It sure is taking a long time for mainstream science to catch up with Terrence McKenna, but according to an AP News article on Wired.com, a recent study has found that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms has had long term benefits on those in the experiment:

Scientists reported Tuesday ...

So, I've returned from the festival and have recuperated enough braincells to be able to give some kind of recounting of the experience.

In a sentence, it was everything I hoped it would be. Or damn close to it.

I bought my ticket a day before finding out that ...

Today on RIPPLE:

Ray and the Rev talk to filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope.  (This…

A special edition of Tara Vanflower's Lives of Ilya has been released by Mythos Media. Illustrated by Daniele Serra, Lives of Ilya is a poetic vampire tale in words and pictures.

For most, "immortal" is just a word, a description of a concept that defies all rational explanation. Born ...

Ray and the Rev interview Xander Bennett on his upcomin comic Cages, published by Insomnia Publications

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Mythos Media launched its newly redesigned web site yesterday, offering a more in-depth glance at their products and philosophy - including the upcoming releases of Lives of Ilya and The Medicine Show.

As some of you might know, Mythos Media is a joint collaboration between multimedia artists P. Emerson Williams and ...

Some readers of Key 64 might already be aware of the works of Father Jordan Stratford. For those of you who aren't, Stratford is a very pragmatic religious writer and Gnostic Catholic priest, who has gained quite an amount of notoriety in the Gnostic and occult circles online. His ...

Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for contention and controversy as that of ontology. And no ontological question has been given more cognizance than that of the existence of God.

But can ...

I just had a weird mind-numbing web 2.0 moment. And I know it's a totally overused buzzword but it does describe the wave of network-aware applications and services wiring up across the Web. Data is flowing like mad across the globe. We need to find, sort, collaborate and ...

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So read the inscription in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the travelogue writer Pausanias.  But what did it mean? The Temple of Delphi was of course built at the location of the famous Delphic Oracle.  So it could be an instruction of ...

Yee-haw! Let the tourism space race begin, my friends. I actually appreciate how independent companies and venture capitalists are stepping up in the great space race, rather than being spectators of the slow movement of NASA. There is a certain amount of red tape that an organization like NASA is ...

I mentioned in a previous article on the "green" fad about how environmentally friendly products aren't necessarily friendly to your wallet; and how "green" seems to be the new catch-word to milk a few more dollars out of your pocket.

A good example of the economic inefficiency of some ...

The latest Ripple:

In this episode, Ray Carney and co-host Rev. T. Gabriel Williams interview Bryan Tulao of Mother Tongue over Follow The Trail. Part two of this interview in two weeks.

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Euthyphro: a tale of epistemology, a tale of dialectic regard for piety and impiety, a direct and sudden tale to bring a stunning point across. On the surface, this may be one's first impression of Plato's short play. Further examination, however, reveals that not only is Euthyphro much ...

I was always taught that the greatest of religious thinkers (especially when dealing with Christianity) were the mystics. If you weren’t brought up on charges of heresy, then you didn’t have anything interesting and innovative to contribute. Judaism and true Christianity occasionally seem to be locked down by ...

Since yesterday was Earth Day, I wanted to bring up a few points about ecology and the "green" movement for people to ponder.

First, as I pointed out in a previous article on the Morality of Ecology, Aldo Leopold stated in his essay entitled "Round River":

As for diversity, what ...

The deadline for Key 64's "Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets" special summer extravaganza is quickly approaching. We've got quite a few articles in the bag but there is always room for more. Here are the specifics YOU need to know to get your article in:

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Last year, as I was bitching and moaning about the price of oil and gas, I came across an optimistic and well written article on Wired.com, telling us about how $5.00 gas was good for America. With a title like Why $5 Gas is Good for America, I ...

In this episode, Joseph Matheny conducts a GPod Radio installment interviewing artist Ray Carney and co-authors Edward Wilson and Wes Unruh about their upcoming book The Art of Memetics.

Why are the authors glad that the book is being downloaded for free? Is piracy a viable marketing strategy? What, exactly ...

Following in the footsteps of such modern day occult and countercultural luminaries as Wes Unruh and Klint Finley, Key 64's own Nick Pell enters the world of the Ten Towers.

Nick Pell is the Event Director of esoZone: The Other Tomorrow, Editor in Chief of Key64, and is currently ...

What are you doing on April 19th? If you live in New Jersey, New York, or Eastern Pennsylvania, you might want to check out Vera Mesmer, the Fall Faction and James Curcio at the Engage.Respond.Evolve event - "an experiment of metaphysical process in three parts."

The Fall Studios and ...

Klint Finley has made some annoucements about the upcoming Esozone event in October. The dates are October 10th - 12th, and the even is being held at the Watershed Building at 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave. in Portland, Oregon.

So far, the confirmed speakers include Dennis McKenna, Antero Alli, Paul Laffoley, Rex ...

Damn near the whole world was Rick-Rolled on April 1st because of YouTube and countless other web sites. Even Key 64 was Rick-Rolled thanks to Chris Arkenberg.

What is it about Rick Astley that makes his "Roll" the zen sword of punking someone. I mean, he looks like Anthony Michael ...

Want more Wes Unruh? We mentioned previously that Wes Unruh was working on a book, with co-author Edward Wilson, called The Art of Memetics. In Wes' own words:

This book combines marketing, magic, theory on group minds, and memetics, while using the concept of networked complex systems (cybernetics) to explain ...