"The differing perceptions of another does not invalidate your own"
"All mistery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words, and we seal ourselfs in with disempowerd perception."
To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done.
To push the envelope of creativity and language;
...and what really important is, I call it: "The fell presents of direct experience" which is a fancy term which just simply means:
We have to stop consuming our culture.
We have to create culture.
Don't watch TV.
Don't read magazine's.
Don't even listen to local radio.
Create your own road show.
...the nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector in your universe, and if you are worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or someone else then you are dis-empowered, you are giving all away to icons, icons which are maintained by a electronic media so that you wanna dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit brain this kind of thinking. That is all culture diversion, of what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears; and we are told no! We are not important, we are peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get a this get a that, and then you are a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you in a half backed moron consuming all this trash which is being manufacturing out of the bones of this dieing world.
Lord, if you don’t help me I can’t get though this
I can’t
Lord, I’m too old for games
Foolish wisdom
And I’m tired of rhetoric
Meaningless rhetoric
It never changes things
Lord, just help me
Help me
I was feeling GOD's pain!
And I’ve never had anything
That’s been any worse to GOD
In my 50 years
That wasn’t born in agony!
Never, Never!
Dead, empty,
And I know that sermons won’t do it!
I know that a new revelation won’t do it!
Covenant won’t do it.
I know now,
Oh my God do I know it,
Until I lie in Agony
Until I have been anguished over it
I'm preaching sermons,
Oh God.
I broke down!
And I wept!
And I mourned!
Does it matter to you at all?
I can’t handle this
I can barely make it into this
Little by little you’re losing it
The lamb/love of GOD
The lamb/love of Christ
People I know, that were my friends
And I’ve seen them go one by one
Some of my closest friends!
You changing
You know what you were
You’re changing
Little by little something’s happening to you
Would it bring you to your knees?
That’s all the devil wants to go
Get the fight out of you
And kill it
So you won’t labor in prayer anymore
You won’t weep before GOD anymore
Go To Hell!
No weeping
Not a word of prayer
It’s all ruined!
You’re laughing
This isn’t life and death
When the walls go down
And ruin sets in
Where's the tears?
Where’s the mourning?
Where’s the confessing?
Love of Christ,
Agony of GOD's heart
Let's reinvent the gods, all teh myths
of the ages
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
[Have you forgotten the lessons
of the ancient war]
We need great golden copulations
The fathers are cackling in trees
of the forest
Our mother is dead in the sea
Do you know we are being led to
slaughters by placid admirals
& that fat slow generals are getting
obscene on young blood
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.
The moon is dry blood beast
Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers
in the next block of green vine
amassing for warfare on innocent
herdsman who are just dying
O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
& perfect our lives
The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
& death not ends it
Journey we more into the
Nightmare
Cling to life
Our passion'd flower
Cling to Cunts & cocks
of despair
We got our final vision
by clap
Columbus groin got
filled w/green death
(I touched her thigh
& death smiled)
We have assembled inside this ancient
& insane theatre
To propagate our lust for life
& flee the swarming wisdom
of the streets
The barns are stormed
The windows kept
& only one of all the rest
To dance & save us
W/the divine mockery
of words
Music inflames temperament
(When the true King's murderers
are allowed to roam free
a 1000 Magicians arise in the land)
Where are the feasts
we are promised
Where is the wine
The New Wine
(dying on the vine)
resident mockery
give us an hour for magic
We of the purple glove
We of the starling flight
& velvet hour
We of arabic pleasures's breed
We of sundome & the night
Give us a creed
To believe
A nightr of lust
Give us trust in
The Night
Give of color
hundred hues
a rich mandala
for me & for you
& for your silky
pillowed house
a head, wisdom
& a bed
Troubled decree
Resident mockery
has claimed thee
We used to believe
in the good old days
We still receive
In little ways
The things of Kindness
& unsporting brow
Forget & allow
Did you know freedom exists
in school books
Did you know madmen are
running our prisons
w/in a jail, w/in a gaol
w/in a white free protestant
maelstrom
We're perched headlong
on the edge of boredom
We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us
Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
south
Cruel bindings
The sevants have the power
dog-men & their mean women
pulling poor blankets over
our sailors
I'm sick of dour faces
Starong at me from the T.V.
