ELECTRONIC AWAKENING
27 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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In Electronic Awakening, director Andrew Johner lifts the veil on an underground spiritual movement that has developed within electronic music cultures worldwide.
The story of Goa
16 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Goa emerged on the world scene back in the 60′s with the ‘Hippie Movement’ which brought the western world to the beaches of Anjuna. Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 and 25 years old, hippies inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from bohemians and beatniks of the Beat Generation in the late 1950s. Stories of Freaks in Goa and a slowly building counter culture made some enthusiasts hop onto an overland Bus leaving for Goa all the way from Europe (Greece). Disillusioned, disenchanted preferring an altered state of consciousness to the collective illusion the world embraces as ‘Reality’, they found home under the palm trees of Goa.
Staying in Goa was extremely affordable then and to the Hippies, money was always just a means to an end. They stayed and stayed and stayed even longer … the community doubled, tripled, increased exponentially in very little time. So began a long ongoing chapter in the history of the psychedelic culture spawning a whole new generation into an alternate reality, a different world where anything was possible and all boundaries dissolved.
This is just one of the many ways of telling the story of Goa, the Hippies, the Freaks and a generation of hipsters being exposed to a plethora of substances which dramatically alter ones perception of the world and the nature of reality.
Over the years, as capitalism and globalization began making in roads everywhere, the locals and the Goan Government started to become increasingly less tolerant toward the Hippie attitude as it conflicts with the ethics and lifestyles of modern day society. The authorities were now coming on strongly against Nudism, Drugs and Loud Music being played around residential areas late into the night. Some Hippies hence chose the path of reform and got back to the regular city lifestyle and a day job, some became Sadhus and Sanyasis and some stayed back and are still seen dancing around the shacks of South Anjuna, namely Curlies and Shiva Valley. If you ever get a chance to speak to some of these willing old timers, you would know they have a whole lot to talk about and for good reason. With the slow death of the “Hippie Era”, Goa’s reputation as the Freak Capital never diminished, but evolved into the Monsterattes we see on News Channels and read about in the newspapers. Irresponsible use of drugs and sexual predation are closely linked in the darkness of our present times and it’s only we who can change this and turn things around in a new direction we collectively envision.
Psy trance scene in Korea
13 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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The Korean psychedelic trance community is an interesting creature. Dominated by the club culture, it’s clear that psy trance in Korea is still experiencing growing pangs. Trance parties are nothing new to the country, but the presence of strict drug laws threatens to bring a crippled scene. That being said, there is still a healthy and devoted following of the psychedelic trance spirit to be found amongst a handful of promoters, party-goers, DJs and producers.
Seoul is cultural hub of Korea and, and so this is where one will find the majority of the parties in the country. There are usually larger commercial and international acts flown in at least once each month to perform clubs such as Heaven and Volume. Artists such as Skazi, Eskimo, Yahel, Talamasca, CPU, Atomic Pulse, and Fatali have come through the Korean club circuit and have proven that the demand for Fullon sounds is strong. The underground scene is also in good health with promoters such as Psy Travellers putting on parties at least once a month. Another group by the name of Shevaka also occasionally throw parties throughout the year.
When there aren’t any parties happening, one can find a psychedelic safe haven in clubs such as Miroir, which is a bit small, but manages to play psy trance every weekend. Obeg (the Korean word for the number 500) is also a very chill place with decorations that look like they were taken straight from the fictional planet Tatoonie – the entire interior is decorated as a cave and is truly a must-see. Also, Club Miro will usually have psy trance playing in their backroom.
The indoor scene has definitely evolved over the years and it’s nice to find that Korea actually has a selection of events to choose from throughout each month. Whether the club scene is your vibe or whether you want to get down with the neo-hippies in a faux cave, Korea has it. The crowds just tend to be in rather small numbers.
The outdoor scene is a little less evolved in Korea. The summer of 2009 had only one outdoor party to this writer’s knowledge. Morave, which is now a yearly festival, took place on a private Tae-an beach. More of a festival of expression, one will find a multitude of sounds and events, including psychedelic trance in the evening hours for the trancers in the crowd. Other than that, Korea has massive outdoor gatherings that are fueled by nothing but commercialism. Pentaport and Global Gathering all take place in or around Seoul in the summer months, and even though these events are marketed as electronic music festivals, they are pretty much devoid of any psy trance. There are whispers of future outdoor psy gatherings, but as of now there isn’t much on the horizon.
