Essay by Aldous Huxley ont he place of individual in his or her cultrue

Explore existence through language Galactic Alignment 2012: Portal to a New World Age and Spiritual Transformation

Changes is a website created by the late counterculture leader, Elizebeth Gips

Founded in 1975, The Society for Utopian Studies is an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.

Synergetics is a philosophy wherein geometric concepts serve as central metaphors. Scenarios, perhaps rendered as computer animations, provide a glue language, a visual vocabulary serving to complement the thousand-plus, often densely worded passages. R. Buckminster Fuller intended to include more pictures in the original two volumes than eventually made it to the final cut. Those that remain play a central and expository role, and much of the discussion surrounding them describes their dynamic or transformational aspects. For example, in the Jitterbug Transformation, polyhedra are related by metamorphosis, as momentary snap shots in the flow of time. Although synergetics is metaphysical, it nevertheless aims to supply concepts that might prove useful to mathemat

???The notion of an ideal society, one organized in ways that guarantee the felicity of its members, has been a staple element in human experience through all of recorded history. The details of this society - where and when it exists, how one gets to it, how it is governed, who lives in it, the ramifications of its existence - can, and do, vary radically, producing the broadest possible set of answers to the question of what constitutes the ideal. This exhibition traces how women and men have, over the space of several thousand years of Western culture, imagined, depicted, described, and created new versions of ideal societies. It seeks to show as well that the history of these places is inseparable from the histories of the people, cultures, and periods that gave birth to them. For each individual dream is really the refracted image of a specific moment in time, an imaginary construct in which specific problems of the concrete world are resolved and happiness - that most elusive of goals - is attained.

Founded in 1975 as the National Historic Communal Societies Association, the CSA has expanded its focus in recent years to include the study of contemporary and international communal societies. To accomplish this mission the CSA sponsors an annual conference, publishes a journal, newsletter, and membership directory, maintains this web site, and encourages a greater understanding of historic communal sites and existing communities through tours, brochures, and other projects.