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October edition of the Mind States e-mailing newsletter:

1) MIND STATES VI: "Technology & Transcendence" • May 27-29, 20005 • San Francisco, CA

2) COSM HALLOWEEN EVENT: "Deities & Demons Masquerade" • Octoberr 29, 2004 • New York City, NY

3) SYNERGENESIS: Visionary Art and Culture • November 6 • Sa San Francisco, CA

4) VISIONARY ART WORKSHOP • November 12-19, 2004 • Boulder, r, CO

5) NEW MAPS BULLETIN: "Rites of Passage: Kids and Psychedelics"

6) *THANATOS TO EROS* NOW ON-LINE: Myron Stolaroff's biography.


See more details below.

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1) MIND STATES VI • May 27-29, 2005

The 2005 Mind States conference has been moved to more spacious and beautiful venue: The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco. The theme for this event is "Technology & Transcendence," and topics covered may include:

robotics
artificial-life
life extension
virtual reality
harm reduction
skeptical thinking
brain fingerprinting
intelligence increase
artificial intelligence
future pharmaceuticals
electronic trance-dance
cloning & consciousness
video game environments
visionary plants and drugs
EEG-mapping of altered states
visionary and science-based art
transcranial magnetic stimulation
50-year-reflection on Wasson's mushroom discovery
and more.

In order to help generate production funds, we are currently offering (until December 31) "ultra early bird" tickets for $195. This represents a $105 savings from the "at the door" price for tickets. Help us out by getting your tickets early, and save money at the same time! Visit http://www.mindstates.org to purchase tickets on-line with a credit card, or send check or money order made out to "Mind States" to: Mind States, POB 19820, Sacramento, CA 95819. And remember, our last two conferences have sold-out in advance: another good reason to buy your tickets early.

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2) COSM HALLOWEEN EVENT: "Deities & Demons Masquerade" • Friday,, October 29, 2004 • 540 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NYC, New York, (212) 564-4253.

Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (COSM) now has a public home! Celebrate these new digs at the "Deities & Demons Masquerade" party on Friday, October 29 from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am. A night of costumes, music, and magic. Come dressed as your true self, archetype, or any thing that you can imagine.

9:00 pm: doors open
9:30 pm: lecture by Alex Grey titled "Deities & Demons: Fear & Ecstasy in the Masks of God"
10:15 pm: Ancient Spirits' Dance of the Dead with cellist Rubin Kudheli and violinist Jesse Mills; masks by Lauren Raine; dancers: Ayelen Liberona, Marisa Scirocco, Serene Zloof, Lynzee Dava, and Jonette Ford

MUSIC LINEUP:

Main Dance Floor
11:00 pm: KOZ (Agent Flux, CCC, Merkaba)
1:00 am: Matyas (Reality Engine, N’Light’N, Merkaba)
3:00 am: Allen (Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
6:00 am: Closing Ceremony

COSM Chill Out
11:00 pm: Bluetech LIVE (Aleph Zero, Native:State, Waveform)
12:30 am: Pedro (Reality Engine, N’Light’N, Merkaba - Brasil)
2:30 am: J-dubs (Atmospherics by Enlightened Productions)
Audio-visual installation by Reality Engine

Video artists: Guillaume Clave, Jordan Walker, Matyas Kelemen, Kathi Von Koerber. Etheric projections by Pythagoras Pentad.

Plus a chai-shop and smart bar. Tickets are $20.00 (advance purchase only: space is limited and the event will sell-out). For ticket purchase and more information, visit http://www.cosm.org/index.html

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors also recently published the first issue ($6.00) of their *COSM Journal of Visionary Culture*. Edited by Alex and Allyson Grey, this issue contains contributions from Matthew Fox, Paul Laffoley, Gabrielle Roth, Kenji Williams, Jayson Fann, Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D., Arlequin, Zena Gret, Liz Rymland, Marie-Elizabeth Mundheim, Alex Stark, Oliver Vernon, Eli Morgan, and Marisa Scirocco. Check the web site listed above for more information.

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3) SYNERGENESIS: Visionary Art and Culture • Saturday, November 6, 22004 • San Francisco, California

SYNERGENESIS is an "Experience of Transpersonal Visionary Art and Culture at the Cusp of Human Coevolution." Held from Saturday, November 6 at 12:00 noon until Sunday, November 7 at 4:00 am, at CELLspace, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco.

Your presence is requested for an entire day of full power interactivation. This event will serve as a catalyst for the (r)evolutionary creators of our time to converge and collaborate on manifesting the reality that our art invokes, creating a portal through which our collective vision is crystallized and potentiated. Our gallery will feature visionary art by: Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Mark Henson, Alex Grey, Paul Laffoley, Carey Thompson, Luke Brown, Vibrata Chromodoris, David Heskin, Xavi, Mariela de la Paz, Emily Butterfly, Michael Brown, J. Garcia, Kris D, Roman Villagrana, Nikki Anderson, Rob Newell, and others.

There will be live informational drops from: Mark Comings, Lloydine Arguelles (tentative), Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Spotworks, and Crystal & Spore--including the opportunity to participate in the infamous "Shamans and Allies."

• Opening Reception with Artist's Panel mediated by Erik Davis
• J.M. Nasim and Naasko on aural ambiance
• Community Market: signed prints, stickers, clothing and more
• Late Night Ecstatic Celebration and Integration of the Day with: bbluetech (BC), Shakatura (MFP), and Danny (moontribe)
• Floral Sculpture as Dance-Anthony Ward
• A Ritual Procession of the Archetypes
• Visionary Prayerformance

Come adorned as your highest s'elf!

Check http://www.synergenesis.org for schedule, presenter info, and registration/tickets. This is an ExploreSpirit Production, in association with Carey Thompson and Eve Bradford.

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4) VISIONARY ART WORKSHOP • November 12-19, 2004 • Boulder, r, Colorado

Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann present a visionary art workshops in Boulder, Colorado, on November 12-19, 2004. More detailed information is available at http://www.martinahoffmann.com/workshops.html

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5) NEW MAPS BULLETIN: "Rites of Passage: Kids and Psychedelics"

Another "theme" issue of the *MAPS Bulletin* has been produced by editors Jon Hanna and Sylvia Thyssen. This one tackles the controversial topic of the use of psychedelics by young people. See http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v14n2-html/

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6) THANATOS TO EROS ON-LINE

Myron Stolaroff's amazing autobiography, presenting his inner exploration with psychedelics over the course of 35 years. From the Foreword by Alexander and Ann Shulgin:

"The story of *Thanatos to Eros* takes us through two marriages, over the course of the author's growth from a successful engineer to an independent business man, and eventually, we see his first steps and subsequent strides as a researcher and explorer of human consciousness. We move with him through the often intense and difficult changes that take place as he learns to use his chosen tools, the psychedelic drugs, beginning with LSD in 1956, and progressing to other powerful visionary plants and drugs over the subsequent years. He is trying to, in the words of Carl Jung, 'make the unconscious conscious,' as the way to attain realization of his ultimate self. We discover, along with him, that this is a hard goal to attain, and that it must be sought with complete inner integrity and fearless self-examination."

*Thanatos to Eros* is posted at http://www.maps.org/t2e/index.html

// posted by ustaath @ 11/27/2004 01:32:00 PM