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“I too have read all your commentaries. Twisted wry grin most of the way thru.
Frase, you are a revolutionary, no?” Guy, Cambodia.
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_,,,,_{ô¿ô}_,,,,_____the caravanserai* club
* a hostelry with spacious courtyards where camel caravans put up
April 25 May 25ish - Sahara Desert + Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
UPDATE: GOING JUST ON WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD, SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE NOW BOUGHT THEIR TICKETS, 4 OF THEM ON THE SAME FLIGHT AS US TO MARRAKECH. SEVERAL OTHERS ARE HOVERING OR SCRAPING. PRICES FROM ATLAS BLUE NOW AROUND £80 SINGLE, (taxes included), London Marrakech. NONE OF US HAVE BOUGHT RETURNS SINCE EASYJET FLIES DAILY FROM MALAGA IN SPAIN FOR AROUND £20 SINGLE.
ITINERARY 3 nights in Marrakech, then bus to Zagora where the berber camp in the Sahara is booked for "7 & upwards" people from april 28ish. Prices are £25 per week, including everything, spaciously romantic berber tents, all food, and occasional camel rides.
May 5-ish - back to Marrakech overnight, and then on by bus to laid-back, old hippy hangout, ancient medina city Essaouira to hang out on the beach for a week until May 14ish, and then via Casablanca, Rabat, Meknes, on to beautiful Chefchouan up in the Rif Mountains for a week. Easy bus ride from there to Ceuta and the ferry to Spain. Small hotel rooms look to be £5 a night.
RUMOURED: We might have a royal connection down there!! More next week if it pans out :)
RULES OF THE CLUB There are no rules in that each person is only and wholly responsible for hirself.
when i stopped putting on public edutainments, i started taking little trips abroad for my health, sanity, and natural curiosity. at first i went alone, tho i tried to persuade a cuppla frens, but you know how frens can b!
then, 2 years ago, a buddy came with me to spain. in malta that spring 3 people were with me. in August in croatia there were 5! and in Greece last Spring there were 7 of us! and of course people join us along the way.
with morocco this spring, because its so near and familiar, it looks like there could be 10-20 people coming along! imagine!
its a new kinda clubbing, travel clubbing, which i've called the Caravanserai Club. it goes away once or twice a year, during off-peak. i announce a great city in a foreign country that's not too expensive to get to, and anybody who wants comes along - independently!
more details over next few weeks
YOU DO NOT NEED TO INFORM ANYONE THAT U R COMING & CAN JOIN THE CARAVANSERAI WHEREVER/ WHENEVER, BUT, IF U LIKE, CONTACT ME AT:
fraser@parallel-youniversity.com
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself
the up! 0030 // 22, 03, 06
la- la- la- lap-toppling da system!
Science (finally) Locates Goddess
u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
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.. contents...
p.02 Science (finally) Locates Goddess Behind The Cosmic Landscape!
p.07 Remove my email from your paranoid fantasy world!!!
p.08 Techno Millennium - The Book Of RavElations: Zippy Eschaton - Chapter 11, of 'Rave Culture And Religion', edited by Graham St. John (Routledge 2004)
p.12 ‘Israel’ Wiped Off The Map?// FEEDBACK
p.13 ZIPPIES// Flying Saucer’s Apprentice// FEEDBACK
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Reading Megatripolis@Forever
by Michael Bowen
[famed Beat painter, co-creator of the Human Be-In, and of the San Francisco Oracle)
Megatripolis accurately reflects the new generation of hungry learners' determination to live without being told what to think.
I read Megatripolis from front to back twice. Then I realized I could be connected with my inner self quickly if I also used Megatripolis as a kind of oracle. Once I entered the book as I chose I connected to the writer's real reason for writing this book of experience. That reason is freedom.
A freedom of the mind that allows through its characters, plots, subplots, futures and multiple pasts to expand the mind until a creative level is reached as a reader.
When I was a little boy in Beverly Hills, I would lie in a warm bath and read all the national geographic magazines I could safely keep dry. I read them opened anywhere. One after the other. I soon discovered I had stimulated myself for more knowledge. I did not need a geography teacher, or an anthropology teacher, I needed a ticket to go to where I had discovered existed. Megatripolis reinvigorated my sense of exploration. This time both inner and outer exploration. Here in Megatripolis the characters are easily identified with the self.
My self. The plots with levels of my own life.
I hope Megatripolis will one-day become a recorded book. Then I can play it anywhere. Just as I can enter it anywhere now.
I think Megatripolis is the Shakespeare for the modern mind.
Michael Bowen, artist. Sweden.
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Libby Defence May Highlight Infighting
Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide are suggesting they may delve deeply at his criminal trial into infighting among the White House, the CIA and the State Department over pre-Iraq war intelligence failures.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031806B.shtml
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“Great energy in your newsletter!” Gerry Abrahams, San Francisco.
