Product Details

• Actors: Terence Mckenna, Dennis Mckenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Ralph Metzner
• Directors: Michael Kawitzky
• Writers: Michael Kawitzky
• Producers: Michael Kawitzky
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Headspace Studios
• DVD Release Date: June 2, 2009
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002BWOZBK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,374 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars COGNITION FACTOR, July 7, 2009

By 

MT "eMpTy" (S0L, Solar System) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cognition Factor [NTSC version] (DVD)

Waaaaay back in the prehistoric, primordial soup of

the early INTERNET, in an out of the way electromagnetic

watering hole called USENET, Schwann Cybershaman entered

a previous millennium's virtual nexus of survival-of-

the-weirdest -- where only the wisest could safely

navigate the inverted, natural selection process inherent

to myriad, multidimensional NEWS GROUPS -- to somehow

survive, grow, and flourish like an evolved, cybernetic

avatar mutated from the Corpus Callosum of Marshall

McLuhan's THE MEDIUM IS THE 'MASSAGE.' Fast forward to

the current Millennium, and Mahatma 'Michael Kawitzky'

breaks out of his 'Schwann Cybershaman' persona to

digitally orchestrate a nice fusion of Left Cerebral

Hemisphere articulate verbal language and structured

sequential logical hypothesis, married to Right Cerebral

Hemisphere visual fractal synthesis trippy organic

pixelated expanding NOW synaesthesia. This intellectual

orchestra is composed of twenty unique individuals who

are assembled to consider the following five questions:

1.) Evolution Or Extinction?

2.) What Is Consciousness?

3.) Is God A Myth?

4.) The Fusion Of Science & Spirit?

5.) What Happens When You Die?

Rather than list these extraordinary 'talking head'

personages simultaneously alive, dead, and permanently

transitioned to a hyper-dimensional realm of

chrysanthemum wielding machine tykes, it might be

interesting to check out a brief synopsis of

'Cognition Factor' by Propaganda Anonymous, over at

Daniel Pinchbeck's Reality Sandwich:

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of Mike Kawitzky, (aka Schwann Cybershaman), himself.

Better yet, just buy the damn thing and enjoy it!

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On a more personal note, I'll just add that it was

wonderful to see/hear the late, great, Terence McKenna,

looking like he was speaking from inside Plato's Cave,

and his brother Dennis, sounding like an inter-

dimensional, parallel universe genetic clone.

I'm looking forward to Mike Kawitzky's future projects,

hopefully including a 3D, HD, surround sound immersive

virtual reality feelie! Or, as penned by me to

no-one-in-particular, circa late 1990's:

"I once had a phone conversation with Mr. Terence

McKenna about 'True Hallucinations.' Several years

ago when I was just leaping into multimedia and

digital graphics, my matriculated hope then was to

create a real-time animated VR simulation of what I

referred to as the 'Hollow Knots,' i.e. the imagery

behind the optic nerves elicited by the mushroom.

(Incidentally, I can count my life-experiences of

the 'Hollow Knots' on one hand). My contention based

on my 'HK' experience was that the psychedelic imagery,

when it is perceived directly without the filter of

human interpretation and the ordering into recognizable

objects, themes and patterns, will stand out as being

identified most accurately as neuro-biochemical

phenomena within the nerves themselves, which says more

about the structure of the brain/body matrix than it

does about any parallel, objective, external reality.

He replied that that may well be true, but there was a

great deal more going on with the psychedelic experience

than just 'visual,' optic nerve feedback. He stressed

the magnitude of internal awareness and insight gathered

in such biochemical states.

I, of course, sensibly, conceded this latter observation.

The triune nature of the brain must have some bearing on

all this, thought I. Perhaps an effective enough VR

simulation in it's own right, without psychedelics,

could elicit such inner states of awareness? The notion

of psychotronics, digital imagery and animation seemed

like a reasonable course. Maybe my natural, aesthetic

interest in such things though - as one who looks

'inward' for visual mysteries - precludes my ever seeing

anything 'outward,' such as an unusual craft piloted by

unusual entities hovering over my house in the twilight

hours? Hmmmm.... Time will tell. In the meantime, I'm

putting off the DMT experience in-a-possible-future,

indefinitely, pending future developments; although,

I do enjoy hearing about other's psychonautic journeys."

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In closing, I applaud Mahatma Kawitzky's fine achievment;

and make no mistake, 'COGNITION FACTOR' is not some

retro-aging Hippy's pseudoscientific, psychedelic video

extravaganza, but, rather, an enormously fun, inventive,

and beautifully stimulating contemporary analysis of the

aforementioned five timeless questions, intelligently

pondered by a wide ranging, eclectic mix of 20 human

nervous systems on the evolutionary verge of something

deeply profound and moving. Required viewing for all

'Ultraterrestrials-in-training' everywhere.

'MT' - Intercepted Transmissions 2013 -

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cognition Factor, December 7, 2011

By 

Leo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cognition Factor [NTSC version] (Amazon Instant Video)

Once in a lifetime opportunity - take it! Some one liners that sum up so much that could take years to discover if ever at all!! highly recomended.