<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:56:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@eliottedge/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Long Live Art Bell—Icon of the Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[The life of Art Bell is impossible to encapsulate or summarize. He brought to global consciousness ideas that have a memetic voracity and staying power as powerful Einstein’s; and he did so with a flare,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/paranormal/@eliottedge/long-live-art-bell-icon-of-the-night</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/paranormal/@eliottedge/long-live-art-bell-icon-of-the-night</guid><category><![CDATA[paranormal]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 07:57:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYbTQQ2Z15PE9xpwSiTX9cVPivJjPM3HL1vEmSJgNpCWUFNUqurjpPaC48vKMc2Z4iL4unpbyMY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How VR Gaming will wake us up to our Fake Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[“It has no relationship whatsoever to anything anchored in some kind of metaphysical superspace. It’s just your cultural point of view […] Travel shows you the relativity of culture.” — Terence McKenna]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/how-vr-gaming-will-wake-us-up-to-our-fake-worlds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/how-vr-gaming-will-wake-us-up-to-our-fake-worlds</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 04:02:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYw5LNFJi3PLGFgNVhgDy8gi28SPKG7V2dWdjLCU3WStE95uTMbJZF2NLWmu58VAeC1xYi443ok?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why it Matters that You Realize You’re in a Computer Simulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if our universe is something like a computer simulation, or a virtual reality, or a video game? The proposition that the universe is actually a computer simulation was furthered in a big way during]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/why-it-matters-that-you-realize-you-re-in-a-computer-simulation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/why-it-matters-that-you-realize-you-re-in-a-computer-simulation</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:04:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa8eu59gPuTqjgfMtPEDmLMTY6qBuYsk5CEiRNMhThmr4U63EqizGfHxqWABdexCQoVMneRAMrv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet gives us Godlike Powers]]></title><description><![CDATA[“It’s almost as though God’s joke on us is to give us so much power and knowledge that we will either transcend ourselves or we will certainly destroy ourselves because the power and understanding being]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/the-internet-gives-us-godlike-powers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/the-internet-gives-us-godlike-powers</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:57:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZ6G6oFnepSNxw3tAaKSFNxEaDzobktntU9wJi6u8NXRyWEag4ztcsSujSZ19tN3RYrx7fmN5A6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Media Feed is all you Need]]></title><description><![CDATA[If we conceive of computers as an external auxiliary brain, and we see the Internet as all human thought and behavior compressed into binary, then when we gawk into our smartphones, as we do compulsively]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/the-social-media-feed-is-all-you-need</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@eliottedge/the-social-media-feed-is-all-you-need</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:47:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYX5BQmY1xykEEYbWpKAxhHjMDkiRVmzhwueeBCzq2rpxAsxhyRtnjusPWPsrc22L4YjHowzbok?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliott Edge's New Jersey UFO story]]></title><description><![CDATA[<iframe width="560" height="315" src=" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> Author, Eliott Edge discusses his UFO sighting in while listening to Terence]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ufo/@eliottedge/eliott-edge-s-new-jersey-ufo-story</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ufo/@eliottedge/eliott-edge-s-new-jersey-ufo-story</guid><category><![CDATA[ufo]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[eliottedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 04:36:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dy6X77qgdMf5BXrk4Pxu4DLqPLi7CR7EPEv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NSFW & Psychedelic Wild Mind of Lucia Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucia Love is a multidisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, painting, and performance. 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