NEXUS

http://deoxy.org/ - Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension - "At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope & telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos." —Timothy Leary

www.altx.com - ALT-X - experimental art, writing, hypertext. "An insurgent cell in the heart of the vast digicosmos of corporate info-spamming and vapid techno-babble...its unique value to writers and readers alike lies in the remarkable quality of the work already posted there." (--Utne Reader)

www.archive.org - The Internet Archive - massive library of internet sites & other cultural artifacts in digital form. Featuring Naropa Audio and too much more.

www.ubu.com - UBUWEB - a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. Expansive film, audio and text archives.

http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html - Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words & images that matter most on a global scale, autonomously observing what leading news sources are saying & showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds.

www.npr.org... - Exploring the Online Gaming World - Disturbing conversation with journalist Julian Dibbell about the burgeoning virtual realities & virtual economies of online gaming worlds...

MEDITATION

www.dhamma.org - Vipassana Meditation- vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is an ancient technique with it's origins in the Buddha's teaching. Vipassana is one of the most widely available forms of serious practice, taught at ten-day residential courses around the world.

www.shambhalasun.com... - The Universal Technique - Vipassana teacher S.N. Goenka interviewed by Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer. An introduction to vipassana meditation.

Why I Sit - essay by Paul Fleischman. "It is remarkable that while ordinarily we spend most of our lives studying, contemplating, observing and manipulating the world around us, the structured gaze of the thoughtful mind is so rarely turned inwards."

The Experience of Impermanence - essay by Paul Fleischman, psychiatrist and vipassana teacher, exploring the importance of the experience of impermance, and explaining how meditation can be understood through Western psychology.

| Fleischman on Buddhism & Buddha's Teaching | The Buddha's summation of meditation |

www.pariyatti.org - Pariyatti Books is dedicated to making materials available from the Theravada Buddhist tradition, specifically those related to vipassana meditation. Pariyatti also offers podcasts of public talks given by those associated with the theory & practice of vipassana.

www.vri.dhamma.org/archives/ddyoga.html - Yoga as Seen in the Light of Vipassana - transcript of a lengthy public talk given by vipassana teacher S.N. Goenka in 1990.

www.accesstoinsight.org/index.html - Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism. An excellent resource center for the collected Buddhist texts of the Pali Canon.  

"Theravada, the 'Doctrine of the Elders,' is the school of Buddhism that draws its scripitual inspiration from the Tipitaka, or Pali Canon, which scholars generally agree contains the earliest surviving record of the Buddha's teachings."

www.wisdompubs.org... - In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, Edited and Introduced by Bhikkhu Bodhi (Wisdom Publications). The definitive collection of the teachings of Buddha, comprehensively organized & introduced by a celebrated scholar and translator. Download the first 63 pages, including the excellent General Introduction, for free.

The Mirror: Advice on the Presence of Awareness - This essay by Namkhai Norbu is a precise and detailed instruction on the most essential aspect of Tibetan Dzogchen practice, and is an excellent reference for anyone interesting in meditation practice or spiritual discipline of any kind.

www.thebuddhadharma.com - Buddhadharma - The quarterly journal for Buddhists of all traditions who wish to deepen their practice and study of the dharma. Many informative back-issue articles available online.

www.wie.org/j13/shaw.asp - Interview with Miranda Shaw, author of Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, who lucidly outlines the rigors of authentic Tantric practice, which stresses that "if you do not work directly with your sexuality, if you simply repress it or try to ignore it without mastering it, then you cannot become fully enlightened."

wilber.shambhala.com.. - Gloriously, Divinely Big Egos: essay by Ken Wilber - this insightful essay clarifies misconceptions about spiritual realization and the ego. "Egolessness does not mean the absence of a functional self (that's a psychotic, not a sage); it means that one is no longer exclusively identified with that self."

The Three Tendencies of the Eightfold Path - this diagram defines a spiral of progess by illustrating the Eightfold Path in the Three Divisions of Buddha's teaching: Sila, Samadhi, and Panna.

www.audiodharma.org - Audio Dharma - archive of dharma talks given by diverse teachers and practitioners at the Insight Meditation Center.

Ram Bomjon, 15-year-old meditator in Nepal
Photo by Jeff Riedel
[ Audio at NPR | Photo & Text at GQ ]

LITERATURE & LANGUAGE

www.theparisreview.com/literature.php - DNA of Literature: Paris Review Interviews Archive - incredible collection of in-depth interviews with most of the 20th Century's influential writers. We currently recommend the outstanding Henry Miller interview (1962).

www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/... - The Scriptorium - an index of pages featuring writers who have pushed the edges of their medium, combining literary talent with a sense of experimentation to produce some remarkable works of modern literature.

www.kcrw.com... - KCRW's Bookworm showcases writers of fiction and poetry, interviewed with insight and precision by Michael Silverblatt. We especially recommend the Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood & Mark Danielewski interviews. Also, search KCRW for full archive.

