Alien Dreamtime

I'm currently watching "Alien Dreamtime" on google video. An interesting except below. Check back later for further analysis on the video.

"History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley. And as the inevitable chaostrophe approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa, 15,000 years ago, rocked in cradle of the great horned mushroom goddess before history. Before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism. Before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us. Because the secret faith of the 20th century is not modernism. The secret faith of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the Paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock and roll, and Catastrophe Theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom-dotted plains of Africa, where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are.

And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back, and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. It's a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. And I tell you this because if the community understands what it is that holds it together, the community will be better able to streamline itself for flight into hyperspace. Because what we need is a new myth. What we need is a new true story that tells us where were going in the universe. And that true story is that the ego is a product of pathology and that when psilocybin is regularly part of the human experience, the ego is suppressed. And the suppression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of feeling immediate experience. And nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience. But that's what holds the community together. And as we break out of the silly myths of science and the infantile obsessions of the marketplace, what we discover through the psychedelic experience is that in the body -- in the body -- there are Niagaras of beauty, alien beauty, alien dimensions that are part of the self, the richest part of life."

- excerpt from "Alien Dreamtime" full link below:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2395498051948678069#

Sounds: The Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

A coworker was humming this song today, and I can't get it out of my head. Now it can be in yours.

Sounds: Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

SAMPLE ALERT! This song has one of the sickest intros ever. The rest of the song is your classic run of the mill Aerosmith hairband fluff, but the first 30 seconds is really something.

(audio source: owen402005 on youtube)

Streams: Hacking Democracy

"This is the story of a small group of citizens…set out on a journey to answer one simple question 'how does America count its votes?' What they found was secrecy, votes in the trash and how to change the course of history."

(excerpt from "Hacking Democracy")

"Hacking Democracy" streaming @ Google Video

Childhood's End

...There were figures moving below, and the camera swooped down upon them like a bird of prey.

.....“This will distress you,” said Karellen. “But remember that your standards no longer apply. You are not watching human children.”

.....Yet that was the immediate impression that came to Jan’s mind, and no amount of logic could dispel it. They might have been savages, engaged in some complex ritual dance. They were naked and filthy, with matted hair obscuring their eyes. As far as Jan could tell, they were of all ages from five to fifteen, yet they all moved with the same speed, precision and complete indifference to their surroundings.

.....Then Jan saw their faces. He swallowed hard, and forced himself not to turn away. They were emptier than the faces of the dead, for even a corpse has some record carved by Time’s chisel upon its features, to speak when the lips themselves are dumb. There was no more emotion or feeling here than in the face of a snake or an insect. The Overlords themselves were more human than this.

.....“You are searching for something that is no longer there.” said Karellen. “Remember—they have no more identity than the cells in your own body. But linked together, they are something much greater than you...”

(Excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood`s End", Chapter 23)

(Image Source: Getty Images)

Imaginary Foundation "Infinite" Tee

Just got my Imaginary Foundation "Infinite" t-shirt in the mail today. I'm a little disappointed in the overall quality of the screened image; the galaxy in particular seemed a little blurred. But still, this is definitely a brand to keep your eye on. Great ideas, unique style. Can't wait to see their next release.

"The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions. The small clandestine team is headed up by the mysterious "Director" a 70 something uber intellectual who's father founded the Dadaist movement. Avoiding direct publicity the team has sought streetwear as an unlikely vehicle for bringing their ideas beyond the academic realm and into popular culture."

(excerpt from www.imaginaryfoundation.com)

(Image Source: www.revolveclothing.com)

Come away with me

Sun rise, sun set. Time crawls when you’re spinning in circles. For what is the future but a destination, and what is the point, when there is no end? Fear not! The end draws near. One day the standing truce between sun and tide will fall and the Void will reclaim its domain.

“From nothing we came
and so we remain,
the eminent domain of the Void”

(Image Source: Dave Sim, "Cerebus" Issue No. 199)