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Technology

Canvia’s new Kickstarter brings art into the modern world of technology

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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Art is a hobby and skill dating back to human's earliest days, which has been demonstrated by simple yet captivating...

Technology

Becoming a digital artist and how to promote your work

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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What do you desire? This was a question posed by the famous British philosopher Alan Watts, and as you can see...

Entertainment

When art meets technology, sparks fly!

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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Art - "The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting...

Entertainment

Palacio Inc. Launches Canvia, A Smart Digital Display That Makes Any Art Look Like A High Quality Print

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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Palacio Inc. has recently announced the launch of Canvia, a smart art frame that uses the confluence of innovative technologies,...

Technology

Photojournalist uses VR in war exhibition to ‘expand moral imagination’

The Sociable4 years ago

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Virtual Reality isn’t a mere fad which will come and go - it is technology that will soon turn empirical...

Business

Art as a career? The plight of discouraged young artists

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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When we think of fresh, new startups that are disrupting traditional industries, we often hear common adjectives thrown in front...

Technology

Digital ownership issues at the intersection of art and technology

Zac Laval5 years ago

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For artists, technology has raised a number of questions regarding digital ownership. In the not too distant past, determining ownership...

Technology

What price tag do we have on our private data? A London artist’s social experiment

Omar Elorfaly5 years ago

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More often than not we see big tech corporations as the "big bad wolf" for using our private data, but...

Technology

Bit.Fall turns news into rain and water into pixels

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Dublin might have been inundated with a month's worth of rain in a single day last week but that's not the only water-related event that's been getting Dubliners' talking. This water-based news reader has been catching people's attention.

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.