Menstruating Virgin Mary Cartoon
Stirs Debate Over Freedom to Offend
by Patrick Goodenough
While the Mohammed cartoon controversy simmers around the world, a tv channel in New Zealand was under fire for a decision to show an episode of the South Park comedy series featuring a menstruating statue of the Virgin Mary.
So where does that leave us? The Muslims are enraged because Mohamed is pictured with a bomb on his head. The Christians are furious because Mary is shown menstruating. And the Jews are enraged because we refuse to forget about the Pals.
I’ll swap you 2 menstruating Moses for a stigmata-ed Jesus hand and a bomb in a koran ok?
http://www.CNSNEWS.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200602\FOR20060222b
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Science (finally) Locates Goddess
Behind The Cosmic Landscape!
“Here was a number which, had it been slightly larger than its minuscule value, would have precluded structure formation (and hence life) in the universe.”
Leonard Susskind’s new book ’The Cosmic Landscape, String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design” discusses the apparent fine-tuning of the physical constants of our universe, the cosmological constant in particular, without which life as we know it (and, in many cases, not just life but even atoms, stars, and galaxies) could not exist.
Susskind is eloquent in describing why the discovery that the cosmological constant is apparently a small tiny positive number, seemingly fine-tuned to 120 decimal places, “hit us like the proverbial ton of bricks” (p. 185). Almost every theoretical physicist would have bet it had to be precisely zero. But here was a number which, had it been slightly larger than its minuscule value, would have precluded structure formation (and hence life) in the Universe!
You can imagine some as-yet-undiscovered mathematical explanation why a value is precisely zero, but when you come across a dial set with the almost ridiculous precision of 120 decimal places and it's an Absolute Requirement for your own Existence, thoughts of a benevolent Creator tend to creep into the mind of even the most doctrinaire scientific secularist. This is how the appearance of “intelligent design” (as the author defines it) threatens to get into the act, and the book is an exposition of the argument which string theorists and cosmologists have developed to contend that such apparent design is entirely an illusion.
>> i find it amazing the lengths ‘scientists’ will go to DISPROVE Goddess. i mean, they used to maintain that u and me and everything came together accidentally through a series of evolutions but, as they discovered just how complex Life really is (not like a behaviourist machine at all) they moved the playing field to a universe of innumerable possibilities having for decades denied the possibility that Life could been triggered from off-planet.
Intelligently Designed Accident?
The very title of the book, then, invites us to contrast 2 theories of the Origin of the Universe: “Intelligent Design” and the “String Landscape”.
So, let's accept that challenge and plunge right in, shall we? First of all, permit me to observe that despite frequent claims to the contrary, intelligent design need not presuppose a supernatural being operating outside the laws of science and/or inaccessible to scientific investigation. The origin of life on Earth due to deliberate seeding with engineered organisms by intelligent extraterrestrials, for example, has no supernatural component, and science may discover the evidence in the future.
If you observe a watch, you're entitled to infer the existence of a Watchmaker, but there's no reason to believe he's a magician, just a craftsman.
>> however it simply moves the Question to a bigger playing field again.
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PROOF ‘SCIENTISTS’ WILL POSIT ANY THEORY
TO DENY GODDESS’ EXISTENCE!
Earth Rocks Could Have Taken Life To Titan!
Boulders blasted from the Earth's surface after a major impact
could have travelled all the way to the outer solar system,
new calculations reveal. The work suggests that terrestrial microbes
on the rocks could in theory have landed on Saturn's giant moon, Titan.
[NewScientist.com news]
>> yeah, right.
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Intelligent Design V String Landscape
1: Intelligent Design. An intelligent being created the universe and chose the initial conditions and physical laws so as to permit the existence of beings like ourselves.
2: String Landscape. The laws of physics and initial conditions of the universe are chosen at random from among 10,500 possibilities, only a vanishingly small fraction of which can support life. The universe we observe, which is infinite in extent and may contain regions where the laws of physics differ, is one of an infinite number of causally disconnected “pocket universes“ which spontaneously form from quantum fluctuations in the vacuum of parent universes, a process which has been occurring for an infinite time in the past and will continue in the future, time without end.
Each of these pocket universes which, together, make up the “Megaverse”, has its own randomly selected laws of physics, and hence the overwhelming majority are sterile. We happen to find ourselves in one of the tiny minority of hospitable universes because, if we weren't, we wouldn't exist to make the observation.
Since there are an infinite number of universes, however, every possibility not only occurs, but occurs an infinite number of times, so not only are there an infinite number of inhabited universes, there are an infinite number identical to ours. Not only does the Megaverse spawn an infinity of universes, each universe itself splits into two copies every time a quantum measurement occurs. Our own universe will eventually spawn a bubble which will destroy all life within it. Evidence for all of the other universes is hidden behind a cosmic horizon.
