Comment by jhbadger
2 years ago
Well, except for all the nonsense about ESP and the like. Stewart Brand and friends were ahead of the world in a lot of ways, such as realizing the need to reduce our ecological footprint and so on, but they were also unfortunately suckers for "paranormal" con-artists and other "New Age" nonsense that the 60s counterculture also was intrigued by.
What paranormal/new age stuff do you consider Point Foundation/WEC/CoEvolution/WER to have been suckered by?
"The Fringes of Reason" uses a lot of questions and quote marks but it looks to be a pretty breathless extolling of all things mystic. If you want to defend the writing style there, you're at the same time defending Ancient Aliens "Might there be an extraterrestrial connection behind the secrets of the pyramids?"
https://wholeearth.info/p/the-fringes-of-reason?format=sprea...
For example, they were really into Georgi Lozanov's "Super learning" which on the surface simply seems like a memorization technique to help learn things like foreign language vocabulary like are common now with tools like Anki, but Lozanov was also a self-described "parapsychologist" who believed that such techniques would expand human capabilities and allow clairvoyance!