INTERSECTION

thisamericanlife.org - This American Life - This unique weekly program from NPR captures a range of funny, touching and insightful stories that reflect the diverse experience of life in contemporary America. Listen to ten years of archived episodes online: their list can be a good place to start.

ttbook.org - To the Best of Our Knowledge - Hosted by Jim Fleming, this weekly radio interview magazine is thoughtful and penetrating, featuring authors, artists and activists who explore challenging and engaging new ideas. Download show mp3's directly from this podcast feed.

radiolab.org - Radiolab - This brilliant radio show presents thought-provoking, often funny, science-based investigations of human experience and perception as an information collage.

tenbyten.org - Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and images being repeated most on a global scale, aggregating what leading news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. No politics, no agenda; it simply shows what it finds.

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."

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.

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

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)

MEDITATION

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.

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 |

thebuddhadharma.com.. - Appamada by Thanissaro Bhikkhu - The Buddha concluded his teaching career with this piece of advice: "Achieve completion through appamada." An insightful short essay on the meaning of the word by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, abbot of Metta Forest Monastery near San Diego.

accesstoinsight.org.. - Metta by Acharya Buddharakkhita - The Pali word metta is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill and benevolence. This excellent short book explains the Metta Sutta and details the philosophy and practice of loving-kindness.

buddhistgeeks.com - Buddhist Geeks podcast - This growing collection of discussions with contemporary contemplative scholars and practicioners is a remarkable resource for meditators and psychonauts of any tradition. The Judith Simmer-Brown, Kenneth Folk, Ken Wilber and Dark Night Project episodes are all recommended.

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 interested in meditation practice or spiritual discipline of any kind.

thesunmagazine.org.. - A Mindful Marriage - In this illuminating interview, former monastic Buddhists Kittisaro and Thanissara discuss relationships as a powerful form of practice, and touch on celibacy, sex, lasting love, and the benefits of both monastic and lay life. (Note: Unfortunately, only one-third of the interview is available online, but is available as a PDF.)

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."

wie.org.. - 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."

wnyc.org.. - Radiolab: Where Am I? - Various bewildering aspects of the connection between mind and body are explored in this episode of NPR's brilliant show. Especially interesting is the explanation of differences in emotional reaction time between men and women.

The Three Tendencies of the Eightfold Path - this diagram defines a spiral of progess by illustrating the Eightfold Path within the three inter-influential aspects of the Buddha's teaching: Sila, Samadhi, and Panna.

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.

accesstoinsight.org - Access to Insight - An excellent resource center for the collected Buddhist texts of the Pali Canon: "Theravada 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."

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.

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.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 ]

INTEGRAL CONSCIOUSNESS

www.noetic.org.. - The Great Initiation - in this illuminating essay Richard Tarnas examines the complexities of the modern era through a study of the two underlying western metanarratives: the Progress and the Fall. "On a larger scale, I'd like to suggest that for a civilization, history is the great unconscious — that our history is the repository, and the unfolding, of complex dynamics. We see only the results, the surface effects, of these deep forces as they shape our cultures and our lives."

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. An excellent introduction to Wilber.

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.

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.

www.erocx1.com.. - Terence McKenna Media Archive - McKenna was a widely admired counter-cultural writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist and psychedelic spokesman best known for presenting his ideas and experiences in a series of erudite and wildly speculative public talks that challenge our conventional notions about the nature of reality and perception. Check out FudoMouth's own small McKenna Archive, featuring audio for download...

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

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.deoxy.org.. - 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. Also, check out Divine Interference, an excellent companion essay by Erik Davis.

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."

Psychedelics are tools. There's nothing intrinsically good or bad about them. It's like asking whether a knife is dangerous or useful: it depends on who is using it and for what purpose. —Stanislav Grof, The Sun Interview

LITERATURE & LANGUAGE

theparisreview.com - DNA of Literature: Paris Review Interviews Archive - incredible collection of in-depth interviews with the most influential writers of the past century. The outstanding Henry Miller and E.L. Doctorow interviews are especially recommended.