Now, here’s the interesting point. While one can imagine scientific investigation discovering evidence for Intelligent Design, almost all of the mechanisms which underlie String Landscape must remain forever hidden from science (barring some conceptual breakthrough equivalent to looking inside a black hole) by an impenetrable horizon through which no causal influence can propagate. So severe is this problem that chapter 9 of the book is devoted to the question of how far theoretical physics can go in the total absence of experimental evidence. To one accustomed to the crystalline inevitability of Newtonian gravitation, general relativity, or the laws of thermodynamics, this seems by comparison like a California blonde saying “whatever” - the cosmology of despair.
>> or the Atheist’s Final Cop-Out?
Scientists will, of course, immediately rush to attack Intelligent Design,
>> yes, but why? why all this energy to deny what’s increasingly staring us in the face? what’s the MOTIVE?! people, after all, LOVE playing against the computer, it seems to be in our Nature.
arguing that the being such a theory posits would necessarily be “indistinguishable from magic”, capable of explaining anything, and hence unfalsifiable and beyond the purview of science.
>> the Watchmaker isn’t applying magic!
But let’s look more deeply at the attributes of what might be called the First Cause of String Landscape. It permeates all of our universe, it potentially spawns a bubble which may destroy it and replace it with something different, it pervades the abstract landscape of all possible universes, it populates them with an infinity of independent and diverse universes over an eternity of time: omnipresent in spacetime. When a universe is created, all the parameters which ultimately govern its ultimate evolution are fixed at the moment of creation. As a budded off universe evolves, whether a sterile formless void or teeming with intelligent life, no information is ever lost in its quantum evolution, not even down a black hole or across a cosmic horizon, and every quantum event splits the universe and preserves all possible outcomes. The ensemble of universes is thus omniscient of all its contents. But look, throw in intelligent and benevolent, and what do you have? The typical deity! And since you can't observe the parallel universes where the action takes place, you pretty much have to take it on faith. Where have we heard that before?
Creation Without The Creator
Many extrapolations of continued exponential growth in computing power envision a Technological Singularity in which super-intelligent computers, designing their own successors, rapidly approach the ultimate physical limits on computation. Such computers would be sufficiently powerful to run highly faithful simulations of complex worlds, including intelligent beings living within them who might be unaware they were inhabiting a simulation, who eventually passed through their own Technological Singularity, created their own simulated universes, populated them with intelligent beings who, in turn,…world without end.
>> like i’ve been saying, since we humans are on the cusp of creating universes in which complex creatures could spend generations, why do we not take that as the basic ASSUMPTION of how we ourselves came into being?
If an intelligent civilisation develops to the point where it can build these simulated universes, will it do so? Of course it will - just look at the fascination crude video game simulations have for people today. Now imagine a simulation as rich as reality and unpredictable as tomorrow, actually creating an inhabited universe - who could resist?!
As unlimited computing power becomes commonplace, kids will create innovative universes and evolve them for billions of simulated years for science projects. Call the mean number of simulated universes the branching factor. If it’s greater than one, and there’s a single top-level non-simulated universe, then it will be outnumbered by simulated universes which grow exponentially in numbers with the depth of the simulation. Hence, the odds are that we find ourselves in a simulated universe, which would be an exceptional place in the ensemble of real and simulated universes. Now here's the point: if, as we should expect from this argument, we do live in a simulated universe, then our universe is the product of intelligent design, and Intelligent Design is an absolutely correct description of its origin.
So we're inside a simulation designed by a freckle-faced superkid for extra credit in her science class. Is this something we could discover, or must it, like so many aspects of Intelligent Design, be forever hidden from our scientific investigation?
Well, surprisingly, this variety of Intelligent Design is quite amenable to experiment: neither revelation nor faith is required.
5 Observations We Would Expect
If We Inhabited A Simulation?
1. There would probably be a discrete time step and granularity in position fixed by the time and position resolution of the simulation. (YES! and YES!)
2. There would probably be an absolute speed limit to constrain the extent we could directly explore and to impose a locality constraint on propagating updates throughout the simulation. (YES! Speed of light)
3. There would be a limit on the extent of the universe we could observe. (YES! The Hubble radius is an absolute horizon we cannot penetrate, and the last scattering surface of the cosmic background radiation limits electromagnetic observation to a still smaller radius.
4. There would be a limit on the accuracy of physical measurements due to the finite precision of the computation in the simulation. (YES! Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.)
5. As in games, randomness would be used as a fudge when precision limits were hit. (YES! Quantum mechanics)
Might we expect surprises as we subject our simulated universe to ever more precise scrutiny, perhaps even astonishing the being which programmed it with our cunning and deviousness (as the author of any software package has experienced at the hands of real-world users)?
Who knows, we might run into round-off errors which “hit us like a ton of bricks”! Suppose there were some quantity, say, that was supposed to be exactly zero but, if you went and actually measured the geometry way out there near the edge and crunched the numbers, you found out it differed from zero in the 120th decimal place.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-03/000664.html
>> perhaps the aim of any living species is to evolve to the point where everyone realises, accepts and celebrates the Intelligence behind their world, and at that point the culture moves to the next level. megatripolis@forever says that year will be/is/was 2055 when humanity goes beyond time itself. but the gods make a public appearance somewhat sooner :)
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Cosmic 'DNA':
Double Helix Spotted in Space
Magnetic forces at the centre of the galaxy have twisted a nebula into the shape of DNA, the first time it has been observed in the cosmos.
