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To all members of the Global Alliance of Internet Anarchists (GAIA 2000):
Planet Earth is now passing between two tremendous (non-)events. The first,
the Earth Summit, ostensibly laid the ground rules for global governance in
the '90s, but has been widely greeted with cynicism and despair. The second,
the Time Shift, is supposed to mark the end of materialism and alienation,
but there's not much point in waiting for the cosmos to take care of things
for us.
Between them, these two events may mark the end of politics and religion
as humanity has known them. In such times we need to pool all of our
intelligence, in order to work out what the hell is going on. To this end I
nominate the following groups and individuals as vital sources of information
and untested perspectives. Between them, they might just know enough to get
us out of our current mess.
HEED THIS MESSAGE, else we may all return to the Ugyldig from whence we
sprang.
Avital Ronell. Currently teaching at a university somewhere in California.
"Left of left". Author, "The Telephone Book", "Crack Wars".
Celia Green. Director, Institute for Psychophysical Research (118 Banbury Rd,
Oxford OX2 6JU, UK). Important books: "The Human Evasion", "The Decline and
Fall of Science", "Advice for Clever Children".
Barbara Marx Hubbard. R Buckminster Fuller apparently considered her the best-
informed human alive on futurism. Member, World Future Society. Books: "The
Hunger of Eve", "The Evolutionary Journey".
FORESIGHT INSTITUTE. Founded by K Eric Drexler of nanotechnology fame,
examining impact of future technologies on everything else in a way unequalled
for rigor and integrity. [see the newsgroup sci.nanotech]
FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY'S ADULTHOOD (GPO Box 5095, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia)
- disseminating the ideas of biologist Jeremy Griffith who claims to have
solved `the riddle of human nature' and whose discovery encompasses the
world-transforming consequences of his discovery.. All described in his book
"Beyond the Human Condition".
LINDISFARNE ASSOCIATION. Founded by William Irwin Thompson as a vehicle to
bring together scientists and mystics (among others). Members include Lovelock
and Margulis (Gaia Hypothesis). Try anything by Thompson but especially his
recent books, eg "Reimagination of the World" with David Spangler.
NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS (3025 E 1st Ave, Suite 5, Scottsdale AZ 85251, USA),
formerly Falcon Press. Publish books by Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson,
Christopher Hyatt, Antero Alli, and others. Proclaimed purpose is to bring
intelligence and immortality to Planet Earth.
MIRRORSHADES GROUP. Rucker, Sterling, Gibson, Shiner, Shirley - the ones who
started cyberpunk.
Stanislaw Lem. Polish philosopher-writer. His most important creation: GOLEM
XIV in `Imaginary Magnitude'.
SUBGENIUS FOUNDATION (PO Box 140306, Dallas TX 75214, USA).
Terence McKenna. Psychedelic explorer with a unique apocalyptic vision. Try
"The Archaic Revival", "Food of the Gods", "True Hallucinations"; if you can
find it, "The Invisible Landscape".
UP-WINGERS (PO Box 24421, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA). Started by futurist
FM-2030 (formerly FM Esfandiary). Probably most progressive organization on
the planet *in every sense*. Up-Wing, as opposed to Left or Right, is an
ideology with a future. Try "Are You a Transhuman?"; "Optimism One", "Up-
Wingers".
(psst - global teledemocracy by 2000 - spread the word)
I am but the Satchel at the side of the Grand High Armoa-ess of the Church
of Virtuality/Reality.
"We know we're not real - do you?"