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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.
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- Avital Ronell. Currently teaching at a university somewhere in California.
- "Left of left". Author, "The Telephone Book", "Crack Wars".
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- 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".
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- 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".
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- 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]
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- MIRRORSHADES GROUP. Rucker, Sterling, Gibson, Shiner, Shirley - the ones who
- started cyberpunk.
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- Stanislaw Lem. Polish philosopher-writer. His most important creation: GOLEM
- XIV in `Imaginary Magnitude'.
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- SUBGENIUS FOUNDATION (PO Box 140306, Dallas TX 75214, USA).
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- 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".
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- 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".
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- (psst - global teledemocracy by 2000 - spread the word)
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- 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?"
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