The music scene in Korea is growing and evolving, and for that the psy trance scene still maintains a very intimate vibe. But this intimate feeling doesn’t detract from the fact that once you are on the dancefloor, you’ll see that there’s something very special here.
Its Not A War On Drugs, Its A War On Freedom
10 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Graham Hancock – We Live In An Insane Society
27 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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The psychedelic experience
26 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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The psychedelic experience is far more than instant psychotherapy or instant regression to infantile traumatic situations, far more than simply a kind of super-aphrodisiac, far more than simply an aid in formulating ideas or coming up with artistic concepts. What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy. It turns out, if we can trust the evidence of the psychedelic experience, that we are not the only intelligent life forms on this planet, that we share this planet with some kind of conscious mind – call it Gaia, call it Zeta Reticulians who came here a million years ago, call it God Almighty, it doesn’t matter what you call it, the fact of the matter is that the claims of religion that there is some kind of higher power can be experientially verified through psychedelics. Now this is not, in Milton’s wonderful phrase “The God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” – it doesn’t have to do with that, in my opinion – it isn’t cosmic in scale, it’s planetary in scale. There is some kind of disincarnate intelligence. It’s in the water, it’s in the ground, it’s in the vegetation, it’s in the atmosphere we breath, and our unhappiness, our discomfort, arises from the fact that we have fallen into history and history is a state of benighted ignorance concerning the real facts of how the world works.
Now, why it is that when we dose ourselves with a human neurotransmitter like DMT, why we then encounter armies of elves teaching us a perfected form of communication, this is a very difficult question. When you go to traditional cultures, shamanistic cultures in the Amazon and put this question to them, they answer without hesitation when you ask about these small entities, they say “Oh, yes, those are the ancestors; those are the ancestor spirits with which we work all of our magic.” This is worldwide and traditionally the answer that you would get from shamans if you were to ask them how they do their magic – it’s through the intercession of the helping spirit who is a creature in another dimension. Well, we may have imagined many different scenarios, a future technological and social innovation, but I think very few of us have imagined the possibility that the real programme of shamanism would have to be taken seriously, and that shamans are actually people who have learned to penetrate into another dimension, a dimension where, for want of a better word, we would have to say the souls of the ancestors are somehow present. It isn’t, you see, as though we penetrate into the realm of the dead, it’s more as though we discover that this world is the realm of the dead and that there is a kind of higher-dimensional world with greater degrees of freedom, with a greater sense of spontaneity and a lesser dependency on the entropic world of matter, and that that other universe is attempting to impinge into our own, perhaps to rescue us from our historical dilemma, we don’t know – perhaps shamans have always had commerce with these magical invisible worlds and it’s only the sad fate of Western human beings to have lost touch and awareness with this domain to the point where it comes to us as a kind of a revelation. You see, I believe that the whole fall into history, the whole rise of male dominance and patriarchy really can be traced to a broken connection with the living world of the Gaian mind, and there’s nothing airy-fairy about this notion; the living world of the Gaian mind is what shamans access through psychoactive plants, and without psychoactive plants that access comes as an unconformable rumor.
Revolution of Consciousness (The wave)
16 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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History of Trance Dance
15 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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From the beginnings of recorded history we find evidence of dance. It seems that our original relationship to dancing was for the purpose of worship and healing. In this ancient time our ancestors viewed nature and all of its elements as an expression of God. To duplicate or mimic nature through movement and sounds was their first and highest way to connect with spirit, and was the origin of dance.
Spiritual dancing is a cross-cultural phenomenon, a testament to its power and authenticity. Cultures from every continent on this planet simultaneously embraced unique dance forms based on the animals and elements of nature present within their domain. Their purpose in dancing was to enter the consciousness or become the spirit of the sun, moon, and various animal and plant life. Through these dance rituals they believed that the spirits within nature could empower them with abilities such as courage and compassion, as well as reveal insights into the future.
For thousands of years spiritual dancing remained an integral part of how we maintained and enhanced our relationship to the earth. To `dance like nature’ was to vibrate at the same rate as the creator, much the same as any newborn child will mimic its environment out of love and appreciation for its existence. Dance was synonymous with what we would call prayer, a demonstration of reverence, and to dance regularly promoted spiritual and physical health and vitality.
“By dancing within the seclusion of darkness we discover parallel realities where solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems are possible.”
Wilbert Alix
For some people, the word “trance” is frightening. But trance is really nothing more than another word for meditation. Trance and meditation are vehicles to move you to the state of ‘no mind.’ The question is, how do you get to that state? When you meditate, you sit in silence for extended periods of time until the mind empties out and you become an empty vessel. Then your spirit can surface.
