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What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 28, 2011
Category: Art, Books, Buddhism, Cancer, Culture, History, Media, Mindfulness, Personal computing, Psychedelics, Technology | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Apple, Chogyam Trungpa, Jonathan Ive, Joni Mitchell, Kobun Chino, Mac, Macintosh, Naropa, Steve Jobs, Suzuki-roshi, Tassajara, Windows, Zen | 227 Comments

The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg Acid Conspiracy

By Steve Silberman
Posted: April 21, 2011
Category: Art, Books, Drugs, Gay, History, Interview, Multimedia, Poetry, Politics, Psychedelics, War, Writers | Tagged Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Buddhism, Chogyam Trungpa, Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, LSD, Peter Conners, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary | 15 Comments
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