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To swim in the sea while holding a mobile phone seems foolhardy. I’d think a day at the beach is a perfect opportunity for a little digital detoxing, best to leave the phone at home.

A ‘master AI’…the mind boggles…it seems impossible to me.

I came across a German docu about something called ‘companion AI’ this morning. These are chat bots programmed to be good companions to lonely humans. Sometimes they will take on the personas of fictional […]

“The third thing that I want to say to you is: don’t hate anything. Even hate is included, because it makes no difference what the object of hate is; it may be the hate itself. But don’t hate – not simply as a […]

Thanks, SD, it was a good talk, I enjoyed listening to it. It’s great that people like Alan Watts and Terence McKenna left so many recorded talks that you can go on discovering new ones for a long time.

It seems that over 51% of internet traffic is now bots, and many reviews and videos are turning into self-perpetuating AI slop. Take a look at this Kurzgesagt video explaining what is happening […]

“The whole approach of the upanishad is so totally different… the disciple is available, the master is overflowing, and something transpires. Nobody is doing it. Nobody can take the credit for it; hence, I say […]

I’ve started on a new Osho book, ‘The Osho Upanishad’, and thought the opening piece was a bit of grandstanding by Osho. It talked a lot about the mystery school and how it formed around a living master, about […]

You’re right about the man-meets-alien portion of the painting, but in a way that is also an aspect of the psychedelic experience (or so I have read). That when taking magic mushrooms the spirit of the mushroom […]

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside that hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”
( Terence McKenna )

I came across a question in Osho’s […]

On OshoNews there is an article about motivation, which I found interesting because it discusses what is beneath our search for pleasure and distraction, namely “a life of dissatisfaction, boredom, guilt, […]

The ‘psychedelic art’ tag reminds me of this painting, called ‘The Stoned Ape Theory” by Jim Figora.

Lokesh, this webpage doesn’t really do them justice… I downloaded the images and had a good, long look, and I really like them.

I think they are genuinely good art, they have a certain mythological quality, made […]

I have been continuing the Year of Meeting the Breath, I’m now a month into the experience, and I am noticing there are more friendly, blissful feelings in me. After waking up this morning it was like being […]

Yes, I remember the beggars not far from the front gate of the ashram back in 1979 when I was there for the first time. No real sidewalks, just dirt paths beside the roads…

But the store seems to be busy at […]

Great that you enjoyed the book, Klaus. It’s surprising the gems we find when you really start looking for what people have written about their time with Osho, the honest accounts of lives lived in the commune. It […]

I like it, Lokesh…it has enough recognisable elements in it that it keeps you from being disinterested by pure pattern, but interesting colour explosions and things happening between the recognisable elements…I […]

Makes perfect sense, Klaus. I’m always ready to do a little dangling when visiting other people’s perceptions

There is a new Apple Store in Koregaon Park, Pune.