Simon Singh’s moving documentary of Andrew Wiles’ extraordinary search for the most elusive proof in number theory.
Robert Sapolsky: Stress, Portrait of a Killer (2008)
Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress—how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. From baboon troops on the plains of Africa, to neuroscience labs at Stanford University, scientists are revealing just how lethal stress can be. Research tells us that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not just a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous.
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Terence Mckenna: Dreaming Awake at the End of Time (13/12/1998)
“Join Terence McKenna, author, explorer and philosopher for a think along deconstruction of the deepening worldwide weirdness. With his characteristic hope and humor, McKenna examined time and its mysteries, the nature of language, the techniques of ecstasy, high technology and virtual cyberspace, the role of hallucinogenic plants in shamanism and the evolution of human cultures, and the foundations of post-modern spirituality. The lecture and discussion was didactic, syncretic, challenging, eclectic, eidetic and irreverent intellectual adventure.”
The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20 of 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. It was funded by the US Office of Naval Research[2] and was of interest to both the US Navy and Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners.
24 male students out of 75 were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The participants adapted to their roles well beyond Zimbardo’s expectations, as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture.
Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it. The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his role as the superintendent, permitted the abuse to continue. Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. – Wikipedia
Alan Watts Interviews Laura Huxley: This Timeless Moment
Originally broadcast on November 6, 1968. Recorded in Sausalito, California. Alan Watts talks with Laura Huxley about her recently published biography of her late husband, Aldous Huxley, titled “This Timeless Moment”.
These are the people that played the father role in my life as i was growing up. I saw high IQ and the balls to stay true to your beliefs and perceptions.
In rock & roll, that would be Jim Morrison! 🙂
Alan Watts – What did you forget?
Hi guys,
I would like to share this with everyone and hope everyone shares it with someone else. Humanity needs help remembering what we really are.
Hope all is well!
James
Terence Mckenna: The enemies of imagination
Terence Mckenna: The enemies of imagination.
Psychedelic Salon podcast 203 “Appreciating the Imagination”
Inspirational Talk from Timothy Leary (1993)
1993
Timothy Learty