Physics: quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum field theory, general relativity, high energy physics, theoretical particle physics, nonlinear acoustics, quantum/nonlinear optics, cosmology, string theory, supersymmetry, QED, QCD, holographic principle, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, biophysics, blackholes/wormholes, astrophysics, quantum gravity, unification, geometrodynamics; Mathematics: topology, group theory, nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, complex analysis, abstract algebra (esp. Clifford algebra), cryptography, non-Euclidean geometry, tensor calculus; Other: nanotechnology, western alchemy, Taoist inner and outer alchemy, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, occult systems and philosophies, magick, parapsychology, abnormal psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, space travel, time travel, mysticism, ASCs, psychedelics, self sustaining communities, religious ecstasy, consciousness, Qabbalah, liturgical Hebrew, classical and modern Chinese, gematria, astrology, politics, transpersonal psychology, art, surrealism, metaphysics, philosophy, neoplatonism, existentialism, Burning Man, yoga, meditation, linguistics, psychopharmacology, ethnobotany, Sufism, Tantra, playing guitar, writing and producing music, qi gong, tai ji quan, HALO, virtual reality, camping, martial arts, coffee, tea, beer/wine/alcohol; Comedians: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Dave Chapelle, Lenny Bruce, Bill Maher, Dennis Leary, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Eddie Izzard;
any sentient beings out there, the extradimensional, the disembodied, my future selves, other scientists who aren't complete objectivist or reductionist assholes, creative visionaries in any medium, anyone willing to listen to my intellectual drivel, my other half...
Genres: Downtempo, Chillout, Dub, Ambient, Psychedelic Trance, Industrial, Noise, Experimental, Illbient, Drum and Bass, Classic Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Reggae, Acid Jazz, Trip Hop, Hip Hop, Metal, Classical, World, Punk, Blues; Artists: Shpongle, Ott, Hallucinogen, Younger Brother, Youth, Orb, Orbital, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Cyberaktif, The Delta, Ghreg On Earth, Xenomorph, Tim Shuldt, COIL, Download, Dead Voices On Air, KMFDM, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Esthero, Lamb, Portishead, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Slayer, Doubting Thomas, Etnica, Noosphere, Architect, Somatic Responses, Pigface, Celtic Cross, Bill Laswell, Material, Kox Box, Hux Flux, Cocteau Twins, Spacetime Continuum, Higher Intelligence Agency, Kinder Atom, Future Sound Of London, Amorphous Androgynous, Ruby, MOS, Growling Mad Scientists, Spacecat, Snog, Richard H. Kirk, Clock DVA, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse With Wound, TOOL, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Reload, Curve, Front 242, Bob Marley, The Beatles, John Lennon, Scorn, Lull, Ice, Final, Godflesh, Empirion, Eat Static, Banco de Gaia, Paul Schutze, Chris and Cosey, CTI, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Ed Rush & Optical, Haujobb, Beefcake, Biosphere, Freaky Chakra, Koop, Techno Animal, Spirallianz, Midimiliz, Downhill, Manmademan, Cydonia, Bluetech, Logic Bomb, Shulman, Gaudi, Gorillaz, Solar Fields, Montauk P, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Automaton, God, Jeff Buckley, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Infected Mushroom, Merzbow, Lustmord, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Equations Of Eternity, Fila Brazilia, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Hank Mobley, Sun Ra, Parliament, Digable Planets, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Dinosaur Jr., Global Communications, Meatbeat Manifesto, Springheel Jack, DJ Spooky, Public Enemy, Scanner, Vibrasphere, Ticon, Spiritualized, Alice In Chains, Synchro, Process, Neuromotor, Wormfood, Penta, Tricky, Delirium, Killing Joke, Cream, India Drop, The Autopsy Report, Funf D, Total Eclipse, Juno Reactor, Lush, Male Or Female, Muslimgauze, Spies, Dark Soho, Helmet, House Of Pain, Cypress Hill, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Plaid, Black Dog, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Tristan, Dead Kennedys, Prong, Sepultura, Pantera, The Clash, Converter, Dead Can Dance, Jimi Hendrix, I'm just getting started...
