miercuri, 3 octombrie 2012

Psychedelic vision


“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa 15,000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom Goddess before history, before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism, before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us because the secret faith of the twentieth century is not modernism, the secret faith of the twentieth century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophe theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. And I tell you this because if the community understands what it is that holds it together the community will be better able to streamline itself for flight into hyperspace because what we need is a new myth, what we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe and that true story is that the ego is a product of pathology, and when psilocybin is regularly part of the human experience the ego is supressed and the supression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience, but that's what holds the community together. And as we break out of the silly myths of science, and the infantile obsessions of the marketplace what we discover through the psychedelic experience is that in the body, IN THE BODY, there are Niagras of beauty, alien beauty, alien dimensions that are part of the self, the richest part of life. I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. What the Archaic Revival means is shamanism, ecstacy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people. And the three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy and monotony! And if you get them on the run you have the dominators sweating folks, because that means your getting it all reconnected, and getting it all reconnected means putting aside the idea of separateness and self-definition through thing-fetish. Getting it all connected means tapping into the Gaian mind, and the Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet. And without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set, and that's the idea; figuring out how to reset the compass of the self through community, through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence, INTELLIGENCE. This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace.”
Terence McKenna

duminică, 30 septembrie 2012

Pillowtalk - Soft


I cannot express the fountain of glittering feelings this music drowns me in.
In the bed, with headphones, a joint and the dark.

joi, 20 septembrie 2012

Fascinating humanity

A part of me looking forever the unlimited limits..

vineri, 24 august 2012

In apararea modei

Mi-am imaginat cum ar arata lumea de azi fara moda..sa nu existe diferente si stiluri, haina sa fie doar creata pentru a ne apara de frig. Dar oricat de abuziva sau superficiala poate fi uneori moda..ea e cea care creeaza stiluri, dupa care ne ghidam si ne satisfacem gusturile. Multi inca nu inteleg nefericita rezolvare care se da unui conflict vechi de cand moda: cel dintre utilitatea si frumusetea obiectului vestimentar. Numai ca eu cred ca tocmai acest lucru este sursa creativitatii in aceasta industrie si ca, asa cum exista rezolvari dintre cele mai proaste, exista si rezolvari fericite. Iar a sti sa faci o alegere buna tine de gustul,mintea si stilul fiecaruia. Sunt de acord ca exista dependenta de moda, asa cum exista dependenta de droguri,alcool,fumat etc. Dar simplul fapt ca o activitate este adictiva nu te indreptateste s-o declari nociva. E o deriva facila a tuturor fostilor dependenti si calmeaza intrucat sevrajul.
Nu vreau sa vorbesc despre impactul modei asupra adolescentelor sau adolescentilor, ci despre cei care isi asuma riscul de a intra in jocul frumos, dar periculos al modei. Este un joc extrem de complicat, pentru ca regulile se fac si se desfac cu prea mare repeziciune si in atat de multe locuri, incat e greu sa le urmaresti pe toate. Dar cel care face regurile esti intotdeana tu. Nu sunt de acord cu cei care cred in tendinte, in colectiile aparute recent. In cei care respecta regurile in fiecare sezon si isi deformeaza stilul.  Omul nu poate sa aiba atatea stiluri..el doar trebuie sa si-l descopere pe al lui si sa-l accentueze singur. Din fiecare colectie sa extraga ceva..
Mi-ar placea sa existe un consum responsabil si in moda. Pentru ca lipsa de masura este cea mai mare problema al timpului nostru. Nu as vrea sa-mi imaginez cum ar arata lumea de azi in lipsa modei. Defapt, nici nu trebuie sa-mi imaginez. Aici, in Romania, e suficient sa dau timpul cu putin in urma si sa inchid ochii, ingrozita de ceea ce vad. 

miercuri, 22 august 2012

Strong feeling


"A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes." — Bob Dylan

marți, 14 august 2012

The Golden Member

That piercedkiss. Waite a while. I'm only heading to the bitter taste of the victory.