Here’s my picks for this week’s dish

Dear Obama, The 9 steps to peace
Betty Dodson’s 9 point plan for peace. America Please listen.

Long, winding road hits a dead end at last for VHS

After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning wheels of the home entertainment stalwart are slowing to a halt at retail outlets

Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With Clifford Pickover
Cliff on creating optimized languages, parallel universes, alien religions, DMT and Carl Jung. What’s not to love ..?
A New Eleusis: The Long Trip Isn’t Over
Many of the notable philosophers and intellectuals of ancient Greece, such as Plato, Aristotle and Sophocles, were initiated at Eleusis. A visionary, mind-altering initiation was therefore at the very roots of Western civilisation

R D Laing: The celebrity shrink who put the psychedelia into psychiatry
R D Laing was idolised by 1960s hedonists and demonised by conservatives. A new film will tell his extraordinary story