Writers/Directors: David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Richard Linklater, Michel Gondry, Terry Gilliam, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Stuart Gordon, Tim Burton, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Danny Boyle; Movies: Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Mullholland Drive, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Dune, The Matrix, Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Ringers, Existenz, Naked Lunch, The Brood, Brain Dead, The Dark Backward, Hellraiser, The Last Temptation Of Christ, The Shining, Pi, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, The Ninth Gate, A Clockwork Orange, Bringing Out The Dead, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Dr. Strangelove, U Turn, JFK, Nixon, Platoon, Natural Born Killers, The Doors, Tombstone, Beetlejuice, The Fly, Event Horizon, Crash, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Requiem For A Dream, Mars Attacks!, Big Fish, Trainspotting, Naked, Harry Potter, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Brazil, Time Bandits, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Waking Life, Kundun, The Corporation, Reanimator, From Beyond, Legend Of Hell House, The Tenant, Star Wars Trilogy, The Attic Expeditions, Reservoir Dogs, Serpico, The Godfather, The Exorcist, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Life Aquatic, Dawn Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, Return Of The Living Dead, Dead-Alive, Lord Of The Rings, 28 Days Later, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Psycho, Dogtown And The Z-Boys, Alien, Predator, Terminator, The Thing, Escape From New York, The Abyss, 12 Monkeys, Solaris, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Minority Report, Total Recall, The Puppetmasters, Abre Los Ojos, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Army Of Darkness, Evil Dead, Dracula, Super Troopers, Groundhog Day, Kingpin, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Near Dark, Jaws, In the Mouth of Madness, Prince Of Darkness, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Village Of The Damned, The Sixth Sense, The Princess Bride, Ghostbusters, I Heart Huckabees, Altered States, American Psycho, Apocalypse Now, Basket Case, The Blob, Bordello of Blood, Brain Damage, Nightbreed, Enter The Dragon, Shallow Grave, Carrie, Christine, X-Men, X-Files, American Werewolf In London, Clash Of The Titans, Constantine, Corpse Bride, Creepshow, Cube, Dead Zone, Stargate
Farscape, Rome, Sopranos, Deadwood, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Mr. Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scrubs, Sealab 2021, Arrested Development, The Office, Law and Order, Futurama, Twin Peaks, Entourage, Seinfeld, Cheers, Realtime, The Daily Show, X-Files
Authors: Terence McKenna, Richard Feynman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysos, James Gleick, Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Jack Kerouac, Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, Wilhelm Reich, Peter Carroll, Phil Hine, Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi, Israel Regardie, Isaac Asimov, Plato, Martin Heidegger, Hunter S. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Ge Hong, Joseph Campbell, Robert Anton Wilson, Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, Jose Arguelles, Carlos Castaneda, David Bohm, John Archibald Wheeler, Roger Penrose, William Henry, Frank J. Tipler, Martin Buber, Timothy Leary, Stanislav Grof, Rumi, Soren Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley, William Blake; Books: The Holotropic Mind, The Tao of Physics, The Mayan Factor, Chaos, Dao Zang, Sepher Zohar, Dune, Weaveworld, Liber Kaos, The Book of Thoth, Zhouyi/Yijing, The Power of Myth, Being and Time, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Naked Lunch, Stranger In A Strange Land, VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, I and Thou, The Physics of Immortality, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Heaven's Mirror, The Earth Chronicles, The Sickness Unto Death, The Invisible Landscape, Daodejing, The Emperor's New Mind
My friends and family; all the philosphers, artists, musicians, wisemen (and wise women), shamans, scientists, magicians, bodhisattvas, monks, and other assorted innovators that were brave enough to step outside their culture and into the void becoming the movers and shakers of human history