"One should really understand something about human life, and about feeling, and about consciousness, and about the complexity of reality—and literature is a vehicle for that. It is an education of the heart, and of the consciousness; it's an enlarger of sympathies, it's a deepener of feeling..." —Susan Sontag

www.librivox.org - Librivox - provides free audiobooks of works in the public domain, recorded by volunteers. An exciting and completely open source, free content, public domain project.

www.jessamyn.com/barth/ - postmodern master Donald Barthelme - archive of fiction, commentary & criticism, projects, reading lists, and other cracks in the linguistic pavement.

www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ - Thomas Pynchon, one of the most challenging and rewarding contemporary American writers, has lucidly explored the possibilities of language.

www.bookforum.com/archive/... - Pynchon From A to V - excellent essay by editor Gerald Howard on the enduring importance of Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow.

www.npr.org... - in these NPR commentaries Linguist Geoff Nunberg offers insightful analysis of language as used in politics, law, and culture. More can be found at Nunberg's own site.

www.ncac.org - The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an alliance of 50 national non-profit orgs, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, and civil liberties groups.

PSYCHEDELICS

www.erowid.org - The Vaults of Erowid: Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactive substances. Similar in scope to LEDA. Erowid hosts a remarkable compendium of subjective explorations in its Experience Vaults.

www.lycaeum.org - The Lycaeum Entheogenic Database (LEDA), created to organize the complex and ever-expanding web of entheogen information, is a community project and comprehensive resource.

www.maps.org - The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies: a non-profit research & educational organization, assisting scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for and report on studies into the risks and benefits of psychedelics.

www.drugtext.org - Drug Text - resources on substance use, risk-reduction, and drug policy.

www.druglibrary.org... -(full text html)- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1954).

AWAKENING CONSCIOUSNESS

www.techgnosis.com - Erik Davis' Techgnosis - Explorations in the Age of Information: "attempting to understand the often unconscious metaphysics of information culture by looking at it through the archetypal lens of religious and mystic myth."

www.believenothing.tv.. - Robert Anton Wilson (audio archive) - humorous, insightful and big-hearted conversations with the author, philospher, and trickster who described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations—to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models (maps) and no one model elevated to the Truth."

www.lancerules.com/terence/ - Terence McKenna audio archive - erudite and wildly-speculative public talks given by the illustrious philosopher, author, bio-medicinal conservationist and psychedelic spokesman. We recommend Unfolding the Stone. The old archive was HERE.

| McKenna on psychedelic awareness | McKenna on the perception of fair play |

http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm - How to Build a Universe... - in an essay referenced by the film Waking Life, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick describes how a portion of one of his novels was found to closely parallel a book of the Bible he'd never read, and how the events depicted therein actually happened later in his life. Dick meditates on what such occurances appear to imply about the structure of reality and consciousness.
   ⇒ See also Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference, an excellent essay by Erik Davis.

http://wilber.shambhala.com/ - Ken Wilber at Shambhala - contemporary philosopher whose accessable work approaches a synthesis and interpretation of the world's great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions. Essays, excerpts, interviews, and archive.

The Integral Vision at the Millenium - essay by Ken Wilber - an overview to Spiral Dynamics as it relates to Wilber's work mapping what he calls the neo-perennial philosophy, an integration of traditional mysticism with an account of cosmic evolution. Excellent introduction to Wilber.

www.shambhalasun.com.. - The Kosmos According to Ken Wilber - 1996 interview where Wilber explains and contextualizes his work, especially as it relates to spiritual practice.

NON-CATEGORIZED (Ontological Anarchy)

www.hermetic.com/bey/ - Temporary Autonomous Zone - The writings of Hakim Bey.

First murder the IDEA--blow up the monument inside us --& then perhaps...the balance of power will shift. When the last cop in our brain is gunned down by the last unfulfilled desire-- perhaps even the landscape around us will begin to change... —Hakim Bey

www.prickly-paradigm.com... -(full text pdf)- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - sketches of potential theories & tiny manifestos by David Graeber (2004).

www.nothingness.org - Comprehensive archive of Situationist & Anarchist resources. We recommend The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem.

http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/... - Resistence MP3 - enormous collection of public talks, readings and lectures concerning the history & theory of socialism, anti-capitalism, civil rights, revolution and related movements. Featuring Noam Chomsky, MLK, Gore Vidal and many others.

www.crimethinc.com - CrimethInc. Ex-workers Collective - Accepting no constraints from without, we countenanced none within ourselves, either, and found that the world opened before us...

www.chomskytorrents.org - One Big Torrent - File-sharing tracker dedicated to alternative media and documentary, with a special place for the work of Noam Chomsky. Good source for information.

| www.infoshop.org | www.akpress.org | www.autonomedia.org |

V for Vendetta © 2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
[review at signalfire.org]

