Drinking the Kool-Aid

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ; Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe;  neal cassady explains the acid test, 1967

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Tripping (1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters documentary)

• Jam Band Videos; Fire on the Mountain; Grateful Dead, free concert on Haight Street 1968

• On the Road, The Dharma Bums, & Desolation Angels; Jack Kerouac Jazz and Prose; The Beat Generation 

• Hunter Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

• Brave New World (the movie); The Doors of Perception (Wooooooah! Look at this flower, dude!) by Aldous Huxley  

• The Basketball Diaries (The Movie with Leonardo DiCaprio); People Who Died; Wicked Gravity by Jim Carroll 

• How your Brain Hallucinates your Conscious Reality; 

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; Delta of Venus by Anais Nin (Reading of her poetry) 

• Junky & Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (all his scenes in Drugstore Cowboy) 

• Tales of Ordinary Madness; The Most Beautiful Woman in Town; Notes of a Dirty Old Man  Charles Bukowski (DO NOT READ any of these if you are overly sensitive or easily offended); The Wicked Life of America's Most Infamous Poet; Documentary; Reading

Visionary Art Amanda Sage; Naoto Hattori; Beatriz Bradaschi; Alex Grey; Channeling The Cosmic Creative Force ; How art evolves consciousness

Deep, Dark Animations IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey; KINGDOM; Model Citizen

Realities of Western Civilization Strangely Vibrating 

• MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

• Soft White Underbelly  Under the veneer of civilization lies humanity's heart of darkness

• Tales from the streets  What goes on just around the corner in the USA!

• Idiocracy  Fiction or documentary?

• How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer  YouTube

Power, Influence and Conflict

• The 33 Strategies of War & The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• The Book of Five Rings; Miyamoto Musashi: The Way of the Ronin; A Life of Ultimate Focus; The Path of the Loner

• Art of War Sun Tzu; The Art of War Documentary; How to Destroy Your Enemy

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; Key Ideas Explained

• Palmer Luckey: The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III; Making autonomous weapons; Superhuman Soldiers, AI Missiles and Exoskeletons in Warzones

• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer.  John's Substack; Lex Fridman Interview with John

• Nukemap  Choose a location & warhead yield then detonate

• Annie Jacobsen: How a nuclear war starts; First 20 minutes of a nuclear attack; 2 years after nuclear war: Who survives?

• 5 Largest Nuclear Tests Caught On Camera ; True Scale of Nuclear Weapons ; How would US Fight a Nuclear War?

• JFK’s 1963 Peace Speech; Eisenhower Farewell Address - 'Military Industrial Complex' WARNING

• Apocalypse Now;  Zulu

Freediving Bliss 130m Dive; This why I dive; The exhilarating peace of freediving

Without a Parachute

• 25000 Feet With No Parachute; Skydiving Without Parachute - Antti Pendikainen

• Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts (Watch the fight)

• The Secret History of LSD; 1950s housewife in LSD experiment; Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins; The Science of Psychedelics for Mental Health; Legend Of A Mind 

• American Juggalo 

• New Yorkers Who Hunt Rats At Night;  eRATication!  (These are hard hitting - beware!)

• PostmodernJukebox Novel arrangements.  (Try these: Haley Reinhart ; Morgan James)