>> no doubt caused by bacteria blasted off our liddle rock or summat :) the ‘scientists’ are working onnit believe me.
The DNA nebula is about 80 light-years long and about 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
>> at the centre of the latest scientific theory more like :)
[Space.com, MAR 15, 2006]
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Dangerous Knowledge
Can dangerous knowledge - such as the publication of the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus on the Internet - ever be contained? Once opened, might Pandora's Box be shut again? Those questions lie at the heart of an ongoing debate over the necessity and application of precaution in the deployment of new technologies.
[Responsible Nanotechnology March 13, 2006]
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Remove my email from yourparanoidfantasy world
>> u mean the one you THINK u r living in is NOT paranoid? 'bye.
"bye"? What are you like, 12?
>> 63samatterofact, u arrogant young post modern :)
That claptrap about global conspiracies and Bush being evilcrap is completely childishrubbish. Pretty much the world ishow you see it on the surface. Some people are good, some bad... and all are human.Political fantasy abouta current unseen "holocaust",such as your site describes, is the refuge of the depressingly brainwashed counter culture.
>> the counter-culture is brainwashed now i've heard everything!! asserted by a clone who works in an ant hive (because he never looked at any available alternative but just followed what was laid out for him (by whom u might well ask)) and so busy he has no time to look a bit deeper at the world around him, nor probably in your case at the end result of the huge organisation you are squandering your precious and once-only life in. at least admit there could be several big conspiracies that YOU, down in the sales department in the basement, would never even know about! and do tell us when you marry the girl at the next desk because, let's face it, how could you ever meet anyone else except on saturday when you're drunk off your tits? recognise your world? :D
Go get a job and tax your taxes like an adult.
Doug Broccone, in a skyscraper somewhere.
>> i have a job, several in fact, but all because i LOVE and NEED to do them, not because i get paid money for it like you. wouldn’t you like to do something you LOVED?! (now tell me you actually LOVE helping your corporation sell more canned beans).
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TEXT JOCKEY // TJ PHRASER (Fraser Clark) & THE MEDIA EVOLUTION
MIXING THE TRACTS LIVE ON THE KEYBOARD
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Techno Millennium
Chapter 11, of 'Rave Culture And Religion', edited by Graham St. John (Routledge 2004, ISBN-0415-31449-6)
The Book Of RavElations: Zippy Eschaton
Speaking at the launch of the Zippy Pronoia Tour To US, held at the Wetlands nightclub in Manhattan on 15th June 1994, Terence McKenna announced that every 50 years or so society needs liberation from the forces of fascism, and that, 50 years since the end of World War 2, a vanguard of liberators had secured a beach-head on the east coast of America, and begun to work its way inland along the Hudson.
For a man who once wrote how he anticipated the great Gaian DJ Strange Attractor mixing the endgame of the 2nd with the opening chords of the 3rd millennium, zippy imagineer Fraser Clark’s association with McKenna’s cosmogenic scheme had been well established. In the years approaching Z Day, Clark, the editor of evolution^ magazine {originally Encyclopaedia Psychedelica International [EPi]), and founder of London clubs Megatripolis and the Parallel YOUniversity } had been an influential articulator of the technology /ecology/ spirituality tryst, coining the word Zippy (zen inspired pagan professional) to describe those who disowned hippylike pastoralism and embraced the psyberdelic evolutionary possibilities in technology
>> really this should be “combined”, combined hippylike pastoralism with the psyberdelic evolutionary possibilities in technology,
and compiling Shamanarchy In The UK, an album championing England’s revitalisation through a fusion of the house generation and the green movement.
Like McKenna, Clark evangelised Rave as the newest and most significant vehicle through the end times. Like the old pagan festivals, Clark announced in a speech delivered at Stanford University on 2nd May 1995… we’re all in this together. This is our planet. She is indescribably beautiful, gigantic. We are atoms of the living goddess. Personally i can’t see a better way to help people to learn a love, respect and reverence for nature than the classical open-air all night rave. Can you imagine what it felt like with 20,000 people going for it and actually feeling together, and the power of the people together and then dancing the sun up? It is awesome, it is religious, and it is life changing.
In a communiqué on California’s WELL (Whole Earth Lectronic Link} conferencing system in May 1994, Clark proposed that “any relatively conscious planeter has at least begun to suspect that the competition-based system within which human culture is currently operating is incapable of adapting, and needs to be recoded”. And, since “the sign for which we all yearn is that WE, the relatively conscious, are a hell of a lot more numerous than even WE supposed” there was reason for optimism. Thus:
”The news is good, very very good. I see only one sociological phenomenon within western culture which has any chance of bringing about the required maximum change in the maximum number of people in the minimum period of time. UK Rave Culture has been evolving for 5 years now, and, at its most accelerated, the tribal rave scene has united the raw young idealism and enthusiasm of Rave with the eco-wisdom of Festival Culture to produce a mixture of meltdown proportions.”
