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Commons

Sanctioned Racial Profiling

Adam Elenbaas

A new Department of Justice policy would allow the FBI to conduct investigations based on race and travel activity. (more)

7-11-08

Arts

Apostolic New Orleans

Adam Elenbaas

Years after Katrina, an abandoned parsonage in New Orleans has been transformed into a chilling and beautiful work of art. (more)

7-9-08

Psyche

Daime Dialogue

Adam Elenbaas

The most recent episode of Post-Modern Times features a conversation with Santo Daime Godmother Maria Alice and anthropologist Bia Labate regarding the sacred plant teacher ayahuasca.

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7-8-08

Psyche

The European Roswell

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A YouTube buzz video is advertising the release of a British Roswell DVD. The film explores evidence surrounding the supposed crash of a UFO outside of a Welsh village during the winter of 1983. [Video] (more)

7-7-08

Commons

Reprioritizing Global Challenges

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The Copenhagen Consensus Center attempts to prioritize how to solve the world's greatest challenges. With a bit of number crunching, they surprisingly put zinc distribution, education and preventing heart attacks first. (more)

7-2-08

Psyche

Dutch Apocalypse

Adam Elenbaas

A recent Dutch article suggests that many of its country's citizens are preparing for the end of the world in 2012. Will 2012 hype avoid the Y2K panic? (more)

6-30-08

Life

Tantra-Ho!

Adam Elenbaas

The Tantra Warriors offer red and white tantra training, workshops, and even an online comic book. (more)

6-25-08

Arts

The Passing of a Comedic Legend

Adam Elenbaas

Famous for his wry humor, countercultural comedian George Carlin passed away this week at the age of 71. (more)

6-23-08

Arts

Music Manifesto for Antarctica

Adam Elenbaas

In his newest film project, Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite, Dj Spooky records the acoustic sounds of Antarctica's rapdily melting ice. (more)

6-20-08

Arts

Roger Ebert Speculates about End Times

Adam Elenbaas

In a recent film review of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Roger Ebert admits that he believes human beings might be in their "final act." (more)

6-18-08

Psyche

Psychic Science

Adam Elenbaas

Post Modern Times has just uploaded its second video segment with the Institute of Noetic Sciences' Dean Radin discussing scientific taboos and psychic phenomenon.

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6-11-08

Commons

The Change You Want to See

Adam Elenbaas

A Brooklyn based production company, Not an Alternative, aims to create social change by transforming popular understandings of key symbols in activist campaigns. [Video] (more)

6-10-08

Arts

Old Time Radio Returns

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The Leviathan Chronicles is bringing back the old days of radio-show science fiction with an added contemporary spiritual twist: "Time is running out. Immortality is not a fantasy."
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6-6-08

Arts

Altered States Masquerade

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The National Arts Club and Kate Raudenbush present the Altered State's Masquerade, a benefit for Kate's Burning Man Sculpture, this Friday in NYC. (more)

6-5-08

Psyche

A Familiar Face in the Fields

Adam Elenbaas

The first crop circle at Wiltshire this year bears an uncanny resemblence to several other recent designs. Is someone trying to tell us something? (more)

6-2-08

Commons

The Senate Meets George Orwell

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The senate has recently moved forward on the startling "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act." (more)

5-30-08

Life

An Ayahuasca Retreat for Women

Adam Elenbaas

A brand new Ayahuasca lodge near Cusco, Peru advertises healing retreats for women only. In this short interview I speak to the lodge founder, Eroca Hunter.
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5-29-08

Life

A Public Display of Meditation

Adam Elenbaas

This week, SelfCentered invites New Yorkers to several social gatherings, including a public display of meditation. Here's a short interview with SelfCentered's founder, Max Simon. (more)

5-23-08

Psyche

E.T. Is Our Brother

Adam Elenbaas

This week the Vatican announced that a belief in aliens does not contradict a belief in God. (more)

5-20-08

Life

Finding Peace Between Our Sheets

Adam Elenbaas

What if one of the largest problems plaguing romantic relationships on the planet is so simple, so subtle, that it can happen 2 or 3 times in one night? In this RS interview I talk to Peace Between the Sheets author Marnia Robinson about why she believes orgasm addiction is responsible for relationship dis-eases. (more)

5-16-08

Psyche

Exorcising Christ from Christianity

Adam Elenbaas

My favorite theology professor from college recently wrote a book called The Myth of a Christian Nation: Why the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church. After meeting Christ in an Ayahuasca ceremony, if I were to write a similar book, I would call it, The Myth of a Christian Church: Why the Historical Jesus Should be Exorcised from Christianity. (more)

4-16-08

Psyche

A Fair and Balanced Look at 2012

Adam Elenbaas

Surprisingly, LA's Fox News gave fair and open-minded coverage to the recent 2012 conference in Hollywood. Has 2012 gone mainstream? (more)

4-15-08

Life

A Goddess Retires

Adam Elenbaas

An eleven year old thought to be an incarnation of Kali retires early from her revered status as Goddess. (more)

4-14-08

Life

1421: History or Hoax?

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In 1421: The Year China Discovered America, author Gavin Menzies argues that the Chinese, not Columbus, explored America first. (more)

4-10-08

Life

Pollution Blues

Adam Elenbaas

A recent scientific study shows that a group of male birds exposed to pollutants in their diet developed more complex and appealing mating songs while also showing immune system deficiencies. (more)

4-9-08

Eco

Frozen Food

Adam Elenbaas

The Norwegian government is storing over 2 billion seeds in an underground arctic freezer that is being referred to as "the doomsday vault." (more)

4-8-08

Arts

Animating These Post Modern Times

Adam Elenbaas

Daniel Pinchbeck's animated short "Toward 2012" has led to "Post Modern Times," a series of 10 webisodes that promotes a new understanding of our world, highlighting practical tools and visionary techniques for a sustainable future. Think "The Simpsons" meets Buckminster Fuller and Aldous Huxley. A conversation with the filmmakers, Joao Amorim and Nikos Katsaounis. (more)

3-14-08

Psyche

Spotting Psychedelic Research

Adam Elenbaas

Project Sunspot is a web-based initiative devoted to creating a hypertextual database of all the different psychedelic research projects being conducted worldwide.(more)

3-11-08

Commons

Virtual Big Brother

Adam Elenbaas

The Reynard Project is an intelligence and surveillance project that aims to find potential terrorist behavior in the online worlds of multi-player gaming.(more)

3-6-08

Psyche

Selected Schizophrenia

Adam Elenbaas

Geneticists are finding that the genes most commonly associated with schizophrenia are positively selected, suggesting a possible evolutionary benefit to the "disorder." (more)

3-5-08
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