Trance is the same way, except the doorway is different. It’s done through catharsis. It’s done through rhythm, sound and movement of the body. What occurs, either in that movement or at the end of that movement, is trance, a very deep meditational state.
Traditionally, trance dance has always been accompanied by the rhythms of drumming. Why the drum? Instinctively, we know that sound. It is the beating of our heart. That constant beating sound is a meditative sound. When we are quiet, we hear it in our bodies. The beat moves us into a trance state when the rhythm is unbroken, and constant. At some point, the brain stops listening to it and trusts that it’s there.
If you listen to the rhythm—eyes shielded by a bandana, breath flowing in patterns—and move, a gradual dissociation with your ego will take place. It is not permanent. It’s a temporary place that you go, but it does have lasting effect. When you come back out of trance, less of your ego is there and more of your higher self is present—more of your intelligent self, your wisdom. People who dance over extended periods of time notice a marked increase in frequency of insight and revelation.
Trance Dance is a unique blend of healing sounds, dynamic percussive rhythms, transformational breathing techniques and the innovative use of a blindfold or bandana ~ together stimulating an trance state that promotes spiritual awakenings, mental clarity, physical stamina and emotional well-being. Driven by unique musical soundtracks recorded specifically for this method of healing, Trance Dance takes participants on an inner journey not limited to our normal perceptions of space/time. Ritual trance journeys have been a vital part of shamanic and eastern dance cultures for thousands of years. Our contemporary approach to Trance Dance brings together the richness of these ancient rituals with some Psychospiritual Integration techniques. One of these is the use of a blindfold or bandana which covers the eyes, thereby shutting down the major source of distractions and outer stimulation to the brain and stimulating an inner vision that reveals hidden meanings and answers to many of life’s most compelling questions.
Psy Trance scene is concerned about nature
08 Jun 2011 1 Comment
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Psychedelic trance, often referred to as psytrance, is a form of electronic music that developed from Goa trance in the early 1990s when it first began hitting the mainstream. In some psychedelic trance circles and online communities, ‘Psychedelic’ is the preferred name for the genre as it provides an umbrella term for the many divergent styles including Goa, full on, dark, prog and suomi. Referring to it as “psychedelic” also distinguishes the style from the ‘clubbier’ type of trance music and reinforces the roots of Goa trance in the psychedelic community. Psychedelic trance generally has a fast tempo, in the range 135 to 150 BPM but has developed into numerous different styles within the genre all with their own range of tempos. The emphasis in psychedelic trance is placed strongly on purely synthesized timbres in terms of programming and lead melodies. The original Goa trance was often made with popular Modular synthesizers and hardware samplers, but the preference in Psychedelic trance has moved to sample manipulation and storage in VST and AU software sampler applications. The use of analog synthesizers for sound synthesis has given way to digital “virtual analog” instruments like the Nord Lead, Access Virus, Korg MS-2000, Roland JP-8000 and computer VST and AU plugins like Native Instruments Reaktor. These are usually controlled by MIDI sequencers within Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) applications.
Psychedelic trance is most popular in the UK, Israel, Portugal, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Belgium, Serbia, Macedonia, Netherlands, the Nordic countries and India. The genre is not as well known outside its scene as uplifting or progressive is.
Psychedelic trance is often played at outdoor festivals. The festivals often take place over a few days with music being played through the night and well into the next day. These big events usually offer a lot parallel activities, not just music. The Psy Trance scene is very concerned about ecology and nature, and hence it’s very usual to find a lot of workshops with educational activities against racism, and promoting love and care for Our Mother Nature.
The big trance festivals often form a small independent city, where some 10,000 people from different places of the world meet to celebrate music and life. During winter many parties take place in clubs in modern suburbia or on the many beaches in foreign climes frequented by travelers.
Some people at these festivals frequently consume psychedelic drugs like LSD and psychedelic mushrooms. The smoking of Cannabis is widespread within the global Psy-trance scene. Drugs such as Ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamine are also used to some extent. There is also a large portion of the psytrance community – including many successful artists, dj’s, party organizers and party goers – who do not use drugs, or no longer use drugs.
Soon Psychedelic trance was expanding rapidly and for the first time differences became apparent in the music being produced in different countries. Parallel scenes also developed in countries like Israel, Germany, South Africa and Japan. There are also smaller, but active scenes in India, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Denmark, Poland, Canada and even the United States.
Aldous Huxley – Doors of Perception
07 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
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Video about Aldous Huxley and mescaline experiments