Clarks messiology was born. Rave Culture was the end of the world as we know it, and the cross-hemispheric Zippies, harmonising rationality and mysticism, fusing practicality with idealism, and technology with ekstasis, were the inter subcultural inter-continental vanguard of the endtimes.
Emerging from the 1960s counter culture, deeply influenced by Gurdjieff, and witnessing the possibility of new technology, Clark considered the System to be collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, and anticipated Rave as the next and last breakthrough device. In l987 the EPi predicted that a co-operative cultural virus reproducing within the new dance culture would infect the whole planetary culture.
>> and it has. but nobody told the bush gang.
The coming Renaissance of ‘60s idealism and end-of-the-millennium techno-shamans was prophesied in Clark’s The Book of RavElations to be Humanity’s last chance. Rave was to be the final carrier of the inclusive co-operative meme constituting the critical mass necessary to get everybody “out of their heads and into their bodies and hearts.”
For the man who came to share the mantle with McKenna as the Timothy Leary of the ‘90s, possessing distinct millenarian possibilities, the acid house phenomenon was more than a mere simulacrum of the 1960s. Indeed, in a later prediction, a Global Summer Of Love was expected to blossom in 1997 when the raver children would continue the beautiful revolution - the task of changing the world unfinished by their hippy forebears 30 years before.
To this end, Clark had founded the London dance club Megatripolis. The meaning of the name can be inferred from Clark’s postings on the WELL, in February 1995. Megatripolis was an evolved biographical concept raised from Clark’s unfinishable, unpublished science fiction novel Megatripolis@Forever. After centuries leading right across the short-hairs on the very cusp of System Disaster he wrote, Womankind finally made the necessary evolutionary leap to collective consciousness long foretold, escaped the illusion of Time itself, and squatted permanently in the future perfect state which they named Megatripolis.
But only a few escaped the illusion, evolving beyond time, and capable of balling: wandering through the past, obsessed with researching The Only Question Worth Asking: why had things remained wrong for so long amongst their ancestors when this GroupMind state was so clearly available?
We also learn that the utopian dreams and visions universal to human societies are actually future memories of the Megatripolitan Utopia, of how things already are beyond this absurdly thin veil of time. Thus, as was announced in his speech on 4th November 1993 at Megatripolis, zippies were starting to pick up the pieces of the future: by re-membering it (we’ve lived there so long in the future), and since the citizens of the future perfect state keep dropping hints in our time as they travel through.
In Clark’s techno-organic science-futurism, Megatripolis (which in 1995 opened for a while in San Francisco as Megatripolis West) was a this-worldly accelerated learning module for the long awaited mass mutation to the future perfect state. The ethno trance club offered ambient lecture style edutainment in the early evening, with Parallel YOUniversity talks delivered by the likes of McKenna, Ram Dass, Alexander Shulgin, Rev. Ian Stang (Church Of The Sub Genius), Rupert Sheldrake, Francis Huxley and Robert Anton Wilson.
Musicians and DJs present included Dee-lite, Irresistible Force (Mix Master Morris), Mark Sinclair (Pendragon), Youth and Chris Decker.
Inside, Clark claimed, you would meet time-travelling Megatripolitans amongst the residents and patrons. Were these zippy residents the immediate predecessors of Megatripolitans themselves? Perhaps, though in Clarks Gurdjieffian logic, as humans are all potential zippies, we are all Megatripolitans, we just aren’t conscious of it yet.
>> like we are all unrealised buddhas.
‘At my highest I sometimes seemed to glimpse, we are all Megatripolitans in some sense already. Whether we realise it or not. Take another look. Doesn’t this unfinished state feel more like the dream, the teaser. the trailer, the pale shadow of what we’re meant to be?’
Following this narrative, at Megatripolis patrons could get closer to their destiny, perhaps even merging with the landscape of their becoming, if only for the night. The role of future memories, remembrance of the future perfect state, are as crucial to Clark’s vision as they are to McKenna’s theory. Timewave zero is the future perfect state is the archaic revival. Preparation appears to be the key, and in terms of the novelty wave chart, with Megatripolis as the beach-head of a benign mutation in the present, the tide was apparently in.
In a proclamation dated January, 1995, during the Zippy Tour: ‘The final battle for the human soul will be decided here in America. And you, dear raver, or raver to be, are destined to be on the front line, and already are, whether you yet realise it or not’.
The greatest or at least most hyped campaign of the rave-o-lutionary millennium was the 1994-95 Zippy Pronoia To US. The tour’s objective was to bootstrap the hedonic bliss and communal vibe of the rave party into a mass movement of planetary awakening. (Ferguson in High Times, 1995). Accordingly Rainbow hippies coupling with tecno freaks were destined to produce Rainbow Ravers.
