An early paper by Sohrawardi, flooded with wild speculations about quantum and oriental spirituality, probably dating from the period when he was still working for IBM, but making visits to Millbrook, nearby in Dutchess Co., and participati…A full-color advertising brochure for the Institute of Chaos Studies and the Moorish Science Ashram in Ong's Hat, New Jersey
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You would not be reading this brochure if you had not already penetrated half-way to the ICS. You ha…
Timothy Leary
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Timothy Leary emerges in these readings as a pivotal figure linking countercultural psychedelia to experimental spirituality and early chaos theory, with Millbrook serving as a node where technologists, occultists, and visionaries intersected. The course invokes him obliquely—through Sohrawardi's visits to his estate and the mystical-scientific hybridism of projects like Ong's Hat—to trace how psychonautic consciousness-expansion fed into later cybernetic and chaos-theoretic thinking about systems, networks, and non-linear transformation. He matters less as a direct theorist than as an avatar of the 1960s-70s collapsing of boundaries between mind, machine, spirituality, and social experimentation that underwrites contemporary AI utopianism and its discontents.
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