Tower, I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
for the plant that's plowed
they are waiting to take us into
the severed garden
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a stranger hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
until its other jaw reveals incest
& loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family
You have been gifted with the experience of a Divine moment.
Never before in the history of your world has there been a time of transformation such as this.
All Creation is engulfed in the momentum of change.
All are experiencing the wonders of a new world of perception.
With the help of the energies that flood your world, you have the chance to accelerate a process that might have taken centuries.
Now, you are able to embody the higher state of beingness, while retaining physical form. This is the experience known as ascension.
Ascension is not an event but rather, a momentum. It is a shift in awareness, a shift in perspective, a shift in vibration, and a shift in alignment with who one truly is.
You stand on the threshold of a grand adventure.
The extend to which you experience the fullness of the journey is determined by the extend to which you let go of the scenarios that no longer serve you.
You discover the direction of choice on a road you must travel alone.
As the time lag between the inception of though and the manifestation of reality diminishes, it becomes obvious to you that you are creating all of it.
Recognizing the power to create your reality is the key to turning the page and beginning a new chapter in your life.
There comes a total shift in the focus to heart-centeredness. Your perception of self the world around you becomes intertwined.
You begin to dance with the energies of life, allowing the ebb and flow to determine the direction.
You become as a leaf on the wind, embodying a willingness to be carried with the momentum of the process.
The differing perceptions of another do not invalidate your own, they merely add the richness of contrast to the composite vision that is Oneness.
If all were whistling the same one note, there would be no music.
Harmony is dependent upon a recognition of difference and a willingness to hold one's own truth intact in it's presence.
Once you are able to look at another being and see no difference at all, there is no need for harmony.
For here there is only Oneness. This is the place the story began.
And this is the end toward which all consciousness strives to return.
Compassion is the common thread with which the tapestries of each of your lives are interwoven. For in truth, there is only One of us here.
The present moment's clarity does not invalidate the journey that was necessary in order to attain it.
The higher awareness and the Divine connectedness you begin to sense is no more and no less then your own Self.
It is You -- as is the One who speaks with you now.
The God you would hold exalted and the worship from afar is no further away then your own heart.
There is nothing foreign or otherworldly about experiencing your connectedness with God.
For, it is none other than your very own Divine essence, ever-present within you, that reaches out in that embrace.
It is not something that suddenly enters. It is something that has never left.
We are here -- waiting patiently for you -- as we have been for all eternity.
We are willing to wait.
We will wait forever, if necessary, for you to work this out.
And if it take forever, you are no less our Beloved.
For, this is the journey that will carry you the full distance -- beyond the parameters of the entire concept of a lifetime --
To a state of being that is embodiment timelessness.
Because, is to fundamental to give it a title, I'm gonna talk about what there is. Now, the first thing though that we have to do is to get our perspectives listen background. The basic ideas which as westerners living today in the United States influence our everyday common sense, our fundamental notion about what life is about, and there are historical origins for this which influence us more strongly then most people realize. Ideas of the world which are build in the very nature of the language we use, and of our ideas of logic and what make sense all together. And this basic ideas I call myth, not using the word myth to mean simply something untrue but to use the word myth in a more powerful sense. A myth is a image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Climate change is accelerating. The melting of the polar icecaps is exceeding prediction that even came from a year or two ago. Within 30 years 25% of all species could be extinct. Or civilization how we construct it is completely unsustainable.
I mean it's very confusing, because we're in this society if you live in modern world or New York, you still could have everything you want, you have fish comes to your plate and you can go and buy, any fabric of any country in the world, is very confusing so to begin to read about that in fact there are this tremendous changes happening to the planet.
When I began to come to my research was this concept of time being really central to the whole crisis we are in. And in fact is pretty interesting when you thing about the metaphors we use when we talk about time, we talk about wasting time, spending time, having enough time, running out of time, time is money. So we constantly think about time as something spacial that's ahead of us that we somehow reach out and grasp but every time we try to grasp it is not there anymore.
In a way is very ironic if you think about the whole purpose of creating industrial civilization and learning how to do all this stuff with technologies and machines, you'll think it will be something to take it easy. It's almost like a strange trick it's been perpetuated on us.
The modern way of think at indigenous tribal culture is that they where myth base and superstitious and it may be that cultures like the Mayan's and other indigenous cultures did have their own knowledge system that was as meaningful as ours, but they were interested in very different aspects of reality which are aspects of being and experience.