While Clark and many of his eventually estranged team of zippies operated underground events in New York City, Boulder and San Francisco and at the Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming, his mega rave envisioned to hold 60,000 people in the Grand Canyon in August turned out to be a much reduced event held in Arizona’s Kaibab National Forest as part of the World Unity Festival. Anticipated as a cultural and spiritual tsunami poised to sweep across America (Huffstuffer 94), hosting 55,000 short of the initial forecast the zippy Woodstock failed to materialise.
Yet zippy was more zeitgeist than movement, the term being adopted by various individuals and groups whose network activities evinced a turn of the 1990s optimism that had been fermenting within experimental formations inheriting the cultural and spiritual resources of previous counter cultures (especially Hippies) and holding fast against government and corporate encroachment.
In response to the early commercialism of rave, young digital musicians, activists and esotericists produced their own music, built websites, published zines and held free parties. And this network of new digital chemical and cyber- enabled artists and anarchists was held together by a hopeful view that decentralised and pirated technology can be adopted in the quest for spiritual advancement, self development and wider cultural change: what we have here is a major player in the premillennial cultural meme-pool, a loose knit movement of folks who aim to change the world while having the best time of their lives. (Marshall 94).
While Clark believed that the zippy phenomenon would stimulate the quickening of the new new age, promoting the rave millennium, he was often perceived as little more than a media-wise hustler of youth culture, little removed from other marketeers selling the millennium. As had been noted by Sarah Ferguson, the zippy pitch, combining the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppy with the spiritual indulgence of the hippy, sounded dangerously close to a Fruitopia commercial.
Since the approach seemed long on enthusiasm and short on efficacy - Clark was never one to spoil the grand vision with fine detail - he was rebuked and dismissed by cultural radicals and anarchists.
Yet, for one thing, the zippy programme deviated from the tech-dependent libertarianism harboured by Extropians. As cyber punk critic Vivien Sobchak commented, a zippy feels the terror and promise of the planet’s situation and is prepared to use anything short of violence - magic, technology, entrepreneurial skill - to create a new age in as short a time as possible (Sobchak, in Marshall 94).
Moreover the intentional consciousness-raising party is a lasting zippy legacy.
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Nearly Half Of Americans Say Regulate Pot Like Alcohol
Majorities On Both Coasts Back Legalisation
Nearly Half Of Americans support amending federal law "to let states legally regulate and tax marijuana the way they do liquor and gambling," according to a national poll by Zogby International, commissioned by the NORML Foundation.
49% opposed taxing and regulating cannabis, and 46% supported it - including 53% and 55% on the east and west coasts.
"Public support for replacing the illicit marijuana market with a legally regulated, controlled market similar to alcohol - complete with age restrictions and quality controls - continues to grow," NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre.
The break-down by age is also illuminating. 65% of the Rave generation (18-29) were for regulating, and 65% of the Hippy generation too (50-64).
It’s that damn Punk/Generation X lot (30-49 year-olds) (58%) and the Alzheimer Alliance (65+) (52%) who tip the balance against!
The break-down by politics was 59% of Democrats and 33% of Republicans back tax/regulating. 44% of Independents and 85% of Libertarians support the change.
The break-down by religious affiliation is tantalising and indicative: 70% Jewish support, 60% of the non-religious, 48% of Catholics and 38% of Protestants. Beware Generation X Protestants!
A previous Zogby poll found that 61% of Americans opposed arresting and jailing non-violent marijuana consumers.
[For more info, contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, or Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500]
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Support For Bush's Handling Of War Plunges
More than two thirds of Americans think Bush is mishandling events in Iraq and almost a third believe civil war in the country is imminent, according to a Harris poll.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031806C.shtml
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The US Administration Couldn't Have Done A Better Job
Of Turning Iraq Into America’s Most Expensive And Dangerous Enemy If It Had Genuinely Had That As Its Goal. . . .
Amount appropriated by the US Congress for Iraq operations so far: $218 billion
Number of global terrorist attacks reported by the State Dept in 2004: 651
Rank of Iraq among all nations as a training ground for terrorists: FIRST
Chances of a WMD attack in the next 10 years, according to leading arms experts: 70%
Estimated # of insurgents in Iraq (Nov. 2003); 5,000
Estimated # of insurgents in Iraq (Oct. 2005): 20,000
Number of US service members killed in Iraq: 2144+
Number killed since Bush announced the end of major combat: 2005+
WMDs found in Iraq: 0
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Chomsky is right
Chomsky is right that sheer people power in China, India, South America etc should be enough to throw off destructive Anglo-Saxon domination which has mostly been a disaster for the world. It includes the exploitation of the weak and defenceless, the terrible racism and ethnic cleansing of empire, and the appropriation of natural assets all over the world. There are risks, but the end of this domination is very welcome. Perhaps the world can have a United Nations which is not controlled by bullying, blackmail and bribery.