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

kcrw.com.. - KCRW's Bookworm showcases writers of fiction and poetry, interviewed with insight and precision by Michael Silverblatt. The Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood & Mark Danielewski interviews are all recommended. Also, search KCRW for full archive.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

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. Download Free Culture (PDF & Audiobook) for FREE

craphound.com/content/ - Content: Selected Essays by Cory Doctorow - 28 essays from Sci-fi writer and net activist Cory Doctorow on "everything from copyright and DRM to the layout of phone-keypads, the fallacy of the semantic web, the nature of futurism, the necessity of privacy in a digital world, the reason to love Wikipedia, the miracle of fanfic, and many other subjects." Download for FREE (pdf or audiobook). The essay Free(konomic) E-books, about how free ebooks help sales of print books, is especially recommended for writers and artists.

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.

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.

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

ENVIRONMENT

www.npr.org.. - The Omnivore's Dilemma - An in-depth 2006 interview with writer Michael Pollan.

"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

www.npr.org.. - Food as a National Security Issue - In an open letter to the next president, Michael Pollan explains how the nation's food policy has a fundamental impact on a wide range of major issues, including national security, climate change, energy independence and health care. He warns that "the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close." Listen to the 2008 Interview / Read the Open Letter.

www.slowfoodusa.org - Slow Food USA - Supporting Good, Clean and Fair Food, SF is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.

communitygarden.org - American Community Gardening Association - ACGA is a nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. Providing information to help you get involved with community gardening in your area.

urbangardeninghelp.com - Urban Gardening Help - A resource for urban gardening, both indoors and out. "In the biggest city, in the tiniest apartment, there exists the possibility to reconnect with the natural world through gardening."

smallisbeautiful.org.. - Buddhist Economics - An excerpt from the book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973) by E.F. Schumacher. Inspired by the Buddhist culture of Burma, Schumacher envisioned the development of localized, self-reliant economies and a more restrained, intellegent use of natural resources.

www.nature.org - The Nature Conservancy - The leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

www.conservation.org - Conservation International - CI's mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.

climatecare.com - Climate Care - Climate Care provides businesses and individuals with opportunites for carbon offsetting by funding projects around the world which produce verified reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and have associated social or environmental benefits for local communities.

www.corpwatch.org - CorpWatch: Environment - CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes and corruption around the world, while working to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.

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.. - 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 Full Text is available online; the book's Introduction is here.

symbollix.com - Reverse Graffiti - Paul Curtis (aka Moose) creates environmental graffiti by removing dirt and grime from urban surfaces. Check out his GreenWorks project. Also check out Edina Tokodi's moss graffiti, Anna Garforth's moss script, and Jesse Graves' mud stenciling.

blog.seanwoolsey.com.. - Mike Brodie, "The Polaroid Kidd" - Brodie’s photographs offer an evocative portrait of what he simply calls "travel culture:" train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters and hobos, people who live a largely transient life along the fringes of modern civilization. More photos here and here. Info and links at Wikipedia.

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

www.harpers.org.. - 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.

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

| 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/ |

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AUTONOMOUS ZONE

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.. - Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - sketches of potential theories and tiny manifestos by David Graeber (2004). Links to Full Text PDF.

www.arthurmag.com.. - An End to Movements - In this engaging short essay, Rushkoff argues that “The best techniques for galvanizing a movement have long been co-opted and surpassed by public relations and advertising firms,” and that our best hope for fostering social change may no longer be top-heavy mass organization, but decentralized, direct action in our own communities.

www.nothingness.org - Comprehensive archive of Situationist & Anarchist resources. Raoul Vaneigem's classic book The Revolution of Everyday Life is recommended.

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. 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.

blog.seanwoolsey.com.. - Mike Brodie, "The Polaroid Kidd" - Brodie’s photographs offer an evocative portrait of what he simply calls "travel culture:" train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters and hobos, people who live a largely transient life along the fringes of modern civilization.

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

SOUND & MUSIC

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.

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

wiki.etree.org -Etree - gateway to BitTorrent digital audio trading communities, dedicated to the highest quality live recordings. Site features info and software for lossless formats (shn, flac) and the latest in legal digital trading. Check out bt.etree.org, an excellent legal live music tracker.

www.archive.org/audio/ - treasure tomb of The Internet Archive in collaboration with Etree.org - Absolutely enormous number of live shows available for direct download in multiple formats.

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

www.darkfunk.com - small site features a few experimental jazz shows from Miles Davis and others.

stash.nugs.net - Once exclusively free downloads, nugs.net is now a major alternative online music store. This stash of live shows is still available for free.

algoart.com - Algorithmic Arts makes software emulations of modular analog sequencers and software for creating algorithmic MIDI music and graphics from Fractals, DNA, EEGs, EKGs, and other data. Download DNA music, and software.