TubeGnosis: a repository of "mind-expanding documentaries & videos"

[Video Link] TubeGnosis has a fantastic collection of esoteric videos, featuring Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Carlos Castaneda, Jacques Vallee, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Kenneth Anger, Terence McKenna, Robert Crumb, and many more psychonauts and mutants. Above, a 16-minute film that David Lynch made in 2010 for Dior, called "Lady Blue Shanghai."

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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David Pescovitz

This is fantastic! There goes my day (week). I hope it grows into a huge library of these kinds of videos.
hypersomniac

sweet, thanky mark!
Batty McDougall

Thank you so much for posting this!
Christmas has come early for me.
Mark, you are a good man.
http://twitter.com/michaelsayyes michael b

Cool, thanks. Though I’m supposed to finish writing these songs and I can see that’s not going to happen now. The internet strikes again.
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

Excellent! Fascinated by just about everybody on that list, thanks for posting!
querent

most excellent find.
http://twitter.com/ReasonedDebate Reed 1GM

What level of the dream are we on?
http://orbitnet.com JIMWICh

Ahhh, I’d just seen another link to this and was running to share. AMAZING NEW RESOURCE! Like David, I’m now scared about getting sucked into this!
http://twitter.com/rootsimple Root Simple

Cool!
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Thanks for this!!