SUBVERSIVE ARTS

www.adbusters.org - Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment - A global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs advancing the new social activist movement of the information age.

www.hermetic.com/bey/radio_se.html -(full text html)- Immediatism, essays by Hakim Bey on reclaiming artistic activity from the alienating forces of mediation and commodification (1994, previously published as the Radio Sermonettes). The book's Introduction is HERE.

www.critical-art.net - Critical Arts Ensemble - collective dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory. We recommend The Flesh Machine.

www.harpers.org/MyCrowd.html - Flash Mobs - Covertly organized by a senior editor of Harper's Magazine, the Mob Project was a kind of immediatist social art project, interesting in itself, that came to reveal how swiftly artistic concepts are often usurped by corporate advertising engines.

http://glitchbrowser.com/ - Glitch Browser - a deliberate attempt to subvert the usual course of conformity and signal perfection, with rather beautiful results. The net never looked so good...

www.burningman.com - Burning Man Project - Weeklong participatory festival and experiment in community & radical self-expression held annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

| www.drooker.com | www.kuildoosh.com | www.pleix.net | http://visualresistance.org/ |

| www.thelondonpolice.com | www.alienslang.com | www.neural.it/english/ |

| www.woostercollective.com | www.beehivecollective.org | http://evolution-control.com/ |

www.alienslang.com

www.kuildoosh.com

ENVIRONMENT

"We eat by the grace of nature, not industry. And we forget that. Every time we eat, we're engaging with the natural world, and all of our eating decisions are supporting one set of species or another, one kind of landscape or another. We can't live in full consciousness of that all the time, but to live in greater consciousness of it than we do is the first step toward changing our relationship to nature. I don't think you can call yourself an environmentalist if you're thoughtless about your eating."
     —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma [interview on NPR's Fresh Air]

www.driveneutral.org - DriveNeutral - Pioneering program allows individuals to participate in Carbon Credits trading, effectively offsetting one's own Carbon Footprint.

www.corpwatch.org - Holding Corporations Accountable - CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.  

MEDIA MEDIA

www.democracynow.org - Democracy Now! - independent, unembedded daily radio & TV news program on over 450 stations, pioneering the largest public media collaboration in North America. Listen/Watch entire shows via podcast (xml) or streaming media. Also, complete archive HERE.

www.democracynow.org... - Bill Moyers on Media Reform - The veteran broadcast journalist's powerful speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis: "As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing financial and political pressure..."

www.utne.com - UTNE Magazine reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture.

www.signalfire.org - SignalFire! - our friends at Signal Fire monitor international news overlooked by mainstream media, and host articles, essays and reports from a critical anarchist perspective.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

http://free-culture.cc/ - FREE CULTURE (2004) - In this important book, law professor Lawrence Lessig explains the changing and dangerous nature of Copyright Law in the Digital Age. Lessig shows that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have big cultural monopolists used their political leverage to control the Internet, shrink the public domain of ideas, and control what we can and can't do with culture. More timely now than ever before.
<< Download Free Culture (PDF & Audiobook) for FREE

http://creativecommons.org/ - Creative Commons - provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry, changing your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

www.eff.org - Electronic Frontier Foundation - a nonprofit group of lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries working to protect digital rights. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, EFF is the first line of defense.

http://p2pnet.net/ - P2P NET - the original daily Peer-to-Peer (p2p) and digital media news site keeps a close eye on issues involving intellectual property, file-sharing, and net security.

http://news.com.com/.. - TorrentSpy ordered to start tracking visitors - After being sued by the MPAA, TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search engine, was ordered by a federal judge in California to create logs detailing users' activities on the site. The judge, however, has granted a stay of the order to allow TorrentSpy to file an appeal. (06.08.07)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/.. - Personal Data in iTunes Tracks - "The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them." (06.01.2007) See also related stories at BBC News.

Some DRM-Free Digital Music Sites: www.nugs.net | www.beathut.com | www.bleep.com

SOUND & MUSIK

http://soundtransit.nl/search/ - SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography, an impressive database where all sounds are Creative Commons licensed for sharing and reuse. Samples galore.

http://negativland.com/ote_live/... - Over the Edge - incredible archive of the weekly radio program created by Negativland, experimental electronic sound collagers & secret history archivists.

www.decaycast.com - DecayCast - Noise as music and music as noise. Experimental sound collage podcasts from our friends with a finger on the subliminal digital pulse of San Francisco.

www.maddecent.com - Mad Decent Radio - Diplo's podcasts capture the music & sounds of cities.

www.ninjatune.net - Ninja Tune - Fantastic label for electronic, hiphop, breaks jazz, DJ's, & more.

www.ropeadope.com - Ropeadope Records - nice site of endless diversions. Good music too.

www.jazzdisco.org - Jazz Discography Project - Archive of releases from bebop, cool/west coast, hard bop/mode, free jazz musicians, and more. Get historical.