I did LSD with Steve Jobs

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When Daniel Kottke reminisces about his college days in the early '70s, he describes them as pretty prosaic. A freshman dorm room filled with books on spirituality, Pink Floyd playing in the background, a pastoral college campus -- and hallucinogens.

The only thing, he says, that was in any way remarkable about his LSD trips was his fellow traveler: Steve Jobs.

Kottke was one of Apple's first employees, and before the world knew Steve Jobs as the creator of Apple, Kottke knew him as a friend he used to trip with at Reed College.

He was uncomfortable discussing these experiences while Jobs was alive, but was willing to share them with CNNMoney now.

"We would take psychedelics and whole new vistas opened up," Kottke said.

The two initially bonded over their interest in "Be Here Now," a book on things like psychedelics and spirituality. This became the foundation for a fast friendship.

"We were monk-wannabes," Kottke said. They were on a quest to better understand consciousness using an LSD varietal known as Orange Sunshine as their Sherpa.

"We were ... in a meditative space," Kottke said. "But that's partly because we were reading books about chakras and psychic energy and the chi and the Kundalini serpent that was going to rise up our spine."

Kottke had access to LSD, and Jobs was an enthusiast. They would read, go on hikes and wander the rose gardens at Reed College. Jobs has been quoted as saying that LSD was one of the most profound experiences of his life, and the name for Apple came from his experience working on the apple farm of another fellow tripper from Reed.

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A Spoonful of Spirituality and a Dash of Diligence

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Cincinnati, Ohio (PRWEB) January 26, 2015

The cookbook tucked away in the corner of a well-supplied kitchen contains a variety of choices to make the perfect meal. Life, as Edward Anderson knows, does not have such a guide.

In a world filled with choices that affect possibilities beyond our understanding, Anderson offers a glimmer of hope and guidance. Recipes to Drive Your Life, offers a detailed look at structured lessons learned by Anderson as a way to guide others on a path to success and happiness.

In the book are recipes and tools to focus on the problems without attacking anyone involved, but instead working collaboratively to move forward and make progress, said Anderson.

After spending 10 years with the Civil Engineer Corp of the Navy and 37 years with Procter and Gamble, Anderson wrote the book as a resource for his children and grandchildren. A sincere desire to share his message and help others led him to publish, Recipes to Drive Your Life.

You get to use the recipes that you want and need at the time that you need them. Building your knowledge, skills, and capacity to succeed and be happy takes time and needs a good process that works for you, said Anderson.

Recipes to Drive Your Life By Edward Leon Anderson ISBN: 978-1-4969-4776-5 Available in softcover Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Author House

About the author Edward Anderson served 10 years time with Civil Engineer Corp of the US Navy in both Public Works Administration and Seabee battalion roles. He has spent over 35 years with Procter and Gamble in Manufacturing and Human Resources roles. Anderson is a graduate of Villanova University. He currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where he plays tennis and works in many capacities at his church including as a bereavement minister.

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The origins of the yoga system

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This class introduces the main concepts of the ancient philosophy from India. You will learn the teachings of spiritual realization and enlightenment, as well as other topics including: karma and the laws of nature. All the teachings presented in this class are from the Bhagivad Gita, which is world-renowned as a philosophical masterpiece, spiritual classic, and theological manual.

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Fourth UFO Buzzes International Space Station Strange Object In NASA Video Feed? – Video

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Let’s Play Kerbal Space Program – Career Day41 – Building the ISS part2 – Ep56 – NOELonPC – Video

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Manned commercial trips to ISS on track for 2017

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A Boeing CST-100 crew ferry craft blasts off atop an Atlas 5 rocket in this artist's concept. Boeing and SpaceX both expect to be ready for initial piloted test flights in 2017. NASA

NASA expects to spend some $5 billion underwriting development of commercial spacecraft built by Boeing and SpaceX to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, officials said Monday, ending reliance on the Russians for crew ferry flights and eventually lowering the average cost per seat to around $58 million.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, said her company's upgraded Dragon V2 ferry craft should be ready for an initial unpiloted flight to the space station in late 2016 with the first crewed flight, likely carrying a SpaceX test pilot and a NASA astronaut, in early 2017.

John Elbon, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space Exploration, said his company's CST-100 spacecraft is expected to be ready for an uncrewed test flight in April 2017, followed by a crewed flight, with a Boeing pilot and a NASA astronaut, in the July 2017 timeframe.

Both companies must complete the crewed and uncrewed test flights before NASA certification, which will pave the way for the start of operational crew rotation and cargo delivery flights to the International Space Station later in 2017. Until then, NASA will continue to rely on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to carry U.S. and partner crew members to the lab complex.

"Commercial crew is incredibly important to the space station, it's important to reduce the cost of transportation to low-Earth orbit so that NASA has within its budget the capability to develop means to explore beyond low-Earth orbit," Elbon said during a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "And importantly, I think, it's beginning a whole new industry. ... We're making great progress on the program."

Said Shotwell: "Our crew Dragon leverages the cargo capability that we've been flying successfully to the International Space Station. However, we understand, and we've been told, that crew is clearly different. So there are a number of upgrades that we've been working for the past few years to assure that this crew version of Dragon is as reliable as it can possibly be. Ultimately, we plan for it to be the most reliable spaceship flying crew ever."

In the wake of the space shuttle's retirement, NASA started a competition to build a commercial crewed spacecraft, with the first in a series of contracts intended to encourage innovative designs for reliable, affordable transportation to and from low-Earth orbit.

Last September, NASA announced that Boeing had won a $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contract to continue development of the company's CST-100 capsule while SpaceX would receive $2.6 billion to press ahead with work to perfect its futuristic Dragon crew craft.

A third competitor, Sierra Nevada, was left out, and the company filed a protest with the General Accountability Office, arguing its Dream Chaser spaceplane was unfairly passed over. But the GAO ruled earlier this month that NASA's selection of Boeing and SpaceX was justified, clearing the space agency to proceed with the CCtCAP contracts.

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Boeing, SpaceX will beat Russia on price for astronaut rides (Update 2)

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2 hours ago by By Marcia Dunn In a Thursday, May 29, 2014 file photo, the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship is unveiled at its headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX and Boeing said Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, that they are on track to carry out their first manned test flights to the International Space Station in 2017. NASA expects to save millions of dollars in launch costs, once its commercial crew program starts flying. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

NASA expects to save millions of dollars sending astronauts to the International Space Station, once its commercial crew program starts flying in a couple of years.

SpaceX and Boeing said Monday that they are on track to carry out their first manned test flights to the space station in 2017. NASA chose the two private companies last September to transport American astronauts to and from the orbiting lab.

U.S. manned launches ended with the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011. Until SpaceX and Boeing begin flying crews from Cape Canaveral, NASA astronauts must continue to hitch rocket rides with Russia.

NASA's commercial crew program manager, Kathy Lueders, said the average price for a seat aboard the SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 capsules will be $58 million. That compares with $71 million a seat charged by Russia under its latest NASA contract.

"I don't ever want to have to write another check" to the Russian Space Agency after 2017, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former shuttle commander.

"If we can make that date," he said, referring to 2017, "I'm a happy camper."

Unlike the Russian charge, the $58 million per-person cost estimate includes a fair amount of cargo to be flown aboard the SpaceX and Boeing spacecraft, along with four crew members. That price tag is based on a five-year period, Lueders said.

The Russian Soyuz holds a maximum of three people, with at least one a Russian to pilot the craft.

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the future enhanced Dragon capsule could carry five astronautsone more than NASA's stipulated fourand still meet all the cargo requirements.

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