Living entities have goals: to find food, to reproduce, to survive, sometimes simply to experience good things. Are those just genetically programmed, or do organisms have actual agency?

New #preprint with Chris Fields: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... "Cognitive Offloading Is a Cognitive Universal" 🧪

Did you notice that sometimes, when you read a book, a remark made in passing by the author may be of great importance to you ? (that's why, btw, summaries, human or machine made, are never sufficient)/1

Good criticism. I haven't read the Immortality Key, but it seems it is part of the "everything mystical involves psychedelics" trend that i find very annoying (now, for Eleusis and only in this case, i suspect such a strong impact in so short a time may indeed have required some chemical compound)

And it's true that the first part, is, by far, the best one...

I've recovered an early draft of a lost Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson book: The Periodic Table of Energy :))) Details here: maybelogic.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

“The I Ching exemplifies an intellectual orientation that has persisted in various forms across Chinese thought: an attention to flux, interdependence and the direction of change rather than fixed categories and static representations.” asiatimes.com/2026/07/comp...

Share an 80s movie you will always love youtu.be/jaShvVW1w5U?...

"Lifting as much from gospel and blues as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, the English band led by Jason 'J Spaceman' Pierce and Pete 'Sonic Boom' Kember turned musical repetition into divine meditation and the wah-wah pedal into the church choir …" The Endless Orbit of Spacemen 3:

Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of our language are the limits of our world. This research is using AI to generate endless made-up languages to challenge the limits of possible languages and worlds.

New open access text: Writing the Heavens Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 www.crabmuseum.org/blog/logic-g... www.technologyreview.com/2012/04/12/1...

"John Coltrane probably shaped their improvisational approach more than anyone else, even though the band never covered Coltrane's music and Coltrane probably never even heard the Grateful Dead in his lifetime." How John Coltrane Changed Rock Music — The Grateful Dead:

To understand what happened to the US in gaming terms, we basically got to this screen, clicked this button, and started doing the stupidest stuff possible with our units, except billions of real people's lives are on the line

My 📖 Juicy Ghosts came out in Italian. They wouldn't publish it in America because it was partly about assassinating Trump I wrote it before Trump's 1st election. I had some vain hope that I might slightly weigh against his chances. I saw what was coming and it's working out like I thought it would

I haven't read Flatley's book yet, but of course I will. Leary's Exo-Psychology (later retitled Info-Psychology) was a very influential book for me, as was Leary-Wilson "Game of life", strongly based on the Tarot.

1/3 New recommendation: Angelos Tsilogiannis, Markos Konstantakis, Spyros Vosinakis (2026). Experimental interpretation of ancient games through playtesting. V4 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

"In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in acts of spirit and will." The Visions of Alice Coltrane:

Très bonne introduction sur le sujet, et en français, elles sont rares...

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

What invented languages can tell us about human language www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lang...

Hey, so how come nobody told me about this: https://anthropeum.com/ Coz that is EXACTLY my kinda shit! Guess where random Met artifacts are from and when? I am twelve kinds of there for that!

The sci-fi future has arrived. Rather than reject it, participate on deciding whether it becomes a solarpunk utopia or a cyberpunk dystopia

The article doesn't mention the albums Landed, Flow motion and Saw Delight; I agree that they are not "the real Can", as they distanced themselves from their original sound. I love them anyway, perhaps because they were the first of their LP's I listened to.

I didn’t know it was recorded before Remain in Light! Very important record, although I’m aware that Jon Hassell, (one of my favorite musicians), had objections to it.

So, no, size doesn’t matter. www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

Coming back -again- to the 90s occult internet, I just found an archive of the old Hollyfeld Enochian-L archive, probably one of the most interesting digital forums of that era. Ben Rowe's posts are not to be missed! enochianarchives.free.nf

Prometheus Rising by RA Wilson in Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools kk.org/cooltools/bo... I do find that a wee bit surprising

My suggestion that chaos servitors could be "programmed" using COBOL-derived conditional statements gets a brief mention in this essay on the intersection between internet tech and the occult.

Very good article about the early days of the magical Internet... But frankly, it makes me feel old...

Interesting! Not really related, but this reminds me that when I wander in Paris’ big bookstores, there are “religion” sections with Abrahamic and Eastern faiths, but Vodun books are classified under “ethnology,” despite the many people practicing Yoruba religions (more than Zen, for sure!)

been thinking about ways you could have a video game about scientific discovery so that you could play as a genuine explorer of space like characters in TNG, and theres a lot of interesting stuff there. new physics is an especially interesting one tho

Found on the Other Place (through @drdanielmingram.bsky.social ). Gul A, Ehmann S, Prueitt C, Sparby T, Sacchet MD Extending the scientific study of advanced meditation across contemplative traditions to Sufism within Islam t.co/SE4m8iH8vX

Found on the Other Place, from a Donald Hoffman post. (Why isn't he on Bluesky ?) traceinstitute.org

When I was in my early teens, I saw an episode of a TV series adapted from the Manuscript Found in Saragossa. I was fascinated by the character of the kabbalist ! The kind of thing that can impress a young mind forever... www.gary-lachman.com/post/jan-pot...

Keith Edward Cantú speaks with Gordan Djurdjevic, an independent scholar of global esotericism, yoga, tantra, and comparative religion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkF7...

A collaboration between Andrew Gallimore and Donald D. Hoffman.. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you've seen live. Talking Heads Grateful Dead Jefferson Starship Velvet Underground (1993 reunion) Gong/Daevid Allen Jon Hassell Tom Waits Rip Rig and Panic Kronos Quartet David Sylvian

"In the decades since 'This is Your Brain on Music' suggested enticingly that music is a product of the human brain, new research has upended what seemed like basic assumptions about what music is and how it works." How 'This is Your Brain on Music' Transformed Neuroscience:

Discover 40+ chapters on the science of consciousness: humans, babies, animals, artificial systems, etc! Experts from various disciplines and views came together under the lead of Umberto Olcese and Lucia Melloni A precious resource for anyone interested in #consciousness! www.horizon-minds.com

"Sanaya Ardeshir is an Indian producer and composer, with a parallel practice in electronic music under the moniker – Sandunes. Like her naturally occurring namesake, her world of sound is in constant evolution …" ListN Up Playlist — Sanaya Ardeshir:

Very good article by Julian Vayne about Peter Carroll. I was especially interested in Carroll’s relationship with games. julianvayne.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Ever wanted to talk to a gene regulatory network? Ever wonder what they could do in a different context, embodiment, space? New preprint - part of our approach for developing ways to talk to cells, organs, and much much weirder agents: @yanbozhang123.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2605.16321 🧪

A little too much maths for me to understand it all, but this paper addresses a hugely important topic : the role of creativity in delaying aging (I hope my two screenshots give a good glimpse of the content)...And I’ve rarely seen such a long list of authors ;-)

Goodness, this special issue looks interesting.

Frater Acher just published an essay (with a free e-book version), on Amos Comenius, the creator of Pansophy. Comenius’ work highlights a current sadly neglected in Western Esotericism, that is, the conviction of a deep connexion between intellectual, "mundane", knowledge and mystical gnosis.