Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival

Psychedelic States and Schizophrenia

As long as a man can talk to himself about himself, he retains some sense of personal identity and separateness. Once he stops talking (self-reflective thinking) and begins to listen "to the song going on within him," all boundaries, internal and external, cease to exist—including the internal-external boundary itself. In some cases, this state is experienced or interpreted as psychotic death; ...

The International Garden Festival

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Psychotoxic or Psychedelic

Integrating Festival and Windows

Festival is a popular open-source development and execution environment for speech synthesis. It has been well-integrated within many environments, particularly Unix ones, but so far has not been easy to integrate natively into Windows. We present two solutions to this: an MSAPI interface, which allows Festival voices to work with a range of speech-enabled Windows applications, and SpeechServer...

Turning the Tide for Psychedelic Medicines

Psychedelic Medicine provides a broad overview of this re-emerging field in 30 chapters authored primarily by leading physicians, medical researchers, and psychologists who have continued to explore the potentials of these substances. Complemented by the legal and social views of anthropologists and lawyers, these substances and their healing potentials are re-evaluated in light of the recent d...