Tanya Heather, Brighton, East Sussex.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1732746,00.html
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- ZIPPIES// Flying Saucers Apprentice// FEEDBACK
I do NOT wear hats! And made NO changes in my get-up for the Zippies.
>> i gotta say this is true, and he continued all through the zippy season to regularly attend dinosaur punk rock bands like they weren’t going out of history let alone fashion :)
>>> That's strange Peter, I've got a photo of you wearing a hat, the same hat and spectacles as the Wired Cover, and very much in the centre of everything with Fraser standing by your side, along with Dan Mapes, myself and Rehane X!
must see! must see! a copy please! we'll put it on the site. we had dan on here just a few weeks ago!
Remember, if you can, I came to the Zippies via Mark Heley's CLUBLIFE mag as photojournalist covering the Mega Rave/Unity/Rainbow gathering down near the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
>>> Yes, I understand how that would happen. I'm from the Domain of the Cuddly Deity at Heaven and, while I experienced the Zippy orgasm, I missed the paradigm jump at the Grand Canyon.
>> that’s when the hat appeared mysteriously in a fotograf on the head of a hatless i gettit now!
It was after that, I was host to Fraser, and Aid to the Megatripolis Club San Francisco events. Lots of work and 2,800 ravers on opening night. High Times too. Not bad.
>>> Great, I was there too.
As for being a perpetual 4 year old, I may have tried to come down to your level, but also, I do recall, you smoked a Great Deal of -you know- as well.
What is it that makes you so disgruntled, David?
Peter Booth Lee, San Francisco.
>>> Peter, perhaps its the fact that people weren't entirely honest with me about the split, and I had to put up with a lot of shit, including loss of privacy, cia mind control and with only smoke to live on. I know Fraser said that one day we will all sip magical smoke out of a mystical glass and look back at history, from Megatripolis, but I don't think he excluded eating food.
>> david, maybe it was all that youknow- but you’re actually quoting from megatripolis@forever, which i was working on through the tour, viz:
They 'visit' each other a lot - they're very sociable, always going on about some underlying principle they call GroupMind. They sip a sort of sweet 'smoke' from things that look like 'cups' (they call it ‘memories’, or just ‘memes’). And, on their ‘coffee table’ (which often looks like one) sits a large sort of pulsating crystal ball thingy which is, in fact, the entire History of the Human Race. Since they spend all their ‘time’ in it, it’s collected several names, the “Crystal”, the ‘End’, but officially they call it the ‘Ball.’
Let’s say a Megatripper wants to argue an important point, demonstrate a theory of learning, or experiment with evolution in a tiny, approved way, or just when they want to 'dance', to communicate and ‘enjoy themselves,' they dive into this ball thingy, alone or in couples or groups, and play any of the roles available in the history of their species. “Doing the Ball”, they call it, or just… “Balling.”
we did a LOT of balling!
>>> The over-riding memory of the SF experience, is one of famine, and I'm sure Fraser can vouch for that.
>> naw naw some people think we ripped off america for millions never deny a healthy rumour :)
>>> He certainly lost weight and tried to put on a good but ultimately futile show of solidarity with his "hippy brethren," but isn't this why the world moved forward, while the hippies faded out?
DRL, Cape Town.
>> no, it’s because the Hippies and the Ravers didn’t unite quickly enough for all their own personal reasons. now, with the Common Enemy of Bush, they have and it’s all obvious. but if only…
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‘Israel’ Wiped Off The Map’s Face?// FEEDBACK
>> I agree wholeheartedly that Israel should be “wiped off the map”. Know why? Because it means that a state based on racist/religious grounds, ‘Israel’, should not be allowed. Nobody is calling for thousands of dead Israelis, they want the state called “Israel” turned into a religiously tolerant state like all others on the planet, and it’s what the Palestinians have always been demanding. And everyone knows this but goes on like pres afterdinnershag was threatening anyone. DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?!
Fraser, I disagree that all other states on this planet are religiously tolerant. Is that what you meant?
Sean, Devon, UK.
>> not in the least. my goddess, some of those arab countries!
no, israel is the only country in the world where the religion is written into the constitution and does not tolerate anyone else at certain levels. u can go the next step if u want and ask if a state that defines itself by religion in its very laws can EVER be tolerant in the more cultural sense.
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whereas i detest the zionist ie, religious jews who r just a giant pain in the arse, i can never condone or allow the state of israel being wiped off the map. i personally will fight (false) tooth and (real) nail to prevent any such thing from occurring in my lifetime. i was at one time aligned with the hippie hassidic group guided by rabbi schlomo carlebach in israel and we were regularly stoned (and literally stoned) by young zionist yeshiva bochers when we attempted to dance before the wall in yerushaliam. it was long my stated belief that israel would be paradise if not for the religious right in that country who fuck everything up and r behind, equally with the maniacs of first, fatah and then hamas, in making most of the horrific trouble in that part of the middle east.
for yours and anybody’s information, israel will never be wiped off the map and nor should it be. i personally would put myself in the front line if anybody were capable of attempting such a coup and tried it on.
