Steven Otero
Steve’s Weekly Dish 102.0
October 9th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Musicians Use Both Sides Of Their Brains More Frequently Than Average People
professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person
Sorry, Fido, It’s Just a Guy Thing
A growing number of single & yes, heterosexual — men who seem to be coming out of the cat closet and unabashedly embracing their feline side.
First they came for the street workers…
First they came for the street workers, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a street worker
And then they came for the private suburban sex parties…You see where this is going.
Sacred Intentions
People who have never studied the psychology of religion hear mystical & it sounds like misty. We know what we’re talking about, So who would want a mystical experience? I’d rather get drunk!
Of Jock Straps and Conspiracy Theories
Feeling powerless increases superstition.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 101.0.
October 2nd, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Unlocking The Inner-Savant In All Of Us
We are all capable of the extraordinary savant skills displayed by people with autism it is our inbuilt expectations of the world that stop us from using them.
Spiritual Emergencies: Understanding and Treatment of Psychospiritual Crises
Many of the conditions, which are currently diagnosed as psychotic are actually difficult stages of a radical personality transformation and of spiritual opening.
There are four fundamental problems with our financial system. The Paulson plan addresses only one.
We asked nine people to spend one month diligently tracking every dollar spent in pursuit of sexual gratification Some of the results were surprising, but numbers don’t lie, baby.
Bill Maher On His Movie Religulous
Bill Maher on Larry King talking about his new movie Religulous.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 100.0.
September 25th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
What I Learned from Lesbian Sex
This is about the first time I had sex with a guy, after I’d finally started having sex with women.And it’s about how having sex with women radically changed the way I have sex. With everybody. Men, women, everybody.
What’s the deal with this 2012 thing?
FREE LEVI
Levi is America’s number one political prisoner. But Levi, you don’t have to be – this is the 21st century, at least in the blue state
Amazon with Bruce Parry
Bruce Parry talks about Amazon, his new BBC series, where he experiences taking psychotropic drugs with indigenous tribes.
How long religion can last without a core of belief in the supernatural.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 99.0
September 18th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
An interview with Tessa Dick
Tessa B. Dick is the fifth wife of Philip K. Dick.
Could inner zombie be controlling your brain?
Evidence suggests self-aware part of our brains isn’t always in charge
Men’s Health Boost from Marriage Disappearing
Single men are now able to obtain emotional and social support outside marriage,as a result single men may see themselves in a more positive light, which is reflected in better health
Your wealth is not how many paper assets you have.It’s what you can do. It’s your value to other people.
Magic is here, right now, as a cultural force , as a part of our daily rhetoric, and perhaps, if you’re so inclined, as something truly perceivable, in the same way that love and suffering are real yet unquantifiable–experienced by all yet unaccounted for by the dogma of strict materialism that most of us First Worlders say we “believe“ in. Magic is here.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 98.0.
September 11th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Dreams,nobody truly fully knows what they really are.One man, however, was interested in recreating them at will artist Brion Gysin, the only man William S. Burroughs ever respected.
Philip K. Dick’s Reality by Tessa Dick
Phil agreed with Plato that we see only the shadows on the wall of the cave, and not the real objects which cast those shadows.
Toppling the New World Order: A Vision for How We Can Do It
We must come to see the power of our minds in creating our future reality, that we control whether that reality turns out to be favorable or unfavorable.
At SpinSpotter, you’ll experience the news in a profound new way. Yes, the truth is back in town
Weird Theology in Wasilla: A Look Inside Sarah Palin’s Pentecostal Church
Exposing the unusual, highly politicized religious beliefs held at the Wasilla Assembly of God.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 97.0.
September 4th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
it’s an election year, and, this being America, morality has taken center stage.Why — unlike the French — do Americans demand the appearance of moral antisepsis from their public figures?
Alan Watts - On Nothingness
Need I say more
Perspectives On Bristol Palin: Notes From A Sexologist
Between her pro-life, anti-sex ed, pro-gun, anti-gay marriage, pro-creationism beliefs and her teen daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, there is plenty of material to address.
Kingsley Proves Age Is Just a Number in ‘Elegy
Give Ben Kingsley the Oscar again.
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
Why is Google building a browser? A better question is, why did it take so long for Google to build a browser?
Steve’s Weekly Dish 96.0.
August 28th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Sex Addiction: The Big Con
Susie Bright discuss the differences between sexual addiction, compulsion, and obsession— and why the hype about “Sex Addicts” is off the wall, and more than a little dangerous.
The Christian Right’s Slick Campaign to Make Abstinence Seem Trendy
Conservatives finally learned that moralizing doesn’t keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.
The heretic
Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher’s unconventional behavior did him in.
Detonating Hive Mentality: The Way Of The Outsider
Quality, depth and truth are rarely, if ever, found in the mainstream. Whether in art, music, literature, science, history or knowledge itself, the good stuff always emanates from the outside.
The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
These sites let you crunch the number, or just look up who that one guy is in that movie.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 95.0.
August 21st, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Living Honestly: Do What Our Politicians Don’t
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, proves that there is beauty in saying what you want without being apologetic.
The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain’s Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destructive Instincts
Evolution didn’t quite hit perfection when it comes to human thought processes.
Podcast 152 - “Question Authority and Think for Yourself”
All quotations below are by Dr. Timothy Leary”When I say think for yourself, I don’t mean think selfishly for yourself. I mean think independently.”
If you’re going to think for yourself, you gotta learn to think clearly.”
I.O.U.S.A. One nation Under Dept
The U.S. is going broke.
The Danger of Stress
Getting stressed isn’t just a state of mind. It can also seriously harm the body.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 94.0.
August 14th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
When Is America Going To Grow Up & Accept Human Sexuality?
Betty Dodson says “We must embrace human sexuality as the basis for life and honor it. And then we might be able to enjoy it!” America please listen Please join www.Dodsonandross.com
E-mail, schme-mail, Twitter gets the job done
#35 The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli
Boot up your brain with Antero Alli
Female Orgasm and the Need for a New Definition of Sex.
This would make sex more egalitarian, no longer focused on penetration as the high point of sex.
Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report
The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including ‘pharmacological land mines’ and drones directed by mind control
Steve’s Weekly Dish 93.0.
August 7th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
An interview with Shantam Nityama
How Many Partners Makes You Promiscuous?: More On The Never-Ending Debate
But to read Virginia Ironside’s recent tirade against perceived promiscuity is to think you’ve landed back a few centuries
The Biocraft Repair Manual
Cybernautics
Self-transformation is nothing new but a system which uses your computer as your counselor is a timely innovation indeed!
Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope
The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.
Baby Bust!
The world is panicking over birthrates. Again.