I started as a secular materialist person coming of a hole like ... paradigm, I begin to accept that there was this whole dimension of the psychic about my world had ... you can think about. You can demonstrate quantum and statistical that the biosphere is in terrible shape. You can demonstrate quantum and statistical that our technologies is continuing to accelerate and to change our possibility.And this third aspect is about the psychic evolution. This is something that can't be quantify or understood statistically because someone with a very rational and statistical mind will find this very hard to accept that is some kind of a change happening in the nature of the psychic.
In my own life and in the life of the people I'm connected with, there seems to be an incredible upsurge in synchronicity's. So if you begin to have an intention about something you can get a quicker level of manifestation. That's almost as if the boundaries between the psychic and the physical is becoming thinner, is becoming more permeable it's becoming a ... . The fisses that I have been developing in my book and I continue developing in my writings is that we are in a casp of a break through to a new form, a new level of human consciousness. And they way I come to see this period leading up to 2012 is a kind of a window of opportunity to categorize transformation inside a consciousness.
We have a lot of fundamentalist in US who are actually thinking about the raptures, Armageddon, but they sort of seeing this sort of negativistic way. The Apocalypse it does actually literally mean revealing, uncovering. So rather then being destructive is a time when everything hidden becomes revealed and available. So this apocalypse process is the coming of the self in to conscious realization.
A lot of people when they are confronted with this 2012 paradigm they can laps in a kind of passivity. It's almost been like: "Oh... is you just like trip, or you just like gaze the Mayan calendar, or you got participated in shamanic sessions. You gonna be ok, you gonna be saved when shit and fan meet each other.
They way I look is totally different. I think that shift is really about the individual taking responsibility for the whole planetary situation that is actually reorienting their psychic energy towards the positive process of transformation. The .... talk about how the ... creates the ... almost as a after thought. That's actually like dealing with the situation that was unleash on the planet that we create this next level of consciousness. And if we don't do that we gonna be in a really bad shape.
How do we move towards a sustainable planetary civilization in a short period of time, and how do we make something positive and transform ...
Democracy is one of the most difficult terms to explain, but it is also the easiest to expound.
Using a few words and in a short time I am interested in explaining it, democracy is empowering the individual, to make the individual powerful, to make the individual supreme, to make the individual content. To make the individual the focus of every thought is what I feel is democracy.
The only real way to describe democracy is basically a solid wall. And a solid wall is where everything is part of a solid but each one is able to maintain their own identity. That's how they all have to be a minting part.
What New Nepal, what republic, what democracy?
We need democracy, I support autocracy, we need a republic - I don't favor any of the more then advocating a system, it is the people running it that counts more, I think.
The public together. Democracy is just namesake.
For progress of the country there should be peace. Their work is not proper.
Without fear. This way we wither and die. That way we wither and die. No ideea.
Lady's and Gentlemen of the class "97: "Wear Sunscreen!" If I could offer you only one tip for the future... Sunscreen will be IT! A long term benefits of sunscreen have been prove by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis, more reliable, then my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Well never mind... You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they faded. But trust me... in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you, and how fabulous you really looked. You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future... or worry, but know worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind... the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this... tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives... some of the most interesting 40 years olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't... Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't... Maybe you'll divorce at 40... maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do... don't congratulate yourself to much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance... so are everybody else's.
Enjoy you body... Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in you own living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel UGLY.
Get to know your parents... you never know when they'll be gone for good... Be nice to your siblings... They are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but... for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York city once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you to will get old... and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse... but you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess to much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85... Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more the it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.
Terence McKenna talks about how to navigate in a world with a thousand different forms of salvation an excerpt from Seeking The Stone.
We know we're unhappy, but what's to be done you know, I mean we have a million minor fixes and people peddling all of this things, but somehow salvation itself became an impediment to salvation. I mean want's you see five hundred form of salvation been solved at prices you can't afford the very notion of salvation becomes obscene. You know, it becomes one more layer in the obscene layering that takes meaning out of life, and dis-empowers us, and turn us in a subscription customer, that seems to be how we always are been forced to end up.
The only way out of this, I think, is to... it takes courage, because we have to turn your back on your culture, in the most profound sense there is because there are many ways to turn your back on your culture. I mean if everyone is wearing gray you can wear green, that's one way to turn you back, I mean culture. But another way is to brake it's laws, now that's a little more serious, and you know, bring is big philosophical issues, but in fact the culture is an enormous arrow pointing "GO THIS WAY!" and you know what lies that way? impoverishment, madness, degradation and death that's where the culture is pointing. YOU CAN SEE IT, you can see it just look where we're headed, If everyone on earth aspires to the kind of lifestyle that you people can enjoy by heaving payed the money to be at a scene like this, there isn't enough glass, metal, and plastic in the planet to make that many jaguars, and bluebirts, and snowbirts, and all the rest of this crap. So what is needed is an awakening.
What is really interesting about the psychedelic experiences, it show's you a mental universe that you not only never suspected existed but that you could not have suspected existed. I don't think there is another way to it. I mean I'm not ready to categorically say there's not another way to it, and occasionally and specially at gathering like this people grab me and assure me that there are other ways to it, that.. you know... I want you to meat "Papachi", he's as good as psylocibin. "OH REALLY? I want to meat this man!". Let me say a little bit more about this, I will like to believe that in principle you can get to this places on the natch, Only in principle, however, because if some people say: "You know, this thing you described on DMT and pcylocibin, I can show you how to do that naturally!" "NO THANK YOU! are you kidding? Tank God I have the drung as a kind of marker, so what I know when I'm getting close to that stuff. If I woke up one morning and in that place and I couldn't not tell myself I've taken mushrooms, I will define myself as seriously discombobulated and wait to see what happens, you know? And people say: "Don't you think you are to be able to do it by yourself?" and I love this question! Because the answer is: "You can't do it by yourself!" that's the entire message of the last 10.000 years of human history, that the self is insufficient, that the ego will not suffice. The only way you are going to get anywhere is you must humble your self, to the point where you admit that you can't do it, in less you have help from someone who's ideas of home is a cow-flap. If you are willing to humble yourself to that degree then maybe we can get somewhere...
You see, we have made life in a hideous state, living. Life has become a battle. Which is a obvious fact, constant fight, fight, fight... and we have the walls we live in from death. We separate death as something horrible, something to be frighten about, and to as this living, which is misery is we accept. If we didn't accept this living as misery then life and death are the same movement, like love, death and living are one! One must totally die to find what love is. And to go in to this question of what is death, what lays beyond death, whether there is reincarnation, whether there is a resurrect... of all that, becomes rather meaningless... if you don't know how to live. If the human being knows how to live in the world without conflict then death has quite a different meaning.
In music, one doesn't make the end of a composition the point of a composition! If that was so, the best conductors will be those who played fastest. And there will be composers who wrote only finales. People go to concert only to here one crushing call because that's the end.
But we don't see that as something brought by our education in to our everyday conduct. We got a system of schooling that gives a completely different impression.
It's all graded. And what we do, we put the child in to the corridor of this grade system with a kind of "come on... kitty kitty kitty!" And they are going to the kindergartner, and that's a great thing because when you finish that you go in the first grade, and then come on: first grade leads to second grade and so on, and then you get out of the grade-school and you got high-school, and it's raving up the thing is coming, then you go to college, and by jovian you get in to graduate-school and when you are threw with that you go out and join the world! Then you go in to some racket you are selling insurance, and they got that quarter to make, and you're gone make that, and all the time the thing is coming, is coming, is coming, that great thing, the success you were working for. And then when you wake up one day about 40" years old you say: "My gad have arrived!", "I'm there!". And you don't feel very different from what you always felted. And it is a slide "let down" because you feel it was a hoax, and it was a hoax! a dreadful hoax! they made you miss everything!
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end and the thing was to get to that end, success or what ever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But.. we miss the point the hole way along! It was a musical thing and you was supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
What civilization is... is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation and yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that WE HAVE the power, the money, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. BUT we are lead by the least among us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary... we are lead by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons...
Culture is not your friend! Culture is for other peoples convenient and convenient of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend, it insults you, it dis-empowers you, it uses and abuses you, none of us are well treated by culture. Yet we glorify the creating potential of the individual, the rights of the individual, we understand the fell-presence of experiences and what is most important: The Culture Is a Perversion! It fetishaises objects, creates consumers mania, it preachers endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of swirly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, mean processes...
