observe the results. What swell critters, eh?

It definitely seems plausible, given the agency's track record with other experiments of a similar nature. What amazes me is how long it took for the original files to be made public. I suppose it shows a sliver of progress that the Iran-Contra affair was exposed after only a few years of being in operation. Same old CIA. Robert Anton Wilson once quipped that if the gubberment were really fighting a 'war on terror', they would carpet-bomb Langley, Virginia. But of course, like the 'Drug War', it's only a war on some terrorists (mostly brown ones, with funny names, who don't worship the X-tian 'God').

Now, if I lived in a paranoid reality-tunnel most of the time - I'd ask why the Pont-Saint-Esprit story is surfacing now. I'd think that maybe it's another scare-story about psychedelics, to try and put the kibosh on any legitimate research. The Beckley Foundation is starting a research project on LSD and I suspect that M.A.P.S. will be soon, too. Ah well, hopefully humans have learned more and got a bit smarter since psychedelics were demonised by the mainstream press in the 1960s. I say hopefully....

Here's a great little film showing LSD experiments with British soldiers in the early 1960s:

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS