You Are a Source of Love and Light. Now, Create a World Without Negativity!
02 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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In this video, the truth about negativity is revealed. Negativity stems from non-existence.
The Hindu Concept of 4 Yugas
29 Dec 2011 2 Comments
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According to Hindu scriptures, all mortal beings are destined to pass through four great epochs in every cycle of creation and destruction. This divine cycle turns full-circle at the end of what is known as kalpa. A kalpa is a yuga cycle, which is a period of 10,000 divine years, and is divided into four ages or yugas (Sanskrit yuga = age/epoch). According to one calculation, one yuga cycle is estimated to be 4,320,000 years, and one kalpa 4,320,000,000 years.
About the 4 Yugas
The four great epochs in Hinduism are: Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapar Yuga and Kali Yuga. Satya Yug or the Age of Truth is said to last for four thousand divine years, Treta Yuga for three thousand, Dwapara Yug for two thousand and Kali Yuga will last for one thousand divine Years that equals to 432,000 earthly years.
It is also believed that three of these great ages have already passed away, and we are now living in the fourth one. We live in the Kali Yuga — in a world infested with impurities and vices. People possessing genial virtues are diminishing day by day. Floods and famine, war and crime, deceit and duplicity characterize this age. But, say the scriptures, final emancipation is possible only in this age. Kali Yuga will end at 21 December 2012 and we will move to Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth.
The four ages symbolize the four phases of involution during which man gradually lost the awareness of his inner selves and subtle bodies. Hinduism believes that human beings have five kinds of bodies, called annamayakosa, pranamayakosa, manomayakosa vignanamayakosa and anandamayakosa, which represent the ‘gross body’, the ‘breath body’, the ‘psychic body’, the ‘intelligence body’ and the ‘bliss body’ respectively.
Another theory explains these epochs of time on the basis of the degree of loss of righteousness in the world. It says, during Satya Yuga only truth prevailed (Sanskrit Satya = truth), Treta lost ¼ truth, Dwapar lost ½ truth and Kali is left with only ¼ truth. Evil and dishonesty has replaced truth in the last three ages or yugas.
Ozora Festival 2011
29 Aug 2011 1 Comment
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Psytrance festival in Hungary
Artist: Liquid Soul – Hypnotic Energy
1200MICS – SPEAD OF LIGHT (REMIXED BY DYNAMIC)
12 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
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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 The Netherlands
09 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Although the scene in The Netherlands is as old as psy-trance itself, it has been keeping itself to its shores. Psy-trance in the Netherlands has been spreading its wings for a very long time. It began at the Ruigoord, the squatted village that later became legalized. This pioneering era was also felt in the club Trance Buda, where local DJs hosted regular nights. Meanwhile, psy-trance was also morphing into an underground scene while the old squat the Silo pumped wild psychedelic parties in its basement.
With the closing of the Silo, the scene moved to the Elf, the squatted embassy of Belgium that for three years became the glowing light of psychedelic trance. Housing up to 300 seasonal members and many travellers from everywhere in the world, the Elf made an impressive imprint in the Dutch psy-trance and opened it for international trancers, bringing the very spirit of Goa to the Netherlands.
Psytrance in The Netherlands touched ground in the early 90′s at Ruigoord, a squatted village with an alternative way of life. But it was the regular parties organized by DJs Zen, Danyel, Mitch & Lucas at clubs like The Mazzo, Trance Buddha and Club 114, that got the scene going and consolidated it into a style with its own following. During the 90′s there were many parties made by legendary crews like Acidophilus, Circus Hoffmann, Namasté, Empathy and 9Lifes of Hoffman. The squat scene pushed psytrance forward and places as The Silo and The Elf had excellent parties and attracted travelers to Holland.
With the political resistance against the underground life style and the closing of squats, psytrance had to go back to clubs in order to survive. Yet, competing with commercial organizations for a spot in a club meant that parties became less frequent.
Luckily, in 2010 we see the scene picking up again and new organizations coming up as well as traditional ones that keep the flame alive. Most events get posted on www.goatrance.net, so it’s a good idea to check this site to see what’s going on.
The best time to be in Holland is during the spring, especially on 30 April for Queensday, a day with open air and indoor parties all over the country. In Amsterdam, Bom Voyage has its annual party in the center of the city, always including international artists in the line up.
Around the summer solstice, Ruigoord gives the Solstice Festival and monthly they have a psychedelic party in their church. More organizations in and around Amsterdam are Namasté, Prog as Frog, Bleep Bizarre, Pig Org, High Tech Pleasures, Trip to Goa, Inner Visions and Trancending on Thursdays at the Korsakoff.
Around the country there are many active organizations. In Rotterdam: Twisted Trance Society and Alkaloid-Extractions. In Leiden: Cosmic Combination. In Eindhoven: Global Aura and Metatron. In Leeuwarden: 3rd BIT events. In The Hague: Project Twilight, Psytech and Shut up and Dance. In Groningen: Boom Records and Uzumaki, organizer of the Treats Open Air Festival.
