8.30.2002
shamanism general-overview
:: shamanism general-overview ::summary: This FAQ contains a general overview on shamanism. It should be read by anyone interested in understanding the what is meant by shamanism and what differentiates shamanism form other forms of ecstatic experience.
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"you can feel it you can feel it in your dreams, you can feel it in your trips, you can feel that we are approacing the cusp of a catastrophe and that beyond that cusp we are unrecognizable to even ourselves. the wave of novelty that has rolled unbroken since the birth of the universe has now focused itself in on our species..." - t.m.
8.27.2002
:: watch ancient astronauts on the discovery channel, sept. 9th @10pm ::
description:"did the out-of-body experiences of ancient mystics inspire humanity's ascent from the stone age to the civilized world? folklore reveals the shamans' role in conveying supernatural knowledge and wisdom with mental journeys between earth and the heavens."
description:"did the out-of-body experiences of ancient mystics inspire humanity's ascent from the stone age to the civilized world? folklore reveals the shamans' role in conveying supernatural knowledge and wisdom with mental journeys between earth and the heavens."
:: BBC: ancestors 'used drugs to survive' ::excerpt: "historically speaking a lot of people who did abuse drugs seem to be from the higher socio-economic classes"
"...so what shamans have to do is act as examplars by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the Gain Ideas and bringing them back in the form of art in the struggle to save the world..." - t.m.
8.26.2002
:: mind technology and brainwave states ::excerpt: man has always been intrigued by the possibilities for influencing the mind. ancient rituals for entering trance states often involved special sounds in the form of drum beats, clapping, or chanting, and flickering lights produced by flame, torches, bonfires or long lines of human bodies rhythmically dancing, passing before the fire and chopping the light into mesmerizing periodic flashes.
"The end of time is just another way of saying the beginning of immortality."
- Genesis P-Orridge
8.25.2002
:: study: brains want to cooperate ::
excerpt: "we say people act this way because the brain is hard-wired to cooperate -- it associates cooperation with reward," said gregory berns, a professor at the emory university department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences....these are the same regions of the brain that are activated when certain drugs are taken, or when you receive an unexpected sum of money."
excerpt: "we say people act this way because the brain is hard-wired to cooperate -- it associates cooperation with reward," said gregory berns, a professor at the emory university department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences....these are the same regions of the brain that are activated when certain drugs are taken, or when you receive an unexpected sum of money."
:: how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later ::
excerpt: "reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
by philip k dick, 1978
excerpt: "reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
by philip k dick, 1978
Two Commandments for the Molecular Age
1. Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men.
2. Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his or her own consciousness. - t.l.
1. Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men.
2. Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his or her own consciousness. - t.l.
8.24.2002
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"what we represent is not a sideshow, or an epiphenomenon, or an ancillary something-or-other on the edge of nowhere. what WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. there is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. the human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe." - t.m. from alien dreamtime
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"what we represent is not a sideshow, or an epiphenomenon, or an ancillary something-or-other on the edge of nowhere. what WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. there is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. the human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe." - t.m. from alien dreamtime
"we are flesh which has been caught in the grip of some kind of an attractor that lies ahead of us in time, and that is sculpting us to its ends; speaking to us through psychedelics, through visions, through culture, and technology, consciousness. the language forming capacity in our species is propelling itself forward as though it were going to shed the monkey body and leap into some extra-surreal space that surrounds us, but that we can not currently see." - t.m. from alien dreamtime
:: physics and raving: raving at the center of the universe ::
excerpt: trance dancing, the ingestion of psychoactive substances, audiovisual stimulation, and other aspects of the rave experience have been said to promote a kind of shared spirituality where degrees of universal connectedness between like minded people can be experienced. but does this empathetic mysticism have any basis in 'fact'?
excerpt: trance dancing, the ingestion of psychoactive substances, audiovisual stimulation, and other aspects of the rave experience have been said to promote a kind of shared spirituality where degrees of universal connectedness between like minded people can be experienced. but does this empathetic mysticism have any basis in 'fact'?
:: engineering and consciousness ::
excerpt: "The princeton engineering anomalies research (pear) program was established at princeton university in 1979 by robert g. jahn, then dean of the school of engineering and applied science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists has been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. "
excerpt: "The princeton engineering anomalies research (pear) program was established at princeton university in 1979 by robert g. jahn, then dean of the school of engineering and applied science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists has been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. "
8.23.2002
:: digital deities in cyberspace; (what's a christian to do?) ::
excerpt:"as this strange phenomenon unfolds, christians need to address it theologically and biblically if we are to reach today’s technological culture effectively with the message of jesus christ."
excerpt:"as this strange phenomenon unfolds, christians need to address it theologically and biblically if we are to reach today’s technological culture effectively with the message of jesus christ."
:: techno-shamanism and the democratization of bliss ::
excerpt:"it has become clear that humans are genetically programmed to seek out these altered, awakened states."
excerpt:"it has become clear that humans are genetically programmed to seek out these altered, awakened states."
:: psy-trance and shamanism; a glimpse of eternity ::
excerpt:"the animal skin drum and it magical beat has been replaced by the
electronic circuit board as the means used by which modern dancers hurl themselves in to shamanic states of consciousness or trance states."
excerpt:"the animal skin drum and it magical beat has been replaced by the
electronic circuit board as the means used by which modern dancers hurl themselves in to shamanic states of consciousness or trance states."