Brian X, London.
>> agree with every word of that.
except you seem to (mistakenly?) misread the very point about misreading (deliberately!) which i was making. that point is that avadinnershag was NOT talking about physically attacking anyone when he made the remark. he wanted Israel, the only state in the world with religion built into its constitution, to be removed. ie it should open itself on the religious level and at least make a legalistic PRETENCE at tolerance like every other state on the planet. but all reporters in the west quiesce in deliberately misinterpreting his remark to mean war. and i think they KNOW perfectly well what his actual meaning was. is all.
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Hamas Demands Palestinian Rights
As Israel Implements Final Solution
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
As Hamas struggles to form a coalition government, find its political footing and a new voice for the Palestinian people, I suspect their assessment concerning Israel and the West is correct. The game is lost with the West because Western powers support Israel First. And frankly, my dear, Israel doesn't give a damn for the lives of its Arab citizens, the Palestinians or their Arab neighbours.
Check out Israel's laws. Their blueprint for racism, apartheid and dehumanising others abounds. From the beginning the West accepted Israel's Absentee Property and Planning Laws though the UN cried foul and demanded change. These laws are not only one-sided and unfair, they basically stripped Arab Israeli citizens and Palestinians of Human Rights which allowed and continues to allow for taking of their land, property and in 1948 their bank accounts. Of course in February '04, Israel also robbed the banks in Ramallah because of so-called Palestinian terrorism. This act was also a reflection of "illegal" Israeli laws which allows for accusations without trial to be quickly followed by punishment, including death.
Hamas should not recognise Israel until the latter recognises the human rights of its own citizens - other than Jewish Nationals. Recently at the urging of so-called Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres who wants the Negev for Jews only, the Knesset voted to ethnically cleanse 40,000 of its own Israeli citizens, Arab Bedouins from their ancient homelands. The illegal land grabs in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are also justified under Israel's racist laws.
Despite our best intentions, we Internationals accomplish little because we do not challenge Israel's right to exist in it's present form.
“Wipe Israel off the face of the map”, get it?!
Pressure should be put on Israel to change its governance structure, and to adopt a Constitutional Democracy with transparency which upholds Basic Human Rights. Israel could maintain its Jewish character through its holidays and provide for Jewish Law Courts for those who are practising Jews and wish to adhere to these mandates, but others should not be subjected to them, anymore than non-Muslims should be subjected to Islamic rulings under Hamas (who claim they won't be).
The game is over for Palestine if they depend on the West. Israel's Occupation is Israel's de-facto claim to all of Palestine despite international laws to the contrary. To accept Israel is to accept Israeli supremacy and to legitimise their racist laws and the occupation. Hamas refuses to do this - as is their right and frankly, their obligation. They have no option but to turn to the Arab world and Islam for support and to other sympathetic governments who also fear the effect of a One World Government with Israel and a Zionist-America at its centre. Of course, many could die - but many will die as America and the EU boycott Palestine for voting for Hamas. And many will die because Israel wills it to be as they move toward their Final Solution as certain Israeli politicians have stated recently.
Genevieve Cora Fraser.
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Israel's Colonisation Of Palestine
Blocking Peace, Says Jimmy Carter
· Actions will perpetuate violence across region
· Future for West Bank and Gaza Strip 'dismal'
The Guardian/Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Former US president Jimmy Carter has described Israel's "colonisation of Palestine" through expanding Jewish settlements as the single greatest obstacle to a resolution of the conflict.
Mr Carter, 81, who negotiated the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, wrote in the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz yesterday that Israel's actions doom any Palestinian state to a "dismal" future, and will perpetuate violence across the Middle East. "The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonisation of Palestine," he wrote. "Israel's occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalised government, one headed by Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet."
He also questioned Israel's commitment to the US-led "road map" peace process. "Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites," he said.
Even during the Camp David negotiation, said Mr Carter, Israel was insincere when it offered to withdraw only a small proportion of the 225,000 settlers living in the West Bank. "Their best official offer to the Palestinians was to withdraw 20% of them, leaving 180,000 in 209 settlements, which they claimed only covered 5% of the occupied land," he said.
"But the 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swathes providing water, sewage, electricity and communications. This intricate honeycomb divides the entire West Bank into multiple fragments, often uninhabitable or even unreachable."
Mr Carter said Israel's unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip had left it as a "non-viable economic and political entity," and that the future of the West Bank is "equally dismal".
"This, and the Wall, will never be acceptable either to Palestinians or to the international community, and will inevitably precipitate increased tension and violence within Palestine, and stronger resentment and animosity from the Arab world against America, which will be held accountable for the plight of the Palestinians."
>> and among all fair civilised people in the west.
Palestine’s prime minister designate, Ismail Haniyeh, told CBS television that Hamas would renounce violence and recognise the Jewish state only when Israel recognised "a Palestinian state within the boundaries of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1733742,00.html
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