Creatively, Holland has a lot of talent. Good producers releasing tracks are Aerophobia, Bassid, Boobytrip, Citizen, Jocid, Kurofusion, Liftshift, Mad Contrabender, Nuver, Pradox, Rev, SQL, Supergroover, The Wizard, Zen Mechanics and the new comers Bionic, Multiband Conspiracy and Woodwise. And some of our DJs: Akbal, Anand, Annakonda, Annunaki, Back To Mars, Bart, Crystal DNA, Dogo, Dr. Vinni, Fluffy, Fluofreax, Hikuri, Jiggi, Kriya, ManDraQ, Mart Fader, Martinèz, Nilezz, Oczean, Paul B, Pim, PolyEsta, Rafadelic, Riches, Rik, Rob, Saaf, Satyr, Shaggedelic, Shawnodese, Supergroover, Tila, Tintal, Wichuri, Yucka, Zen. And a good label to look out for is Mind Funk Records.
When in Amsterdam, make sure to visit the Moondrop for psychedelic fashion and the Kokopelli for alternative uppers and psychedelic truffles. And yes, THC is tolerated and may be bought and smoked in coffeeshops.
Psytrance Subgenres
06 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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Goa trance (often referred to as Goa or by the number 604 – G = 6, O = 0, A = 4) is a form of electronic music and is a style of trance music. It originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the Indian state of Goa and is distinctive, as most forms of trance music were developed in Europe. Goa trance enjoyed the greater part of its success from around 1994 – 1998, and since then has dwindled significantly both in production and consumption, largely being replaced by its successor, psychedelic trance or psytrance.
Goa trance is closely related to the emergence of psytrance during the latter half of the 1990s and early 2000s, where the two genres mixed together. In popular culture, the distinction between the two genres remains largely a matter of opinion (they are considered by some to be synonymous; others say that psytrance is more “metallic” and that Goa trance is more “organic”, and still others maintain that there is a clear difference between the two.) These two are however quite sonically distinct from other forms of trance in both tonal quality, structure and feel. In many countries they are generally more underground and less commercial than other forms of trance. Goa trance, while not played very often today, is more likely to be heard at outdoor parties and festivals than in clubs.
Dark psytrance (also known as dark psy, night trance, horror trance, killer psy or simply dark) is a form of darker and distorted psychedelic trance music made mostly in Russia and Germany, as well as other countries worldwide. The music is considered to be less popular than mainstream melodic psytrance.
Unlike trance genres that are considered to be “commercial”, dark psytrance does not generally use vocals, though there is use of sampling. The atmosphere and theme of the tracks often resemble genres like darkcore and cybergrind, and generally draw influences from the heavy metal culture, and from Musique concrète (especially the Russian artists). There are artists who focus more on creating a horror movie like atmosphere.
Infected Mushroom are regarded by many as the world’s leading psytrance act; they helped make the genre synonymous with the Middle East in the mid 90s. Other notable psytrance acts include Juno Reactor and Astral Projection.
Psy trance scene in Canada
02 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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The psytrance scene arrived in Canada in 1995 at the legendary event Emergence held in Montreal courtesy of Mobius productions and set off a steady spread across the major urban cores. While other genres of electronica were gathering huge crowds at very public venues at the time, psytrance for the most part remained underground and by doing so created a very close and vibrant community that continues to this day.
Being the second largest country in the world, Canada has a lot to offer in terms of beautiful forests and wild lands to party upon. Due to the great distance separating most cities, it developped a few regional micro-scenes, while still keeping the wholeness of the movement by the people travelling from one region to the other. You will find that wherever you are in Canada, there will always be a friendly down to earth community that is welcoming and easy to relate to.
The most psychedecized areas of Canada are around the bigger cities in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario, but there is also an interesting movement taking place in Manitoba and Nova-Scotia. Since it is generally considered safe to hitchhike in Canada, many party goers use that to travel for free the great distances between the east and the west, and make the most of their summer festival season.
Although the long Canadian winter also has it’s unique charms of more intimate club and warehouse gatherings and semi-private chalet parties, the best time for trancers in Canada is in the summer. The festival season lasts from the beginning of June until the end of September, and since it is so short compared to other countries, they try to make it up by it’s intensity. The peak of this season is from mid-July with the Eclipse festival to mid-August with the Shambhala. Among other well known outdoor gatherings of the summer are Entheos, Space Gathering, El Hal and Motion Notion.
The party organizers in Canada include names such as Tech Safari, Blacklight Activists, Organix, Tribal Prophecy, Techno Hippy Crew, FAK, Shakti Collective, Area 709, Oya and Neurovortex. Since Canada has such a low population density, a party is considered big when there are more than 1000 attending. The average parties usually attract anywhere from 250 to 800 people, which gives us more intimate parties and creates a strong sense of community. In cities like Montreal and Toronto, there are at least one party every weekend, and in smaller cities like Quebec city or Winnipeg, expect one psy-trance party every 2 or 3 months.
Renowned musical producers from Canada include Adham Shaikh, Nystagmus, Anahata, Ekoplex, Cosmic Orgasm, Repeat Customer, Akentek, Virtual Light, Aya, and Nuclear Ramjet. For visual arts, you can count on artists such as Neil Gibson, Deliria, Julien Seyer, Crystal and Spore, Neuromantix, Waking Dream, Makinaw and Starfield to create environments that will blow your mind.
DJ Coral at Seattle Pride 2011
01 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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