From: [e--ta--m] at [aol.com] (Exstasy M)
Subject: Island Group:  Toward a Psychedelic Culture
Date: 14 Jul 1994 00:09:01 -0400


Join Island Group--Let's Create a Psychedelic Culture!--Subscription
Information and Catalog
Over 30 years ago, Aldous Huxley published Island--his novel about a
utopian society based on the visions glimpsed by people on LSD, MDMA and
other consciousness-changing compounds.  Island Group was formed to
examine and synergize the many new ideas that have arisen in the past
three decades and forge a new psychedelic culture.

Areas of interest:
 psychedelic and other mind-changing compounds with new and more precise
effects * experimental forms of relationship and community * the "new
physics" * life extension * nanotechnology  virtual reality and multimedia
*the increasingly friendly human-computer interaction *chaos theory
*techno-shamanism  *a transpersonal psychology based on the mystical
experience  *consciousness-changing technologies including "brain
machines"  

Island Group conducts the following activities:

*Membership includes 4 issue subscription to Island Views:  a newsletter
bringing you articles, news and opinion from the cutting edge of
psychdedelia, Tim Leary, Bruce Eisner, Peter Stafford and more.

* Hosts discussion salons nationwide

* Sponsors events and conferences including 1991 Bridge Conference at
Stanford, 1993 Bicycle Day and an amazing conference planned for 1999

The Island Group Offers Two Types of Membership Subscriptions
General Membership $30:  Receives a four issue subscription to Island
Views and notification of all conferences and special events sponsored by
Island Group
Supporting Member $99  Receives a four issue of Island Views plus a your
choice of the Bridge Conference Video or the LSD: 50 Year Anniversary
Video described below

Island Marketplace

The Bridge Conference Video $39.95:  A compilation of the best of a the
two day conference video held at Stanford University, Feb., 1991 featuring
Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Francis Huxley, Bruce Eisner, Peter
Stafford, John Lilly, Howard Reingold, Robert Anton Wilson and over 50
other experts
The LSD 50th Anniversary Video $30 :  A compilation of a four hour event
held at U.C. Santa Cruz Performing Arts Theater on April 16, 1993. 
Features Robert Anton Wilson, Laura and Francis Huxley, Claudio Naranjo,
Stephen Gaskin, Bruce Eisner, Richard Yensen and others, plus video taped
messages from Albert Hofmann, Ken Kesey and Humprey Osmond
Timothy Leary's Transformation Session $30  Multimedia presentation  by
Dr. Timothy Leary at U.C. Santa Cruz Porter Hall, February 26, 1993
Bruce Eisner Audio or Video Tape "Understanding Ecstasy:  From
Psychotherapy to the Rave Culture." Two cassettes includes lecture plus
questions and answers. $15 Two hour video $30
$5  for sample Island Views and full Island Catalog!

Send orders or membership subscriptions to:
Island Group
1803 Mission St. Suite 175
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
For Info: (408) 427-1942